Content
- The most beautiful shrubs for the hillside
- The choice of the right perennial
- height
- leaves
- heyday
- Evergreen perennials
- Tips
Higher-growing plants should be placed in the middle
The most beautiful shrubs for the hillside
Commonly one knows hill beds actually only as culture form for vegetables, however such a bed is suitable - approximately in a garden with heavy, for many ornamental plants rather unfavorable soil created - also for the culture of ornamental plants such as flowers and perennials. In the following article you will find out which perennials are particularly comfortable on hilly areas and where you should place them.
The choice of the right perennial
A colorful discounts with a successful plant selection is one of the most beautiful garden elements. However, when planting the flower bed with perennials, you should remember that these are always perennial - and may have a longer life than the bed itself. Plan the planting accordingly with a lifespan of around six years or make sure that it is replenished regularly.
height
The height of perennials varies from the looping Günsel and the dead nettle, which are especially in good hands on the edges of the hill and can outgrow the boundary (such as bricks or stones), up to the royal larkspur, up to two meters tall becomes. Tall plants thrive best as a dominant element that rises above the lower neighbors in the middle or in the background of the bed. Many of these shrubs must also be held together with sticks, otherwise they lean over the smaller plants and rob them of the sunlight. Support the plants already at the beginning of the growth, when they just start to spit.
leaves
Choose the perennials not only for the beauty of their flowers, because the leaves often last much longer. Peonies, for example, bloom breathtakingly beautiful in the spring for about three weeks. However, their foliage is also so attractive that they give the bed still long after flowering fullness and attractiveness. The imposing, in early summer flowering stems have strong, band-shaped leaves and give the bed especially between rounded plants contours. The Siberian iris, on the other hand, quickly becomes unattractive after flowering.
heyday
Some perennials bloom in late summer or even fall and revive the discounts after the difficult dry period in summer. The winter-hardy autumn chrysanthemums, for example, bear pretty little flowers in purplish or rusty tones from midsummer to the first frost. Bluebells, Meadow Rays, Honorary Prize and Daylilies planted in rows instead of in groups, make for a varied, interesting and long-blooming summer discounts.
Evergreen perennials
Some perennials are evergreen and cover the ground with their greens even in winter. These include, for example, the Christmas rose and other hellebore species, which in fact bloom at some locations around Christmas time.
Tips
Perfect for hillside gardens is a mixed plantation of perennials in combination with summer flowers, tubers and bulbous plants as well as vegetables.