If your site is not shaded by plantings, is well lit by the sun, and has light, sandy loam soils, then drought-resistant plants will feel best on it. They grow well in the sun, easily tolerate a lack of moisture in the soil, while maintaining their decorative appearance. Their assortment is quite large, and compositions with sun-loving and drought-resistant plants can be very diverse.
Essential ground cover
First of all, drought-resistant plants include numerous ground cover or cushion-shaped “alpine” perennials for rocky gardens. They are usually short (15-35 cm), form dense, growing clumps, and thrive in bright sun. Light, well-drained soils are suitable for alpine growth.
Rejuvenated(m. roofing, m. cobwebby, m. scion, m. hybrid) form compact rosettes of shortened and pointed thick leaves of green or purple color. In summer they bloom with rather large flowers on long stalks of yellowish-white, dirty pink, and red flowers.
Numerous varieties sedum They are also sun worshipers. They form extensive clumps, blooming from June to August with small yellow, pink, white, orange, crimson flowers collected in loose inflorescences. Sedums have a variety of leaf shapes - pointed, oval, round. They can be colored green, purple, yellow, and have a white border along the edge of the leaf. The most popular are: o.bent, o.caustic, o.Eversa, o.Kamchatsky, o.false, o.rocky, o.white and many others.
Heat-resistant plants include a variety of varieties carnations- grasses and carnations are grayish-blue with bluish stems and leaves with simple or double flowers of white-pink or raspberry-red colors. They form “cushions” up to a meter in diameter and require pruning after flowering.
In spring, white and pink arabis turn into colored “mats”, phlox subulate with white, pink, lilac, purple flowers, aubrieta (lilac and dark pink color of flowers), sunny yellow rock alyssum.
Alpine aster, which belongs to the dwarf shrubs, blooms in June with simple flowers of pink, lilac, and white colors.
Various types of low-growing plants are quite drought-resistant and sun-loving. bells with blue, white, purple flowers: K.Carpathian, K.Oshe, K.spoon-leaved, K.Holmovoy, K.Gargansky, K.Portenschlag, K.Pozharsky.
The common one blooms in July with small lilac flowers, attracting large numbers of bees and bumblebees, spreading in vast clumps. If you step on plants, the air is filled with a pleasant aroma.
Yaskolka tomentose with white star flowers and whitish-gray foliage is capable of covering large spaces, as it forms underground stolons.
Sun lovers
There is a fairly large assortment of medium-sized perennials, flowering and decorative-leaved, which prefer a sunny location and easily tolerate a lack of moisture in the soil. They usually reach a height of 40 to 100 cm. These plants can form small clumps or occupy large spaces.
There are many varieties of heuchera - plants that form compact rosettes of rounded or jagged leaves in green, purple, yellow, and silver colors. Such rosettes have a height and diameter of about 30-40 cm, and peduncles with small red or white small flowers collected in brushes rise to a height of up to 60 cm.
Some sedums (o.prominent, o.tenacious) form rounded bushes 40-60 cm high with bluish, bright green, variegated (white with green), purple foliage, blooming in mid-summer and autumn with pink, purple, yellow, white flowers , collected in flat inflorescences.
A variety of colors look impressive decorative bows .
Most of them are true sun worshipers. These are dwarf (not higher than 30 cm) Moli onions with yellow waxy flowers and Ostrovsky onions with dark pink inflorescences, Karatavsky onions with wide leaves and dirty pink spherical inflorescences, blue onions with bright blue heads, Christophe onions with huge lilac balls of flowers (up to 20 cm in diameter).
Liatris spicata has spike-shaped inflorescences of lilac or white flowers 50 cm high and in July decorates the middle plans of flower beds.
The famous edelweiss, a symbol of the Alpine mountains, forms a low, loose rosette of silvery stems with whitish flowers.
Some drought-tolerant plants can grow very large and occupy large areas in flower beds. Perennial sage with bright blue flowers tolerates drought well and decorates compositions with flowering flowers for a long time.
Yarrow (cultivated varieties and wild species) forms entire thickets of stems 60-70 cm high with yellow, pink, purple and white flowers collected in flat inflorescences.
Anafalis is a low plant (about 40 cm) with silvery stems and leaves, has white flowers with a yellow center, similar to yarrow. Various wormwoods (for example, Steller's p. and others) have different leaf shapes and heights, but usually have silvery foliage.
Tolerates sun and drought well.
Among the annuals that love a sunny and dry location, we can name alyssum seaside, iberis umbelliferous, purslane grandiflora, mesembryanthemum crinumiflorum, hybrid gatsania, salvia (annual species and varieties), cineraria seaside, celosia pinnate, eschscholzia californica, gomphrena globulus, and notched squash.
Among the shrubs, various types of spirea and chaenomeles (Japanese quince) are considered the most sun-loving and drought-resistant, but with a lack of moisture they quickly fade.
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Most conifers (with the exception of thujas) prefer a sunny and dry place. The most hardy trees are pines, horizontal juniper and other blue spruce species.
Drought-resistant flowers feel comfortable in depleted soils. But they do not tolerate marshy soils where there is no sufficient outflow of moisture.
Drought-resistant plants for the flower garden
Not every plant is able to fully develop and grow without sufficient moisture. They can react to its deficiency in different ways: some are stunted in growth, others lose leaf turgor, and others dry out completely.
But what if in hot, dry weather it is not possible to water the flower garden often? In this case, an excellent solution to the problem would be to select drought-resistant plants for decorating a flower garden, which, even with insufficient moisture, do not lose their attractiveness, delighting others with lush flowering and a wonderful aroma.
When designing flowerbeds of drought-resistant plants, you can adhere to standard planting schemes, in which the foreground is filled with low-growing flowers, and tall, handsome flowers are planted as a background in the background.
When creating a flower garden that will decorate the site for many years, it is necessary to take into account a number of points:
Place of arrangement.
Drought-resistant flowers feel comfortable in depleted soils. But they do not tolerate marshy soils where there is no sufficient outflow of moisture. On waterlogged soils they simply rot and die. Reliable soil drainage is a prerequisite when arranging flower beds.
When laying out flower beds, the factor of illumination of the area is also important, because some drought-resistant flowers love sunny areas, while others love shady places.
Combination of plants.
When selecting compositions, it is important to take into account the conditions for growing a particular species. Plants with different moisture needs may feel uncomfortable in close proximity. And with such a combination of plants, the gardener may have difficulties with watering.
Creating conditions for growth.
To ensure reliable drainage, a sufficient amount of gravel and sand must be added to the soil. It is advisable to water only in the morning, thereby reducing moisture loss during the day.
Plants must be planted at a sufficient distance from each other, leaving room for free growth of their above-ground parts.
Since most drought-resistant plants in nature grow on depleted soils and soils lacking vitamins, when preparing a flower garden it is better to limit the amount of organic fertilizers.
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The opinion that drought-resistant plants look inconspicuous compared to their sun- and moisture-loving counterparts is wrong. Among the drought-resistant plant species you can find many bright and showy decorative flowers. Beautifully flowering, drought-resistant perennials are unpretentious in nature and can grow even on depleted soils.
Many gardeners love drought-resistant plants not only for their unpretentiousness and beauty. A pleasant aroma always hovers around flower beds with these plants, attracting insects that pollinate the flowers.
But even among the variety of beautiful drought-resistant plants, there are clear favorites that, even with insufficient care, can delight with lush, unique flowering throughout the season.
Flower varieties for a dry garden
Unpretentious plants can feel comfortable in both sunny and slightly shaded areas. Periwinkle, wormwood, milkweed, arabis, sedum and yarrow grow well between rocks. They are indispensable when decorating dry slopes, as well as for arranging rockeries and rock gardens.
Favorite by many gardeners irises They are also not particularly demanding in terms of care. Most of them bloom for 3-5 weeks in the spring, but some varieties bloom again in autumn.
Ideal for decorating dry areas echinacea. A native of warm countries, it is interesting for its bright inflorescences of pink, yellow, burgundy and purple.
Will help give the garden an original texture Byzantine chistets. The plant, popularly referred to as “lamb’s ears,” is interesting due to its silvery foliage with a velvety texture.
Crocosmia- an unusually beautiful plant, numbering about 50 species, is of South African origin. The aroma of its flowers is somewhat reminiscent of saffron, widely used in cooking.This drought-resistant plant looks great in open flower beds.
Among the tall, drought-resistant beauties we can highlight mallow, miscanthus, decorative onion. Reaching a height of two meters, they are able to create elegant screens that will act as a bright decoration of the site throughout the season until the first frost.
These showy plants are ideal for a low-maintenance garden. It is enough just to sow the seeds in the ground at a distance of 50 cm from each other on fertile and well-drained soil - and within a year or two you will be able to enjoy the stunning flowering of mallow from June to late autumn.
Allium or decorative onion deserves special attention. Throwing out flower-bearing arrows 80-170 cm high in the spring (depending on the variety), it dresses up in spherical inflorescences of stunning beauty.In addition to its aesthetic appeal, thanks to its specific “onion” smell, allium is able to protect not only itself, but also its flowerbed neighbors from harmful insects.
Drought-tolerant grasses
When designing a flower garden, a special place should be given to drought-resistant herbs. The most attractive among them: gray fescue, fescue and elymus.
Such “bumps” look impressive against the backdrop of ponds and rocky gardens. Gray fescue grows best in sunny areas with fertile, well-drained substrate.
The decorative grass elymus is also attractive with its pointed bluish-gray leaves.
Decorative trees and shrubs
beautiful bush barberry is a clear favorite due to its unpretentiousness and drought resistance. Its thorn-strewn stems, growing up to 1 meter high, are decorated with elegant yellow, pink-brown and bright red leaves.
Branched barberry shrubs love the sun, but can also grow in slightly shaded areas. Some varieties of barberry also delight you with edible bright red fruits in the fall.
Euonymus– a bright and unusually beautiful shrub, attractive with a beautiful openwork crown and small elegant foliage.The pinkish fruits that cover the stems of the euonymus open as they ripen, revealing bright red-orange seeds. Amazing sight! But it is worth remembering that ripe fruits, like all parts of the plant, are poisonous.
Shrubs are no less decorative silver goof. It feels most comfortable on very depleted soils, enriching and improving them with nitrogen.In place of the flowers, fruits are later set, which by autumn grow into yellowish berries with astringent, sweetish pulp.
Juniper- absolutely undemanding to care and unusually beautiful forest guest, which has long taken root in suburban areas.
An amazingly beautiful forest dweller, withstanding unfavorable conditions, is capable of transforming any place on the site. It will be an effective addition to a rocky garden, multi-level flower garden, mixborder, or framing a garden path.
Drought-resistant plants are ideal for garden and flower garden decoration. They take root well and serve as a worthy decoration for the site. published
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Flowers are a decoration for the yard, but they require a thoughtful approach from the gardener both to the arrangement of flower beds and edgings, and to the combination of plants. In many cases, due to weather conditions, there is not enough moisture, and we, always busy and in a hurry, do not have the opportunity to water the flower beds enough times. Not every plant is able to fully survive in such extreme conditions. But there is a way out, and this way out is drought-resistant plants.
Drought-resistant flowers, herbs and ornamental shrubs thrive even on soils with minimal moisture content and are not at all happy with soil saturated with moisture. If there is too much moisture, drought-resistant plants can become sick or even die.
Of course, site drainage can come to the rescue here. This is a troublesome and costly matter, but without it there is no way. The topic of drainage is the topic of a separate article.
Annuals
The ease of caring for annuals, their ability to add new colors to the flower garden every year, the most amazing forms and their inexhaustible variety have and will continue to attract flower growers.
Among the flowering annuals, we can recommend the following plants for a drought-resistant garden:
- Zinnia– an annual flowering plant with a height of 30 to 90 cm. The leaves are located opposite each other, the stem and leaves are rigidly pubescent. It blooms in temperate latitudes from June to frost, the inflorescence is a basket, there are a wide variety of shades, the seeds have time to ripen and do not lose their germination for 2-4 years. Based on two types of zinnias - graceful and narrow-leaved, many varieties have now been bred for growing in flower beds.
- Rudbeckia- annual or perennial flowering plant. The leaves are oval below, lanceolate above. The flower is a basket with tubular and reed flowers. The tubular flowers form a brown tubercle, characteristic of this species. The flowers are similar to daisies and are usually yellow or orange. The seeds are tetrahedral, small.
- Cosmos- a tall flowering plant imported from South America. The leaves are twice pinnately dissected, giving the plant an openwork appearance. The flowers are large, on long bare stems, the color ranges from white or pale pink to purple. The seeds ripen very well and reproduce by self-sowing.
- Decorative types sunflower (Helianthus annuus) – annual tall plant, up to 2.5 m. The leaves are heart-shaped, arranged alternately. The stem and leaves are rigidly pubescent, the flower is a basket with dark tubular flowers and yellow petal flowers. The seeds are wedge-shaped, smooth, slightly pubescent.
- Decorative poppy (Papaver rhoeas) – an annual plant that has many varieties with varied colors. This light-loving plant is planted in separate group plantings on a lawn or flower bed, as well as in a group of different varieties.
Rudbeckia 
Cosmea 
Decorative poppy
Ground cover plants
These drought-tolerant perennials are low-growing, up to a maximum of 35 cm, and very attractive. Forming dense, growing clumps, they are perfect for alpine hills and rocky gardens. They tolerate bright sun very well. Light, low-moisture soils suit them best. The list of sun-loving perennials can be long:
- Juvenile (Sempervivum): cobwebby, hybrid, roofing, offspring - they all form dense rosettes of purple or green color. In summer, large flowers of pinkish, yellowish, red colors look impressive against this background.
- Sedums (Sedum)- amazing variety of shapes and colors. The leaves are yellowish, green, purple. The flowers are crimson, orange, yellow, pink. They bloom from June to August and form extensive thickets.
- Carnation (Dianthus), well, what would we do without her? Carnation is grassy and gray, with simple or double flowers of stunningly beautiful colors - from white-pink to raspberry-red.
- Arabis- a low creeping plant with rooting stems. Can be annual or perennial. The leaves are pubescent, the flowers are white, yellow or pink, double or not, in inflorescences on a stalk. The fruit is a pod.
Rejuvenated 
Arabis
- Rock alyssum (Alyssum saxatile)- a plant of the steppe hills and mountains of Siberia. A small herbaceous shrub with woody shoots. The leaves are ovoid, heavily pubescent, with a gray tint. The flowers are yellow and form a raceme. It requires calcium-rich soil.
- Saxifraga (Saxifraga)– a perennial plant with a well-developed root system. The flowers look like a star and form inflorescences. The leaves are thick, with a glossy, leathery sheen, and exude lime along the leaf margins. Thickets of saxifrage form turf covers.
- Phlox subulata- a plant with recumbent shoots and prickly sharp leaves, forming evergreen turf coverings. It blooms very profusely, flowers of various shades. Grows well on rocky soils, hills and mountainous surfaces.
- Tomentosum (Cerastium tomentosum)- a herbaceous plant up to 30 cm tall, with white flowers collected in corymbose inflorescences. The leaves are silver-green and have a pubescent edge. Lives in mountainous and hilly areas.
- Mesembryanthemum- an annual or biennial creeping or creeping succulent up to 15 cm high. The flowers resemble daisies and open at noon. Vitrified cells in the form of dew drops are visible on the top of the stems.
Felt cleaver 
Mesembryanthemum
Perennials
The list of drought-resistant perennials can be continued. Unpretentious and hardy, they feel great in the sun and grow well between the stones of alpine hills and rockeries:
- Wormwood (Artemisia)- a perennial herbaceous semi-shrub plant with a tart, bitter aroma of shoots. The leaves are green to silver-gray, dissected. Flowers are in racemose or paniculate inflorescences, the fruit is an achene.
- Euphorbia (Euphorbia)- a perennial herbaceous or shrubby plant. In addition to seeds, it reproduces by root shoots. All representatives have a milky juice on the cut, which is very poisonous. The flowers are single or collected in rosettes, the inflorescence is surrounded by some kind of glass.
- Yarrow (Achillea) –perennial plant with baskets with many flowers, it would be more correct to say “milliflora”. Widely used in folk medicine, stems up to 50 cm high. Yarrow extracts sulfur from the soil and distributes it throughout the area.
- Lavender– has a wonderful aroma; its purple thickets can beautifully decorate garden paths.
- Daylily (Hemerocallis)- a plant with tall arrows, at the ends of which there are flowers - has great diversity and is completely unpretentious.
Sagebrush 
Spurge 
Lavender
Drought-tolerant grasses
Designing a flower garden without herbs and grains cannot be considered complete. From decorative drought-resistant grasses you can plant:
- Byzantine Chistina (Stachys byzantina)- a bluish-green plant with fluffy leaves.
- Elimus– another name is grate. An unpretentious herbaceous plant, usually propagated by shoots from the rhizome. The inflorescence forms a panicle, reminiscent of an ear of rye or wheat, and is stored dried on the stem for a long time.
- Gray fescue (Festuca glauca)- a perennial plant up to half a meter tall. The rhizomes are creeping, the inflorescences form panicles with spikelets, the fruit is a caryopsis. The leaves are lanceolate and can range from green to silver in color.
- Phalaroides- a perennial grass up to 120 cm high with striped linear leaves. It blooms with spikelets collected in panicles. The leaves do not droop even from severe frosts. Usually, with the help of vegetative shoots from the rhizome, it grows very strongly and can become a difficult weed.
Byzantine chistets 
Elimus 
Two-source
These herbs will add charm to your flower garden, giving it sophistication and attractiveness.
tall plants
First of all, among tall drought-resistant plants I would like to note decorative bow, mallow. Each of these plants is beautiful in its own way. Double hollyhock flowers captivate your heart with their richness of shades - from burgundy to snow-white. Mallow blooms all summer - from June until almost frost. And these plants grow up to two meters in height.
The decorative onion Allium is not far behind them. Its spherical inflorescences of pink and white shades rise up to one hundred and seventy centimeters.
Yellow is the color of the sun, and it is not for nothing that yellow flowers are a symbol of joy and happiness. They bring warmth to every corner of the garden...
Drought-resistant shrubs
It is often very difficult to do without ornamental shrubs when building a landscape. Shrubs are the note that makes the garden truly sound, giving completeness and visual completeness to the landscaping of the territory, on which you have put so much of your strength, your imagination, your desire for beauty.
Cossack juniper (Juniperus sabina) out of competition. It does not require additional care and can withstand unfavorable conditions quite well. Attractive, evergreen, one can say about this shrub that if there are charismatic plants, then this is about it. Juniper with its presence brings special charm and beauty to the landscape.
Euonymus (Euonymus)- a beautiful, very bright, even somewhat picturesque shrub. It is difficult to take your eyes off the euonymus surrounded by properly selected low-growing plants. In the summer months, its openwork, dark green foliage attracts, but autumn comes, and the crown of the bush is engulfed in such a riot of colors that you can’t take your eyes off it. Many of its species are quite drought-resistant. This applies to, and others.
A good example of unpretentiousness and drought resistance is barberry (Berberis). Yellow and bright red leaves adorn the long, thorny branches. Barberry loves the sun and feels great under its rays. Details of caring for this shrub can be found here Euonymus
- Carefully consider which plants should grow nearby. Under no circumstances should a drought-resistant plant be planted next to a moisture-loving one. It will be very difficult to organize watering.
- When planting plants, you should establish the correct distance between them. For plants that like to grow too much, root limiters should be used - plant them in containers without a bottom, buried in the ground; the horizontal spread of roots will not be further than expected.
- Such flower beds should be watered rarely, but abundantly.
When designing a garden, emphasis should be placed on drought-resistant perennials. A large selection of grass and decorative flowers provides ample scope for original ideas. The ability of these plants to remain without moisture for a long time makes it much easier to care for the garden and allows you to save water.
Selection of plants for an alpine hill, features
The Alpine slide has become a sign of the taste of the owners of a country house. It is traditionally located in the central part of the site, which is well illuminated by the sun at midday. The right choice would be sun-loving perennials.
Ground cover perennials are considered the basic plants for alpine hills, rockeries, and rocky gardens. They grow into a continuous carpet or form clumps up to 30 cm in diameter. These drought-resistant perennials make the visual picture close to the mountain landscape:
- entwine the terraces;
- harmoniously connect all tiers of the slide;
- combine plants of different heights and large decorative boulders.
Attention! In the design of an alpine garden (rockeries), you can combine hybrid forms of perennial plants, and not just mountain varieties.
They enliven the landscape with flowers, also drought-resistant perennials. Don't forget about ornamental grasses. Grass for dry places is a fashionable trend in the design of not only rock gardens, but in general any area of a country house.
Description of perennials
A wide selection of drought-resistant perennials for sunny places makes it possible to create the desired background and stabilize the soil on the slopes. To fill the space between stones, landscape designers give preference to perennials:
- Bryozoan subulate;
- Obriete;
- Sedum.
Perennials grow well in the sun: Phlox subulate, Thyme, Alpine aster. Among the drought-resistant grasses, Gray fescue grows well in the sun.
Bryozoan awl-shaped
Bryozoan subulate is a sun-loving perennial. The plant has flexible stems that are very difficult to break. The small leaves resemble needles, but they are very soft and do not prick. Infrequent watering is sufficient for the growth of bryozoans. The use of perennials in landscape design is not limited to rock gardens; the drought-resistant plant is planted on the lawn and garden paths are planted around the perimeter.
Bryozoan awl-shaped blooms all summer, starting in May. The perennial flowers are white, about 5 cm in diameter. The plant has limited growth (8 cm), does not require pruning. The lawn from the bryozoan subulate does not need to be mowed, this makes maintenance much easier. Rock gardens decorated with drought-resistant perennials always look well-groomed.
The advantages of the awl-shaped bryozoan, which will not leave any garden owner indifferent:
- beautiful grass cover;
- the carpet of grass is so dense that weeds are completely absent;
- sufficiently infrequent watering during hot periods of summer;
- the flowers emit a pleasant aroma.
Bryozoan subulate can be propagated by seeds, but it is easier to purchase ready-made perennial planting material from a nursery.
Advice! Sow perennial seeds in boxes in March: spread them over the surface, dust them with snow, and cover the container with a transparent lid or film.
The plant is picked, planted in the ground in May, leaving a distance of 10 cm between the bushes. An established drought-resistant perennial will reproduce by self-seeding in subsequent years.
Aubrieta
Aubrieta is a sun-loving garden perennial that can tolerate light partial shade. This is a flowering plant. Flowers up to 1 cm in diameter are bright, in a wide variety of shades: white, pink, purple. The plant forms continuous carpets up to 35 cm high. Flowers early - April, May, June. Trimmed perennial bushes bloom again in the fall.
Leaves with a light fluff of a laconic shape are little visible from under the flowers. This special flower overwinters without dropping them even in frosty weather. The plant's frost resistance is convincing, but if winters are severe, below minus 25°C, shelter is indispensable.
Important! The flower can be affected by aphids and suffer from powdery mildew. Prevention with the use of fungicides is needed.
Aubrieta does not like prolonged rains; it tolerates drought easily. Propagated by seeds, cuttings, dividing the bush is not used. When decorating a garden, it is convenient to plant seedlings rather than seeds. You can grow it yourself or purchase it from a nursery. Popular varieties:
- Giant waterfall;
- Enchanting Morocco;
- Lizzie.
sedum
Sedum is an indispensable element of rock gardens; they are used to decorate unattractive places in the garden. Popular and easy to care for sedums:
- White;
- False;
- Spanish;
- Kamchatsky;
- Bent;
- Palmate;
- Caustic.
Most sedums love sunny places and tolerate partial shade. Sedum grows well in the shade; it is customary to plant it on rocky hills; it spreads slowly. In sunny areas, sedums bloom longer and more abundantly.
All types of sedums are propagated by seeds through seedlings and cuttings. Sowing of seedlings begins in February-March. Care consists of rare watering, pruning faded inflorescences, and loosening the soil. Periodically you will have to remove weeds.
Advice! Caustic sedum saves the summer resident from weeding. Weeds do not grow next to it.
A pleasant feature of all varieties of sedums is the absence of pests and immunity to infections. Due to its unpretentiousness, this ground cover plant will be the best option for an alpine hill.
Thyme
Thyme is a sun-loving perennial that requires a minimum of moisture. The plant has many species. In landscape design, a fast-growing perennial is used to design rock gardens. The most popular type is creeping thyme.
By mid-July it forms a flowering carpet. The flowers are pinkish-purple. The height of creeping thyme is 15 cm. The perennial propagates by seeds. They are sown in a nursery early in the spring, and in the fall the grown seedlings are transplanted to a permanent place.
For alpine hills, special dwarf varieties of perennials have been bred, their height is from 1 to 5 cm:
- T. Elfin;
- T. Coccneus;
- T. White Moss.
All varieties of perennial thyme grow better in bright sun; it loses its decorative effect: the shoots stretch out, the color of the leaves fades. The drought-tolerant plant looks great against a backdrop of fine gravel. Adult perennials can be replanted, bushes divided, and propagated by cuttings.
Astra alpine
Perennial Alpine Astra is planted along garden paths in mixborders and in the foreground of flower beds. The arid perennial is traditionally used in the design of alpine slides. Creating flower arrangements is not difficult; many varieties of different colors allow you to do this.
Popular drought-resistant varieties:
- Albus;
- Gloria;
- Rosea;
- Ruber.
Important! Plant the aster in a sunny, dry place.
In the southern regions, the perennial is propagated by seeds, directly sown in the ground. In temperate latitudes, they are sown in greenhouses and the already grown seedlings are transplanted into the garden. Mature bushes can be divided. Rare drought-resistant varieties are propagated by cuttings. Care consists of rare moderate watering and prevention of fungal diseases. The flower is susceptible to fusarium and blackleg. The bushes are treated with karbofos against pests (meadow bugs, caterpillars).
Phlox subulate
Gardeners are especially fond of the profusely flowering perennial Phlox subulate. The plant is drought-resistant, prefers sunny places, dry, poor soil. It begins to bloom in May. The flowers are small - 2 cm, collected from 5 petals. Varieties of different colors have been developed.
Important! To limit the overgrowth of a drought-tolerant plant, trim spent bushes back to 1/3 of their length.
Phlox awl-shaped bushes grow up to 50 cm, the shoots are covered with evergreen, hard leaves up to 1 cm long. The plant is aggressive and quickly spreads. To preserve decorativeness, formative pruning is carried out immediately after flowering.
The perennial is propagated vegetatively: by cuttings, layering. Seed propagation is rarely practiced. Care is simple, emphasis is placed on weed control, and feeding is done in the spring. Humates are used to feed evergreen perennials.
Gray fescue
Blue-gray narrow leaves of gray fescue look very impressive. This is a drought-resistant cereal plant that blooms from June to July. Inflorescences are paniculate, gray-green. The bushes are lush - up to 40 cm high, and sometimes up to 60 cm. Designers love to use this drought-resistant perennial in flower arrangements.
Important! For intense leaf color, replant the perennial every 2 years.
The plant prefers to grow in the sun. Grows better in poor soils. The grass grows well on alpine hills, since it needs well-drained soil; it needs to be limed a year before planting. Common varieties:
- Azurit;
- Blauglut;
- Daeumling.
Drought-resistant perennials require minimal care and decorate the garden from spring until late autumn.
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