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- Skilfully creating a hay garden - tips for a flowering heath landscape
- Heide demands special location qualities
- Correctly combine for a long flowering period - tips for the planting plan
- Magnificent planting partners complete the heather garden
- Decorative elements underline floral heather flair
- Tips
Heather brings color to the garden
Skilfully creating a hay garden - tips for a flowering heath landscape
Bring the magic of blooming heathlands with their overwhelming splendor of color into your garden. There are only a few criteria to fulfill in order to create a private hay garden expertly. This guide illuminates the most important requirements and gives tips on the design plan.
Heide demands special location qualities
Predestined to the heather garden are all sunny locations that are open to the wind. A key function for proper soil quality is pH. This should move between 4 and 5, so that heath can develop vital and healthy. A sandy-loose, dry to fresh soil is especially welcome to the frugal Erika and Calluna.
Correctly combine for a long flowering period - tips for the planting plan
The dream of the evergreen heather garden is within your reach as you skilfully combine the different heath species and flowering times. The following tips for the planting plan show how to do it:
In the small garden, you do not have to do without a picturesque heather bed. Smaller varieties such as purple purple heath dwarf (Calluna vulgaris) or deep red ruby carpet (Erica carnea) come together to form dense flower carpets.
Magnificent planting partners complete the heather garden
The imaginative planting plan is not limited to heather plants. With small pines, junipers and dwarf rhododendrons, heath species form a harmonious neighborhood. Premium candidates for a decorative Tete-a-Tete are also colorful cranberry shrubs, frugal thyme and early-flowering bulb flowers such as crocuses, snowdrops and daffodils.
Decorative elements underline floral heather flair
Where extensive heath landscapes with rolling hills and hollows extend, authentic deco elements liberate the appearance creatively. Sandy roads exude authentic flair. As nature-loving eye-catchers boulders serve from regional quarries. Tree trunks and roots provide a visual change and at the same time attract beneficial insects to your new heather garden.
Tips
To include heath in the design of a Japanese garden is not a break in style. Rather, heather plants are among the few spots of color that are accepted alongside evergreen classics, such as bamboo or koreatanne. In addition, small-heated heathers are true to the flowering beauties of the Japanese species at feet, such as azaleas and rhododendrons.