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- The most beautiful grasses for the gravel garden
- Grasses with especially beautiful leaves
- Grasses with showy flowers and fruit stalks
- Low alert grasses
- Tips
Grasses and gravel are a perfect match
The most beautiful grasses for the gravel garden
Grasses in the gravel garden are not only beautiful to look at all year round, they can also be easily combined with other plants and are also very easy to care for. Once you've grown, you do not need to water it anymore. It is also sufficient if you cut the grass just above the ground at the end of winter.
Grasses with especially beautiful leaves
For the gravel garden recommended grasses usually have very narrow leaves. This is because these species come from the arid regions of our earth or thrive on very permeable, barely water-storing soils. In order not to evaporate water unnecessarily, the well-adapted plants have only small leaf surfaces. For the same reason, many species are bluish or have a thin coating of wax. Delicate leaf beauties are especially these types:
Very high grasses should be surrounded with low perennials, so that these beauties are put in the right light and do not go down.
Grasses with showy flowers and fruit stalks
Particularly beautiful and eye-catching flowers and / or fruit stalks have the following grasses:
Low alert grasses
If you are looking for low grasses, you are well advised with these species:
Tips
Grasses are not pollinated by insects, but by the wind. He often transports the pollen from one plant to another over long distances. For this reason, grasses have no strikingly colored flowers, they must finally attract no insects.