Alpine garden
Alpine garden isthe garden area where the natural landscape of rocky outcrops is simulated with the help of stone and alpine plants.The stone complements and emphasizes the beauty and expressiveness of mountain alpine plants. The perfect combination of living and nonlivingis fascinating and makes the garden special, elegant and unique.
The contrast between the massive stones and small plants makes a very strong impression. Because of this fact rocky gardens are one of the highest achievements of gardening.
The secret of success is not only in an effort to simulate a massive accumulation of stones that can be observed in large parks and botanical gardens. If you conform with proportionality of the surrounding elements, you can create a beautiful rocky parterre even in small areas.
Rocky gardens, mountain rocky gardens, rocky hills, rocky ridges, rock gardens and rockeries are special kinds of flower beds, original device of garden design, a compound herbal complex with trees, shrubs, flowering plants, grasses, mosses and lichens that can imitate mountain landscape.
They look the best when surrounded by a wide space, such as a lawn, or, like in the natural environment, close to the sonorous creek, or cascade lake. This creates an atmosphere of mountain comfort and tranquility.
Florist alpine garden
Plants for the alpine slides can be almost of any kind specific to this form of flower bed.
Alpine hill, like any other area of your garden, has its own secrets of care, selection of plants and their cultivation. For example, the choice of plants is made to avoid unpretentious ones, which are very active with the "neighboring" plants, such as Aubrieta, Cerastium lanatum, Arabis, Saponaria and the like.
Acaena, Yarrow, columbine, Antennaria dioica, asters usual and many others (this list is quite large) look great and do not require special care, leave alone the beautiful pine, various dwarf shrubs, like azaleas, some bulbous plants.