Flower slides in the photo: how to make do-it-yourself stones in the country house

The main purpose of the dacha - growing food and a place for hard physical labor on the ground - is gradually fading into the background, and most summer residents use suburban areas to relax in nature with their soul and body. And the aesthetic appearance of the territory plays a significant role in this, the variety of colors on it is especially pleasing to the eye.

Flower decoration of the slide

But the standard flat stationary ones are already a little tired, and I want to decorate my yard with something bright, beautiful and original. An excellent solution can be a flower - a hill covered with a multi-colored carpet of annual and perennial crops.

• such a flower garden will allow not to deal with the natural irregularities of the site, but to emphasize and beat them favorably, creating an original garden design;
• with the help of an alpine slide, you can hide unpresentable buildings - a barn wall, a restroom, an outdoor shower;
• a rock garden can be made with your own hands from improvised means - broken bricks, rubble and stones left after the construction of buildings;

• thanks to a special flower planting system, such a hill almost does not need to be weeded - the stones restrain the growth of weeds and the uncontrolled growth of plants.

Creating a flower slide with your own hands

Consider how to create beautiful flower arrangements yourself:

• Initially, you need to determine the desired placement of the rock garden: if the site has a natural eastern or western slope, then it will be an ideal base. Otherwise, a hill of stones can be laid out in any corner of the yard, for this it is better to choose a sunny place, well viewed from the window of the house, gazebos or benches in the yard and even the street - after all, efforts will be rewarded with pride for your creation. Such beauty should be admired by the owners, guests, and even ordinary passers-by!
• Before construction work, you need to decide on the design, shape and size of the future flower garden, photos on the network will help with this. The height of such slides is often 1-1.5 meters, and the slope of the slope does not exceed 45 degrees, with a greater steepness, the composition loses its attractiveness.
• After that, you should start choosing stones. It is recommended to use natural stone of natural forms, tuff, shell rock, granite, sandstone will do.

• Flower slides need high-quality drainage to maintain their shape and normal plant growth. To do this, the contours of the future flower hill are outlined with ropes and pegs, the fertile soil is removed to a depth of about 10-15 centimeters, a layer of geotextile is laid on top, and solid construction debris is poured onto it - fragments of brick, ceramic tiles, crushed stone, unnecessary stones, pieces of concrete, it is they who form the hill for the flower garden. This step can be easily done by hand.
• Next, the surface is covered with their own hands with a layer of sand and earth with a total thickness of 40 cm, on which stones are laid out. First, large boulders are installed, while it is recommended to use 2-3 pieces at once to create bright accents. As practice shows, several large blocks look much more spectacular than many small ones. When laying, the stones should be firmly fixed in the soil, if necessary, the earth is filled up and tamped. Boulders need to be immersed in the substrate by a third or even 2/3 to create the effect of the old placer, and all stones must hold firmly and not loosen - this is the basis for the safety of working with a slide.

• From the stones, you should immediately make an attractive composition that looks organic even without plants, because in the cool season the flowers will not cover the slope, and the yard in the country house will be decorated with an unusual stone composition.
• Next, you can start planting plants. Depending on the wishes and imagination of the gardener, the hill can be planted with various flowers - perennial and annual, high and low, shrub and ground cover. It is recommended to first plant perennial crops, and fill in the remaining areas after planting with annual crops. The remaining fertile soil is poured under the roots in the course of work, sometimes you have to use a purchased substrate.
• After planting all the seedlings, the remaining empty space is filled with small stones, this will emphasize the contrast between greenery and bright flowers and a calm, cold stone, as in the photo. In addition, the stone coating will protect the flower garden from the appearance of weeds and the uncontrolled growth of some aggressive plants.

As you can see, everyone can make a flower slide with their own hands, there would be a desire and a little free time.

When selecting stones, you can go in two ways:

• fully think over the desired composition in your thoughts and look for material for it;
• find suitable stones and from them, in the course of work, think over the appearance of the slide.

The latter option is more acceptable, since finding a stone of a predetermined size, color and texture can be very difficult.

You can do the preparation of stones with your own hands, since outside the city you can almost always find stones of various sizes in the public domain. But if there is no time to search, you will have to contact construction companies that sell building materials, but in this case there may be a problem with the selection of boulders of different sizes, since stone fragments are sorted by size and sold in batches.

When choosing a material, it is necessary to observe the unity of texture, color and shape. After all, on a natural mountain slope you can find only one rock with small veins and interspersed with another, so large and medium stones should be from the same material, but small elements can be anything.

If clastic boulders are used, then all stones should be with sharp, wild edges, in which case pebbles will be out of place. Conversely, when using several rounded stones, all others should also be smoothed. The stones may differ in size, but their appearance must be similar so that the finished composition looks like a single whole, a natural ledge of rock. It is also recommended to use smoothed stones for flat rock gardens, but a steep hill is created from clastic stones

Most often, slides in the country are made from stones of such breeds:

• granite is hard, strong, durable, with a wide range of colors from light gray, green, brown to black, the only drawback is the increase in the acidity of the soil around the stone, which is why heather and conifers should be planted in such a rock garden;

• sandstone - a porous, smooth, spectacular stone that harmonizes well with vegetation and other rocks;
• limestones are porous, light rocks that accumulate moisture during rains and then give it to plants, reduce the acidity of the substrate, and after a few years are effectively covered with moss;
• slates are layered rocks with different colors, ideally repeat the natural beauty of layered mountain slopes, slides made of such material look original and spectacular.

As a rule, for a flower slide with stones, you will need several large boulders, a couple of medium ones and small fragments to fill the remaining space.

For the design of alpine slides, mountain plants are used, which in nature grow on the slopes. Although with the development of selection, the once unpretentious and unsightly cultures turned into luxurious flowers with a variety of shapes, colors and species, they still convey the unique charm of the harsh mountain nature.

The selection of flowers and plants for a flower slide is an important stage in the design of a flower garden. Indeed, despite the apparent diversity of such crops, they all have specific requirements for lighting, moisture, soil type and watering. And creating areas with acidic and alkaline soil on the same hill is too difficult and troublesome, and care will become much more complicated. From this, it is difficult for an inexperienced gardener to independently choose a complex of plants that will not only create a beautiful picture and bloom all year round, but also get along well with each other. Experts recommend that beginners take as a basis ready-made landing schemes in the network and specialized magazines and adjust them to their own composition.

In most slides, the landing tier is observed:

1. The upper tier is planted with light-loving and drought-resistant crops, because the top of the flower garden will most of all be exposed to sunlight, and moisture will drain to the foot. Most often here I use various variants of ground cover flower plants - carnation, iberis, edelweiss.
2. The middle tier is decorated with light-loving and shade-loving plants, there is a wider choice of crops, since light and humidity are in balance. Phloxes, wormwood, obrieta, aster, primroses, anafalis, various bulbs are suitable.
3. The lower tier is given to moisture-loving and shade-tolerant plants, often flowers here are adjacent to dwarf shrubs.

Also, when choosing crops for a slide, you need to take into account the time of their flowering, it is recommended to select and plant evenly plants with different periods of bud formation, so that they are replaced by summer ones, and then by late autumn ones, so the flower garden in the country all year round will delight the eye with beautiful colors. It is equally important to choose the right neighbors, since some flowers tend to grow and clog neighboring plantings, such crops include obrieta, lamb, rezuha and soapwort, they are recommended to be planted separately, surrounded by large stones and small scattering to control growth.

Also, when planting plants, you should not overdo it with the number of sprouts, and although at first the flower garden may seem empty, you will have to be patient a little, because soon the seedlings will grow and the free space will be filled. If you initially plant too many crops, then after a couple of months they will interfere with each other and create a feeling of overcrowding, redundancy.

If desired, you can create a flower garden from, as in the photo. This option will allow you to create with your own hands, which for many years will decorate the yard in a country house or a suburban area with little or no care. In addition, most perennial crops are distinguished by the splendor of the bushes and abundant flowering. This option is ideal for busy people who love constancy.

If you want to create the ever-changing beauty of a flower bed, then it is better to use annual crops, which can also be planted as their predecessors fade. So, you can create a constantly changing and bright flower garden with your own hands, pleasing with a riot of colors throughout the summer. But, of course, there will be more trouble with such a slide.

Flower hill without the use of stones

To decorate flat areas in the country, you can use small earthen hills covered with flowers. The use of various decorative elements is especially original - an old vase, cart, barrel, which are laid on the ground, near them a hill is created with their own hands from soil or compacted sand, on which undersized flowers are planted. The result is an unusual flower arrangement, which is a flower that has spilled out of the dishes. Such a flower bed looks not only original, but also very colorful, which is confirmed by the photo.

As you can see, even a beginner can create a bright and original flower slide in the country with their own hands, there would be a desire and ability to create. But in the manufacture of the composition, it is recommended to adhere to the above recommendations so that the resulting slide is beautiful, organic and durable. If desired, such a flower garden can be made exclusively from flowers, but rock gardens look most original with a contrasting combination of cold and harsh stones with delicate flowers of mountain plants - this is truly a real decoration of any yard.