Fast Growing Ornamental Shrub Plants For Screening and LandScaping

Fast Growing Ornamental Shrubs: Shrubs are ornamental horticulture/floriculture plants in Landscape Gardening. It is a very important species of horticulture plant. Here we will know about some Important Species of Ornamental Shrubs.

Definition/Meaning

ORNAMENTAL PLANTS: Ornamental plants are a group of different flowering, foliage and stylish plants. These plants are used for the beautification of selected part of a site or other places.

Table 01. Examples of different ornamental plants used in Landscaping.

S. N.	Flowering Plants	Foliage Plants	Other Types
1.	Jasmine	Difenbachia	Bonsai, ornamental bamboo.

SCREENING: In ornamental horticulture screening is a way to hide or protect main crop from unwanted manmade and natural phenomena. Example- plants of beautiful species of cactus can be placed at the border of plant nursery beds to protect them from hot wind.

LANDSCAPING:

landscaping or landscape designing is an art of modifying the overall appearance of a given piece of land using different ornamental plants. It is an artificial process. A garden or national and international playgrounds are the example of artificially landscaped area.

SHRUBS: Shrub is a semi-woody or woody plant. It is a perennial plant. The height of a shrubs is up to 4 meters. Less number or no trunk is the main characteristic of a shrub.

Ornamental Shrubs: Introduction

There are different ornamental shrubs. These shrubs can be divided into two groups:

Hedge.
Edge.

Shrubs are used as hedge and edge in ornamental horticulture. Classification of hedge according to height:

Dwarf hedge: 1 meter.
Tall hedge: 2.5 – 4 meter.

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Hedge

When the tall hedges are planted at the border of nursery, crop field or around a building, it is called hedge.

Table 02. Examples of Tall ornamental hedge.

S. N.	C. N.	Sc. Name	Remarks
1.	False ashoka	Polyalthia longifolia	Originated in India
2.	Orange Jasmine	Murraya exotica	South-east Asia
3.	Chinese weeping cypree	Cupressus funeberis	Central China
4.	Heena/hina	Lawsonia alba	Source of dye hina
5.	Thuja	Thuja orientalis	Easy to make topiary

Table 03. Examples of Tall Protective hedge

S. N.	C. N.	Sc. Name	Remarks
1.	Bougainvillea	Bougainvillea spp.	Native to S. America
2.	Madras Thorn, Ganga Emli in C. G.	Inga dulcis	Native to laconic coast
3.	Durenta	Duranta spp.	Golden berry
4.	Carandus plum, karonda in Hindi	Carissa carandus	Fruits are used to make pickles
5.	Sweet acacia	Acacia farnensiana	Vachellia farnensia var. farnensia is wild species

Edge

When dwarf shrubs are planted at the border of plant nursery, nursery path or other place, it is called edge.

Table 04. Examples of dwarf ornamental edge

S. N.	C. N.	Sc. Name	Remarks
1.	Lantana white	Lantana sellowiana
2.	Garden privet	Linustrum ovalifolium

Table 05. Examples of dwarf protective edge

S. N.	C. N.	Sc. Name	Remarks
1.	Berberis	Berberis spp.
2.	Opuntia	Opuntia spp.

Purpose of Planting Shrubs

To glorify overall appearance of surrounding.
As wind break.
Shelter for birds in summer.
As live boundary.
Avenue planting.
Rookeries.
Cut flower and foliage.
Kitchen garden.
Terrace garden.
Hedge and
Edge.

Ideal Site For Planting Shrubs

Avoid shade of tree.
Planting should be done in South-east direction.
Availability of ample space.

Fast Growing Shrubs

Here we are going to describe about some fast and easy growing species of shrubs. The list is as fallow:

Jasmine.
Duranta.

JASMINE

Categoery: Hedge

Scientific name: Jasminum officinale.
Family: Oleaceae.
Origin: Native go Eurasia, Oceania.
Propagation: cutting.
Characteristics: Flowers are fragrant and source of jasmine essential oil. It is both deciduous and evergreen plant. Flowers are used as cut flower.
Ideal Site: Site should be free from overshadow. Marshland is not suitable.