Alpine slide is one of the garden oriental and primitive in the device. The mountaineering allows you to enter the corner of a romantic mountain landscape in every summer cottage and is characterized by a huge variety in the design, depending on the stone breed, the one that is used for its construction, and the varieties of colors that are planted by it. Also, an alpine slide is often used to arrange unnatural fountains and reservoirs.
The sizes of the mountaineering can be very different – from entire rocky islands, in the presence of a spacious territory, to supercompact rocky protrusions in small areas. The main one is a successful combination of the severity of stone and flowers that will be delightfully shaded by gray and earthen shades of rocky rocks. The main one, try to prefer a place where your climber will not only be appropriate and perfectly fit, but where it will be in sight – tea is the main decoration of your garden.
For the installation of the mountaineering, select, before everyone, the breed of stone, the one that will perfectly harmonize with your plan and other stone or brick buildings of your garden. More cancel the use of homogeneous material, it looks more stylish and does not violate the illusion of a mountainous protrusion. Take care that the large stones that will lie at the base of the hill are flattened, because this will ensure stability.
Next, designate the size of the slide and exhale a shallow foundation pit. Any material that you have is falling asleep to the bottom of the pit – from pebbles to brick crumbs, the main one, so that it is more than the function of the removal of moisture.
Take care of the soil, it should be completely cleaned of the roots of weeds, it will be difficult for you to fight, on the contrary, the earth will be covered with a layer of stones and pull out the rhizome of the uninvited plant will be problematic. Make the soil in accordance with the needs of the plants that you are going to plant and lay it on top of the drainage.
After that, proceed to the layout of the stones – especially flat and huge put at the foot, try not to use stones weighing more than 2 centners, because this can lead to the fact that your hill will pass. Start to lay out any latest layer only by making sure that the previous one is as stable as possible.
Having completed the construction of the slide from the base to the top, start planting plants . Not only mountain flowers ordinary for mountaineering will look amazing, but also all sorts of other varieties of plants, it is only worth paying attention to, so that their flowering time is diverse. So, in order to save the nice appearance of the mountaineering for the maximum time, plant flowering plants on one hill of plants both in the spring, in the midst of summer and even by the fall, so that they constantly replace each other.