Lawn

Often, instead of a grass lawn on a small plot, a lawn is created, or a non-grass lawn from perennial ground cover plants. There is a wide choice of low, creeping, unpretentious ground cover plants that can grow well and develop under conditions of slight shade. They are used if necessary to create a decorative soil cover under the canopy of trees or, on the contrary, in open sunny areas with limited moisture. Ground-cover plants grow rapidly, forming a dense low carpet on the entire surface of the allotted area, and retain decorativeness not only during flowering, but also later, throughout the season. In addition, such lawns do not need a haircut. The best substitutes for cereals in dry sunny places and slopes are mountain cloves, pinnate cloves, phyllophilous phlox, phlox turkeys, toxic poisonous sedum. To paint areas of the lawn with silvery inks are able to withered white-pappus, kerm-meek white-headed, a Biskershtelek flicker, a white-bell-shaped pea shark.

Two-colored carpets form a veronica creeping with white flowers, after flowering leaves create a green background, gypsophila creeping - during the flowering period creates a white background, then the lawn becomes greyish-green. Among the ground cover plants used to create such a lawn, the following distinguish themselves with particular decorative features:

Carnation-grass is a perennial plant with creeping shoots forming an even cover of a saturated green color. The plant blooms very intensively for a month, starting from the middle of June, with white, bright pink and red flowers. Propagated by seeds and division of bushes, drought-resistant, sun-loving. The soil cover of the carnation-grass must be maintained in order, regularly cutting off the faded shoots that reduce the ornamentation of the lawn.

Periwinkle small refers to perennial evergreen plants and has very long, up to 1 m, creeping shoots, which, taking root, fill the entire space around. Blossoms periwinkle azure blue and blue flowers abundantly for a month, starting in May. A repeated weak bloom can be observed in mid-September. It multiplies by dividing bushes and rooting cuttings. Periwinkle is sun-loving and prefers light soils. When the cover of the shoots will close and become dense enough, he does not fear weeds.

Thyme creeping is also called thyme and Bogorodskaya grass. It forms a low: a dense cover of creeping stems, which easily take root. Flowers are very delicate, small, pinkish-lilac, collected in inflorescences on the tops of ascending shoots. Flowering begins in late May-June and

lasts more than 2 months. Thyme is valued for its unpretentiousness, drought resistance, the ability to quickly form a veil, as well as a medicinal plant and a good honey plant. It reproduces by dividing the sod, cuttings and seeds, requires solar heated areas, can grow on stony soils and steep slopes. Phlox worm-shaped can be called the most decorative of all groundcover plants for its magnificent flowering and a variety of flower colors. Flowers in shape resemble flox flowers of paniculate in miniature and come in white, pink, crimson, red, lilac and lavender flowers. The flowering of the phyllos is subulate within one and a half months so abundant that the flowers cover the surface of the whole curlyt, creating an unusual decorative effect. It reproduces by dividing the bush and cuttings, it gets well and grows rapidly, forming a dense carpet. It prefers light nutrient soils, a sunny place of growth, but also tolerates a small shadow. Requires regular watering.