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- Plant a light ditch
- Create the light ditch
- Which plants for the moat?
- Beautiful design ideas for the planted light trench
- The rock garden light trench
- The blossoming light ditch
- Wintergreen light ditch
Steep light ditches can be planted with climbing plants
Plant a light ditch
Light ditches often look bare and gray - both from inside through the window and from the outside. However, if you put some plants, the view changes immediately. Learn here how and with which you can plant your light trench.
Create the light ditch
There are different ways to make a light trench:
All variants are ideal for planting. If you choose a type of embankment, it is advisable to secure the soil and plants with an embankment mat to prevent it from slipping as the plants take root. In a stepped construction, this is unnecessary.
Which plants for the moat?
A moat provides, as the name implies, for light. Therefore, it is very important that you do not grow large plants that block the light. For the light garden, it is best to use small plants or to prune the plants regularly. You should also keep in mind that a moat rarely gets direct sun. Therefore you should set shade-loving plants. It is also sensible to grow hardy plants so that you do not have to replant the light ditch every spring.
Above all, there are the following questions:
Carpet-forming plants are especially beautiful, as they will cover the entire area in no time at all. Here is a small selection of the most beautiful, shade-loving ground cover:
Beautiful design ideas for the planted light trench
The rock garden light trench
Create a beautiful stone landscape with succulents, various large field stones and pebbles. Even low-growing grasses fit well here.
The blossoming light ditch
Combine different flowering ground cover with different flowering time, so you look all year round on a flowering moat landscape.
Wintergreen light ditch
If you want to look at a green landscape in winter, choose evergreen plants such as ivy, creeping spindle or creeping medlar.