What you need to know about the Moorish lawn to every season to enjoy blooming splendor

Who does not capture the spirit with a luxurious motley meadow with cornflowers, poppies, daisies? And who is all this beauty does not inspire a repeat at their summer cottage? But experienced forum users warn floral lawn is not as simple as it seems

We already wrote about Moorish lawn. Such a riot of flowers and herbs seem attractive and magical. And many vacationers "bought" at the pretty pictures, enticing replica sellers and promising to describe bags with seeds: unpretentious, easy to maintain, and grow in partial shade on poor soils, mowed only once a year etc.

However, attempts to recreate in the suburban area of ​​a piece of "pristine" nature fraught with some troubles. Today we'll talk about what you should be ready, if you still dare to revitalize your garden "wild" colors.

Content:

· The experience of the participants of the portal

· Should such efforts Moorish lawn

· Alternate lawns

From the experience of members of the forum

The first unpleasant surprise faced by many gardeners - instead of a picture of beauty grew unkempt, "garbage" of the field. Gameday warn that often range of seeds on the box, do not correspond to reality, and the plants grow far above the promised "20 cm". the lawn itself has a property quickly filling the adjacent square. Hence another "surprise": you may have to contend with the fact that you have planted.

Participant our portal with the nickname Lena Lin tried to plant a lawn: sowed a small piece of 3 m² and the whole of June I was looking forward to. It was only in mid-July saw the first individual flowers - daisies, poppies, cornflower.

Lena Lin

Participant FORUMHOUSE

And so 6-7 flowers all summer: one fades, another emerges. Grass grew up flowers, mow it can not be trimmed with scissors, so as not to hurt the flowers. Very dreary and we can not say that it is very beautiful.

Sveta2609

Participant FORUMHOUSE

I had the imprudence to spread like a lawn... Rose flowers interspersed with grass and weeds almost 70-80 cm in height. After the first summer rain it all were killed. In addition, there were got any jumping, crawling and "kvakayusche-sverchaschie"... View terrifying, scary tear with your bare hands!

So, if you dream that you can, as a child, with the pleasure last for a flower meadow, be prepared for the fact that you have to compete with other bidders. And, as in the case of lawn of cloverShould be careful not to step on a bee or a slug.

And dispel the myth that the Moorish lawn does not need to care.

Alain

Participant FORUMHOUSE

You need to take care of him in the same way as for the other beds. He's not one of those "planted and forgotten."

In addition to regular watering, you have to manually destroy weeds and crop plants, which are rushing towards the sun. Lawn mower in this case, no help: for the bulk of the flowers in a lawn - annuals, lawn mowing only after they are ripe and the seeds will be eliminated.

Lenochek-cottager talks about caring for the Moorish lawn.

Lenochek-cottager

Participant FORUMHOUSE

The main demand - to plant a lawn in a sunny spot (automatic.: that the plants are not stretched). Before planting, the soil need to be dug to a depth of 30 cm, the top layer thoroughly cleaned from stones and roots of weeds. Ideally, prepare the soil should be more from the autumn to reduce the difficulty of weed... It is very important to monitor soil moisture and carry out a small-watering time. In September and October, after flowering and ripening seeds in dry weather, the lawn is mowed to a height of 8-10 cm from the soil surface. Grass clippings are left for 3-5 days, then harvested.

To facilitate the control of weeds, forum users are advised in April, but only seem to grass, the treated area, which will be seeded Moorish lawn, Roundup. After sowing sprinkle clearing the purchase of land (it does not have weeds). Another piece of advice: plant the lawn narrow strip: pull up the weeds will be more convenient.

Should we abandon the Moorish lawn?

With a favorable scenario blooming front lawn or meadow in the garden will be an amazing element of landscape design. So that some forum users believe that just abandon the blossoming lawn is not necessary.

The main lawn sow ordinary: it and are not afraid to walk, and you can soak up the sun. And under Moorish select a small area. He will look harmonious, if you make it the wrong shape, with curved edges.

Sow flower lawn near the fence on the boundary of the garden and flower beds, fenced off a low fence, mask with the help of a ditch. Wild flowers can "refine" area in front of the house, to which has not yet reached his hands.

Appointment meadow carpets – highlight the colorful islands against the background of the rest of the vegetation, to emphasize boundaries of ponds, pavilions and other buildings on the site.

Alternatives to "Mauritania"

Those who are still afraid to measure themselves with wildlife, forum offer alternative solutions.

Natal

Participant FORUMHOUSE

If you strongly want a flourishing lawn better separately buy seeds of meadow flowers (flax, cornflowers, bells, eschscholzia) and sow them on the edge of a conventional lawn: be beautiful and look more well maintained.

Soniy

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Moorish lawns all kinds have tried, none have matched the declared on the labels. Almost everywhere there is an herb that grow and ruined all the flowers. Now the lawn of annuals compose herself: 4-5 eschscholzia grades 2-3 grade large-linen brahikoma, Prunella, mesembryanthemum, Linaria, Drummond, a small Californian poppy, undersized annual phlox, nemophila. Along the edges, instead of decorative fences, shoyu Iberis purple and white. It turns out very nice and much better than purchased.

oyster

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Try to plant a large space-travyankoy cloves, add low-grade cloves. View is fantastic! She grow this travyanku - growing hat, unpretentious: bloomed, threw a large number of seeds, I cut it, and it blooms again.

It is important that a "carpet" is growing rapidly: in one year the area increased by five times!

Idealkp

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Fragrant grass is obtained from thyme. Very beautiful flowers, but walking on it is undesirable. Mow the lawn this is not necessary, but will have to periodically prune.

At the end of the theme, we give a few tips for those who still decided to stop at the traditional flower lawn.

Kser

Member FORUMHOUSE

Classic Moorish lawns in Moscow, Bryansk area receives only rather poor sandy soils. Grow them on clay and peat can not even try. The composition of the cereal: best - different subspecies of red fescue, 30% - meadow fescue or perennial ryegrass diploid. Fertilizers should be avoided (except for the very poor soils, but in minimal doses), as mineral water gives a powerful burst of cereals and organics often contains weed seeds. In the first year it is better not to sow flowers: they will not withstand competition fescue or ryegrass (and without them, red fescue can not successfully fight the weeds). From the second year, it is already possible.

Kser notes that, in our conditions, good to add on the lawn melkolukovichnye plants (crocuses, etc...) "They have time to flowering and to accumulate forces in the bulbs before the first, a little belated mowing». In the southern areas can add thyme, but better - courtines, ie to seeds does not always work...

And another important point: to flower lawn does not become "garbage", it is necessary to update every year: to pluck the flowers and the next year to plant anew.

Troublesome? But beautiful!

By the way, a spectacular landscape receiving - spring bulb flowers, sprouting straight through the usual green lawn, you can peek in this video.

Successful experiments you garden and beautiful, flowering lawn!

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