Alpine slides - the pride of owners of country sites!

Specialists in the field of landscape design recently offer country household owners to create on their site of the island of the picturesque nature of the Alps, building an alpinary on it. That is how it is customary to call the Alpine slides - original and elegant compositions from plants and stones.

1 Alpinarium - a piece of Alps on your country site

Stone gardens for the first time began to shut down on the Japanese Islands. Their residents have always lacked free land areas, for this reason they have learned on very small sites to create beauty oasis. The Japanese are confident that the combination of the tenderness of flowers and hardness of natural stones is a sample of the true charms of nature, to admire which it is possible forever.

The traditions of distant oriental islands in the 16th century began to penetrate the European continent. In Europe, it became fashionable to transplant from the mountain natural environment a variety of outflows and shrubs in the gardens near their possessions. After a couple of centuries, they learned about the mountaineering in the Russian Empire.

Nowadays, make a alpine slide on the summer cottage. It is quite easy to implement this desire, because the mountaineering can be equipped independently without using the services of expensive designers.

Works on the creation of landscaped decorations from stones and flowers in the garden will require you to invest a considerable strength. But the chic result of labor-intensive events will be an excellent gift for you and your family. You will have your own piece of the Alps in the country or near the country house, where you can enjoy the atmosphere of beauty and pacification.

A homemade garden from plants and stones is a simulation of natural hilly areas. Therefore, the creation of its design is based on the use of a combination of low flutter vegetation inherent in the Landscapes of the Alps, and the stones of all sizes. The slides are called such garden decorations because they have a vertex, different slopes and base (sole).

Separately, we can not confuse rockery and mountaineering. You can arrange rocaline in the garden with minimal colors and plants or without anything at all. But the Alpine landscape is created with a lot of vegetation. In addition, the mountainaries at its height reaches 2.5-3 meters,and the highest garden rocaries are made no more than meters. We also note that the "piece of the Alps" can be located on a sufficiently large area and it is much more difficult to equip it.

2 Varieties of Alpinarians - Choose your own design

The main components in the construction of the Alpinarians are the occurrence, cover and coniferous vegetation, as well as boulders and stones of different shapes and masses. Designer's task - to create a hilly fragment of nature in the garden from these elements, which will be visually indistinguishable from the natural landscape of the Alps. This means that from flowers and stones at the cottage it is necessary to form a "chaotic" natural plot, which will delight the gaze of his naturalness.

Stones are placed on a hill in several basic schemes. Depending on their location, alpine landscape decorations for country sites are divided into several groups.

The mountain slope is either scree - small pebbles are poured at the sole, and large boulders are stacked closer to the top. Such a composition is always performed in a large height. It requires the use of various low-spirited and pop plant and colors.

Rock Rock - in the garden is built with a steep hill with stones of large sizes below. The closer to the top of the slide, the smallest pebbles are used. This design involves the use of a small amount of vegetation, which usually "hide" in pockets and niches formed by boulders. To emphasize the height of such a slide, a large plant can be planted on the peak of the facility.

The slope with terraces - is organized with small steps on a canopy hill. Steps are securely held in place due to the fact that they are supported by large boulders.

The valley in the mountains is a composition of the stones of different sizes, which are crushed along the area of \u200b\u200bthe Alpinaria. The largest boulders at the same time should be partially drown in the ground and planted decorative flowers around them with a long flowering period. The mountain valley in the country to create relatively simple, but, provided that you do not change the feeling of taste, and you can arrange the stones and plants naturally.

Forest ravine (gorge) is very popular at the expense of its natural beauty and naturalness of the alpinary. It is advisable to equip it in a hollow or in any natural recess on the country site. Such a ravine should be framed by boulders, crumbling moss and dwarf plants.

Stony wall - flat stones laid out in a border not very high height. The most popular now recognizes the mountaineering called "Czech Rock". It is done in the form of a stone hill of mountain plate stones, which put an edge into a soil next to each other. It is important to ensure that the ends of the boulders create a single wavy type plane.

For the Czech pin can use any types of dwarf trees and low shrubs. They are planted in space between stones, and then sprinkle on top of gravel and earthy crumb. As a result, the island of mountain nature appears near your home. Visually it seems that, straight from the rocky breed on the sunlight, flowers and greens make their way.

Now, knowing the main types of alpine slides, it will be easier for you to choose the option of the landscape design you want to see on your dacha.

3 How to Make Alpinary - Step-by-step instructions

To create in its garden a luxurious landscape decoration, you need to strictly follow the recommendations of professional designers. They say that the mountaineering can be done, after following five stages:

1. Correctly pick up a hill place.
2. To do.
3. Put in a certain order of boulders and stones.
4. Treat land for planting colors and other vegetation.
5. Make landing plants.

Choose a place in the country where the alpinary will be located, it is necessary to consider that he always appear in front of you in the most successful perspective. If you are planning after building a slide rest near her, you should immediately think about the free platform nearby, where you can build a stationary brand, put the table and. Naturally, there must be a comfortable trail leading to the place of your future rest.

Since the mountaineering suggests the use of plants, you need to take care that they fall as much sunlight as possible. For this reason, the "mountain slopes" on your cottage is always required to orient to the East and South - the flowers will receive the heat they need and bloom to joy.

Another important aspect of choosing a place is to analyze the soil. If your site has a sandy soil, the mountainaries are allowed to break right on it without performing any additional work. If the land near the country house refers to fat either clay, it will have to perform its drainage. It is as follows:

• we take out the ground in place where the mountainaries will be, to a depth of 30-50 centimeters;
• the resulting pit fill with small gravel, pieces of ordinary bricks, rubble, various waste of building materials;
• i fall asleep with sand-filled with sand, and then soil;
• we water the water of the explosive land so that it compaches.

After that, you can proceed directly to the construction piece of the Alps on the territory of your country house.

4 Building Alpinarium - the most responsible stage of work

Hamik of the future landscape decoration makes a special mixture consisting of such components:

• coarse sand;
• pure land (soil);
• humus (it should be thoroughly crushed).

If you have the opportunity, use that ground as the ground that moles from their holes are thrown out. It's not so difficult to find her outside the city. Black holmiks are often found on abandoned summer cottages and in forest landings. If you do not find such a land, nothing terrible, make a mixture from ordinary soil. After the Kholmik of the desired height is formed, you need to take a short break (14-20 days) - the hill is required time for the mumbling of the layers and their shrinkage.

The area for the alpine is wallped around the perimeter using large boulders. More naturally, they will look if you blow them into the ground. After a certain distance lay the second tier of stones. The space between them falls asleep soil, thereby we get the habitat for shrubs and colors, as well as the base for the next stone tier.

Do not try to lay stones symmetrically. In nature, they never lie correctly. At the same time, try to use about the same color and texture of stones. So you will achieve the maximum harmonicity of the landscape design.

The geometric dimensions of the tiers should be reduced by the principle of the pyramid - from the bottom up. Specialists advise:

• draw up an odd number of tiers;
• at the bottom point of the tiers (all without exception), there is a massive boulder, which will restrain small pebbles from falling, thereby ensuring the reliability of the slide.

The final stage will be the arrangement of the top of the alpinaria. The design of the Alpine slide allows for these goals of several stones of relatively small sizes or one massive boulder. Such a vertex will protect your facility from the smoke of the soil during the rain.

5 "Settlement" slides with flowers and shrubs - what plants choose?

The process of creating a "stone hormster" is completed by real magic. Under it we understand the landing of vegetation. It follows it correctly, taking into account several requirements. First, it is necessary to put a thin layer of the soil good mixture to the surface of the slide, in which the flora is attached without difficulty. Secondly, the landing is performed most often in the spring. But if you built a holmick in the fall, you can "settle" it up to the first serious frosts on the soil.

The composition of the plants is desirable to choose from evergreens and lowered their species. In this case, in the autumn you will not need to remove a lot of fallen foliage, risking to destroy the alpinary. And in the summer he will not hide behind a riveting and high greens.

Flowering plants should have small flowers and low growth. Perfectly survive among the stones of the coating and creeping vegetation, juniper, rocky tuber, thuja, dwarfish, molded, driad, caticker, Iberis, cypressovik, stamps, cloves with short stems.

In principle, your alpinary can have any color solution. It is important to rely on your taste and the tips set out above. Also take into account - in no case cannot be used to decorate the slide accessories of artificial origin.

Alpinarium is designed to give you a mining natural atmosphere in the country area. Therefore, all sorts of gypsum or granite figurines, amphoras and bowls, plastic and glass products will become an inappropriate addition to your landscape decoration. The vegetation and natural stones themselves are considered completely self-sufficient decorative details. And there is no point in adding a variety of "tinsel".

6 Tips of professionals - how to make a mountaineering perfect?

Bookmark Gorki should be produced at those places of the country site, where the bushes and trees are missing, and there are no economic buildings. Trees, high and thick shrubs are perfectly suitable as a background for landscape structures, but not his parts.

If you plan to build a stone-flower garden with a waterfall or a small pond, try to find a place on the plot with a small arrow or with a gentle slope. So it will be easier for you to equip artificial reservoirs. To implement the Alpinaria project with a pond or a waterfall, it will be further required to dug a small kitty, to purchase a container for the "lake" and lay it out from the inside of a coarse film.

Projects with a waterfall also require installation in the water reservoir. The indicator of its capacity depends on which height will have a mountaineer with a waterfall. The pump hose is stretched on the peak slide, where it is carefully masked by plants or stones. As you can see, make an alpine slide with their own hands with a waterfall or a modest fountain, it is completely simple.

Landscape design specialists give other useful tips:

• Correctly pick up the stones - boulders should be the greater, the bigger area has a mountaineering. It is advisable to use the stone rocks of the same type.
• Choosing flowers for a slide, take into account the time and duration of their flowering. If blooming stains will be constantly attended on the surface of your alpine corner, it means that you have everything turned out. You managed to create a really beautiful construction.
• Before starting execution of landscape measures, a diagram of your future mountainaria must be drawn up and the estimate of the required costs, as well as step-by-step construction instructions, which you must adhere to strictly.

Good luck to you, let the alpine corner bring you a lot of pleasant minutes of rest in his silence!