The issue of planting fast-growing trees and shrubs is relevant not only for summer cottages, but also for any site. As a rule, the land allotment is issued to the future owner in a completely «naked» form.

A happy exception is the forest zone.

How to quickly grow a garden and green spaces? You can, of course, pay a «tidy sum» for the transplantation of adults, however, we think you are looking for a different solution. The answer is simple — choose fast-growing varieties and species.

I must say that the range here is quite large and you will surely find the option that suits you from the list below.

Do not believe if you are promised that you will grow a garden in a couple of seasons. It will take a year to adjust. Even with an increase of half a meter, it will take 5-6 years to reach a height of 2.5-3 m. As a result, you will get a beautiful picture and a more or less decent shadow in 6-7 years. So be patient…

But before that, let me give you a recommendation.

Someone advises to start gardening with fast-growing species, this is true. However, should we forget about others, because, if they develop more slowly, then it is not worth delaying their landing.

Fast-growing individuals will allow you to save on ornamental horticultural crops, which are more expensive.


Not due to the rejection of the latter, but due to the fact that you will have the opportunity not to rush and buy not three-year-old seedlings of slow-growing breeds, but material for growing. As a rule, such seedlings are several times cheaper.


The savings effect will be especially noticeable if you conceived a landscape with many instances (several tens or even hundreds).

I recommend growing planting material in a separate place, protected from the scorching sun, but not in the dense shade of the fence. For the winter, young animals must be covered.

Grown specimens after a year or two are transplanted to a permanent habitat.

In the above photo you see a tree aged 7 years. The thickness of the trunk is about 20 cm in diameter. The growth rates are simply impressive!

But be careful if you put paulownia in your garden. In addition to the sun, she loves moisture very much and watering for her requires not superficial, but deep basal. Otherwise, the root system will not go into the thickness of the earth, but will spread throughout the neighborhood, causing you a lot of trouble.

Birch loves moisture so much that it “drinks” up to 20 buckets of water from the soil per day. Therefore, the soil under it is always slightly dried — be careful and choose drought-resistant neighbors for it. She, like paulownia, develops a superficial root net, which will not give life to other plants within a radius of 5-6 m.

So it is better to plant birch in «wet» places for the purpose of drainage. And be prepared for the fact that every spring the territory within a radius of 10 m will be completely strewn with catkins.

WHITE ACACIA (she is a robinia, false acacia).

Yes, yes, what we call acacia, from the point of view of botany, is not it. But this does not diminish its merits. And they are as follows: rapid growth (annual growth in the first 10 years is 1-1.2 m), stunning aroma of flowers, honey plant properties, medicinal abilities.

True, the branches of the white acacia are thorny, but they cause inconvenience only when fallen down. And one more small minus: a relatively short lifespan — up to 50 years.

YELLOW ACACIA (and if it is correct, then the caragana is tree-like). Be sure to please the owners of the site not only with rapid growth, but also with abundant flowering in June-July.

It does not require anything in return, it is a honey plant, it strengthens the slopes with its root system, it is used as an impenetrable hedge. And at the same time perfectly tolerates pruning.

Abundant flowering should be expected only in the sixth year of the life of this shrub. Moreover, the farther north the latitude, the smaller the inflorescences of yellow acacia.

ELDER (red and black). This fast-growing shrub is spectacular at all times: it blooms profusely in spring, forms a lush crown in summer, red or black clusters of fruits ripen on the branches by autumn, and in winter it is an openwork ball (if you took care of crown formation in time).

In the year of planting, only two or three more developed shoots are left on the seedling. And after pruning form a highly branched bush. The following fact speaks eloquently about the growth rate: in three years from a sprout to a bush 2 m high. By the way, elderberry is an excellent material for creating hedge in a short time.

On my site, I planted a number of bushes and immediately cut them to a height of 15 cm. But by August, the height of the green wall reached 80 cm.

For the winter, green branches are cut by a third so that they do not freeze, but with the beginning of the season they quickly start growing. At first, the seedling should be supported with fertilizers. After that, he himself will begin to enrich the soil with nitrogen.

VIRGIN ORDINARY at the age of five, it is a bush 2 m high with the same crown width. By the age of ten, it will have exactly doubled. A beautiful lush bush can be obtained by planting three seedlings in one hole.

MAPLE SILVER as if shimmering with every breath of wind. This is due to the fact that the leaves are two-colored: the lower part is distinguished by a silvery color.

LARCH (European, Siberian). This is the only deciduous conifer.

At a young age, the larch crown is conical, dense. As it grows, it stretches and becomes loose, the trunk becomes bare.


It is recommended to plant larch in small-group plantings in the company of other coniferous trees and tall shrubs.

PINE (ordinary and Weymouth). All of the above about the characteristics of growth is also true in relation to pine.

Norway spruce, unlike pine, is more favorable to a change of habitat. You can do this even in adulthood.

Ash grows quickly, has such a feature as quickly spreading by self-seeding.

Here he keeps company ELM (another name for elm), which has the same properties.

So if these trees are brought in, then periodically track it for self-seeding in places that are undesirable for this. In my area, these illegal immigrants reached a height of 4-5 m in seven years.

SUMACaka vinegar tree. His appearance is exotic: it can grow as a single-trunk tree, or it can develop as a multi-stem, more like a shrub.

Not very durable, but quite convenient tree, especially at the stage of development of the site. You will fully appreciate all the benefits of it on a hot summer afternoon. Although the skeleton of the plant is slightly branched, the long (up to 60 cm) leaves form a hipped crown, giving a cool shade.

As for the annual growth, it depends on the size of the root system. But even in the first stages of growth, sumac develops from 40 cm per year. The further south, the higher it grows, the further north, the greater the increase in width. In severe frost, young trunks can freeze, because the tree gives abundant root shoots and develops like a bush.

OAK RED (aka northern oak, canadian). Indeed, it has a good (albeit not a record) annual growth of 40-50 cm. But this figure is typical for older individuals.