What ornamental grasses to decorate the lawn

 

Pictured in the magazines in landscape design there are lawns with a picture and ornamental grasses, planted Islands or framing it. How to create a pattern on the lawn? What plants should be planted so that they can be simultaneously cut with the lawn, but the figure remained? And what better to plant grass on the edges of the lawn or Islands to create a fluffy songs and not to mow?





You can embellish the lawn patches of ornamental perennial grasses with unusual leaf color (silvery, mottled, yellowish, bluish, light green or dark green, pinkish or reddish). They will provide paint and liven up the green carpet in summer and autumn, and furry Islands in winter, covered with snow, will not allow the turf to be an ice desert.





Ornamental grasses, coming from nature, quite tenacious. It is theoretically inhabitants of forests, steppes, wetlands, requiring special care and attention. Some seeds you can collect over the fence and sow them according to a certain plan lawn. However, most of the decorative grasses imported from abroad and, unfortunately, all is not well endure the Russian winter. Therefore, below we will focus only on frost-resistant varieties and species.





Ornamental grasses for the coloring of the lawnare Planted at a deliberate plan of grass, different from the main lawn by the color of the leaves, mowed down with the lawn, the figure is retained.

Shaded areas can be planted to ogiku snow-white (Luzula nivea). Its leaves are characterized by yellowing, is seen on the lawn as the sun's glare. The plant that he is not capricious, more attention is not required.





On a wet Sunny areas it grows well Canary reed (Phalaris arundinacea). Especially interesting variegated varieties: Feesey cream with pink stripes and with a white Picta. Twitcher can be planted in neskachivaemym parts of the lawn.

In shaded areas with loose fertile soil to grow well and grow fast different types of sedges. The leaves are variegated varieties of sedges Moravian (Carexmorrowii) from spring frosts turn pink, and the warming again become white-green. These plants are particularly valuable because in these places it is difficult to choose plants to create a beautiful vegetable of the carpet.





In shady places the most striking Imperata cylindrical (Imperata cylindrica) with red-green leaves (varieties RedBaronи Rubra). It should be noted that the color of leaves does not change throughout the season. Water-loving plants, long overdrying not stand.





Herbs for fluffy Islands and surrounds of lawnTo frame the lawn and create a fluffy compositions suitable sedge: tall and Golden. The latter have varieties Bowles golday and Silver Scepter with a Golden-green leaves. And the sedge gray's surprisingly attractive in the flowering period in may – June. At this time the stalks are formed of light-green flowers look like stars.

Moderately damp full sun beautifully looks lugovik soddy (Deschampsia cespitosa) grows to a height of 60 cm grade Bronzeschleir the color of leaves bronze in the variety Goldschtaub – bright yellow.





On the Sunny wet places eyes glued to the ryegrass bulbous shape Variegatum (Arrhenatherumelatiusbulbosum). Its white-striped leaves can grow to 1 m in height.

In Sunny locations with dry rocky soil good growing ostrovidova Calamagrostis (Calamagrostis acutiflora). Of his varieties the most attractive Karl Foerster with Golden leaves.





How to create a pattern on the lawn"Paint" the lawn is easy. At the initial stage, you need to create pattern in full size on paper, cut. Then, on the chosen place to clip it with a peg and rope. Carefully remove sod to a depth of approximately 20 cm So that in the future the grass is not much spread, you need to install the border material, for example, strips of sheet width of about 25 cm, fixing them with pegs.

In place of turf taken out need to fill fertile soil and sow the seeds of selected ornamental grasses, or planted them out (seedlings). Plants should be often watered, look like a young lawn.published





 

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