Design a stone bed with grasses

Why grass for the stone bed

In the stone bed, grasses are often not accompanying plants, but the main actors. In general, almost all of the few plants in the selectively planted rock garden are solitary plants. In the rock garden, individual holes are made in the barren soil for the plants, which bring green and color to the light stone landscape. In the rock garden, grasses have to tolerate sun and drought and get by with few nutrients. Since most grasses - with the exception of marsh grasses - have no problem with such conditions, ornamental grasses are the optimal choice for stone beds. Ears of grain swaying in the wind also bring movement to the rock garden.

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Use grasses effectively in stone beds

Plant gigantic ornamental grasses such as the giant chinas to set large protagonists in the middle of the rock garden. Plant smaller and several low grasses like bearskin grass or blue fescue in locations closer to the edge of the stone bed.

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