2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
In any garden there is an area with insufficiently cultivated soil or heavily shaded by lush crowns of shrubs or trees. What can be planted in such places so that they do not irritate the eyes, but add attractiveness and joy of being?
For decorating problem areas of a summer cottage, ground cover plants, the choice of which is great, are perfect.
Phlox subulate or sod
This low herbaceous perennial, not exceeding 15-17 cm in height, adorns the ground with bright green leaves throughout the summer season, the narrow pointed shape of which looks like an awl of a tailor or an accountant, interweaving piles of reports, gathering dust on shelves for years, unnecessary to anyone.
The stem of the plant is densely covered with these awl-shaped rigid leaves, turning the bush into a miniature thorny Christmas tree, which is quite suitable for children to play in the "New Year".
With its unpretentiousness to the composition of the soil
Phlox subulate prefers places open to sunlight and does not tolerate waterlogging. The winter hardiness of the plant helps to easily endure frosts, showing perfectly preserved bushes in spring.
The green rugs of Phlox subulate twice a season are covered with 5-petal star-shaped flowers, creating such dense inflorescences that evergreen greens are not visible under their bright colors. Such events happen in May-June and August-September with a duration of a month.
The plant feels best in rocky gardens; will decorate a garden path, made of tiles that are not closely spaced to each other; will slyly peek out of the cracks of the retaining wall or the holes of vertically arranged flower beds, which are gaining more and more popularity today.
Rejuvenated
An amazing creation of nature, in the birth of which the advisers of the Almighty in mathematical sciences clearly participated. Geometric perfection in the arrangement of juicy leaves fascinates and delights plant fans, but does not prevent the plant itself from taking various forms and coloring the leaves in unusual colors, without violating the geometric harmony.
Its Latin name, meaning "always alive", does not live up to its name in only one case. Having decorated the same place in the garden for many years, the plant, having matured, decides to release a peduncle from the center of the leaf rosette, which reveals to the world the inflorescence-caps collected from white, pink, yellow or purple star-shaped flowers. The inflorescence seems to symbolize the farewell of a separate rose Molodil with this beautiful world, presenting it with its modest flowers before leaving for the world of shadows.
In addition, the outgoing rosette manages to leave many little rosette children during its life on Earth. So, the life of a plant does not end even with the departure of adults.
Rejuvenated tolerates drought, but stagnant water for a plant is destructive. Therefore, they are planted in places where there is a constant lack of soil moisture. Plants are not comfortable under deciduous trees because of falling leaves, under which they are stuffy and humid, and therefore Molodil's rosettes begin to die, not having time to leave behind offspring.
Saxifrage
If you plant a rhizome perennial Saxifrage in a problem area, then from May to September it will be decorated with rosettes of leathery or fleshy leaves of various shapes and 5-petal star-shaped flowers, which can be single, or gather in panicle inflorescences.
Numerous types
Saxifrage offer a choice of plants of different heights, from 5 cm to 70 cm. Leaves of many species give off lime, which is located along the edge of the leaf, giving it a grayish appearance. The flowers do not like to stand out, and therefore they chose for themselves a white, pinkish or yellow color.
In order for the Saxifrage to produce seeds, the help of pollinating insects is needed. Although some species are capable of self-pollinating
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