Rocarii with their own hands require a lot of effort

The rockery (photo) is one of the elementslandscape design, used for a harmonious combination of plants and stones. This is something more than just a flower bed, it's rather a picture made in the open air.

It's not at all difficult to manufacture rockeries with your own hands. First you need to mark on the ground a place for rockery. Then, remove the perennial grasses and remove a part of the turf, and instead of the removed soil, pour sand, broken brick, stones and pebbles with a layer of about 4 cm. Place the rockery in a sunny spot that has a good view from all sides of the infield. Designers recommend a number to equip a dry creek, imitating the natural, for the production of which rubble, painted in blue and blue colors, is used.

From plants choose, as a rule, undersized andground cover perennials. Enough is only a combination of purifiers or sedums of different colors to cause admiration of others. Imagine how the gray, emerald, purple, whitish garden succulents will intertwine with time.

You can put a less aggressive, but "whimsical" gentian, armeria, Iberis, Carpathian bell, shilovid phlox, arabis or an aubriet. They all have attractive foliage and beautiful flowering.

Begin to do rockeries with their own hands with the fact thatpaint on the ground the shape of the base of the flower bed, which they want to receive. Then remove the fertile layer of soil, which is covered with a black film to burn the seeds of weeds.

The first thing you need to do is drainage. In the pit, sand, broken brick and rubble are poured into layers. The topmost layer will be fertile soil up to 30 cm thick.

Creating rockeries with their own hands, you need to understand,that this is not just a flower bed. The main element here are stones, which bear not only an aesthetic load - they will have to step up, caring for the plants. In order for this to be possible, they must be sustainable. For this purpose, the stones are deepened into the ground.

The rockeries are created with their own hands usingsmooth stones of the same breed. You can safely imitate the mountain range or, rather, the valley, which bore several boulders. The main criterion for selecting stones is this: they should like you, because you will not only admire the plants.

If you do not know how to make a rockerAttractive by means of colors, arrange pots with planting material on the supposed places. Look around, look, if suddenly something does not like - rearrange it in another way. After you determine the final place for rockeries, plant the plants in the ground.

The use of stumps, bizarre twigs or knots,similar to monsters, the roots of trees are perfectly permissible in order to decorate a stone bed. It is important not to disturb the harmonious ratio of decorative elements to the dimensions of rockaria.

Care of the composition consists in the spring feeding of flowers, the removal of dry buds to prevent self-sowing, and in hot weather, frequent watering and mandatory weeding are necessary.

When choosing plants, you can pay attention toCreeping species of shrubs, such as juniper or cotoneaster. Believe that the combination of emerald foliage with a matte texture of the stone will not leave anyone indifferent.