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- Succulent groundcover for the stone and roof garden - an elite
- Indestructible house shrubs draw picturesque garden pictures
- Fetthennen favor lean conditions
- Tips
The house root is a popular ground cover
Succulent groundcover for the stone and roof garden - an elite
In order to decorate Spartan sites, such as the rock garden, dry stone wall and roof garden, floral problem solvers are needed. With succulent ground cover you turn these barren layers into a feast for the eyes. The most beautiful types and varieties we have collected for you in this selection.
Indestructible house shrubs draw picturesque garden pictures
Her botanical name Sempervivum means "always alive" and hits it in the spotlight. Domestic sausages preserve their decorative appearance in the heat of the day and the bitter cold. The following species and varieties are predestined for succulent ground cover thanks to their low growth height:
Domestic sausages favor a full sun, warm location with a pebbly-stony to rocky bottom. Their legendary simplicity requires neither watering nor fertilizing. Only with prolonged drought in midsummer, the watering can from time to time to use. Since the stone rose is completely hardy, it is considered an ideal succulent for outdoors.
Fetthennen favor lean conditions
The multi-faceted genus of fat hens (Sedum) is accurately called also stonecrop. Under the barren conditions of a dry-stone wall, the following succulent ground coverers are at their best:
Characteristic of succulent ground cover are their creeping growth and the absence of pruning. Since fetus hens have to work out their stable winter hardiness in the first two years, they are thankful in the planting year for a slight winter protection in the form of a covering made of leaves or straw. Otherwise, they are just as easy to care for, as Sempervivum.
Tips
Succulent ground cover tirelessly produce offshoots in the form of daughter rosettes and niches. Once house roots and fat hens have gained a foothold, the resistant perennials can easily be multiplied. Kindel with at least one fifth of the size of their mother plant, you can break off or cut off, to green the other sites colorfully.