Remove leaves easily and efficiently

Always remove leaves from rock garden plants that are sensitive to moisture

Most of the plants in the rock garden are very sensitive to moisture, which is why leaving the autumn leaves lying around is not a good idea. In particular sensitive plants such as silver arum or Edelweiss begin to rot under the damp blanket, so that the planting of your rock garden should be quickly gone.

Appropriate methods for removing autumn leaves

Removing leaves that may be wet and therefore sticky, especially small stones or pebbles, is no easy matter. It is better not to work with a leaf blower in the stone or gravel garden: In the end, the stones will still fly through the area and you will destroy it painstakingly arranged ensemble. In addition, a leaf blower not only blows away leaves and stones, but also many of the small and endangered animal species that have usually settled in a rock garden. Better to use ancient methods, such as one

Brushwood. Here, willow or birch branches are tied into a broom, which easily removes all leaves.

Prevention is better than tidying up: put up a net!

Now this manual removal of the leaves in larger rock gardens is quite an effort. To avoid this, you can simply use this tried and tested trick: Stretch a fine-meshed net over the entire area in good time before the leaves begin to fall. From there you can simply remove or remove the fallen leaves with a broom. clear up along with the net. However, the same applies here: fallen leaves must be removed regularly.

Evergreen deciduous and coniferous trees reduce leaf fall

To make your work easier, you can of course also prevent leaf fall by planting corresponding evergreen woody species. There are a number of suitable deciduous and coniferous trees for the rock garden, but all of them are dwarfed.

Suitable conifers for the rock garden:

• Dwarf balsam fir
• Dwarf cypress
• Dwarf columnar juniper
• Dwarf blue cedar juniper
• Hedgehog spruce
• Dwarf snakeskin jaw
• Dwarf mountain pine
• Dwarf hoe jaw
• Dwarf box