Rockery with their hands

Many today want to, with the help of landscape design, to give their garden plots noble appearance, to create, so to speak, a cozy corner of nature on their summer cottage.One of the most common species in the landscape design today is the creation of rockeries own hands.Rockery - a flower, which are used to create special stones and ornamental plants.

They are now quite popular, but the landscape designers services many can not afford, so vacationers andowners of private homes with a gardening area trying to make yourself rockeries.You also can not get the attention of citizens who simply enjoy working with plants and earth, and all who prefer to do their own.

Where to start?

first step is to choose a place to house the rockeries in the country site, there are several requests to be placed:

Styles rockeries

After determining the location in the garden rockeries, should be marked area (see. Photo).This will greatly help the availability of the scheme or plan.The next step is to determine the style of the flower bed, here it should be said that there are three most popular rockeries style:

• English style that prevails conifers so beloved by conservative British, for that can serve more than one generation;
• European style , which is characterized by the composition and content of plants most suitable middle belt of Europe;
• Japanese style , in which the emphasis is on the rocks, in general, almost all (Japanese rockeries consists of granite stones with rare but vivid strokes of plants);

device diagrams and photos of finished formulations can be found in the annexes to this page.

Installing stones and planting plants

site preparation should start with removing the turf, the depth of removal of approximately 10-15 cm, then remove from the soil should be large roots of weeds and covered with geotextile, this material is perfectly inhibit the growth of weeds in the future.

The next step in creating rockeries their own hands will be filling with gravel or brick chips.We need this in order to not accumulate in the flower garden excess moisture, followed by fill gravel sand and compacted well.

Then to start the alignment of the stones, the stones should be chosen pleasant to look at and preferably of different sizes, but composed of the same breed.Stones for sustainability should be placed in small depressions, and on the perimeter of the stone should pour the sand and compacted.

next step will be planting the plants, as in the photo.The main advantage rockeries made with their hands, is that almost any plant can be used in its composition.But there are a few requirements, no plant should not be more than half a meter in height, and save decorative throughout the season.

After laying the stones and plants landing you can proceed to installing decorative gravel.He poured in the last instance, that during the planting or laying it does not interfere and does not trample down in the sand.Step by step video instructions on creating rockeries with your hands, you can view in the annex to this article.

Photo rockeries own hands

Video rockeries create their own hands