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- Simple and effective: methods for removing leaves from the rock garden
- Wet-sensitive rock garden plants always get rid of leaves
- Suitable methods for the removal of autumn leaves
- Prevention is better than tidying up: Tighten a net!
- Evergreen deciduous and coniferous trees reduce leaf fall
- Tips
Dropped foliage is a danger to underlying plants
Simple and effective: methods for removing leaves from the rock garden
No doubt about it: A garden does a lot of work - especially in autumn, when the leaves of the trees turn so colorful and fall down on the beds. Sometimes it can stay there for winter protection, but in the rock garden you should remove the old and wet leaves regularly.
Wet-sensitive rock garden plants always get rid of leaves
Most plants in the rock garden are very sensitive to moisture, so leaving the autumnal foliage is not a good idea. In particular, sensitive plants such as silverwort or edelweiss begin to rot under the damp ceiling, so that the planting of your rock garden should be fast.
Suitable methods for the removal of autumn leaves
Now, the removal of possibly wet and therefore sticky foliage, especially of smaller stones or pebbles is not a simple matter. To work with a leaf blower in the stone or gravel garden, you should leave better: In the end, the stones still fly through the area and you destroy the laboriously arranged ensemble. In addition, a leaf blower blows away not only leaves and stones, but also many of the small and endangered species that have usually settled in a rock garden. Therefore, better grasp old-fashioned methods, such as brushing a broom. Here, willow or birch branches are tied to a broom that easily removes all foliage.
Prevention is better than tidying up: Tighten a net!
Now, this manual removal of foliage in larger rockeries is quite a hassle. To circumvent this, you can also simply resort to this proven trick: Stretch over the entire surface of a fine-meshed and in good time before the beginning of the leaf fall. From there you can simply remove the collected foliage with a broom or remove it together with the net. However, here too: Trapped foliage must be removed regularly.
Evergreen deciduous and coniferous trees reduce leaf fall
To make the work easier, you can of course also prevent the leaf fall by planting evergreen tree species. So there are a number of suitable deciduous and coniferous trees for the rock garden, which, however, are all of dwarfish growth.
Suitable conifers for the rock garden:
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Also from a winter-protecting edition of fir or spruce is in the rock garden for the same reasons as described above rather discouraged.