A rocky hill is commonly called a peculiar type of flower design, a distinctive feature of which is a harmonious combination of decorative plants with stones. You should start the creation of a rocky slide with the choice of the place and style of the composition. If possible, they try to harmoniously enter the rocky hill into the garden environment, an uneven elevated relief will be the perfect place. The approximate ratio of the height of the slide to the length is 1:10.The next step will be the relief processing. It is necessary to cut the turf, remove the garbage and roots of weed vegetation. If the slide is high (more than 1 m), then cutting turf is not necessary.
The soil should be air – and water permeable. If necessary, drainage is arranged from gravel, brick combat, building garbage, gravel, etc. D. In its structure, the slide consists of three layers: drainage, sand and plant soil. After the slide is poured proceeds to laying stones. The main thing is that the stones harmoniously combine with each other and with the plant surrounding them.
We fix the stones
Each stone should be well fixed in the soil. It is better to use the larger side of the stone as the supporting side. Gneys, marble, tuff, limestones and other rocks of stones are suitable for a rocky slide. By placing stones, you can proceed to planting plants. They begin to plant from the largest specimens (shrubs and large perennials), and finish the placement of small ground cover plants. It is most convenient to plant a rocky slide from top to bottom, from the top to the foot.
We use coniferous and beautifully flowering shrubs
The basis of the assortment should be low creeping ground cover and carpet. For example, purity, cerebrays, awlly phlox, Caucasian rheast, etc. Coniferous and beautifully flowering deciduous shrubs are used as accents. To create a decorative effect in spring, bulbous and small -loud plants (muscari, tulips, daffodils, etc.)
The finished hill needs regular care, which involves timely watering, loosening and weeding. In the spring, shelter is removed from rockeries, garbage is removed, stones are aligned, loosened and poured soil. In summer vegetatively mobile plants must be restrained in growth. For the winter, most perennial plants are cut, and species that do not tolerate frosts well, cover. To plant new plants, as well as propagate existing in the spring and autumn periods.
