Versatile perennials
Perennials play the main role in the gravel garden. They are perennial, herbaceous plants that sprout every year in spring from buds close to the ground or just below the ground. The different types of thistle, for example, absolutely belong in a gravel garden, but so do succulents like that Ice plant, the Sedum plant or the fat sheet. Short-lived perennials such as the dyer's chamomile, the crownLight carnation or the silky mullein provide visual highlights during the summer months.
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Ground cover for the gravel garden
Perennials that stay low and cover the ground, which sometimes form attractive carpets of plants, should also not be missing. Examples of the gravel garden are:
- Small-leaved spiny nut (Acarena microhylla)
- Silver hornwort (Cerastium tomentosum var. columnae)
- Sun rose (Helianthemum nummularium)
- Cambridge-Cranesbill (Geranium x cantabrigiense)
- Early flowering thyme (Thymus praecox)
Flowers according to the seasons
Pay attention to the Selection of perennials on acquiring species with different flowering times. The gravel garden blooms all year round and not just in certain months. There is a wide variety of spring bloomers (e.g. B. Peony, Spring Adonis, Honorary award or pasque flower), summer bloomers (e. B. Bluebells, Knapweed, Sword-elephant, orange hedgehog head, flax, cinquefoil ...) as well as autumn flowers (e.g. B. various asters, sedum plants, dost). In addition to perennials, you should also use various bulbous and bulbous plants.
Woods and subshrubs
The drier the living environment, the rarer large trees are. That is why you should use shrubs that remain small in the gravel garden, which do not cast a deep shadow and do not press the neighboring plants too much. For example, columnar trees such as conifers or (rocket) juniper are very suitable, but the following are also perfect:
- Narrow-leaved Buddleia (Buddleja alternifolia)
- Butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii)
- Common bladder shrub (Colutea arborescens)
- Purple goat clover (Cytisus purpureus)
- Spanish gorse (Genista hispanica)
- Summer tamarisk (Tamarix ramosissima)
- Pike rose (Rosa glauca)
- Common Judas Tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
- Wig bush (cotinus coggyria)
- Sead tree (Juniperus sabina)
Subshrubs
These are long-lived plant species that develop a woody framework close to the ground, from which new, herbaceous shoots sprout every year in spring. Many Mediterranean herbs, for example, belong to this group. These types are particularly suitable for the gravel garden:
- Real wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
- Common lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
- Blue rue, Perovskie (Perovskia atriplicifolia)
- Lemon Thyme (Thymus x citriodorus)
- Spice Sage (Salvia officinalis)
- Evergreen Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens)
- Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)
Tips
Even lots of grasses are predestined for the gravel garden. There are many interesting species, such as those with blue leaves (e. B. Blue fescue, magellan blue grass) or with pretty flower or Fruit heads (e.g. B. Lamp cleaner grass, Feather grass, Silver ear grass).
