For those who have already bothered with ordinary flower beds , an alpine slide in the garden is a great solution. It’s not difficult to create such beauty with your own hands, but all the neighbors will simply be jealous of such a creation. Next will be described not only how to make an alpine slide in the garden with your own hands, but also the plants that are appropriate for this, as well as the types of design of such a composition.
The composition of the flowerbed
In this case, an alpine hill is considered , which includes a hillock built from an earthen mound, stones, and also flowers. You can use boulders of different sizes, both larger and smaller, but the size of the selected plants should depend on their size. Granite is best used as large stones, and limestone and sandstone as low stones. In combination with them, you can plant any flowers. Different compositions can be formed from stones, while a lot of space remains for the flowers. When making a slide with your own hands, the distance between the stones should be left from half a meter to a meter, not completely filling them with earth, so that one side remains clean and beautiful.
You can consider the process of creating flower beds.
Do-it-yourself Alpine slide, a photo of which can be seen on the page, begins to take shape as follows. The largest stones should be laid around the perimeter of the structure around. Boulders should not be placed too tightly to each other, since water through them should pass freely, and not stagnate among the flowers. Using pre-prepared land, you should fill the inner circle according to the height of the stones. The earth should be of high quality, well-fertilized, then the flowers will be able to take root well - it can be black soil. Fresh land should be watered abundantly and tamped so that it does not sag after the first rain. Stones are again laid on top of the earth, inside a large circle a smaller circle, not too tight to each other. Again, everything is covered with earth, rammed, and then stones are laid out again, and all this must be done until the very top of the hill. The top can be left for the most beautiful bush or a very attractive stone can be placed there.
An alpine slide in the garden with your own hands is simply unthinkable without flowers, so you should approach their choice responsibly. Here it is appropriate to plant stunted plants whose height does not exceed half a meter. Alpine poppy is perfect for such compositions. It has a low straight stalk. Landed in the winter or spring. The cinquefoil is excellently combined with poppy, but its flowering period is from April to May. It is appropriate to use a mountain dwarf pine, with which you can emphasize the general beauty of the whole composition. From April to May, boletus blooms, which will also look great in such a composition. He has beautiful little pink flowers. An alpine slide in the garden, created with his own hands, simply can not do without such a plant as a lagurus, which is a grass with fluffy spikelets. Any low flowers will also be appropriate, you can use blue dwarf Christmas trees.