Garden lawnsare prefabricated, ready-made forms made of concrete or expanded clay concrete, the interior of which can be filled with soil and planted with plants. They are perfect for building garden walls, supporting slopes or creating flower beds placed on paved surfaces. See how to use garden lawns,how to build a wall of lawnsandhow to plant flowers in lawns
Garden lawns - a wall of lawns planted with flowers
If you want to create a beautiful and varied garden for yourself, you cannot forget about small architecture, which diversifies the appearance of each garden and emphasizes its character. Among the garden architecture,garden lawns .
Currently, the most popular lawns are prefabricated, ready-made forms made of concrete or expanded clay. Garden lawns can stand in the driveway or provide a solution for a place with extremely infertile soil.Lawn wallcan be an excellent solution for holding the embankment on one side, thanks to which we will create an aesthetic emphasis on the slope.
Garden lawnsavailable they come in different colors: gray, green or red. You can also choose the shape of the lawn, rectangular or semicircular. It is worth paying attention tosemicircular lawns(crescent), because their streamlined shape looks very interesting in the form of a wall. They also allow you to freely create floral curbs on winding paths in the garden, driveways or round squares. Pyramidal structures made of them, planted with flowers, look great. Andrectangular lawns , as an element for building garden walls, have the advantage that they have special teeth, thanks to which they wedge, thus strengthening the entire structure.
Garden lawn - rectangular lawn and semicircular (moon) lawn
How to make a wall from garden lawns
If you want tobuild a wall of lawnsyou need to remember some important rules. Before we start arranging lawns, an appropriate base should be made. For a wall below 100 cm high, dig into the ground and lay out a layer of gravel 15 cm thick, and then compact it, i.e. firmly compact it. Then put the first layer of lawn on the gravel, which should also be dug into the ground. Only the second row of lawns is placed on the surface.
However, if we want ourwall of garden lawnsto be higher than 100 cm, then we have to pour a concrete foundation that will strengthen the structure. The foundation should be placed on a layer of compacted gravel 80 cm thick. The foundation itself should be 20 cm thick.
When we want ourwall made of garden lawnsto support the slope, the lawn should be arranged in such a way that each row of lawns is shifted deep into the embankment of the slope.When arranginggarden lawnsremember not to put them evenly one above the other. Place the lawn in such a way that the center of the taller lawn rests on the edge of the junction of the two lower lawn.
How to plant flowers in lawns?
If you want toa wall of lawnplant the lawn, fill the lawn with the substrate while arranging it. The rule is simple. After completing the arrangement of one row of lawns, fill them in 1/3 with expanded clay or grit, and fill in the remaining 2/3 with soil. Only then can we arrange the next row of lawns.
Garden lawns - growing plants in lawns
Fig. B. Blechmann, Wikimedia Commons
Flowers in lawnsare planted in the same way as in pots. Remember about the drainage layer at the bottom and the fertile soil filling the rest of the lawn (hence filling 1/3 of the lawn with drainage material, and only the rest with soil).Plants that grow in garden lawns are exposed to extreme living conditions. In summer, lawns heat up considerably, and in winter they do not protect against frost. Therefore, when plantingplants in lawn , choose resistant species, those that can withstand temperature fluctuations and will not form a massive root system. Remember to choose speciesof flowers for lawnsalso in relation to the position where the lawns will be standing - shade, partial shade or full sun, exposure to winds or rainfall.
It is a very good idea tocover your lawn wallswith vines or rock plants such as a moth or sedum plants. Drought-resistant clumpy grasses also work well. From permanent shrubs, dwarf junipers will do well in garden lawns. Especially creeping forms look great when their shoots hang over the lawn wall. From flowering deciduous shrubs, you can plant a wrinkled rose, which can withstand extreme conditions (sometimes it is covered with e.g.sand dunes). A good idea forlawn flowersare seasonal bulbs that are short-lived anyway, and then the bulbs are dug up. From annual flowers to lawn plants are often planted: ornamental sage, narrow-leaved marigold, verbena, lobelia, Mexican jellies and geraniums. All theseflowers in lawnsexposed to full sun bloom for a long time and reliably (but remember to water!), Being a perfect decoration for walls and other structures made of garden lawn. Due to the fact that they are annual species, we do not have to worry about their survival through the winter. In spring, we simply plant a new seedling of these flowers in the lawn.
Katarzyna Matuszak
