2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Herbs for moderately humid places are distinguished by their unpretentiousness and great endurance. They live for many years, growing in width and height, being excellent assistants to the gardener-gardener for turfing damp and shaded areas of the summer cottage. Herbs are more resistant to diseases and pests. Many of them are used in winter bouquets in conjunction with decorative dried flowers
Deschampsia or pike
Even “yesterday” our selfless gardeners, who got plots on the former damp meadows, remember how much time and effort was spent to free the land from large mounds of grass. Its roots were so densely entangled with a clod of soil that it was possible to extract the grass only together with this earthy clod. It was "Turfy Pike" or "Deschampsia".
Times change. Today, gardeners spend thousands of rubles to purchase pike seeds for lawns in areas with strong shading or high humidity. For example, the cost of the Barcampsia variety from the Netherlands is 6,000 rubles per package of 10 kilograms.
The breeders did not waste time in vain and brought out very decorative and resistant varieties of pike, the flowering panicles of which look like transparent clouds, powdered with a fine metal powder. Thus, in the Bronzeschleier variety, the panicles are powdered with a rich bronze coating, while in the Goldstaub variety, they are powder of a bright golden color.
Sedge
The ubiquitous sedge is not found only in some arid deserts.
The breeders did a good job and bred such varieties, the leaves of which in early spring can be easily confused with the narrow-leaved host varieties. Such sedge is the charming “Carex siderostica“Variegata””. From the black soil in early spring, its white-bordered beautiful leaves appear, not afraid of late frosts. In May, the leaves are transformed, acquiring a delicate pink hue.
Sedge grows very quickly. She is not afraid of the thick shade of garden trees, so she is an excellent assistant for sodding the soil in the darkest places of your summer cottage.
Pampas grass or cortaderia
This spectacular giant cereal can be found today in the southern regions of our country. Unfortunately, he does not like frost, and therefore in central Russia he does not have time to grow to his amazingly beautiful, luxurious brooms, creating only a curtain of leaves.
Miscanthus chinese
Less whimsical in comparison with the Pampas grass are the panicles of Chinese miscanthus. A native of the Far East, he is more tolerant of our winter frosts, but it is safer to cover young grass with branches of spruce branches for the winter.
The shoots of miscanthus stretch up to 2 meters in height, adorning their tops with pink, silvery, reddish or brown panicles. True, the grass grows slowly and requires a sunny place, fertile soil and regular watering during the dry season.
Cuckoo tears or shaker
The low-maintenance shaker grows both in the open and in the partial shade of wet areas. It often grows in clearings and light forests. The variety "Shaker krupnaya" is grown in Russian gardens as an annual.
Boron
A widespread cereal in our country. We meet its delicate openwork panicles everywhere in the meadows and on the edge of the forest, and therefore we pass by indifferently. And it’s very in vain that we behave like that. After all, it is his "Aureum" variety that has foliage that looks like iridescent rays of the sun.
The plant feels great in the partial shade of damp and cool places, easily multiplies by dividing the bush, tolerates winter frosts perfectly. Boron creates a bright golden spot against the background of dark foliage or needles.
Molinia
An inconspicuous grass called "Molinia" grows on the outskirts of bogs and in damp forest glades, so the damp places of summer cottages with acidic soils are created just for it.
The plant is especially suitable for heather gardens. The bright black-brown panicles of the Moerhexe variety and the motley bright foliage of the Variegata variety will decorate the garden and relieve it of excess moisture.
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