Typical Garden Plants

The planting of a garden to be decorative and functional. Garden plants emphasize the unique personality of a garden is to donate first, rest and tranquility and second, through gardening to physical fitness. The study of the nature, sowing, planting and care shown to give spiritual relaxation. It provides a lot of pleasure watching the garden plants grow. Under the loving care of various garden plants to bloom or bear fruit at all.

Most garden plants are used for decorative purposes, but also crops adorn the gardens

In our latitudes are found to mainly mixed gardens that combine useful and decorative garden plants. Through the study of the BDG from the years 2003-2008 it turned out that the typical garden plants vegetable gardens fail species-rich than the planting of urban parks. Of the total 2094 crop, were 86 percent of ornamental plants, 12 percent of food crops and green manure or 2 percent bee pasture plants. No. 1 ranked marigold (Calendula officinalis). 2nd and 3rd place went to the crops parsley and tomato. But not only the well-known commercial and ornamental plants are highly sought after. Even exotic plants get more and more popular-so, for example Asian garden plants, especially interesting for those who want to create a Japanese garden, and more often found in European gardens.

The garden plants 1 × 1: What flowers when?

February : snowdrops, crocuses and Winterling

March : Scilla, Puschkina , snow pride 

April : Leopard's Bane, Bleeding Heart, candytuft and Grape

May: lilies of the valley, larkspur and dwarf heart flower. Roses bloom until October

June : Garden poppies, peonies, lupines, phlox, ornamental mint, lavender, sage and snapdragon

July : Sun , Hilianthus, hydrangea and butterfly bush. Also marigolds blooming in July

August: aconite, daylilies, Perlkörbchen, coreopsis, helenium, Sun, & Dahlias

September & October: asters, goldenrod, Herbstanemone, stonecrop, Larkspur & Fackellilie

November/December bloom only a few garden plants, one of which is the Christmas Rose

The number 1 among the garden plants : the rose

The rose is one of the most popular garden plants worldwide

The queen of flowers blooms from May to October. Roses are available for all claims. Floribunda roses, hybrid teas, climbing roses and shrub roses offer an infinite variety and colors. Some rose varieties can be used as a hedge. Rose planting time is the end of winter. Most suitable container roses. They have a trained root ball and are well supplied with nutrients for the first time. Rose varieties, with the seal are also resistant to fungal diseases. You need a sunny site and a lot of fertilizer. 

Basic knowledge of roses

Location: sunny

Soil: humus-deep loamy soils

Fertilizing: Do not fertilize the first year after planting, later in the spring with organic fertilizer

Water freshly planted roses a week, then as needed-of prolonged drought: casting. The best location is the morning. The water is not allowed to come to the flowers and leaves, as this may fungus!

Classic garden plants: hydrangea

The Hydrangea is a flowering shrub with large umbels. It is one of the many different shades of pink to pink, blue, white or purple to the most beautiful garden shrubs. Different colors which are influenced by the pH of the soil, with special soils require special fertilizers. Garden hydrangea also love a moist, partially shaded spot. You need plenty of space to come to full bloom. They bloom from July to autumn. After flowering, many hydrangeas must be immediately cut back because the buds are formed for next year in the current year. Cut hydrangea properly.

Evergreen garden plants: ivy, bamboo and boxwood

Some garden plants are undemanding neighbors, but not all!

Bamboo, ivy and boxwood are important representatives of the evergreen garden plants. Also types of lifting, holly, cherry laurel and privet not form flowers. You greening the garden when the flowering plants and shrubs keep hibernation. They give the garden structure and self as a hedge planting or screening. In particular, the Boxwood has become increasingly important in recent years. A boxwood can be cut into any shape and is suitable as a hedge or specimen plant. It should be watered before planting and loves calcareous soil. For low hedges the variety Suffruticosa is. The Buxus sempervirens can be used as plugs or single plant. Hardy is the variety "Blauer Heinz', which grows very slowly. More boxwoods are available here.

Garden pond plants

The most popular garden plants for the pond is full of water lilies. Having a garden pond, the garden gets a decorative focal point. With high quality and good pond liner garden pond tips the corresponding design is not difficult. Installing a pond pump is not necessary for a pure plant pond. Here the roots of aquatic plants provide good water quality. Might be helpful to the colonization of the pond with the swan mussel. It also helps to clear the water. For the plants at the pond are different grasses and perennials available. In the flood area , the marsh iris and marigold feel very comfortable. Gern slightly drier are lady's mantle, globe flower and grasses such as the Morning Star Sedge or prairie cord grass. This garden plants also feel comfortable in normal garden soil well and can be used for pond plants. Many trees are also among the pond plants. Here's the sweet gum, red maple for wet locations. When dry garden plants at the pond pasture and snowball own- very nice suitable large and high quality flower pots-who has no desire to go out of the house, can order them directly. Right in the garden pond Lotus, water lilies, water lilies, Wasserfarn and water chestnut feel comfortable. Through a design with pond liner and the waterfront can gently leak. More on the topic Creating a pond. Similar Posts: pond fish-life in pond and garden.

The optimal location

A garden pond with pond liner requires a sunny place. In the shadow of the least pond plants feel comfortable. If the garden over a sink, the garden pond can be placed in the sink. Thus, the pond fits into the natural environment. Set in a garden pond fountain or a stream rippling, a garden pump is necessary.