2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Many gardeners ignore the wet lowlands of the site, considering them unsuccessful, and give this area at the mercy of wild grasses. But even these waterlogged or swampy parts of the dacha land can be turned into spectacular and decorative resting places, even if there is no effort and money to set up drainage systems or change the relief
Lowland types
Lowlands can be roughly divided into two main types:
1. Flooded meadows located along a river or other body of water.
2. High bogs.
Disadvantages of lowlands
In winter, damp and cold air stagnates in the lowlands. It has a detrimental effect on the dormant buds of shrubs and trees.
Spring has a detrimental effect on the roots of the plant. Melting snow runs down the slopes into the lowland, accumulating and stagnating in it. The plant roots will get wet and lose their strength. In addition, spring frosts in a lowland affect plants much more, because the temperature in them, as a rule, is 2-5 degrees lower than in higher areas. Such frosts destroy young greenery and flowers, depriving the gardener of the autumn harvest.
Despite the disadvantages of lowlands, decorative flower beds can be planted in them, shrubs and trees can be planted, choosing the right plants that are not afraid of moisture.
Creating a flower garden
The easiest way to decorate a flooded meadow is to create a luxurious flower garden on it using the plants of natural floodplain meadows.
To make a flower garden beautiful, it is necessary to harmoniously combine it with green lawns from ground cover plants that easily tolerate high humidity. Such plants can be: rapidly growing loosestrife; beautifully blooming tenacious creeping; ordinary openwork cuff; common blackhead (due to the content of vitamin C, blackhead is used in folk medicine).
The lawn can be placed along the perimeter of the meadow, and in the center, arrange a mixborder of tall plants: valerian; basil, with graceful openwork leaves and bright airy inflorescence; Volzhanka, with its amazing panicles-inflorescences; buzulnik (ligularia), narrow-leaved irises.
For the middle tier of a mixborder, the following are suitable: brunner with its blue flowers that look like forget-me-nots; loosestrife; serpentine mountaineer (serpentine large or crayfish necks) from the Buckwheat family; yellow or bright orange swimsuits (here in Siberia they are called "lights").
The lower tier can be decorated with: dodecateon, the flowers of which resemble those of cyclamen; marsh marigold, the greens of which are poisonous, but the flower buds and rhizome, if properly prepared, are quite edible; unpretentious, but rarely found, corduses; primroses.
Of course, a flower garden in a wet or swampy lowland will not do without plants living in swamps, such as: reeds, cattails, calamus and others.
Shrubs that are not afraid of short-term flooding
If there is no time for arranging a flower garden and caring for it, you can plant shrubs in the lowlands that can withstand short-term flooding without adverse consequences for yourself:
• Aronia.
• European spindle tree.
• Hydrangea.
• Derain is white.
• Blue honeysuckle.
• Kalina.
• Field rose.
• Fieldfare mountain ash-leaved.
• Black currant thrives on swampy soil.
Trees that are not afraid of short-term flooding
Not only shrubs are tolerant of waterlogging. The following trees can be planted:
• Hanging birch.
• Willows of all kinds, everywhere decorating the banks of rivers and reservoirs and withstanding even prolonged flooding.
• Irga.
• Maples of different types: red, holly, silver, ash-leaved.
• Hazel.
• Linden.
• Poplar.
• Aspen.
• Gray alder.
• Bird cherry.
• Common ash.
Coniferous shrubs and trees
Even among the conifers, there are representatives who are ready to help you decorate the wet lowlands. True, they can be counted on one hand, but, most importantly, there are such:
• Norway spruce.
• The juniper is horizontal.
• Western thuja.
• Scots pine.
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