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- The best trees for the rock garden
- These trees are suitable for the rock garden
- Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)
- Dwarf Hemlock, 'Nana' (Tsuga canadensis)
- Ball Pine 'Pug' (Pinus mugo)
- Moth pine (Pinus parviflora)
- False Cypress (Chamaecyparis)
- Dwarf Birch 'Nana' (Betula nana)
- Tips
The boxwood is a typical rock garden tree
The best trees for the rock garden
For a rock garden you do not need much space - a small garden corner is perfectly adequate. In addition to various ground cover, grasses and low shrubs small trees complement the interesting landscape.
These trees are suitable for the rock garden
Preferably evergreen and hardy conifers thrive in a rock garden, which together with grasslands, gentian, lavender, blue cushion, stonecrop and other typical rock garden plants give a harmonious overall picture. The following suggestions fit very well into the planned design.
Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)
The boxwood is very undemanding, easy to care for and extremely durable. The evergreen deciduous tree grows densely branched and can develop in old age to a small tree up to eight meters high. Buchs can be excellently cut and is particularly well suited for form cuts.
Dwarf Hemlock, 'Nana' (Tsuga canadensis)
With its moderate growth, the loosely built, picturesque crown and the overhanging branch tips, the Canadian hemlock is one of the most beautiful conifers. Her hemispherical awake dwarf variant, Nana 'is no more than a meter high.
Ball Pine 'Pug' (Pinus mugo)
This dwarf variety of mountain or Krummholzkiefer grows globular to slightly pillow-shaped and reaches a height of up to 150 centimeters. The very dense, short branches are upwards and equipped with long, stiff and dark green needles. The species is robust and very adaptable.
Moth pine (Pinus parviflora)
In particular, the blue-headed form of the Japanese pine, which is native to Japan, is one of the most beautiful pine species in the rock garden with its loose, irregular structure. In addition to the variety, Glauca 'is also the attractive variety, Negishii' very well. It grows irregular and bizarre. She will only be a man-high in 15 years.
False Cypress (Chamaecyparis)
Particularly suitable for rockeries is the Hinoki cypress, Nana gracilis', which grows initially irregularly spherical and later broadly cone-shaped. This variety grows up to three meters high and about one and a half meters wide. The slightly smaller and narrower, Nana Aurea 'also scores with golden yellow colored needles. The species Lawson's cypress also offers many suitable for the rock garden varieties with green, blue or golden yellow needles. for example 'Minima Aurea' or 'Minima Glauca'.
Dwarf Birch 'Nana' (Betula nana)
The dwarf birch is widespread from northern Europe to Siberia. It occurs preferably in the high and intermediate bogs as well as in dwarf shrub communities on nutrient-poor soils. The petite species is only 0.5 to a meter high with its often lower branches. In the garden the dwarf birch finds a suitable place in rockeries, but also in heath and water gardens.
Tips
If you like the vitamin C-rich fruits, you can also cultivate the local sea buckthorn (Hipphophae rhamnoides) in the stone or gravel garden. This is a deciduous, up to ten-meter-high shrub or small tree that can develop numerous foothills.