2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Herbs give any flower garden lightness, a feeling of tenderness and weightlessness. They also have the ability to cover up very damp areas of the summer cottage and decorate water bodies. You don't have to go to overseas countries for herbs. Look around you, and your eyes will surely find grass that can decorate your garden. Wander around the cottage in search of atypical cereals and sedges. Perhaps you will be the first person to turn a nondescript blade of grass into a popular ornamental grass
Calamus ordinary Variegated
Calamus is an unpretentious inhabitant of water bodies and coastal areas, frost-resistant. Its decorative versatility allows it to coexist with many other representatives of the aquatic flora. Ornamental leaves up to 120 centimeters high are located on a powerful rhizome. Leaf greens are diluted with longitudinal creamy white stripes. The most active growth is observed in late spring. To propagate the plant, the bushes are divided in spring or summer.
Reeds
Reed is the most familiar and irreplaceable inhabitant of water bodies. Many, however, mistakenly call a plant with brown inflorescences, similar to traditional popsicle ice cream, as reeds. In fact, a plant with brown ears is a cattail.
Lake reed will not leave anyone indifferent, spreading out in a powerful curtain in the reservoir. Its light thick cylindrical shoots rise 1.5 meters above the water, ending in brown spikelets gathered in a panicle. On a creeping floor rhizome, rigid short leaves are attached, surrounding the stem and submerged, as a rule, with their base in water.
Reed is actively used by people. Light shopping bags, all kinds of rugs are weaved from the stem. A sprig of reeds will decorate a bouquet of dried flowers. And our not very distant ancestors made flour from dry rhizomes, adding it when baking rye bread.
Reed "Tabernemontana" or "Zebrinus" is almost four times lower, but amuses the eye with charming white-striped shoots. Against the background of reeds, egg pods, water lilies and other floating plants look much more spectacular.
Rogoz
The same "cattail" that people often call "reed".
It cannot be confused with any other plant because of the brown original cobs on cylindrical strong stems, which served as a faithful weapon in childhood war games. Broad-linear long leaves surround the ear in a dense ring, moving away from the long and powerful rhizomes. The cobs, dense and brightly brown in July, ripen by autumn, become loose and fluffy.
Cattail leaves and stems are good for weaving all kinds of products, including slippers. Autumn "fluff" of cattail is used when packing fragile items; mattresses and pillows can be filled with it, changing the contents every fall. The presence of starch in the rhizome makes it edible for humans.
Tall or bulbous ryegrass
Perhaps, for moderately humid places in a shady garden, the most popular and widespread cereal in our country is tall or bulbous ryegrass.
Its white-striped attractive meter-long leaves grow rapidly, forming unpretentious clumps. But he needs an eye, and an eye. It is worth starting its planting, you will have to spend a lot of time and effort to bring them into proper form.
Hakonehloa
If you are a lover of oriental flavor, your garden cannot be ignored by a plant called "Hakonehloa". Its golden leaves look like a bunch of seaweed washed ashore. The attractiveness of the plant is sometimes outweighed by arguments about the difficulties of growing it. Soils are needed rich in humus, moist, but well-drained. Needs light shade and mulching.
Perennial millet
Often you can find in our gardens meter-long steel-colored leaves belonging to a plant with the name "millet", familiar to us from a children's game in which we sang: "And we sowed millet, sowed …". Although we, city children, have never seen millet, and we didn’t know that millet is millet, from which we cook a very tasty and beloved millet porridge.
Millet sprouts avoid spring frosts, emerging from the soil in mid-May. By the end of summer, spreading panicles of a strange appearance appear.
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In the photo - calamus, reed, cattail, hakonehloa.
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