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- Ground cover on loamy soil - with these varieties it succeeds
- The crux with loamy soil
- Clay soil compatible groundcover
- Flowering foliage groundcover
- The robust alternative: dwarf shrubs
- Swinging mysticism: ferns
The Kissenaster also tolerates loamy soil
Ground cover on loamy soil - with these varieties it succeeds
Loamy soils are not the easiest in the truest sense of the word and present hobby gardeners with some challenges. The following article will tell you how to successfully settle a groundcover on a clay soil.
The crux with loamy soil
In all garden floors a certain amount of clay is present. With the storage of water and nutrients, it also takes on an important task in the planting grounds. In some places, however, the amount of loam in the soil is excessively high, resulting in very low permeability to both the water and nutrients and air. For plants, this means permanent moisture and lack of root ventilation. With that, many get along badly, but some varieties already.
Apart from the limited selection of plants with which a clay soil confronts the gardener, it can also be difficult to work through its dense, caking consistency. Improvements by processing of sand and compost is therefore a true drudgery and also the plants is of course more laborious than in loose soil.
An overview of the properties of clay soils:
Clay soil compatible groundcover
If you want to plant a loamy surface with a groundcover, just the factor of difficult processing is particularly important - because in order to fulfill their area-filling task, the low-growing plants must finally be placed in relatively many individual plants. In order to save soil improving bone work, it is therefore even more to select loam soil compatible varieties. And with ground cover, the choice is not so limited - at least as far as the optical diversity is concerned.
Flowering foliage groundcover
For example, you can fall back on delicately flowering classics such as the pilaster or most cranesbill. Even the yellow glowing golden nettle, the sympathetic spotted lungwort and creeping Günsel get along well with loamy soil. The common soapwort herb can also thrive on loamy soil, as well as the aromatic fragrant and usable as a condiment pineapple mint or the simple snake knotweed. For all these varieties, however, sunny conditions should be ensured, so that the loamy soil is not too wet.
The robust alternative: dwarf shrubs
Another, perhaps more pragmatic, but certainly also decorative option are creeping dwarf shrubs. Many of them are very undemanding in terms of soil technology, such as the evergreen, very robust and quasi-care-free dwarf medlar or zerg conifers such as creeping juniper or yew trees.
Swinging mysticism: ferns
Ferns like dark, moist habitats and are also good as ground cover - with their swinging, filigree leaf structure, they also have something to offer visually.