The Alpine hill (rock garden) - nowadays fashionable element of landscaping by Europeans is borrowed Japanese. It represents the fantasy rock-garden imitating mountain landscape.
Instruction
1. Rock gardens happen several types, the most popular: Alpine meadow, hillside, Japanese garden. The idea of creation in garden of rock garden carries away many, thehandsit can equip on the seasonal dacha the small Alpine hill of to everyone. If on the site there is height, it can be turned into hillside.
2. At top of the hill dig superficial ditch. For slope of 2х2 m 1 m will be sufficient depth. Take care of good drainage – fill hole with beaten brick, crushed stone, construction waste. Further fill up it with sand or mix from gravel and sand. From above put this construction fertile soil and layers of the turf. The turn of stones has approached, for small slope take boulders of the average size, it is desirable one breed, it is important to observe naturalness.
3. When laying stones adhere to the principle "from big to small", for top find beautiful original copy. There are no tough rules of laying of boulders, the form of the hill depends on imagination of the author. Between cobble-stones leave enough place for plants. Plant dwarfish trees, bushes, add composition with mosses.
4. Select plants for the Alpine hill unpretentious that they looked most naturally in "mountain landscape". From krasivotsvetushchy perennials geraniums, sedums, carnation plumose, cornflower mountain, chicory, gentian, hand bell Carpathian, edelweiss Alpine and many others will approach. Originally decorative onions look in stone garden. Fine ornament are pochvoukryvny flowers, such as prolomnik proliferous, yaskolka, yasnolka speckled. They expand, frame boulders, fill with themselves space and create visibility of the real hillside.