The author of the text is Dr. Przemysław Bąbelewski
Color is the basic artistic feature of any garden, therefore it plays a large role in its composition.It is formed in our brain when the eye receives light waves of the appropriate length.Color can be the dominant feature of a garden, an accent or a determining point, often determining its atmosphere.
When choosing colors, we mainly follow our intuition and mood. We divide the colors into warm and cold.Discounts or gardens set up in one color, e.g. yellow, are classified as monochromatic. It is worth mentioning here that the yellow color also optically enlarges the garden. The yellow color is dominant among the flowers, while the varieties with colorful leaves or shoots were created through selection and breeding.
In spring, before the leaves develop, the yellow garden should be full of beautiful forsythia bushes with numerous yellow flowers. It also has a nice yellow-green-leaved 'Golden Times' variety.At this time of the year, the young leaves of Shirasawa's' Aureum 'and' Ogon 'willow are particularly attractive.The varieties of shrubby cinquefoil are intensely blooming in yellow, especially valuable are:' Dart's Golddigger ',' Gold Drop ',' Goldfinger ',' Goldstar ',' Goldteppich 'and also' Kobold '.
Bushes captivating with elegance
Valuable shrubs with yellow leaves are numerous varieties of Thunberg's barberry, e.g. 'Aurea' growing up to 1.3 meters, with a columnar habit: 'Golden Torh', 'Maria' 'Diabolicum', dwarf varieties growing up to 50 centimeters : 'Bonansa Gold', 'Golden Nuget', 'Sunsation' and miniature 'Tiny Gold'. Planted in a few places in one place, they will be valuable ground cover plants.Most varieties grow best in locations with diffused light, because intense sunlight can burn young, developing leaves.
Among the shrubs with yellow leaves, the 'Jean's Gold' and 'Olympiade' varieties are attractive, and 'Brigella', 'Variegata' and 'Kosteriana Variegata' with yellow leaves. Valuable ground cover shrubs will be numerous varieties of Fortune, such as 'Interbolwi', 'Canadale Gold', 'Emerald'n Gold', 'Gold Tip', 'Sunshine'.All of them are attractive because they always have green leaves drawn with a more or less yellow accent.
Yellow-leaved dogwood varieties will be hardy and undemanding shrubs, e.g. white dogwood 'Aureum' or 'Spaethii and' Gouholta ', dogwood' Yellow Spring 'and pagoda dogwood' Candlelight 'and with a green-yellow center of leaves' Lucia' . The edible dogwood also has a yellow-leaved variety - 'Aureum', which has valuable edible fruits.Interesting yellow-green leaves can be found in the breeding dogwood 'Hedgerow's Gold'.
Silver and gold discount
High shrubs that are an attractive background or suitable for hedges include the taxa: common hazel 'Aurea', fragrant jasmine 'Aureus' or dwarf variety 'Yellow Cab'. The 'Aureovariegata' and Gibs 'Vicarii' ligusters are ideal for trimming and shaping.These shrubs need quiet positions.The undemanding shrubs with fast growth will be the varieties of calinoliform bladder: 'Minange', 'Dart's Gold', 'Luteus' and 'Nugget'. The Polish variety of the ałycz plum 'Złoty Cloud' is also an undemanding and decorative shrub.
The elderberry in Poland has valuable varieties: 'Aurea' with yellow leaves and yellow-green 'Madonna'. In the coral lilac the following varieties are valued: 'Goldenlocks' and 'Plumosa Aurea'.Tawuły is also very valuable, undemanding shrubs with numerous varieties with yellow leaves. Japanese varieties: 'Candlelight', 'Golden Carpet', 'Golden Princes', 'Goldflame', 'Walbum' will be perfect low cover shrubs. An attractive ground cover variety will be Chenault's yellow-leaved 'Brian de Soleil'.
Decorative leaves and interesting fluffy seed heads can be found in the 'Ancot' variety of Podolia. Its intense yellow leaves maintain their color throughout the growing season.
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Japanese Tawuła Spiraea japonica in the 'Goldflame' variation (Photo: Fotolia.com) |
Decorative maple and beech
Trees with colorful yellow leaves are also valuable plants for the garden.Varieties of naturally growing maples in Poland are particularly attractive, e.g. the field maple 'Postelense', which in spring has an intense yellow color leaves,
light green coloration in summer. In warm regions of Poland, you can plant the rarely grown Kapodocki maple 'Aureum'. The varieties of the ash-leaf maple: 'Aureatum', Kelly's Gold ',' Odessanum 'or with yellow-green leaves, such as' Aureovariegatum', are also irreplaceable and easy to grow. Yellow varieties of silver birch 'Golden Cloud' and 'Schneverdinger Goldbirke' are also very valuable. Yellow leaves are also present in the 'Aurea' catalpa.
Common beech also boasts valuable yellow-leaved varieties, such as the columnar 'Dawyck Gold', with the weeping habit of 'Aurea Pendula', with wavy leaves 'Rohan Gold' and creating large trees 'Zlatia'.A nice tree with a delicate openwork crown is formed by three-thorns' Sunburst '.Powerful trees are formed by taxa with yellow-green leaves of the American ambergris' Aurora', the American tulip tree 'Aureomarginata', 'Glen Gold', 'Jackson 'and' Purgatory'n '. The black locust 'Frisia' is irreplaceable and easy to grow.
