Not always the decision to buy the lawn is justified. In some regions of our country, this is especially true of the North and the Far East, standard lawn mixtures will germinate extremely badly. Nevertheless, this is not a reason to give up a beautiful lawn, as there are grained grasses more enduring than American rags. About them and talk.
Grass for lawn
Any lawn is a selection of meadow grass. Some rason varieties are artificially created plant cultures. Since the main sales market for lawns - England, Europe and the United States, most breeders create cultures intended for the climatic features of this region. The vertex of development was the richars. This herb has soft beautiful sheets and poorly developed root system. As a result, the formation of bumps is almost completely excluded, and the growth of grass is minimized. Which in turn allows you to cut the lawn just once or two per month.
Unfortunately, ryegrass extremely fastidious temperature. Heat is fatal for him, the cold to freeze the root system. Heavy rains washed away the bushes, leaving bare patches on the lawn. Seeds for lawn other herbs improve the situation somewhat, but a number of problems remain.
The most famous domestic lawn grass - Kentucky bluegrass. In pure form it:
- it grows up to 30-40 cm,
- it has a fairly tough leaves,
- it forms a dense thick layer of turf,
- requires regular trimming, at least once a week,
- blooms profusely in the growing season and scatters seeds on the area that leads to the germination of grass where it should not be.
In addition, bluegrass poorly tolerate shade and grows under the trees.
If we talk about other native grasses, they have the same drawbacks. So it makes sense to think about other options for everything beautiful and well-kept lawns.
Plants for the lawn
For the convenience of qualifications that apply to the section:
- tselnopokrovny carpet
- flower carpet.
Tselnopokrovny carpet - it is a culture that can create a monolithic coating, presposoblennoe to any type of climate and in serious need of painstaking care. The most common:
- clover,
- thyme,
- european Wild Ginger,
- miheniya krapivolistnaya,
- ajuga reptans,
- moss.
Clover is able to create a thick rich carpets, which is very pleasant to walk. Thanks to a strong root system, trample clover lawn is impossible. At the site of damaged plants grow quickly with new ones. In addition, during the flowering time, clover lawns are transformed and become extremely beautiful. Pruning is needed only at the end of the growing season to remove the stems of flowers. Among the shortcomings - the deep roots is difficult to uproot.
Thyme or "incense" - another popular solution. Externally, it is perhaps more reminiscent of the classic lawn, except that around the thin stems growing branches with young leaves. Walk the thyme is not very nice, in addition, during the flowering time, the lawn will become a small apiary. To avoid this, you have to cut the grass twice a month or even more frequently, depending on the climate.
European Wild Ginger is very similar to clover, except that it lists and much more reminiscent of a horse's hoof. The root system is well developed though, but goes into the ground is not deep, so the use of ungulates only limited regions where the ground freezes to a maximum of 7-10 cm.
Migrations are gratopular - a very interesting plant from the Far East. His feature is that in the first year of life, the stem grows by 80-150 cm and falls on the Earth under its own weight. Plant knots are launching roots, forming beautiful long shoots with wide juicy leaves of brightly salad color. Next year the process is repeated, increasing carpet density. Flowers grass with large purple buds, which look very spectacularly. It is necessary to start a lawn to begin only for 3-4 years, a procedure is enough to repeat once a few years, when the new shoots will no longer be for rooting.
The baking sheet looks not very attractive, never forms dense carpets and is valued solely for what grows even in places where the shading is 60 or more percent.
Perhaps the most interesting option is moss. Few people know that there is a huge many varieties of this plant, each of which for millions of years of evolution has perfectly adapted under the conditions of the growth region. This allows you to make a lawn from the local moss, which will provide her 100% survival. Regarding decorative and functional features:
- pleasant to the touch
- not pulled out
- not blooms
- does not need trim,
- practically does not need to care
- prevents the appearance of weeds
- does not impose soil,
- in a healthy condition, there is a homogeneous color from greenish-marsh, to emerald color.
If you need a good lawn, adapted for walking, rest and even children's games, moss is the best option. From the point of view of the visual, it is very inferior to the above options.
Floral carpets for lawn
Since the majority of herbs still blooms, it makes sense to think about creating a flower lawn. Of the flaws it is worth noting that it is impossible to walk in it in the growing season, but the beauty of such a lawn will not leave indifferent even those who are not interested in gardening issues. The most popular cultures include:
- periwinkle,
- burning colchida,
- moneywort,
- crazy
- meadow flowers.
Barwin is a fairly interesting plant, since his foliage remains green throughout the year. In addition, the flowering period is long enough and depending on the climate, it begins with the middle of spring and can last until the beginning of October. However, this plant is an extremely favorable environment for habitat of various insects, especially spiders. If the lawn is large enough and for him for several years, then the mice will become the following frequent guests. You don't need to cut the barwin, and if it is to do to drive rodents, it will be restored for a very long time.
The burning colchis or "flower of elves" is a very gentle plant, with unusually beautiful colors. His only drawback for the creation of a lawn is an increase of 30-40 cm. Thin stems are easily breaking, and the dead bushes are not restored independently. Therefore, the creation of a whole lawn from Gorianka is not very successful, as there will be a lot of strength to care for the lawn.
Meadow tea refers to low raging plants, on the similarity of Ivy. It blooms with large beautiful yellow colors. Meadow tea is very hardy and creates a low carpet, suitable even for a picnic. Restores the plant alone. Of the shortcomings, it is constantly necessary to maintain a certain level of humidity. Outdoor sun, without watering the plant will die within 8-10 hours.
If it is the task of creating a flower lawn, intended exclusively for decorative purposes, then first of all attention should be paid to the crafts. The plants of this family in the bulk are a low stem without leaves ending with a beautiful big flower. Color occurs:
- yellow,
- purple,
- blue,
- blue,
- purple,
- pink,
- white.
Some families grow into a bushes with a height of 40-50 cm and a rich crown of the leaves, so when buying a clearing should be clarified as seeds behave. It is best suited to crash.
Meadow flowers are a huge group of various annual and perennial plants. All of them unites low growth, endurance and unpretentiousness to the soil. The rug of meadow colors is suitable for walking, recreation and sports. Even if the seeds of annual plants fall, the next year, starting from April of the month, the lawn will recover by itself. The huge plus is that behind plants absolutely no need to take care, including watering. The lack of only one - at the end of October, the lawn completely dies and is an extremely unsightly spectacle. But, it is impossible to remove the dried flowers, they serve the soil feeding and protect seeds from freezing in the winter period.
Caring for lawn
As soon as the wild plants fall into the country area, they automatically go into the category of cultural. Therefore, it is necessary to fulfill certain rules:
- develop irrigation mode
- prepare the soil
- pick up the appropriate fertilizers
- completely carry out trim.
Most of the raising plants prefer a wet habitat, flowers even more like water. Therefore, watering should be spent in the summer early in the morning and late in the evening, in the demi-season time it is enough to water the lawn in the evenings, I don't need it in winter. Stop it when the night temperature drops to 3-4 0C. Exception is only meadow flowers. From excess moisture they will begin to rotate.
Soil preparation implies accurate acidity measurement. Naturally, conduct a lime or vice versa, to increase the acidity is simple enough, but these are additional spending. It is better to choose a culture that is most adapted to the soil on the plot.
As opposed to generally accepted opinion, not all plants need and even more like fertilizer. This question must be studied in detail, as the excessive addition to the soil of nitrogen-containing motors, nitrates or other additives will affect the lawn negatively.
Herbs are recommended to cut once a year, after the end of the flowering period. At any other time, the plant is hardening the damage to the bushes and will get sick for a long time. According to the same principle, flowers and flowers. It should be remembered that in the regions with harsh winters, temperature -20 0C and more, cut stems are not cleaned. In addition, the lawn is advisable to cover the film, in order to protect the roots and bulbs from the freezing.
Green lawn grows quickly enough. Therefore, during the care process you need to protect the future lawn with a special barrier. For these purposes in the ground, a sheet of tin is bought. Depth depends on how deep the root system is deeply distributed. For clover, this figure is 20 cm, therefore, around the lawn you need to make a fence from a fuster depth of 25 cm. It is important that the tin fit to the upper layer of the soil as close as possible.
For plants that run roots straight from the stem, this method is not relevant. Control them will have to manually.
Since some plants have similar care parameters, they are often combined with each other. This allows you to create a more attractive and bright lawn. But choosing cultures for the lawn is only after all the subtleties of the plant's care are studied.
At the end of the topic, I would like to once again note that the only really justified, practical and fashionable substitution of the classical lawn is moss. Therefore, to start an overview of the possible options is better from it.
