Plants for rocaria

Rockary is a rocky garden. The main role in it is assigned not to plants, but to stones. But the choice of plants is also very important when creating rockeries. Used for rockaria the following groups of plants:

• deciduous and coniferous shrubs. Good looks rockery from conifers - thuja, juniper, spruce. Silhouette of the slide consists of decorative deciduous shrubbery - magnolia, barberry, spiraea, lapchatka and others;
• herbaceous rhizome perennials. Among them, appropriate will be gravel, badan, and spur of many colors. These plants will constitute the volume of rockaria;
• Ground cover plants are the basis of the whole assortment. There must necessarily be a phyllaceous, Arabian, saxifrage, carnations and others. An excellent option, if the plants are picked up with different coloring of the foliage, then after the flowering the rockery will be decorative;
• Bulbous flowers used to decorate rockeries in early spring. Basically, these plants disappear after flowering, so they should not be planted separately, but together with other ground cover plants;
• The summer will perfectly replace the bulbous ones when they bloom. The most suitable of the pilots is lobelia, sea, cineraria alissum.

How to make a rocker?

And now we'll figure out how to make a rockery in the garden. For the design of rockeries used as natural heights, and artificially created, for example, the surface of the cellar. First you need to choose a suitable place in your garden. In the shade it will be or in the sun - it depends on the plants that you want to plant in it. But the best is still a fairly sunny site. On the ground we trace the outline of the future rockaria. Then we need to remove the turf from this area and fill it with sand. Cover the sand with all non-woven material.

Now it's time to lay out the stones artistically in accordance with your idea. It is desirable to choose stones of one color and not too small. Approximately half of the stones need to be deepened into the soil, creating an effect of naturalness. Then in the material cut out holes, dig inside the pit, put keramzit on the bottom, on top - the ground, and pre-watering, plant the plants. But now you fall asleep gravel to the ground level. And there will be almost no problems with weeds in the near future.

Effectively it will look like rockery with a combination of different types of plants: spring bulbs with barberry and juniper, conifers with cobbler or henomilis.

If you have a homestead, then, using unlimited opportunities for creativity, you can create a wonderful garden of stones, which will be the decoration of your site throughout the season.