Get the magic of blooming heather landscapes with their overwhelming blaze of color in your garden. There are only a few criteria to be met in order to professionally create a private heath garden. This guide highlights the most important requirements and gives tips on the design plan.

Heather brings color to the garden

Heide requires special location qualities

All sunny locations that are open to the wind are predestined for the Heidegarten. A key function for the right soil quality is the pH value. This should be between 4 and 5 so that heather plants can develop vigorously and healthily. A sandy, loose, dry to fresh soil is particularly welcome for frugal Erika and Calluna.

Combine correctly for a long flowering period - tips for the planting plan

The dream of an ever-blooming heather garden is within reach if you skilfully combine the different heather types and flowering times. The following tips for the planting plan show how it works:

  • Winter and spring bloomers: snow heather (Erica carnea), English heather (Erica x darleyensis)
  • Summer flowering: bell heather (Erica tetralix), Cornwall heather (Erica vagans), gray heather (Erica cinerea)
  • Autumn flowers with beautiful foliage: common heather (Calluna vulgaris) with the varieties Garden Girls, Boskoop and Dark Beauty

In the small garden you don't have to do without a picturesque heather bed. Varieties that remain small come in handy here, such as a purple heather dwarf (Calluna vulgaris) or a deep red ruby carpet (Erica carnea), which unite to form dense carpets of flowers.

Magnificent plant partners round off the heath garden

The imaginative planting plan is not limited to heather plants. With small pines, juniper and dwarf rhododendron, heather species form a harmonious community. Premium candidates for a decorative tete-a-tete are also colorful cranberry bushes, undemanding thyme and early-blooming bulbs such as crocuses, snowdrops and daffodils.

Decorative elements underline the floral heather flair

Where extensive heath landscapes with gentle hills and valleys extend, stylish decorative elements creatively loosen up the appearance. Sand paths exude authentic flair. Boulders from regional quarries serve as natural eye-catchers. Tree trunks and roots provide visual variety and at the same time attract beneficial insects to your new heath garden.

tips

Including heather in the design of a Japanese garden is not a breach of style. Rather, heather plants are among the few splashes of color that are accepted alongside evergreen classics such as bamboo or Korean fir. In addition, dwarf types of heather, such as azaleas and rhododendrons, lie at the foot of the blooming beauties of the Japanese garden in proper style.

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