Spring is just around the corner, the time of the beginning of the summer season is approaching. It’s time to think about how to embellish your personal plot. In the landscape design, an alpine slide remains in fashion-a small rocky kindergarten.
The site for the construction of an alpine slide must be prepared in advance. With the help of a shovel, 20 – 25 cm of the upper fertile soil layer is removed. It is better to immediately carefully remove all perennial weeds. Drainage is made in the resulting deepening, in this case, they are filled with well -transmitting water and at the same time without erosion material. For this purpose, broken brick, slag, crushed stone or expanded clay are used. All climinaria plants do not tolerate excess moisture, so well -prepared and compacted drainage is simply necessary.
Now you can start placing stones. Large stones are taken to create a high slide. Any is suitable: granite, dolomite, limestone, shell. Depending on the color of the stone, the color of the plants is selected, focusing on the color of leaves or inflorescences. In order to achieve the maximum decorative effect, they choose single -color stones.
A large beautiful stone is placed in the very center of the alpine slide. It must be buried in the ground by one third, putting crushed stone under the base so that it does not swing. In the same way, smaller stones are located around the main. This is how the first row of stones is created. Then they start laying the second layer, trying to adhere to naturalness. The slope of the mountaineering is recommended to be done southeast or southwest, but it is better in this case to be guided by the fact that the general landscape design of the site will tell.
It is necessary to remember that the stones should not close to each other, the space between them is filled with a specially prepared soil mixture. In equal ratios, compost, leafy ground and small crushed stone are mixed. Proportions can vary depending on the requirements of plants, for example, one part of the peat is replaced by two if plants love slightly acidic soil.
Inorganic fertilizers in moderate quantities are added to the prepared soil so as not to cause violent plant growth: 1 tablespoon per 1 sq. m of the following fertilizers: superphosphate, potassium sulfate and “agricola” for flowering plants.
Planting plants are carried out in the intervals between stones not too close to each other. Together with the stones that should create a background for plants, are trying to create a picturesque composition.
Perennial plants are chosen for mountaineering, preferably stunted, creeping. Shadow -tolerants have a hill on the northern slopes. Plants are selected so that flowering lasts from early spring to late autumn.
The main rule in the design of the alpine hill – the height of the plants should correspond to the height of the stones. A climinal is an elegant landscape composition in which low -growing plants look great in the design of stones. Decorate the alpine hill of a fern, and for the earliest start of flowering, windfires, crests, swimsuits, crocuses are planted. They replace their flowering with daffodils and undersized tulips, then a Carpathian bell, an alpine astra. On the shadow side, a stone -shaped stone will grow perfectly.
Alpine slide, like most landscape design objects, requires constant supervision and care. One of the main problems is perennial weeds. The rhizomes of the skeleton, the Purey grow rapidly, penetrate the hill, leaving deep under the stones, it is impossible to remove them manually. For this purpose, they use continuous herbicides of the type “Roundup”, which is neatly applied to the leaves of the weed, trying not to damage the climinarium plants.
In addition, it must be remembered that the soil on the hill dries much faster due to fever near the stones. Regularly water your rocky kindergarten, and it will delight you until deep autumn with your elegant splendor.