Alpine slide with your hands: a step-by-step photo and video
Alpine hill( also rock garden, rockery) is a fashionable element of landscape design of a modern infield area. By itself, the hill, combining elements of living and inanimate nature, imitates a small area of the mountain landscape. The creation of rockeries is an extremely fascinating, creative process.
Having manifested all imagination, you can create a real man-made "natural wonder", which will become the central decoration of the site. To create an alpine slide you can hire a professional designer, but, guided by the basic principles of construction, even a budding gardener can become the author of such a miracle. Thanks to this article, you will learn how to make the Alpine hill with your own hands for step-by-step photos and video lessons. This is not such a complicated design, and you can also decorate it with your country plot.
Choose the stones
First of all, you need to determine the size of the composition. If the hill is large, it is advisable to choose large boulders. Otherwise, stones not too large are used.
Pay attention to the appearance of the stones, because from late autumn to early spring rockeries will not please you with flowering, so even bare stones should create a positive impression.
Stones are stacked in tiers - from 3 to 5. Experiment: create patterns and compositions, but be wary of symmetry, because the rock garden should look like an untouched piece of nature. You leave the distance between the stones for the plants, but not too much, so that the hill will not appear empty.
Regarding the arrangement: the largest stones are located at the foot, and the smaller ones are closer to the top. Also, if your rock garden with a pond, the bottom can be covered with small pebbles.
Plants
The next main element of is the plants for the Alpine hill. Choosing them, we are guided by such principles:
- Rockarium should please the eye throughout the year.
- To ensure that the care was not too difficult, the plants must be adapted to the climate of the area.
- Wildlife must complement the inanimate, forming a holistic picture.
- The balance between them is important, try not to overdo it.
- When forming a rock garden, give preference to low growing plants.
- Please note that if the hill is located on the south side, the flowers should be drought-resistant, if with the northern - shade-loving, moisture-resistant.
Decorative dwarf fir and tuja decorate the plot all year round. Perennial flowers and annual plants can be selected wild-growing, inherent in the plant world of the surrounding area. Most popular: saxifrage, poppy, saffron, violet, crocuses, forget-me-nots and so on. Shrubs - juniper, barberry, cleaning. Do not forget about the weeds that will prevent the plants: thoroughly swill the area.
They are placed in this order: in the background - decorative fir and spruce, in the forefront belongs to bright colors.
Step-by-step instruction
Let's go directly to the question of how to make an alpine slide in the country house with your own hands.
1. Prepare the site.
Alpine hill requires a good drainage system. For starters dig a foundation pit. With a working area of 2 x 2 m, its depth should be about 1 m. The lower layer is formed from gravel, broken brick, we lay a layer of coarse sand on top. Lay the layers well with water.
2. Soil
You can buy ready-made, or cook yourself, mixing pure weed-free clay soil with peat 3: 1 and add a little gravel.
We lay geotextile:
We fall asleep with drainage:
From above - a ground.
3. We select and stack stones according to the main principles, using imagination.
4. We select and plant plants, also creatively.
So your alpine pea is ready, which will please everyone who sees it. Video selection