Plant edelweiss in the garden
If you want to plant edelweiss in your garden, it is best to place the perennial, up to 20 centimeters high, in a location that is as sunny and shadowless as possible with barren, calcareous and permeable soil. It is best to place the edelweiss on a slope to ensure good water drainage. In its natural habitat, the flower receives a lot of moisture from melting snow, although the water runs off quickly and the soil does not soak up. Like all high mountain plants, edelweiss reacts negatively to poor water drainage.
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- Wintering edelweiss properly
- Plant alpine edelweiss in the garden at home
- Edelweiss prefers a sunny location
The perfect location for a rock garden
The edelweiss feels particularly at home in a rock garden facing south or west - this guarantees as much solar radiation as possible. It should not be near trees that cast unwanted shadows and damage the plants with drops of water and falling leaves.
Maintaining edelweiss in the garden
The undemanding edelweiss should neither be poured nor fertilized, and compost should not be mixed in either - neither when planting nor at the start of the season. Immediately after flowering, cut the shoots just under a hand's breadth above the ground, the plant will withdraw towards winter anyway. The propagation takes place via division, which is ideally done in autumn after flowering and pruning. Winter protection is usually only necessary when there is clear frost - ie low temperatures below zero without a blanket of snow.
Beware of snails!
Unfortunately not only we humans, but also the gardener's worst enemy - the voracious nudibranchs - like the alpine plant very much. So if you do not want the animals to eat away the edelweiss you have just planted, you should take appropriate precautionary measures. Since edelweiss are very sensitive to moisture, mulching is not possible - it would also look quite ugly in the rock garden. One possible - and effective - measure is a snail fence.
Tips & Tricks
Edelweiss can be socialized very well with saxifrage (Saxifraga), sedum (Sedum) and speedwell (Veronica prostrata). However, the edelweiss does not get along with the second famous alpine plant, the alpine rose - as a rhododendron species, the alpine rose feels at home in acidic bog soil.
