The flowering plants are certainly beautiful in their own right, but they are given a special faceting by other ornamental partner plants.
One of these plants barley maned, landscape designers have been using in landscaping gardens and parks for quite some time.
In this article, we will familiarize ourselves with barley more closely: its description, its use in the landscape and not only.
Barley maned: description
Barley barley - It is a herbaceous, perennial plant belonging to the family of grass grasses. The grass has a strong, short rhizome with thin processes. The height of the grass is on average from fifteen centimeters up to half a meter - it depends on what soil the barley grows on. The plant is smooth, thin and flexible green stalks. The leaves are long, up to eight centimeters in diameter; the deciduous mass is dense, with sharp ends, rich green color. 
The plant blooms in July, inflorescences - spikelets. Spikes have long, flexible awn-hairs with a purple tint, sometimes pink. The inflorescences hang on the peduncles and at the slightest breeze of the wind fluttering like a mane. This magnificence is kept on the plant until September, then the fruiting period begins.
We advise you to get acquainted with such representatives of cereals: wheat, rye, millet, oats, feather grass, fescue and couch grass.
Grain barley grain looks the same as in other cereals of the genus barley: narrow linear, with a longitudinal groove grain. 
Did you know? The first bouquets of plants-immortals, which include and barley, were called “Macardian bouquets”. This name was given to them in honor of the Austrian decorator Hans Makart, who liked to create unusual compositions of dried flowers, fruits, branches, adding feathers, beads and openwork ribbons.
Growing barley barley
For growing barley barley you can buy seedlings in horticultural farms. You can purchase seeds and grow your own seedlings, providing you with proper care. 
Choice of place and time for barley
Open, well-lit areas are suitable for planting barley, as he likes the sun and tolerates drought well. You should not worry about the shelter: the culture is cold-resistant.
Important! Place for planting is desirable to choose a flat, without stagnant water: with an excess of moisture, the root system rots.
The plant can grow on any soil, but the most beautiful and developed will be on nutrient, aerated soils with a weakly acid reaction.
Sowing seeds and planting barley
To ensure quality seedlings, cereal seeds are stratified. To do this, a thin layer of peat is poured into a small tray at the bottom, seeds are placed on top, moistened the surface and wrapped in food film and placed in a refrigerator on a shelf for vegetables. To prevent the seeds from suffocating, several holes are pre-made in the film. After two months, you can conduct sowing. 
At the beginning of April, prepare everything you need: a seedling box, a soil mix, a wooden board according to the size of the box. For a mixture of soil suitable garden soil, mixed three to one with sand. After spreading the seeds over the surface in a thin layer, sprinkle with soil, moisten the soil with a spray gun and press it with a plate.
The following conditions are necessary for germination:
- lighting - not bright, moderate;
- temperature - 12-16 ° C;
- humidity - light (watering as the topsoil dries out).
Barley dives into separate pots after three weeks, when the plant is in the development phase of four strong leaves. Small containers up to 6 cm in diameter are placed on a warm window sill. During this period, it is necessary to maintain a constant, but moderate soil moisture. 
In the first decade of May, it’s time to start hardening the seedlings: gradually increasing the time from a couple of hours to a day, the seedlings are taken to a balcony or to the street. In mid-May, when there is no threat of return frost, seedlings are planted in open ground.
Planting barley grivasty is carried out immediately into the ground in regions with a milder climate. At the beginning of April, the seeds are sown at a selected place and looked after, like any other crop. They monitor the humidity and purity of the soil. To the bushes already grown barley were fluffy and heap, throw two or three grains in one hole. Planting cover film, constructing a mini-greenhouse that will protect the plant from the cold.
Caring for barley maned
Barley is unpretentious grass, the entire care of planting consists in timely watering and loosening the soil so that the root system is saturated with oxygen. Feeding is not much needed - this plant survives without fertilizer in any conditions, but if you feed, then watch out for the amount of nitrogen fertilizer. 
Important! Too much nitrogen can trigger the development of gray mold.
Cereal, in principle, does not get sick, the only disease that can attack it is gray mold or mold. If a gray mold is found in the planting, the plants need to be planted and reduced watering and feeding. Affected parts or whole plants are removed and disposed of. To fight the disease will help fungicides: "Topaz", "Fundazol", "Horus".
Using
The maned barley is many-sided in use, it perfectly coexists with flowering and evergreen plants, with other decorative cereals, fits into almost any composition.
Decorative use in landscape design
Flowering grass decorate and give lightness to rocky areas of the garden and rock garden. The air waves of the ears of corn will decorate the flowerbeds both alone and in a group with flowering plants. The grass harmonizes well with such cereals:
- bent openwork;
- brown millet;
- pennisetum;
- haretail two-colored.
A beautiful silvery yellow radiance of the flowerbed will be given to compositions with marigolds, calendula, yellow-orange rudbeckia, with coreopsis. A calm, slightly coldish tone will be given to compositions with lavender, sage, and two-colored godson.Decorative grass can close a void, formed as a result of the withering of flowers, diversify the lawn with its presence, give liveliness to stone decorative compositions. 
Creation of bouquets and compositions
To create dry or winter bouquets they use almost everything that is on hand: cones, branches, fruits, ribbons, bark, citrus peel, jute cords and much more. The most attractive are bouquets or baskets, or compositions of another type, made from natural materials: wood, stones, and so on. 
Plants are pre-prepared, dried tied in bunches and drooping inflorescences in dry rooms. As for barley, it should be cut in the first phase of earing, because later the ears will begin to crumble.
Grasses in bouquets are perfectly combined with fruiting and flowering plants. The following herbs are used more often from fruiting plants:
- borshevik;
- bullberry;
- iberis;
- linen;
- Lunaria;
- Nigella
- sagebrush;
- stahis;
- feverweed;
- Physalis;
- Echinacea.
Our grass is well combined with prickly herbs: mordovnik, dogrose, teasel; with other cereals: miscanthus, anthoxantum and corn. Interesting combinations are obtained with flowers, such as:- heather;
- gypsophila;
- homfren;
- xerantemum;
- edelweiss;
- Helipetrum;
- celosia.
Did you know? The most ancient science to make flower arrangements originated in Japan, and is called ikebana. The earliest written sources on ikebana schools date back to the sixth century.
In conclusion, advice: do not keep dry bouquets or compositions for years, they lose their attractiveness and absorb dust, which can be a source of illness. Do not be lazy to dry new plants and create another bright detail for your decor.
