Let's face it, maintaining a gravesite can be quite time-consuming and requires a lot of time, especially if the cemetery is located far away. However, since in some cases you are responsible for caring for the grave yourself, the simplest possible grave design is required. How can you make the grave easy to care for? Which plants and decorations are best suited for this?
Watering, weeding, seasonal replanting: The most important thing is the choice of grave planting if you want to create an easy-care grave, as well as the relationship between plants, stones and other decorations. A few tips will help you find simple permanent planting for graves.
Making your grave easy to care for: How much time can you invest?
No matter whether you are aRebuild the graveor redesign, you should be clear from the outset about how much time you can and want to invest in grave maintenance. You can change and adapt the plants every season if you have the time and desire for it, or you can opt for permanent grave plants that are planted once and then decorate the grave site all year round and ideally even support themselves. Evergreen, drought-resistant plants are best suited for this purpose. If you want to plant new plants every season, it is also advisable to choose specimens that require little water.
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Easy-care plants for the grave
It is especially the evergreen specimens that have proven to be the most robust and are perfect if you want to make the grave easy to care for with permanent plants. To be more precise, it is advisable to use evergreen ground cover plants for year-round cemetery planting, because they are not only extremely resistant. Because they alsogrow ground coverand form a living carpet, they don't give weeds a chance, meaning you can save on additional gardening work. Carpet-forming plants are also very suitable for an easy-care grave border.
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In the first year of planting, when the ground cover has not yet spread, watering and weeding will still be part of the necessary care, but you will have less work to do next year. Taller growing ground cover plants have to be cut back once a year - a perfectly acceptable task, in our opinion. In the case of the low-growing species, even this is no longer the case.
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Easy-care flowers for the grave in the sun and partial shade:
- Fetthennen (Sedum)
- feather cushion (Leptinella squalida)
- houseleek (Forever living)
- cotoneaster (Cotoneaster dammeri), also for partial shade
- creeping juniper (Juniper horizontal), also for partial shade
- Lavender (Lavendula)
- Sternmoos (Sagina subulata)
- Thymian (Thymus), z. B. Polster-Thymian (Precocious thymus)
Since thePlants very drought resistantthey are also a wonderful, easy-care summer plant for the grave.
Plant an easy-care grave in the shade with grave flowers that thrive all year round:
- fat man (Pachysandra terminalis)
- ivy (Ivy helix)
- Elfenblume (Epimedium)
- foam blossom (Tiarella cordifolia)
- Carpet Golden Strawberry (Waldsteinia ternata)
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Make your grave easy to care for: this way you can reduce the amount of watering you have to do
How do I design a grave so that it doesn't have to be watered too often? On the one hand, of course, by choosing flowers for grave planting that require little water. However, you can extend the intervals between watering even further by covering the soil (if you have not chosen a carpet planting). For thisfor example, use mulch. This has several advantages:
- It makes the grave surface look neat and well-groomed.
- Mulch reduces weed growth to a minimum.
- The mulch layer insulates. The soil underneath stays moist longer because it can no longer be dried out by the sun as quickly.
- As the material decomposes slowly, the plants are supplied with nutrients.
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Especially if you want to plant and design a large double grave, you can use the mulch layer to reduce the number of plants required. So instead of planting the entire area with ground cover to get the above benefits, just use mulch and plant the odd plant here and there.
It is important that you apply a layer of horn shavings before the mulch layer. Otherwise, you risk a nitrogen deficiency after a certain period of time. For mulching, you can use bark mulch or wood chips as desired. Some people also like the purist look of a stone design on the grave. So if you would like to have a grave design with stones, gravel is also a good option to reduce drying out of the soil, but without the other benefits mentioned. It would be even easier to design a grave without plants.
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Beautiful grave plants do not always have to be difficult to maintain. With a few tips and tricks, you can make the grave easy to care for without investing a lot of time and effort throughout the year. And year-round planting in combination with the right design elements is absolutely not rocket science.
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