Alpine Gorki

Original alpine slides in the country or near the cottage always attract attention. When they are created, the designers are inspired by the pictures of the bright Scandinavian spring, when among the boulders, witnesses of the ice period, the islands of shrent bright northern colors make their way.

On the other hand, the magnetism of rock rocks lies and is based on the Japanese practice of admiring the garden of stones. Stone boulders, witnesses of millennia, the embodiment of eternity - even they are not able to resist the effects of elusive water and weightless winds that turn them into the sand. The media effect of the Japanese garden of stones is mysterious and unavailable for most Europeans. Our worldview is closer by paradoxical unity of stone blocks and breaking fragile vegetation. The painting of the alpine slide in the country or in the park, the pointality of flowers and decorative greenery against the backdrop of Suede Valunov delivers true pleasure, soothes, has a leisurely thought.

The admiration of the bizarre harmony of the mountainaria is often replaced by bewilderment - as is it possible that the caps of gorgeous colors are so magnificent among lifeless stones? And what should be the care of landings? But doubts are retreating before the simple and efficient engine of progress - "I want!"

Fortunately, everyone can create an alpine slide on its own dacha. They will shove the soul those who will say that it's easy. It will take careful preparation and hard work, but your efforts will be rewarded. For many years you can admire a beautiful stony garden that transformed the landscape of the site. Pleasant bonus - if you do everything right, you will find that landing care will be minimal.

• Roccarius, or garden stones. Here plants are quite a bit, or they may not be absent. Roccarius is usually not very high, the stones either slightly protrude above the surface of the site, or make up a composition towering by 0.5-1 meters. The construction technology is simple, but to achieve expressiveness is the task that is on the shoulder professional designer or a person with an artistic taste.
• Alpinarium is the picturesque neighborhood of stone and decorative vegetation, imitating a wild corner of nature. Chief emphasis on plants. Its size is greater than that of the rocarium - height sometimes exceeds 3 meters, if it is created on a steep slope, the area can also be significant too. The technology of creating an alpinory is more difficult and aimed, mainly to create favorable conditions for plant development.

At the cottage, the island of nature, which we appreciate the riot of paints and flavors, is more likely to look at the Alpinarium.

How did you do without a mountaineering?

Are you still in indecision, create or not alpine slide at the cottage? Get acquainted with arguments justifying upcoming troubles.

1. The insuruction slopes on the site that prevent completing its improvement will turn into a picturesque composition, which is pleasing to multiply from spring to autumn.
2. A cornerless corner (rocky, clay, too dry) will become a dacha decoration - an elegant alpine slide with exotic succulents.
3. If you have a flower garden, which takes all the strength, because they are knicted with malicious weeds, arrange the mountainaries in its place, and the departure will be reduced to infrequent irrigation and quietly two times per season.
4. The garden of stones is an ideal place to demonstrate a quietly sophisticated beauty of small, gentle, fragile colors, which are not under the power to withstand competition on the flower, where they are depressing stronger species.

The hard work on creating an alpine slide on your dacha will pay off a hundredfold - finished the work, just take a step back and enjoy the beautiful wild corner of nature, the source of harmony and peace.

Rules for creating a stone garden

It is enough to know several effective techniques for the construction of an alpine slide that the result of the first experience surpassed expectations: with minor operating costs, the stone garden will hit the imagination by the violence of vegetation among suede boulders.

The mountaineering should cause the feeling that Mother Nature presented this amazing beauty to the garden, allowing them to admire them right at her home.

To begin with, consider the rules that undesirable to break the one who first creates an alpine slide at the cottage:

1. The more mountaineering, the larger there should be stones. Choose boulders, considering that besides the largest, it will be required to be average and, perhaps, even river pebbles.
2. Planning a stone garden, do not stick to the rigid scheme. Follow the natural shape of the stone, avoid even a hint of symmetry. The goal is to create a natural free landscape, avoiding both excessive chaoticness and excessive orderliness.
3. Usually in nature there are places of stones of one breed. Use stones of different breeds only in case of complete confidence in your project.
4. Create from three to six tiers.
5. Stones stack not too tight to each other. After the soil of the soil should appear enough space for the development of the root system of plants.
6. Successfully erected the alpine slide looks spectacular even without colors.

How to make an alpine slide in the country

Step 1: Select Place

Select a corner that is visible from several points, which have already become favorite resting places. Well, if he will have a natural bias - it will facilitate the formation of tiers. The most bright will be the garden of stones, well illuminated by the Sun, so the southern side of the slope is ideal for the Alpine slide in the country.

Apply the contour of the future mountaineering on the plot, rate how interesting it will look from different points, make adjustments if necessary.

Step 2: Delivery of stones

Take boulders. We will need 1-3 very large, medium and bed.

Step 3: Preparation of the base. Drainage device

The magnificent island of the mountain landscape, which attracts our eyes, is like the top of the iceberg. This is the visible part of the mountaineering - peeking out of boulders, lush vegetation. But a big share of it is not visible to us - drainage, a swallowed part of the boulders, sand and a layer of fertile soil, what creates ideal conditions for the nutrition of the roots of plants and prevents the growth of weeds. If, when creating an alpine slide, you can not take care of the drainage, soil from under the slide will wash out, and the stones will begin to see.

Order of the device of the drainage system:

1. Prepare a pit, the depth of which depends on the area of \u200b\u200bthe Alpinaria. For an area of \u200b\u200b2.5 x 2.5 meters, the required depth is about 1 meter.
2. To fall asleep drainage material - crushed stone, shards, construction trash about 1/3 depth. Wood chips and chips cannot be used.
3. From above sand, 1/3 depth.
4. Then pour the soil, 1/3 of the depth.
5. Think.

Step 4: Coulder Installation

If the Alpine slide is broken down on the smooth section of the cottage, the largest boulders are located in the middle, a slightly shocking from the center. This allows you to create a natural elevation, "slide". Next, the remaining boulders are radially, approximately focusing on a decrease in size, but in places breaking this algorithm - so as not to get an artificially ordered, inexpressive relief.

If the mountainaries are arranged on the slope, then the largest stones are installed at the base, the rest over them according to the above algorithm - approximately from the close bottom, up to the small at the top. Do not forget to make an element of chance in their location.

In nature, the most expressive not fresh stone scape, but the ancient, deeply departed in the land of boulders, which barely protrude on the surface. Have you tried to dig stones? It is not easy to do this, even the currens of the middle sizes go to the soil on 2/3 - 7/8 of its height.

When laying stones, it is necessary to trace themselves so that they are sufficiently burst into the base, at least 1/3 of the height of the stone itself - this will ensure the stability of the structure and give the alpine slide, erected in the country, a natural look. Start the installation from the largest stones, using scrap and shovel (without an assistant it is difficult to do here). Somewhere you have to sink the basis for the boulder blowout, somewhere to apply stone backups to fix the desired position.

As the stones are installed, slut the soil between them. It should not be placed too tightly, otherwise the plants planted in small soil pockets are not enough space for the development of a healthy root system.

Step 5: Plant Selection

Select the plants that will be comfortable in your climate and in the specified conditions of lighting and irrigation. Preference is given by low-spirited, unpretentious plants that retain decorative after they are swinging.

Alpine slide at the cottage is created for a long time. It is used in its design, as a rule, perennials. Rare Alpinarium does not do without these three groups of plants:

• Soils
• Socket
• Bulbous (tuber).
• Evergreen shrubs.

Soil-level (carpeted) plants are steel on the surface, forming a large number of long horizontal shoots. The green carpet is picturesquely covers the boulders, creating the illusion that the plants grow straight on the stones. These include Timyan, St. John's wort, Veronica, Labor, Daisy, Seduma, Alpine Strawberry and others.

In the rosette plants, horizontal growth is limited, it is not so intense as covers. The most beautiful of them are pretty capricious in care - leftis, orostachis, many types of guilty.

Without bulbous, it is not necessary if I want the Alpine slide to be covered with in the colors of early spring (crocuses, hanales, whitewasters) are blooming. In addition, they serve as a barrier between actively growing soil and weak rosette plants.

Pay attention to the most popular plants for Alpinaria:

• MEDICAL - light-chapter, drought-resistant, beautiful juicy leaves and pale purple flowers.
• Clamp - drought-resistant, unpretentious carpet flowers.
• Camery - Telebivoy, fine rugs bloom in early spring.
• Gubastic - shadowish, blooms in autumn, height up to 22 cm, growing up to diameter 20 cm.
• Edelweiss - winter-hardy, height 15cm, the diameter of the "rug" up to 20 cm, blooms in June-July.
• Stretch - light-chapter, bloom from the middle of spring.

Evergreen shrubs that many love to plant at the cottage can perform in the role of the dominant element of the Alpine Gorki, juniper, Yucca.

Step 6: Plant landing.

When planting plants take into account their compatibility, decorativeness and peculiarities of care.

Usually, the horizontal growth of the stroke (thyme, Arabis, Yaskolka, Aublast) has to be limited by cutting them through the contour with scissors. The soil plants of different species compete with each other, they are not planted in one spot. They cause damage to gentle rosette species, so they are located at a considerable distance from them. Well compatible with bulbous, with the exception of surcharges and stakes - they are released to the soil toxic substances that are destructive for bulbous.

Hut on the alpine slide on the dacha, gentle sockets, watch them not adjacent to the soil. If this is not avoided, you will have to regularly limit the fast-growing screamers in the growth so that they do not displace the sockets. The ground around the socket colors, cover the nonwoven material, protecting them from weeds, pour a layer of small pebbles from above.

Looking onion, take into account different flowering dates. After the early MeloCukovic relay, daffodils, tulips, muskari and prolesk are picking up. In summer, birdworks bloom, in the fall - crocuses. The bulbous after flowering need trimming, so that the place is not empty, planted in one pocket several kinds blooming at different times. Use the feature that the bulbs of many species are planted at different depths. So that with the time of the bulbs did not spread (and they are used to "travel" in the soil), plan them inside the limiter, for example, an old bucket or a can. For crocuses, the limiter must be with the bottom - this is the only way to protect their bulbs from mice.

Step 7: Installation Steps

As the last barcode, check if there is an opportunity to go through the stones to each plant for leaving. If not, create additional steps from stones, ensuring a reliable support for each of them.