Recently garden cereals became popular. All of them are more used for decoration of the house adjoining territory.
Decorative cereals perfectly look on any site. And they allow to create expressive and effective compositions with other plants and bushes, without demanding especially nutritious soil and any difficult leaving.
However they are as attractive as flower plants, and often it is possible to see them as the main decoration of the site. And if skillfully to combine them with other cereals and flowers – very attractive garden ensemble will turn out.
As use cereals in garden
It is worth knowing that cereal plant species are long-term and one-year. Some of them are thermophilic, others transfer severe winters. There are high, there are absolutely dwarfs. Some expand in one year, and others occupy the same space many years. For this reason there are a lot of options of their use in garden.
So, undersized cereals 15-35 cm high land about borders, garden paths or on carpet flower beds. Also they can be seen in stony garden, rock gardens or rock arias is fine opportunity to imitate natural corner.
If you have bought plants from 40 to 90 cm – well to make group landing or multilevel flower bed of them. They are also good in miksborder: their graceful stalks and bright whisks will create effect of continuous blossoming.
High plants (it is higher than 90 cm) – applicants for decoration of multilevel flower bed. They create background for lower plants. Besides, they can be landed where it is necessary to hide some corner from public eyes – the beautiful and successful decision!
Popular cereals
Undersized:
Ovoid Zaytsekhvostnik. Frost-resistant annual plant with effective inflorescences what you will not meet at one similar plant. Well expands, forming accurate bushes.
Golden Lamarkiya. Cold-resistant annual plant with dense whisks, very effective. However throws out whisks only on solar clearings.
Fescue. Perennial, very magnificent low bush with leaves needles and magnificent gray-green inflorescences. Whisks happen silvery, blue or olive color to half tones. Loves solar places.
Bulbous ryegrass. Too the perennial, is similar to fescue, only bushes more compact and leaves at it longitudinally striped.
Sredneroslye:
Cylindrical Imperata. Perennial with white-silvery whisks which appear at good leaving. But it does not matter, if does not blossom – bright color leaves will already create the necessary effect.
Feather grass. Perennial with hairy cones which are poured in silvery or pinkish color, creating magnificent effect.
Peristoshchetinnik. Thermophilic biennial plant with long fluffy inflorescences from white till purple color. Demands the shelter for the winter.
Long-maned barley. Annual plant with graceful needle cones to 50 cm in height. Cones are very beautiful, pink-violet.
Tall:
Kortaderiya. Thermophilic perennial with huge inflorescences whisks of different shades. Loves solar sites, for the winter it is necessary to close.
Miskantus. Perennial with magnificent inflorescences of white, pink or burgundy color. Forms large curtains, very beautiful. Has set of versions.
Broad-leaved Ploskokolosnik. Annual plant which grows on damp soils and forms dense cover. Effective green cones become bronze over time, and it is very beautiful.