How ornamental cabbage is used in landscape design: photo

Ornamental cabbage in landscape design, the photo of which is striking in its diversity, has long been used to decorate park paths, flower beds and squares in Europe and Asia. Landscaping allows this beautiful plant to be used for a long time. In countries with warm winters, ornamental cabbage is considered a perennial plant that survives light frosts and short winters. Cabbage blooms in July and continues to form a rosette until September. Its leaves form a multicolored beautiful rosette that resembles a rose.

Ornamental cabbage leaves form a multicolored beautiful rosette that resembles a rose

In Russia, ornamental cabbage in landscape design, the photo of which is presented below, is often used for decoration

flower beds in adjoining territories, in parks, playgrounds, private estates.

Ornamental cabbage is often used to decorate flower beds in local areas

When decorating a lawn, it is used as a monoculture, making patterns from different varieties of cabbage, or included as part of the exhibition, combining with annual or perennial flower crops.

Ornamental cabbage is used as a monoculture

What varieties of cabbage exist

Planning and planting of plants on the lawn should take into account all the features of the agricultural technology of ornamental cabbage. This plant does not tolerate shade well, does not like acidic and depleted lands. It will not bloom if it is overfed with fertilizers or planted in a pile of black soil.

Ornamental cabbage does not tolerate shade well

Agricultural technology is similar to the cultivation of white cabbage. Before planting seedlings in the ground, black soil and complex fertilizer for cabbage are added to the holes.

Before planting seedlings in the ground, black soil is added to the holes

The distance between the bushes should be at least 40 cm so that the growing rosettes do not interfere with each other and do not create a shadow, which is destructive for the entire cabbage family.

The distance between the bushes must be at least 40 cm

Japanese breeders grow low-growing cabbage bushes up to 30 cm high. They have received a large number of colors, and these seeds can be bought in flower shops.

Landscape designers often combine 2 types of cabbage

European breeders have been more successful in breeding tall plants over 1 m. Below cabbage leaves gradually die off, and new leaves are formed on the stump. Landscape designers often combine 2 types of cabbage and create original compositions.

Cabbage varieties

Cabbage bushes are especially beautiful at the end of summer. By this time, the green leaves of the undersized bushes have moved apart and form a frame, and the middle of the plant forms a bright inflorescence of a large number of leaves collected in an intricate rosette. Tall bushes by August are increasing the mass of a bizarre shape, which also pleases and surprises.

Cabbage bushes are especially beautiful at the end of summer

Breeders have created a large number of varieties with different rosette colors, and this makes it possible to create bright, beautiful compositions in different techniques.

A vertical bed of ornamental cabbage looks very impressive

Ornamental cabbage in landscape design, shown in the photo, and various design solutions that allow you to admire beautiful flower beds before the onset of severe frosts, make it possible to choose suitable varieties.

Ornamental cabbage is often used as part of the landscape

How to create an unusual landscape

Ornamental cabbage is often used as part of the landscape.

The alternation of white and colored rosettes allows you to plant plants in a checkerboard pattern

To give an unusual look, the plants on the site are planted so that a general rhythmic pattern is formed, which makes you want to move and consider the created compositions.

Ornamental cabbage in landscape design, a photo of which shows a variety of planting methods, can grow not only on the lawn. Many gardeners, thinking through the design of the site to the smallest detail, create compositions in flowerpots, containers of various types and pots.

Designers use decorative bushes to create border stripes

This allows you to change the arrangement of plants on the site and embody original solutions for decorating the garden in late autumn:

The alternation of white and colored rosettes allows you to plant plants in a checkerboard pattern. This type of flower bed will surely attract attention.

An invitation to a walk can be an original pyramid made from a specially purchased device with containers in which bushes of ornamental cabbage were planted.

For work, you can only buy plants with a loose head of cabbage, resembling exotic flowers in appearance. These are undersized varieties with a different color range of leaves in one plant.

Tall varieties, in which long, bumpy leaves grow without the formation of a rosette, can be used in bulk compositions in the form of a decorating element.

A composition of long stems and a frame of undersized bushes creates a voluminous flower bed that invites you to admire the delicate beauty of unusually beautiful leaves.

Designers use decorative bushes to create border stripes, planting the plant in even rows or waves.

Cabbage can be planted in a small area around or around the perimeter to separate one area from another.

This plant can be used to create unusual compositions, earthy volumetric figures located in sunny places. This could be a cart full of cabbage, a small truck carrying a load, or a large basket of unusual flowers.

Ornamental cabbage can be used to create unusual compositions

Features of combined landings

Ornamental cabbage in landscape design, the photo of which is presented below, allows you to create bright compositions along with other flowers. Since cabbage takes on a bright appearance only closer to autumn, it is often planted with flowers that quickly fade and free up space in the flower bed.

Ornamental cabbage takes on a bright appearance only closer to autumn

In other cases, it can become part of the composition along with

climbing plants that form a green wall. Colored bright leaves on a solid green background will look very original from the side.

Tall cabbage varieties can be used in bulk compositions as a decorating element

Huge rosettes of ornamental cabbage are in perfect harmony with small begonia flowers. It turns out the kind of carpet in the center of which there is a large flower of a bizarre shape.

Huge rosettes of ornamental cabbage are in perfect harmony with small begonia flowers

Containers located along the paved paths and areas are a great solution for decorating them.

Ornamental cabbage requires abundant watering and regular feeding

If the cabbage does not grow outdoors, but is left in a container, it requires special care. This plant loves water and requires abundant watering and regular feeding. Only then will it please with its excellent appearance and show all its beauty.

Bright cabbage beds delight the eyes in autumn

Plants in pots allow you to continue growing the plant on the windowsill during the cold season. This allows you to preserve your favorite culture and get seeds that can be used for planting in the spring in the required quantities.

Cabbage has incredibly decorative leaf blades

The plot in the fall continues to look elegant if there are plantings in it with this beautiful plant of different varieties. When the time of night frosts comes, the flowers wither, and only cabbage is bright

the beds are still pleasing to the eyes, recalling the past summer.