Types of lawn, sowing and choice of grass. Growing flowers directly on the lawn.
Seeds of which plants are suitable for lawns (including non-cereal). Types of lawns and growing flowers in the middle of lawn grass.
If the preparatory work was carried out from autumn or early spring, the best time to sow the lawn is the second half of May.
Under any type and type of lawn it is necessary to dig deeply the soil in order to improve drainage, and to select all the weeds and stones. In the heavy loam add during digging sand.
For any soil, pour over approximately 5 cm of peat mixture over the soil, compost or good turf land. Acidic soil (pH from 4,5) will have to be alkalized - use lime flour (0,5 kg per sq. M) with the addition of natural ash (40 g per sq. M) and potassium sulfate (10 g per sq. M).
After digging the soil should be slightly rolled up and left for a while, while maintaining in a slightly wet state.
Soon all the weeds will germinate, and they will need to be removed, and the area once again aligned.
Reference by topic: Lawn care. The choice - sowing or roll?
Planting a lawn
- Seeds are mixed with fine dry sand (1: 3) to make it easier to distribute the volume.
- With small rakes, aim large grooves on the surface to slightly loosen the soil.
- Sow the seeds of lawn grass longitudinally and transversely, so that the sod develops evenly.
- Sprinkle seeds 1-2 cm of land and rake very gently mix the seeds with this soil
- Pour a lot of plentifully, using the smallest sprayer, close the lawn with a grid of birds.
- After three to four weeks, when the lawn grass shoots reach a height of 8-10 cm, make the first mowing.
Types of lawn - what are
Type of lawn |
Features |
Advantages |
Difficulties |
Recommended |
Ground floor lawn |
Of the highest quality cereals: bluegrass meadow (Dolphin and Connie); Red fescue (Diego and Anisette); Runicolous grassgrass (Cromie); ryegrass (Etlith) |
Sumptuously looks like |
Difficult and quite expensive in device and care |
Those who are not afraid difficulties |
Lawn - Playground for games |
From grasses resistant to trampling: reed fescue (Sombrero variety); bluegrass meadow (Balin, Platini); ryegrass (Esquera) |
Convenience, availability, endurance |
Careful to select grass mixtures |
For those who have have children and pets |
Lawn-shady corner |
From a mixture resistant to shading: bluegrass (Dasas variety); red fescue Maxima 1; sheep fescue (Nordic) |
Indispensable in shady corners of the garden |
If it changes light mode, will suffer |
To those who want to put in order a "bearish corner" |
Herbal tracks |
Of the most hardy species and varieties: ryegrass (varieties Sherwood, Cleopatra); fescue fescue (Cochise); bluegrass meadow (RX300) |
Very effective, plus he is pleased walk |
Require special training and regular undercropping |
For those to whom bored concrete and stone tiles |
White- green lg |
At least 2/3 - cereals, about 1/3 - white clover. Timothy grass small-leaved (grade Teno); meadow bluegrass (Panduro); white clover (Nanook) |
Very simple in the device and care |
Its mowing mode, not always conveniently |
For complex sites, and for those who appreciate the elegant simplicity |
Sowing a non-grassy lawn - grass selection
If the usual lawn from bluegrass is fed up with you, then there is a choice of herbs that you can replace it with.
Herbs for planting a non-cereal lawn |
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Types of ground cover plants |
Height, cm |
Terms of flowering |
Notes |
Creeping thyme |
10-12 |
July August |
food and medicinal plant with a bright aroma |
Aubieta cultural |
12-15 |
all summer |
classics of ground cover perennials |
The Bieberstein Fragment |
10-12 |
June |
silvery leaves effects all season |
Cleanser |
8 (peduncles to 15) |
the end of May - the middle of July |
there are so many flowers that you can not see leaves |
Cleanser white |
8-10 (peduncles to 20) |
June July |
From spring to late autumn forms young shoots |
Alyssum Marine |
5-15 |
from June to frosts |
strong honey aroma; sun-loving |
Carnation chinese |
20-25 (sometimes 30) |
from July to autumn |
there are terry and non-marbled varieties |
Armeria seaside |
10-12 |
July |
very beautiful on rocky areas |
Periwinkle |
10 |
since May all summer |
good for semi-shaded places |
See also: Alternative to Ordinary Lawn - Ground Cover Plants
Lawn: problems and solutions
In order for the “emerald carpet” to continue to delight with its rich color, it is not enough to sow the grass correctly.
The lawn needs constant care.
It is sown, fed with fertilizers (eg, "Kemeraya lawn"), chemical weeding is carried out against weeds: treated with "Lentur" to bring out dandelions, plantain and clover.
For the normal formation of the lawn must pass a minimum of two seasons, before it can walk, run, so the owners will have to be patient.
If something goes wrong - then how to help the lawn.
Problem |
Solution |
The grass acquires a light yellow color, slowly grows |
Most likely, the lack of nitrogen |
The grass first acquires a dark green, and then a purple hue, is easily infected with diseases and pests |
Deficiency of phosphorus |
In the absence of changes in color, the grass is easily fixed |
Lack of potassium |
Lawn turns yellow |
Either a drawback water, or a deficit gland |
Growing flowers on the lawn
Do you want to spread your tender floral hearts on your lawn like in the photo above?
Take care of this in advance!
Landing early-bulbous under the lawn you need to spend the fall.
Sand outline a contour on the ground.
Cut the lawn according to the pattern, turn away the sod, plant the bulbs, return the grass to the place.
In preparing the article, we used the materials of the author A. Lanko
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- A convenient device for sowing lawn with your own hands
- Types of lawn, sowing and choice of grass. Growing flowers directly on the lawn.
- The right care for the lawn. The gas: what is better to sow or lay a roll?
- Lawn care - how to fertilize the lawn
- How to revive and revive a dried lawn
- How to grow the perfect lawn in the country - tips from a landscape designer
- Lawn care - aeration and loosening.
- Lawn at the dacha: sowing, grooming restoration and grass varieties
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lawn with daisies
An unpretentious flowering lawn is created from a mixture of seeds based on a perennial daisy, meadow grasshoppers, sheep fescues, red hairs and reds changed. Daisies are light-loving, winter-hardy, grow well on moistened soil. Create a small-colored carpet, especially decorative in the flowering period of lilac. With the onset of summer, its flowering continues in shaded areas.
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Drawing floral patterns
Bulbous plants can be planted with a beautiful pattern. It can be a circle, a heart or any other symbol that your fantasy tells you. Draw a pattern on the ground with sand or a stick and arrange the bulbs along the given lines, slightly pressing them into the ground (photo on the right). Important: for most varieties, the planting depth is three diameters of the bulb itself. If the soil is clayey, plant the plants 2-3 cm higher, and if the sandy soil - 2-3 cm deeper. Tip: it is better to work from the back of the flower garden to the front or, as in our case, from the center to the outer circle. And it would be nice to note the borders of planting with pegs, otherwise in the spring, when planting a new batch of bulbs, you will not only break the pattern, but also damage the already planted bulbs.
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We offer two creative ways of decorating a lawn with spring-springing bulbous plants.
1 Crocuses, small-flowered daffodils, muscari or snowdrops can be planted in small groups. To do this, in the place chosen for the bright company, remove the turf (preliminarily cut it with a sharp shovel) and a layer of earth (the thickness depends on the depth of planting). Then plant the bulbs, observing the required distance between them (usually indicated on the package), fill with earth, return the "patch" from the lawn and pound it. After that, place a landing well.
2 Wild species of crocuses and tulips, as well as a poetic daffodil and a chess grouse will look very impressive on the lawn if the bulbs are planted not in groups, but in a scatter. Such a lawn will delight in its natural beauty. And so that plants wake up early in the spring, plant them in the fall. To do this, take a handful of bulbs and toss them over the lawn. Where they fell, there and plant! Holes in the lawn are easiest to make with special tools for planting bulbs - a hollow cone or a metal-studded peg. And do not forget to water!
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We bought a very neglected plot. There was a lot of garbage, branches, stones - and practically no landings. It took two years for that. that the land more or less to put in order (to the country they came only on weekends, other days - at work).
First cleaned and dug the territory in front of the house and. because the time to deal with flowers was not, sowed a patch of lawn grass. The site turned out even, it looks very neat. But of course. I wanted flowers too. They decided not to translate the lawn, but to make several flowerbeds directly on it.
All planned. One flowerbed (central) should have been round, in the background - rectangular along the entire length of the site, and two small triangular flower beds - in front.
The first thing we did was measure all the flowerbed sizes with a cord. The shovel immediately drew contours along the lawn. Next, the strata were removed from the turf and the ground was taken to the depth of 40 by the shape of the flowerbeds. Geometric formers were obtained. Worked very carefully, so as not to trample down the lawn. The cut turf and earth were taken out of the plot.
In the resulting depressions laid drainage:
gravel and sand. With drainage, the roots of the plants will never rot, because the water (rainwater or from irrigation) does not stagnate. On top of the drainage laid the ground, mixing humus into it. The flower beds are slightly raised in relation to the lawn - given the fact that the earth will settle. The flowerbeds were made flat, and narrow grooves were dug along the edges so that water would not drain onto the lawn when watering. A rectangular flower garden in the background planted with white peonies. On the sides, the bushes “supported” with two jasmine bushes.
Triangular flower beds were planned for low-growing carpet plants. There we planted an antenna (cat's foot), artemisia, santolin, cineraria, echeveria. In the overall picture they look very decorative.
Bushes of roses were planted in a round bed. In the center there are tall ones, in the middle part - lower grades, and at the edges - undersized.
All parts of our flower garden look very harmonious. You can not even say which of the flower beds was better - they are just one whole.