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To personalize the plot and create unique flower arrangements, you can grow cereal plants on the plot. With their lightness and pastel colors, they will make it possible to highlight lush flowering plants more voluminously. What interesting plants can you grow?
Tall grasses
Sugar-flowered miscanthus is a plant that can grow to a height of almost two meters. Flowering usually occurs towards the end of summer. The plant has shallow roots, but very long, therefore, restrictors are required. You can use a narrow plastic tape, it will not allow the plant to "creep".
Miscanthus loves sunny warm places, but also grows well in moist soil. Since flowering occurs late, some gardeners are trying to speed up this process by using ammonia fertilizer and watering with warm water (about +45 degrees).
Filaris - also called reed canary. It can grow up to one and a half meters high. This plant is unpretentious and resistant to various weather disasters. But its roots also require restraints, otherwise, over time, it will take over the entire adjacent space. It grows in spring and remains decorative all summer. All kinds of soil are suitable for him, but still he likes to grow more on wet. It adjoins well with various perennials such as hosta and Siberian iris. Perfectly sets off flowering peonies.
Hair-like feather grass usually does not grow above 80 cm. The leaves of this plant are not just green, they have a bluish tint, against this background creamy-white inflorescences look spectacular. This plant tolerates drought well, it does not need to be watered often and it feels great in the sun. But feather grass should not be planted in people with asthma, as it can cause allergic flare-ups.
Reed reed is a very unpretentious plant that grows on various soils and does not require abundant watering. It can even be planted in clay soil. It grows in early spring in compact tussocks that go well with flowering perennials: lupine, daylily, aconite, perennial small-flowered asters.
Rod millet is an ornamental herb that has interesting inflorescences. It grows very compactly and does not spread like other herbs. Very unpretentious, but blooms best in sunny places. Millet can be planted in the vicinity of lilies, perennial asters. But the most successful combination is with spring bulbous flowers.
Medium-sized herbs
Heliktotrichon - also called evergreen sheep. This silver-blue bush can grow from half a meter to a meter. But it has the correct spherical shape and looks beautiful in a company with conifers, barberry and vesicle. Prefers dry, well-lit places.
Undersized grasses
Gray fescue is a rather capricious cereal that grows up to 30 cm, which requires light, well-drained soil. Only once every three years it must be divided. But it pleases with gray - blue bumps that can decorate alpine slides and is ideally combined with lungwort, yaskolka, perennial bells, hosta and geyfer.
The same group of stunted ones includes: Maned barley, Gray Keleria and Blue Sesleria.
Care Tips
Many cereals prefer to grow better in the sun, this must be taken care of, because we plant plants for a long time, therefore we create comfort for them. And we do not abuse watering. It should be moderate, then the cereal plants will always be lush.
To make the plants look well-groomed, you need to cut off all the peduncles by autumn, and it is better to cut dry leaves in the spring, since in winter they will serve as additional protection of the roots from frost. Cereals are best propagated by division. They will germinate from seeds for a long time. The rhizome can be gently broken with a sharp shovel into the pieces you require. If a place has not yet been found, you can plant fragments of the plant in a pot.
Advice: you should not allow cereals to grow widely, because they will spoil the decorative effect of the composition and give it a look of neglect.
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