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- Planting Ladle Stones: Instructions and Plant Selection
- Step by step build a slope and plant the shovel stones
- 1. Create a foundation
- 2. Set spoon stones
- 3. Plant the spoon stones
- The most beautiful plants for the Löffelstein planting
Spoonstones should be planted with plants with low water requirements
Planting Ladle Stones: Instructions and Plant Selection
Spoon stones are often used to attach embankments. But naked they look a little handsome. In the following, we will explain how to plant your spoonstones step by step and which plants are suitable for them.
Step by step build a slope and plant the shovel stones
1. Create a foundation
Even a "wall" made of spoonstones needs a foundation so that they do not sag. For this you raise a trench 80cm deep and about 20cm wide and fill it half with gravel or gravel as a drainage layer. On the slope side, a drainage pipe is laid in the ballast layer. The other half of the trench is filled with concrete. A vertical drainage layer should be placed between the dipper and slope to direct the water into the soil.
2. Set spoon stones
After the foundation has dried out, the lowest row of spoon stones is set. You should definitely have a spirit level at hand to ensure horizontal alignment.
Then the spoon stones are filled with good garden soil and filled up the area between spoon stones and slope with gravel. Then the second row of spoon stones is placed a few centimeters backwards on the bottom row.
Also fill this row with good soil and fill the drainage layer before proceeding with the third row (if necessary).
3. Plant the spoon stones
If all the spoonstones are set and filled with soil, it is time to plant.
The most beautiful plants for the Löffelstein planting
For planting of spoonstones, cushion-forming, low plants are suitable, which sometimes cope with dryness and form shallow roots. Here are the top 10 blooming beauties for spoonstones:
Almost all of the above-mentioned plants for spoon stones need plenty of sun to thrive well. For spoonstones on the north side significantly fewer plants come into question, for example: