Riparian perennials

Common loosestrife

As banks perennials is known in horticulture , the perennials that unlike splendor perennials or ground-mounted perennials can not thrive in a normal garden bed, but as the site pond shore, shallow water, swamps or flooded soils need. Unlike rock garden or alpine perennials , they require wet soil or even a flooding of the roots .

The shore perennials include:

• Marsh marigold
• Purple loosestrife
• Japanese iris
• Common iris
• Meadow knotweed

literature

• Bernd Hertle , Peter Kiermeier, Marion Nickig: Garden flowers - portraits and care instructions for popular garden flowers and attractive green plants , Verlag Graefe and Unzer, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7742-1796-3