This is how the perfect grave planting succeeds!

When is the best time to plant heather on a grave?

Plant you heather off late summer or Autumn on the grave. Depending on the variety, the flowering time of the heather for fall or spring. In both cases, this grave plant beautifies the planted area with an attractive bloom during the dreary and cold time of the year. Autumn cold and winter frost cannot harm the hardy heather. So you don't have to worry about your grave planting with heather damaged by ice and snow.

What can I combine heather with when planting graves?

Combine heather with ornamental grasses or perennialsthat bloom at the appropriate time of year. For example, you can use the following plants when designing the grave:

• blue fescue (Festuca glauca)
• Barbed Wire Plant (Calocephalus/Leucophyta brownii)
• Horned Violet (Viola cornuta)
• cyclamen (cyclamen)
• Purplebells (Heuchera)

When combining the heather in the grave planting, you can set very flexible color accents. The light and rather muted colors of the heather blossom can be combined in many ways.

Which heather beautifies graves in late summer and autumn?

The bell heather (Erica gracilis) or the heather (Calluna vulgaris) are ideal for grave planting in late summer. These two varieties are evergreen and bear beautiful flowers from late summer, which will beautify a grave for a long time. The heather is perennial. It can provide you with beautiful planting for over a decade in grave planting. Once the plant has grown densely enough, weeds usually don't stand a chance.

Which heather makes a nice spring grave planting?

With the winter heath (Erica carnea) there is also a heather available which flowers right at the beginning of the year. It usually extends from January to April. Since there may well still be snow cover here, this is it heather variety also under the name snow heath known. You can use this heather for winter grave planting.