Apple trees in the garden

Apple-tree gardens in the spring - a continuous white-pink haze. Apparently their delicate beauty and encouraged breeders to create new varieties in which their decorativeness is fully revealed. Although there is a side effect - not all decorative apple trees bring tasty fruits, but it is bathed in their amazing beauty in spring and autumn. Recall that most of the shrubs that we appreciate for their abundance and lush flowering (for example, lilacs, spirea, chubushnik) also does not give tasty or useful fruits.
The mass of apple blossoms, abundantly covering the crown of a decorative tree, creates a surprising impression. And this mass is perceived as a whole - a cloud, a veil. It's not for nothing that the Japanese, especially those who are sensitive to the beauty of nature, celebrate in spring a cherry blossom festival.
An excellent contrast, emphasizing the tenderness of amazing pink, burgundy blossoms of apples, is fir one-color with bluish needles and a clear pyramidal crown and varietal lilacs ordinary. At the same time , Japanese flowers also flourish , flowers of surprisingly pure bright colors - white, red, orange. The only pity is that they are almost on the ground, and to admire, you have to bow to them. Japanese purple - a rare guest of our gardens also contributes its colorful contribution to the composition. He, like spirea, blooming in the second half of summer, in the spring differs beautiful bright pink color of young leaves.
Strengthen the pink range of tulips planted with a wide ribbon at the foot of the composition.
Not all the fruits of decorative apple trees are just decoration. Apples of some varieties are very tasty, and practically everything is a good food for birds. Plant a group of apple trees with tender pink or purple flowers in the garden - and no one will pass indifferently past. Moreover, these trees are unpretentious and very Organic look in the Russian garden. The same applies to decorative hawthorns.
Fruits they will give a lot ns (if bear fruit at all), but in the spring they blossom truly fabulously. Their environment can be the same as that of apple trees.
You can add to the composition barberry Tunberga with purple-colored leaves (but moderately) and gray spiraea, flowers of which, like snow, cover the drooping branches. It only remains to add that the height of decorative apple trees is 4-6 m on average, as is the ornamental hawthorn.
Apricot Manchu - a tree for the suburbs is frost-hardy, unpretentious, grows quickly. It remains only to be surprised that it is an extremely rare guest of our gardens. Its sprawling crown in early spring, before the leaves blossom, is covered with gently pink flowers, effectively contrasting with the dark branches.
By the autumn yellow-orange fruits appear, and the leaves are painted in bright colors.
In culture, can grow from 5 m and above. It is well planted in such compositions, when, after admiring a tender plant in the spring, you can switch to other flowering plants in the summer to turn your attention to it again in the fall.