Any person, being in the mountains, feels a genuine delight from the beauty of this area. Why not move a piece of mountains to your own garden plot? To do this, do not necessarily order the services of a landscape designer for a decent amount, because making the Alpine hill itself is not at all difficult. Today, this decorative element is an obligatory part of suburban areas. Creative approach and implementation of technical recommendations allow achieving excellent results without professional assistance.
How to make an alpine slide: where to start?
First of all, you need to choose a place for the future roller coaster. It is best if it is well-lit and visible from all sides. It will be excellent to use the site on the slope, because the slope makes it easier to create a hill, and the plant species that can be planted will become much larger.
The next step is to determine the size of the roller coaster. To make it look harmonious in your garden, consider that on a plot of 5-7 acres the hill should occupy a space of about 6-9 square meters. m. and be a little higher than half a meter. The smallest alpine hill from possible: 2.5х1.5 m. Having defined the dimensions, draw the outline of your alpine hill.
From the outlined area, remove the fertile soil layer. Fill the bottom with gravel, gravel, or broken brick to ensure that excess water is drained from the roots of the plants. Mix the excavated earth with gravel in a ratio of 3: 1. Fill a hole. Top the stones for your hill. It is preferable to take stones from your area - on their background the plants will look better. For the search for such you can go to the nearby forest: there there will be instances of strange shapes covered with bizarre moss. It is not necessary to choose ideally smooth river pebbles and use the remains of building materials, for example, fragments of concrete. It is desirable for the whole rock garden to choose stones of the same breed.
In between the stones should be planted flowers and other plants.
How to make an Alpine hill: choose plants
To decorate the alpine hill, you should choose low-growing plants that came from mountainous areas. Such flowers and grasses are usually unpretentious, some even easily tolerate a shadow.
Before planting plants, the slide should be watered several times, so that the ground settles. It is not necessary to use high-fertility fertilizers for the Alpine hill. The land for plants should be mixed with the screening of stones used in the construction of the slide. Large flowers look better next to large stones, and undersized ones - next to small ones.
Which plants will suit you? The most popular varieties for alpine hills: saxifrage, primrose allyoni, gentian chinese, bell, cinquefoil, pine mountain, blue spruce and a hairy hairy.
Types of alpine slides
Often, the owners of rock gardens prefer to add water elements to them. The most interesting solutions: an alpine slide with a waterfall or a pond.
The first option looks great on large rock gardens. The waterfall should not be looked artificially. To create the necessary atmosphere, plant coastal plants on the water's edges, such as Japanese irises, buzulniki, ferns and primroses.
Alpine hill with a swampy pond looks very cozy. Around the pond, you can plant the same plants as around the waterfall, and also saxifrage, low-growing cereals and edelweiss.
Of course, there are also more simple types of Alpine slides. How to make a gorge, rocks or forest glade in your own area? In the gorge between the slopes of the hills are planted dwarf plants, this rock garden becomes like a Japanese garden. The rocks use large boulders, looking upwards. In such an environment, junipers, pines, wormwood and bells can feel themselves perfectly. Forest glade looks very friendly due to a large number of stunted flowering plants of various shades.