Constantly adding new plants to a grave to keep it looking nice can get quite expensive over time. So just use ground cover.
Grave maintenance can become a time-consuming and expensive undertaking if you regularly replant the grave. With groundcover, on the other hand, you achieve a harmonious effect, because the grave looks well-groomed all year round. And at a low price! Because once planted, you don't have to keep renewing the ground cover.
So you create an easy-care grave design. Of course, you can also combine the selected ground cover with some flowering plants or place a small bush with flowers in a corner of the grave. There are no limits to your imagination.
Worth seeing all year round: groundcover for grave planting
Evergreen ground covers are particularly popular in grave design. The permanently green plants are considered a symbol of peace, hope and the cycle of life. The evergreen ivy is the best example of this. You can also opt for flowering ground cover. A harmonious picture is always created when the tombstone and planting go together. An elaborately designed tombstone goes well with a restrained ground planting. On the other hand, a lush planting goes well with the simple stone.
Ground cover for sunny and shady locations
» ivy:
Ivy thrives in sun and shade. You get the undemanding, fast-growing plant with different leaf shapes and drawings, from yellow-green to dark green. Ivy also requires little maintenance. You only need to prune rampant stolons once or twice a year.
» Forget-me-not:
The Forget-Me-Not is a good groundcover in a partially shaded to shaded spot. The plant is suitable as a basic planting and can, for example, be combined with one or more grass perennials. In spring, the ground cover bears beautiful, small blue flowers.
» Cushion Phlox:
The cushion phlox or carpet phlox is also rich in flowers and beautiful to look at even after flowering.This is available in different colors from white to strong pink. It blooms in May with countless small flowers.
» Candytuft:
The candytuft, also known as the snow cushion, does not make great demands on soil and location. It bears many small white flowers in April and is evergreen and handsome after flowering.
» Sedum species:
If the grave is in a mostly sunny spot, Sedum species can be used as ground cover. Sedum comes in many varieties, such as carpet sedum. Sedum plants are often used in rock gardens - a combination with a few large stones is therefore ideal for the grave.
» Creeping Spindle:
The creeping spindle is suitable for sun and shade. The robust plant grows very slowly. The creep spindle is therefore also suitable as a ground cover, which should not take up the entire grave area. The creeping medlar has similarly good properties.
Ivy
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Forget-me-not
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Upholstery Phlox
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Candytuft
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Sedum Art
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Creeping Spindle
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How to properly care for the ground cover
The care required for ground covers is low. And most plants hardly make any demands on the soil either. The plants actually always get along well with loose grave or garden soil. If you pay attention to that, that's half the battle. Otherwise, it is important that you fertilize the ground cover once in the spring. You should also water the plants during long periods of drought. Heavy watering is generally better than hesitant watering.
Summary:
- Choose ground cover to match the gravestone
- pay attention to hardy varieties
- Species bychoose sunny or shady location
- fertilize once in spring
- water in case of prolonged drought