Contents:
- What you need to create a rock garden?
- So, we begin ...
- Pit and drainage
- The process of mountain building
- What grows in the Alps?
Services landscape designer - an expensive service. But it wants to see in his dacha near the house or something unusual, pleasing look and causing a secret envy of friends. But even more reason to be proud - to tell them that this beauty created by their own hands.
On any plot expressive element will be the alpine slide.
An exquisite combination of the severity of natural stone and tenderness touchingly fragile plants bring to the idea of the inviolability of the Earth and the constant celebration of life on it. What you need to create a harmony of stone and life, how to make the alpine slide his hands, will be discussed in this article.
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What you need to create a rock garden?
First of all, of course - the inspiration. For creative work is impossible without it. And if something has to be done without inspiration, and the result is relevant - the banality and vulgarity.
Also need inspiration natural stone. Fragments of different sizes with protruding corners and sharp edges can be purchased at the quarry, where they make the rubble or in DIY stores. If possible, stones should look at the steep banks of the river or ravine, on the slopes of highways .. Well, if there are real close to the mountains, hills or hill. On their slopes you can find many rock fragments of various shapes and at the same time learn from nature ideas for combinations of stones and plants.
It is best if the stones are one color and one or two or three species of similar mind, as is the case in these mountains. In order to fit the alpine slides of different shades of gray granite, sandstone gray-yellowish color. You can choose to combine the reddish granite stones with the same color of fieldstone. These shades will blend in green plants and yellow, orange and red, purple and violet flowers. Exquisitely will look and plants with reddish or purple foliage, colorful fruits.
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So, we begin ...
We must start with the selection of places in the area. It would be better to look natural relief. Then you will need only emphasize the difference heights in the course of work and decorate the slopes. But even on the flat as a table area, you can create a rocky mountain landscape. This requires effort and time, but the aesthetic pleasure of seeing the result will override fatigue and lost several weeks.
The place for construction should be well-lit, open and accessible to contemplation. It is necessary to define the future size and slides, to achieve harmony with the natural elements of the garden. You may have to hold a new stone and tile track for a better view slides from all sides and provide access to the gazebo, where now have to get round.
Place selected. Then it's up to the planning and marking territory. The initial plan must be created on paper. Here and work for inspiration - to present in detail and put into the mountains and valleys below that previously existed only in unformed dreams. And then mark the selected area.
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Pit and drainage
Pit need for foundation of future slides. Its depth depends on the size and height of the rock garden. The greater the mass of earth and rock filled up, the stronger the base will have to do for her, so that after the first winter rock garden does not become a featureless mound. Too deep digging is not necessary. Suffice meter deep pit in the most difficult case.
Dug a pit filled with drainage material. If the site is under construction house or outbuildings, made a great repair the inevitable horrific amount of construction waste pit at the Alpine hills will help solve the problem of its removal. All the pieces of concrete and bricks, sand, gravel, glass perfectly fill the pit. Top to fill the pit drainage material is needed.
As to the brim will be about 30 cm, the drainage is a layer of fine gravel, CBC or a large river sand. Align and ram it, put the top layer of fertile soil with the addition of peat (30%) and fine gravel (30%). Form a hill under the plan.
They say even after the creation of the demiurge of the world rested. A week or two will have to give shrinkage and compaction of the base of an alpine slide. At this time, you can catch your breath.
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The process of mountain building
To lay the stones on the alpine hill is one important rule: in the base should be large, massive stone. The higher, the more they are smaller. Large stones on the edges of the pile of earth should be dug half to make it seem that they were exposed over time. The symmetry and geometry should be forgotten - in nature does not happen equally fallen stones.
Then comes the turn of medium stones. They must be placed so that between the first tier and stones were places filled with earth. There will be planted plants. Average stones are also placed at random, taking into account only their own imagination and easy availability of earth pockets to care for flowers and shrubs in order to be able to freely reach any point of a rock garden. So there are man-made mountain.
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What grows in the Alps?
Selection of plants for rock garden provides two main options: perennial grass and trees and shrubs and all kinds of annuals. In the flower shops you can buy different colors of the young - they are fleshy rosettes among the bare stones decorate the hill immediately after landing. In the first year is to sow the seeds, planted seedlings biennial and perennial herbs and flowers. In autumn, in September-October to plant tulip bulbs and melkolukovichnyh. Then already in early spring next year, man-made miracle please the eye.
To alpine garden pleasing to the eye soon after the construction of the first year, most plants will make it summer and autumn Flowering species - purslane, Iberis, alyssum, eschscholzia, nasturtiums and marigolds and asters undersized. They are sown directly into the ground in May, the earliest of them begin to bloom within a month after planting, while others take the baton later. You can buy in the shops ready for planting seedlings blooming annual flowers.
Dwarf conifers harmoniously fit into the rocky landscape, and their delicate branches will turn green after the frost. It should pick up those rocks, which spend the winter in good conditions offered to them. After all, winter winds and thaw a layer of snow can reduce or completely expose the sublime landscape of land where the plants will have to spend the winter. In central Russia are going through a good winter dwarf arborvitae, pine and spruce, junipers.
To make natural mossy stones must be found in damp and shady places the pads of moss green velvet. This moss is necessary to carefully rub your hands and mix with the ground and water before sparse gruel. She applied to the northern that is out of the sun surface of the stones, the ground beneath them. Likewise come with lichen - colored scaly patches it easy to see on different surfaces.
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