Rockery in your area: types and characteristics

If you plan to create in your garden beautiful composition, which is based on stones and flowers, but the process seems to you unbearable, we will dispel your doubts. To get a beautiful decorative object really necessary knowledge and skills. First you need to determine the order, what kind of rockeries close to you in spirit. Observe the climatic conditions in your area, soil type, and financial capabilities.

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The stones in the garden

The composition of rocks and plants called Rocard, rocky hill, rock garden, alpine slide. Stones in the landscape these objects represent stability and focus on decorative crops in any season.

Rock garden can consist of a variety of plants. Its dimensions also are different. Let's look at the types of rockeries.

Rockery - Rocky Hill

The basis for such slides can become debris that has accumulated at a portion of the soil beneath the foundation and so forth. As for its height, it can be a maximum of 2. Do it is no longer appropriate, because it will be difficult to approach the plant with the purpose of maintenance.

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On the surface of the slide layer is laid fertile ground. If the slide is high, for its arrangement suited massive stones. For small compositions appropriate small stones. Dug them into the flower bed under the surface of the slope. Thus you will be able to shade the plants.

Ideal zaokruglennye stones of different sizes and colors. Fill the space between them can be middle-sized ornamental plants. Caring for such a rockery involves some complexity. First of all they are caused by the growth of rhizomes of weeds. They penetrate the ground, making their way under the stones, so get to them will not be easy. It should also be noted that the slopes of the hills are prone to drying out quickly, and the plants that are planted in this place need systematic watering.

Rockeries - Terrace

The composition focuses on the steps of terraces. They are built on a slope near a fence of stones on the edge of the plot. Material for manufacturing stages will gravel or concrete block (drainage) and fertile soil. Each of the stages is a flower garden.

The most advantageous on the terraces looked culture with curly stems. Ideal arabis Caucasian, rank grandiflora, phlox styloid, chickweed, etc. woolly Stachys.

Loose soil layer tends to a constant drying out, so at this point is appropriate to plant plants which endures shortage of moisture. We are talking about studs, anthericum, daylilies small, wormwood, Liatris. Also suitable low cultures that form a dense coating, e.g., Sunstrike.

Retaining and dry the rocky wall

To obtain the composition of such a plan, in the walls makes deepen plant that fully developed in a small volume of soil. This can be grits, saxifrage, climbing fern, stonecrops, evening primrose, simfiandra Armenian, rock bells, etc. rejuvenated.

It does not require mortar to dry wall. The space between is filled with stones or soil garden seat mixture. In these places planted ornamentals.

Dry rocky walls are of two types:

Bilateral. Consist of two rows of stones, the space between them is filled with earth. It is advisable to do a wall to order a professional.
Retaining. Settling around the flower bed or used as a foundation terraces. It can be made with your own hands. For masonry used limestone, sandstone or artificial stones.

Rockery in the plane

Plus flower bed consists in the fact that all of its elements are visible, like the palm. Rockeries in the plane appropriate in the plains. They are based on boulders. Creating rockeries on the plane - not labor process. Caring for them and does not imply any problems. Plants in it feel as comfortable as possible. In this rocky garden, they are not prone to drying out and freezing.

Add a rockeries need a sunny site, which is easily visible from any point of the garden. Often an area in the range of 10-15 m2.

Before attempting to create it, you need to draw a diagram on paper and mark the place where will be placed stones and flowers.

The site you want to align, to cleanse it from all weeds. Under the stones must be laid geotextile or a film, which will prevent germination of weeds. Pre substrate may be required to make a hole.

This type of rockeries fit well into the plains

Many gardeners prefer to cover the site with gravel, pebbles, sand. These materials are also laid on the coating of polyethylene. The spaces between the stones are planted plants. Special attention is paid to important plants, which have an intricate shape of the bush, low-growing crops that do not form thickets.

Violet is suitable for rockeries such a plan horned, Heuchera, Bergenia, Canadian Aquilegia, iris dwarf, lungwort sugar, alpine aster, Geranium sanguineum, small bells, bow karatavsky.

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Talus can be created in different ways. Consider the most simplified version. For compositions need to pick up lighted area with well-drained soil. The composition can be placed on expanding the site from top to bottom, the edges of which are massive boulders.

Then, the upper layer of soil to be removed from it. The recess need to pour the mix, which is based on turf ground, peat (ratio 1: 1), rubble and pebbles (3 parts).

Another good place for debris - is the border between lawn and rocky gardens. In this case, the flower will have to protect. Composition quickly filled with weeds, so under the stones necessary to lay a geotextile material.

raised beds

In recent years, many growers are practicing cultivation of ornamental plants on raised beds.

The composition of such a plan does not require much space. With its arrangement also does not arise difficulties. If the area allows, you can make a flower bed in the form of one or two terraces on different levels and planted ground cover plants on them.

The selected location will have to dig up and remove the roots of perennial weeds. If the wall height exceeds 30 cm, the base of the flower garden it is advisable to pour the cement mortar.

If the calculations used lime walls at the base is necessary to provide holes for water drainage. Capacity is filled with substrate. First, should a drainage layer of gravel, sand or pebbles coarse fraction (10 cm), there is a coating of a fertile soil (20-30 cm). The latter consists of turf soil, leaf mold and gravel (in equal parts).

After the seal land in any case settle. To prevent this phenomenon need to fill it with the spare. It is also possible to lay the bricks (without cement) and to remove them after the soil settles.

Raised beds - a decorative object, which allows landing at different levels and make the garden more attractive. Flower gardens on a hill - a perfect place for rock, alpine and other plants that require special conditions, because with such a landing there is an opportunity to create good drainage.

If your house built of brick, shop embodiment of a flower bed, which is based on the same material. The main thing is that bricks to match the flower beds lining construction.

Multi-colored wall panels and trim are installed much easier than brick. To exclude cracking of the beds and the walls of its subsidence need a foundation. Flower beds on the hill, which are made of wood, are considered a budget option. They do not need a settling foundation, but their life span is much less than those that are made of stone.

Track

Dimensions ornamental crops must match plates parameters. Mounting plates and planting ornamental plants in "pockets" should be implemented at the same time so that you can immediately evaluate how they are combined in shape and size.

Plants complement inconspicuous paved paths and patios. Stand strong trampling under force only thyme, bryozoans and Azenio.

Take a kitchen knife, scrape the ground from the gaps between tiles. Landed in these places are small plants. Fill in the hole with a mixture of turf ground, sieved peat and sand, the coarse fraction (in proportion 1: 1: 1). The recesses with such a mixture can be plated planting material in the form of seeds.

artificial rocks

Artificial rocks - decorative objects that can often be found in the gardens of Japanese style. If you want to create a song, note that it should look as natural, so it fit the stones with weathered and rough terrain. It is desirable that their top was covered lichen or moss. Sandzon - element, which is able to decorate the lawn or patio. Its foundation must fill low-growing culture, for example, acaena or thyme.

Container rockeries

Such small flower beds, there are a number of advantages. First and foremost it is worth noting that they can create a specific ground. Moreover, they can be placed anywhere, whether it's terrace, balcony, patio. Caring for plants in flower beds such minimized.

To rockeries he pleased as long as possible a beautiful view, it is necessary to pay special attention to the choice of substrate. It is important that it is well-drained, have excellent liquid-binding properties. For this ideal mixture of turf ground, leaf mold, gravel (in proportion 1: 1: 1).

As the mulch you can take a small gravel. As for plants, the container can be planted thyme, stonecrop Evers, nettle and others.

We have reviewed your most popular varieties of rock gardens. Learn the characteristics of each of them and determine which is appropriate for the composition of your garden.