We decorate the cottage with cereal plants

Growing of ornamental cereals for decoration of a site and giving

Cereals, perhaps, in any flower garden abound, as, indeed, in all other parts of the site. You can regularly weed your country estates, at times it's even good for your health, though, in moderation. But maybe it's worth combining business with pleasure?

If you are ready to see cereals in your flower bed, then consider several important conditions for their cultivation. Among cereals, there are many very beautiful, and most importantly, completely non-aggressive plants - they slowly grow and do not spread in all directions. These include miscanthus Chinese, foxtail meadow, blue mildew, sparta comb, ryegrass French.


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These plants will decorate your garden for a long time. But there are juvenile cereals, their lifespan is short - only a few years, later they lose their decorativeness and gradually die off - pike-grass, fescue fescue. By the way, they are easily propagated by seeds. So do not forget to constantly plant new plants. The all-terrestrial reed lover - a cereal that is often found in the fields - has a very decent, let's say, intelligent cultivar “Karl Foester”.

But there are also very aggressive plants - gigantic giant, large glyceria, reed two-source, milik grows more moderately. Their main task is to grow in all directions as much as possible. If desired, they can well find a place in the flower garden, you just need to think everything through in advance. It is recommended to plant such plants in large pots. Dig containers with plants into the soil - you will get nice and thick jackets.

Cereals for wet areas

Especially good are moisture-loving cereals, capable of forming large color spots near the reservoir. In this case, perhaps, they should not be particularly restricted, because such thickets look very picturesque. In particular, the shape of Variegata glycerin is great, with yellow bands on the leaves.

Also, the variety of cane Picta cane is suitable, with light cream longitudinal stripes on the leaves. Large curtains of Chinese Miscanthus also look great. Not all of its varieties are stable with us, but there will be no problems with the natural look - it is quite resistant to our adverse winters. Plant other moisture-loving plants — buzulniki, pinworms, swimsuits, tradescantia, window sills, meadowsweet plants and various varieties of daylily — to these cereals and your pond will become much more spectacular.

Plants for rockeries

If you think that there is no place for grains in rockery, then you are deeply mistaken. It is best in such compositions the fescue sisaya looks. Her compact pups are not tall at all, and thin leaves have a silvery-blue hue. Especially spectacular is the combination of blue openca against the background of coniferous plants.

For beds of different types of cereals is abundant. By the way, you can create a flower bed, consisting primarily of cereals alone. Unlike other plants, many types of cereals remain decorative for a long time.

Especially spectacular, many cereals look closer to the autumn. After all, at this time, their inflorescences acquire characteristic silver-gold shades, and the foliage can be straw-yellow, and almost orange, and even with a reddish tint. So, if you are a fan of bright variegated plants, be sure to get variegated varieties of glyceria large, blue moths and foxtail meadow. Add to this the magnificence and varieties with white stripes of ryegrass of French or two-creek-cane, and it will be difficult to look away from your flowerbed.

However, the diversity still wears the eye.

So let's add other cereals to the flower garden. So, dense dark green jackets of soddy pike are an excellent background for brighter plants. Large curtains of Melik Transylvanian can also be used as a background. But Chinese Miscanthus during the summer will serve as a good background, and from the end of August and throughout the fall, this particular plant will be accentuating in the flower garden.

To autumn the garden did not look sad, be sure to add in the blooming autumn blossom asters, helenium autumn, sedum prominent and rudbeck.
With such companions, neither the gloomy autumn morning nor the long and cold rains are scary.
In recent years, winters are getting warmer, and snow only appears in December-January. And this means that in the flower garden there should be plants that delight the eyes. So do not hurry to cut cereals in autumn. Leave them in the garden, so that the flower garden continues to be an ornament of your site.

How to propagate ornamental cereals

The main method of propagation of perennial cereals is the division of the bush. It is held in late April for early flowering species and varieties and in late May for late flowering. You can transplant cereals in August and September, after flowering. They dig up grass, divide it from the underground side of the bush with a garden knife into dividers with 3-4 shoots and plant it in a permanent place. In one place, cereals can grow up to 10 years. Dense turfy herbs require rejuvenation every 3-4 years, since the middle of the bush can melt in the winter.

Such cereals as reed two-source, staminate, emperor, miscanthus saharotsvetkovy, pennisetum fox-tailed, grow aggressively. Therefore, it is necessary to limit the place of their planting or planting on stony, spacious plots.

Perennial species grains, as well as varieties during breeding, can be propagated by seeds. Seeds are sown in boxes for the winter.

Capacities are buried and covered with lapnik or peat. In April they are opened. Thanks to the stratification in the spring, the seeds co-grow, and the seedlings develop more rapidly. In June, the plants are planted in open ground. Seedlings bloom on 2-4-th year.

Vein-sharp, perhaps the most ornamental cereal

Irina Galchevskaya

How do all the florists love the summer season! He brings with nothing incomparable pleasure from contemplating the results of his labors. However, the dacha for me is not only an eco-factory for growing healthy vegetables, but also a small experimental site where you can conjure with new varieties of flowers or decorative herbs.

For several years I have grown reedflower.

This is perhaps the most decorative cereal that grows in our climatic conditions. Veinik belongs to the cold-growing cultures, so the period of its active growth falls on cool weather, in the heat it seems to freeze. This plant is not afraid of the wind and keeps its shape for the entire long season, the date in winter. Veinik can be compared to a sturdy tin soldier, his panicles are always directed vertically upwards in any weather. This plant looks especially magical in the summer against the background of the sky, with raindrops entangled in the ears, or in the winter, glaring through the snow caps.

Veinik decorates well the empty plots in the garden, looks great along the paths, in the front garden, and also in the center of the flower bed.

In contrast to reed grass, reed florets do not spread around the site, its growth can be easily controlled. Reproduce the reedbred by dividing the bush in spring or autumn. For the winter, this plant can be cut, leaving 10 cm above the ground, or left as it is-the wagon will decorate the garden in winter.

Cereals in the garden

Cereals can become a real garden ornament. Even in the summer, amidst the abundance of flowers and greenery, they stand out for their vivid decorativeness, and in autumn the first violin plays in the garden. Cereal grasses can not be cut for the winter, then they will successfully dilute the dull snow monotony. There are few plants suitable for decorating the garden in winter, and cereals are one of them.

It is noteworthy that cereals are very easy to care for, they grow on almost any soil, even on the poorest. Most cereals are not afraid of frosts, so they do not need to build winter shelters.

Cereal grasses - an excellent option for single planting, as well as for group compositions in flower gardens. One of the most beautiful herbal compositions with cereals is the garden of cereals (a flower bed, but not from flowers). To construct such a garden, many grasses are needed, differing in height and shape of curtain, the shape and shade of the leaves, and also the type of inflorescence. Planted cereals in the garden like flowers on the flowerbed - curtains. The principle is the same as in the making of flower beds: the highest cereals in the background, miniature in the foreground. In the composition, you need to watch to close next to different types of herbs, so the garden of cereals will look much more interesting.

The place for the kindergarten should be open, so that it can be seen even from afar. In this garden, usually, neither stones nor any decorative elements are used. Only herbs.

If you find it difficult to find a suitable place for cereals in the garden, pay attention to the space around the stump from the old tree. In addition, that the grasses are very advantageous in a circular planting, they very soon will hide an unremarkable old stump. The garden of cereals and the fence, as well as in the garden module (the space specially left at the paving of the site) is beautifully smothered. No matter how unpretentious the perennial cereals are, they have one peculiarity: they are not permanently planted on a permanent place, but only after the seedlings are slightly strengthened in the school - a small separate bed. But one-year-old grasses, which, as a rule, are grown from seeds, and not by seedlings, can be planted immediately.

Cereals for the garden are selected from frost-resistant species and varieties that easily hibernate in our climate. It is best to plant: millet-like millet, millet roach, canary-grass, blue praying, large-colt fire, reed grass, barley-mown barley, shaking (breeze), egg-shaped lagurus. And yet, no matter how strange it may sound, the garden of cereals can also decorate such habitual plants for us as wheat, rye and oats. A cereal exotic is better not to buy - it does not hibernate in the middle lane, so in a short season just will not have time to show itself in all its glory.

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I DO NOT INTRODUCE ITS GARDEN WITHOUT DECORATIVE CEREALS.

With them little trouble, and their beauty they give throughout the year. Combining the high and low forms of these plants, you can place the necessary accents and create a complete complete composition.

Ornamental Grains Photo

THE FIRM OF HERARAD

This ornamental grass has been decorating my garden for many years. The tall plant is a straight dense bush with weakly bred straight stems of 1,5-2,4 m in height. Width up to 60 see Leaves up to 9 mm in width, in summer green or gray-green, and in autumn they are painted in orange and dark red. Very often red streaks appear on stems and leaves in the summer. Already at a young age, the foliage at the base becomes reddish and strongly pubescent.

The bearded man embarks on growth rather late, when the temperature reaches 20-25 °. Flowering begins in August or early September. Inflorescences at appearance red, gradually darken, become brown, and to the winter bleach.

The bearded man is a completely unpretentious winter-hardy plant. It grows on moist and dry soils, it is undemanding to soil fertility. Not afraid of floods. Shelter for the winter does not require. He loves sunny places, in the shade and partial shade does not reach his height, falls apart.

I reproduce the bearded man by dividing the hummock in early summer. When propagating by seeds, it is necessary to wait a couple of years until the plant reaches full decorative effect, but in the first year after sowing this architectural grass will not get lost among other plants.

WHERE TO EAT?

You can plant to fix the slopes and embankments, allowing the bearded man to be naturalized on the ground. Ideal for air green screens in natural and landscape gardens.

IMPORTANT! The stems of the bearded man are held straight and quite firmly. But still it is not bad to make an easy garter: in the fall in strong winds, the extreme stems can break.

MOLYNIA TROSTNIKOVA

Its basal leaves form a hummock of 60-90 height. See the leaves in the fall (green or gray-green, up to 12 mm in width) in the fall golden yellow. Majestic peduncles with a height of 2-2,5 m are straight or arcuate. This strong plant has a clear shape and at the same time gracefully swaying at the slightest blow of the breeze.

Molynia feels well both in cool conditions and in areas with hot summers provided irrigation. There are no special requirements to the soil: it suffers low fertility, acid reaction, easily tolerates alkaline soils. Carries both the sun and the penumbra, but the sun looks more spectacular. Propagated by seeds or division in the spring.

WHERE TO EAT?

Molynia reed looks very impressive in the evening light. The plant can be safely used for planting in the foreground: despite the voluminous crown, the mantle remains fairly transparent so that through it you can view the central and the back of the terrain.

IMPORTANT! Young plants should be watered regularly, keeping the soil moist. Adult plants have enough natural moisturizing.

Molinia Blue

This cereal appeared in my garden not so long ago. He is below the mowing of the reed and just as unpretentious. Forms magnificent curtains from narrow straight leaves. Almost all leaves are radical, width 3-6 mm, spreading, often grayish or bluish-green. It begins to grow at a temperature of about 20 °, so in the spring I do not hurry with pruning old stems and foliage. By the way, the stems are easily removed by hand in the spring. And in the autumn they have to be cut with a secateur or other cutting tool.

Blooms in August. Stem 40-90 cm tall, with a long narrow inflorescence, a towering fountain.

Panicle narrow, usually compressed, 15-30 cm in length, bluish-violet or yellowish. The stems acquire a golden or orange color by autumn. For a better growth the plant requires moisture and full sun. It transfers low soil fertility and increased acidity, but also grows well on carbonate soils.

Propagated by seeds and division, which is better to be carried out in May-June, during the period of active growth, it is better to advance the flower stems. Roots at landing it is desirable strongly not to deepen, as the molony grows not upwards, but in width.

WHERE TO SUT UP?

Perfectly suited for mixborders. Diverging fan-shaped flowering stems create a light veil for the plants behind the blue praying.

IMPORTANT! The flowering of the Blue Prayer deteriorates in dry conditions, so it should be watered in summer in the absence of rains.

Shchuchka dernist

Another name for this plant is a meadow. It is very decorative due to clean, slightly rough dark green leaves forming a neat, round bump 30-40 cm high, and because of the myriad of air spikelets. Flowers appear in late June - early July.

In the sun the flower stems reach 1,2 m. In autumn they are painted in yellow-orange hues, retaining the straw color and in winter, until they are summarized by snow. The poke grows easily in the sun and in the shade, although, of course, it is more abundant in the sun. He likes wet places. It grows on any soils, heavy and sandy, acidic, neutral and alkaline. Fertile soils do not require, but if it falls into good conditions, it grows faster.

I spend the division and transplant in the autumn or in the spring. But in the spring it is necessary to try to divide the pike as early as possible. In hot weather, the division of the stopping growth of grass may result in loss of the plant. Autumnal division almost always produces an excellent result.

In the spring, I try to cut the stems as early as possible. At the same time, I cut off all the foliage, as low as it turns out. The fact is that pike is a plant of a cold-seasonal nature of growth. With the onset of a hot period and in the absence of rain, the plant practically stops growing, and part of the foliage, especially overwintered, can become rusty. After trimming, a green ball is obtained. With hand rakes, I comb out dry leaves and the remains of last year's stems from it. Young foliage grows quickly, and after a couple of weeks the bump acquires a completely decorative look. If you are not interested in stalks with panicles for decorating an autumn or winter garden, then the leaves can be cut later in the fall.

WHERE TO EAT?

Long foliage, beautiful shape, ease of growing make the pike indispensable in garden compositions. A spectacularly contrasting combination of pike and background - dark earth, various types of mulch: bark, gravel, pine nutshells. It goes well with plants that have a different foliage (astilbe, buzulniki, rogers, astrantia, hosts, daylilies). A very impressive combination when combined landing with Siberian and marsh irises.

IMPORTANT! To the plant has not lost its decorative, every 3-4 year it must be divided.

BLUEBERRY SUSLERY

Cereal forms a low mound (20-30 cm) with gray-green leaves. The underside of the leaf is calm green, the top is shiny gray. Leaves about 4 mm wide. The plant begins to grow very early and already at the end of May and beginning of June it blooms with small light fluffy spikelets that slightly rise above the leaves. Spikelets can be up to 50 pieces on one bump.

The plant is very unpretentious. It grows well on any soils, in the sun and in the shade. On poor soils the hummock keeps a round shape perfectly, on the rich the leaves grow stronger, begin to slightly bend. The seslery grows very quickly. Already in the first year after planting, I get pretty decent bumps.

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Leaving is reduced to pruning leaves in spring, watering after transplanting and dividing. Cesleria is an evergreen plant, part of the leaves overwinter well, so it is better to solve the issue of pruning in early spring. Sometimes the plant overwinter so well that spring pruning is not required at all. Cecelria is shared in spring or autumn. I perform this procedure every 5-6 years, when the tussock begins to go bald.

WHERE TO EAT?

Gray-green leaves of the plant are perfectly combined with virtually all perennials. Sesleriyu can be used to decorate empty places in the mixborder, as a low border and as a ground cover plant (in this case, usually plant 9 pieces at 1 sq. M).

IMPORTANT!

With excess moisture, seslery can rot root. Then the plant will have to be excavated and gently removed all the affected parts.

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6 Review (s)

  1. Dana Zlotnik, Moscow Region

    I want to divide and transplant the herb of Hasmantium. When can this be done? Excites his appearance
    until half his height he became red, there is no beauty of spikelets. What happened? Maybe it was influenced by the fact that the grass has long been growing in one place.

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    • OOO "Sad"

      By all accounts, your plant is aged and has acquired a salmon-yellow color. If it grows so long in one place, it may be that the soil is depleted, fertilizing is needed, and, most likely, watering. After all, the grass, planted in the open, with insufficient moisture, the foliage begins to turn yellow ahead of time. Divide it and transplant it to a new place in the spring, because Hasmantium broadleaf is a heat-growing plant and you need to divide its hummock when the temperature is set at least + 25 degrees. In a cool climate, as in the suburbs, it is best to plant in full sun. It grows on any soils. Spring stems and foliage must be cut before the young grows.

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  2. OOO "Sad"

    Among the herbaceous perennials there are plants that bloom twice a season. But for this in the end of the summer they must be cut off immediately after the first flowering. Among such remontant plants, the most famous are the delphinium, the one-year-old small-petrel and the oak-tree sage. For cushion perennials, for example cats (in photo) and geraniums, such a haircut is needed not so much for flowering, which in splendor is much inferior to the first, but for maintaining compactness of the plant. How exactly to trim the perennial pillows? After the first flowering, shorten the stems of the plant to a length of 15-20 cm above the soil level. Then feed the herbaceous perennial with complex fertilizer so that it has the strength to form new shoots. In dry weather, well pour a green "pet" - then part of the fertilizer granules will dissolve and nutrients will immediately become available to the plant. Somewhere in a month your ward will again show itself from the best side.

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  3. Irina

    Our family acquired a dacha only this spring, and we have not yet managed to grow trees. But they planted flowers. Including perennial carnations, cleaning, bianco, hellebore, decorative cabbage. Now, when the drifts lie on the knee, from under them the places can be seen the luscious greenery of wintering plants under snow, which animates the winter sleeping realm.
    Decorative cereals also look interesting: pike, cecelria, millet, sedge, reed grass. Although they turned into dead wood, they did not lose their beauty. It is enough to tie them right on the vine into neat snopiki - and here you have a lovely rural landscape!

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  4. a guest

    - The imperial cylindrical is still a rare grass in our gardens, and the reason for this is its weak frost resistance. As a connoisseur of grains Tatyana Terentyevna Zheltovskaya from Moscow notes, the emperor is a plant growing warm, refers to the 6 zone. In her homeland in Japan, cereals are grown in shallow containers. Maybe now you should drop the emperor in a container and put 8 room with a temperature of at least + 4 degrees, and not very high. Occasionally watered. In general, this plant loves moist and fertile soils in full sun. Her rhizome grows extremely slowly. The emperor has direct leaves up to 50 cm

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  5. a guest

    In October, I was presented with a small open rhizome of the emperor cylindrical. I really like this cereal, but one day he did not survive the winter in my garden. What to do with the rhizome now?

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