Plant winter heather in your own garden

Content

• Plant winter heather in your own garden
• When and where do you get healthy plants?
• Which locations does the winter heather prefer?
• What should be considered when planting the winter heather?
• Can the winter heather be transplanted?
• How is the snow heath multiplied?
• When does the snow heath bloom?
• At which distance should the winter heather be planted as groundcover?
• Tips

The Winter Heath: A special attraction for the garden bed

Plant winter heather in your own garden

In contrast to the broom heath (Calluna vulgaris), the snow heath or winter heather (Erica carnea) grows on non-boggy and rather calcareous soils, furthermore it is very hardy due to its alpine origin. As the name implies, the winter heather blooms from February to April at a time when otherwise no other outdoor plants are flourishing.

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When and where do you get healthy plants?

The winter heather is offered in the garden stores mostly in spring in different varieties and flower colors. This may also be because spring is the absolute best planting season for the winter heather.

Which locations does the winter heather prefer?

The winter heather loves sunny or half shady locations. The soil should be more calcareous and it is also well-barren soil with high gravel or rock content.

What should be considered when planting the winter heather?

The potted bales of the plants are usually already intensively rooted in the purchase. Therefore, remove the winter heather from the pot and gently loosen the root ball a little before you put it in place about 1 cm deeper than before in the soil.

Can the winter heather be transplanted?

If anything, the winter heather should only be transplanted in the spring. Basically, the hardy and perennial plants can stay in one location for many years. Older specimens survive a transplant to a new location sometimes not very well.

How is the snow heath multiplied?

Since seed production is rather negligible in the snow heath, the following three propagation methods are generally applicable:

For the cultivation of cuttings about 25 to 35 mm long pieces of semi-woody branches of winter heathers are cut off in the summer. These are defoliated in the lower, about 10 mm long area and put in potting soil. If the cuttings are kept evenly moist for about 40 days, rooting of the cuttings should have occurred in most cases after this period.

When does the snow heath bloom?

The snow heath usually blooms approximately between February and April.

At which distance should the winter heather be planted as groundcover?

The winter heather is not only suitable as winter planting for window boxes, but also as a charming ground cover in the Heidegarten. For this, the young plants are planted at a distance of about 20 to 30 cm to each other.

Tips

So that the winter heather does not shed even after several years at one location, it should be cut back vigorously every year after flowering. The pruning is also important for a lush flowering in the following year.