Enrich your garden with these plants for poor soils

When you have a poor soil that is also clayey with a tendency to compact a lot it is not always easy to find the most suitable plants for the garden, since most do not usually do very well having the roots too tight.

However, with these plants for poor soils that we have selected for you you can enrich your garden and thus give him a new life.

Trees

We are not going to fool you: there are few trees that can live in clay soils. But there are enough to have a green space to enjoy the day. And are next:

Ornamental

• Melia sourach
• Syringa vulgaris
• celtis australis
• Fraxinus sp (all species)
• Cercis siliquastrum
• Ginkgo biloba
• Prunus pissardi 'Cerasifera'

Fruit trees

• ficus carica (fig tree)
• Almond (almond)
• Pyrus pyraster (pear tree)
• Prunus avium (cherry)

Shrubbery

Shrubs are great plants for creating hedges, but also for Give color to the place. Its flowers attract various insects, such as bees, starring in the most beautiful spectacle of spring: pollination. The most interesting are:

• Viburnum tinus
• Polygala myrtifolia
• Euonymus europeus
• Hebes sp (all species)
• Rosa sp (all species)
• myrtle common
• Lavandula sp (all species)

Flowers

To have a colorful garden there is nothing like putting a few flower plants. Bulbous, lively, perennial and annual are the decorative element that every green corner must have, even if it has a poor soil.

• Phlox spp.
• Dahlia sp.
• sibirica iris
• Impatiens sp.
• Primula sp.
• viola sp
• digitalis purpurea
• Dimorphotheca sp
• astilbe arendsii

ferns

Ferns are plants widely grown indoors. They are very decorative, and require little maintenance. But, How about we put some in a shady and humid corner of the garden?

• osmunda regalis
• nephrolepsis exaltata
• Dryopteris erythrosora

Palms

Although palm trees tend to like best to grow in fertile, well-drained soil, The truth is that there are a series of species that have been shown to be able to live and develop without problems in clay soils:

• Phoenix dactylifera
• Phoenix canariensis
• Washingtonia sp (the two species, W. robust y W. filifera)
• brahea armata
• butia capitata
• butia yatay
• Parajubaea sp (all species)

So you already know, do not give up having a wonderful garden for your poor soil. In any type of terrain you can create authentic paradises, also in clay terrain.