Alpine slide - a reduced copy of the mountainous area. Usually, a cobblestone is installed in the central part of such a flower beds, which are a symbol of the mountain peak. On the slopes are created terraces on which low-level vegetation plant.

In a natural medium, such sites are formed in the place where natural rocks of rocks appear. Under the influence ambient They appear on them a fertile layer, which subsequently grow plants. To recreate this mountain landscape to recreate this mountain landscape.

For such a large-scale structure, as a rocky flower bed is suitable spacious plot. When erecting the alpine slide, you should strive to ensure that the composition of vegetation and cobblestones look naturally.

Video. Alpine Gorki Device

Creating an alpine slide with your own hands

Alpine slide, made by her own hands, will decorate the entire selection area. To decide on the design of your future stony garden, you can explore the photos of the Alpine slide. In order to create such a composition, you must adhere to certain rules and a certain procedure for maintaining work.

Step-by-step instruction of creating an alpine slide with their own hands

To begin with, the location is defined. In order to do this, you need to pay attention to the illumination. For Alpinaria, a plot is suitable, which is as long as possible. sun.. Also, the composition should be well visible from all sides.

1. Designation contour base (soles) slides and removal of the upper fertile layer to a depth of about 30 cm.
2. Device drainage system. The lower layer can be made of small gravel, pieces of bricks or, in the extreme case, from the construction trash. After that, the sand layer is thick about five centimeters. The sand layer of the earth is stacked on top of sand. It is possible to do without a drainage system in the event that a slope is selected to arrange an alpine slide with not too dense soil.
3. At this stage, proceed to location of stones and erection of nucleusgorki. Of all the stones choose the largest and beautiful cobblestone. It will be the main in the lower tier. Stone must stand steadily. For this you can sprinkle soil or gravel. A classic alpine slide at the cottage consists of an odd number of tiers. Between these tiers, the wet soil is laid, which is necessary to ram.
   

   Tip: laying stones, symmetry should be avoided. Between the stones, you can leave places for planting or grieving stones next to each other. It is also necessary to immediately decide on the supporting stones, which can be inserted when leaving for vegetation. They should be sealing and fixed.

4. Sprinkle vegetation.

Alpine Slide Plants - Selection Rules

The construction of an alpine slide requires knowledge and certain skills. This is especially true of choosing vegetation. First of all, it is necessary to decide on the color palette of the Alpinaria. After that, you should draw a sketch of the future rocky garden. To trace color gamut It is necessary to decorate the slides of the slide with the corresponding colors. Only after that you can start the choice of the plant to the Alpine slide into the country.

Alpine slide with their own hands. Photo

Well look low coniferous plants. You can also use small shrubswhich in the spring bloom, and in the fall they give fruit.

Coniferous plants that are suitable for gardening alpine slide with their own hands

• dwarfice. This plant is well tolerate drought;
• juniper. it unpretentious plant It grows in its form resembles a cone. Foliage - green;
• tuya Grows in the shape of a bush. With good illumination acquires a red-brown color;
• kiparisovik - Plant with the top of golden color and the base of dark green.

Large plants for alpine slide

For landscaping Alpine slide, do not choose the leaf falls of plants. Since the fallen foliage must be regularly removed to not harm other vegetation. For the slides, the following plants are chosen:

• cyclist horizontal. This shrub with a thick crown of foliage in the warm season is painted into a dark green color, and the autumn acquires a reddish tint. Plant flowers in small flowers;
• iberis. A semi-stabilizer who does not lose its attractiveness throughout the season. Flowers collected in the brush of an umbrella shape, painted in white, pink or lilac. Later in their place appear fruits in the form of pods;
• dryad. Miniature shrub blooming large white flowers. The flowering period falls on July-August. Later, the fruits of an unusual form appear in their place. They look like "fluffy balls."

Alpine Slide Flowers

To build a classic alpine slide, we use low, peeling, "carpets" plants. It is best to give preference to perennials. For landscaping, you can apply the following flowers:

• short Suitable carnation. This is a short, rich-flowering plant with narrow gray-green-green leaves unpretentiously. Suitable for landscaping outdoor sunny plots;
• packed rocky - Perennial, the leaves of which are painted in gray-green. A feature of this plant is that his leaves remain green even in winter. In the multi-flowered inflorescences - panicles are small bright yellow leaves;
• moldo- perennial With a wide color palette of leaves. They can be green, silver, yellowish, pink, burgundy color;
• camelight - Traditional inhabitants of the Alpinarians. Flowering period - May- August. Five-mending flowers painted in white, pink or yellow.

So that the alpine slide at the cottage every year rejoiced with its beauty, it is necessary to plant bulwing and tuberukovic flowers. For the creation of a contrast background, shorter cultures will be suitable. The perfect framed will be a well-kept lawn.

What should I do if the alpine slide is settled?

Sometimes the Alpine slide, made in violation of the construction technology, can settle. There may be several reasons for this.

• Unsuccessfully selected plot or absence drainage. Alpinarium is better equipped on a natural elevation or on a plot with a slope. If the slide is located on thin or clay soils, then it is necessary to do a drainage layer. For these purposes, gravel or stones can be used.
  
• Incorrectly selected substrate, vegetation and cobblestones. For the alpine slide, it is better to choose the next mixture of the Earth: compost, sand and peat in equal proportions.

How to avoid shrinkage flower

• consider the slope of the plot and the type of soil;
• do a drain layer and give the earth in time;
• for landing, choose vegetation with powerful rhizomes;
• competently select vegetation, cobblestones and soil substrate;
• to remove the fallen foliage on time, dig up with wiping plants, weeds to gour out.

Alpine slide from conifers

To create alpinarians, not only traditional "Alpians" can be used, but coniferous plants. For these purposes, pines are perfect, thuja, juniper shooting, barbaris, gray or Japanese spirea, a fir of a conic. In the classic version, one shrubs and trees should not be present. They should grow there in small quantities.

Stones for alpine slides

Natural flat cobblestones are suitable for such rocky gardens of different sizes of the original form. You should also give preference to stones with an inhomogeneous surface, with all sorts of "inclusions", with recesses in which moss can be planted or a small plant. Limestones, boulders, sandstones, granite, shale look well.

Decorating alpine slide with their own hands

Stones and vegetation are used for the alpine slide decor. In order for their competently, it is necessary to follow some recommendations, namely:

• stop stones start from the bottom row, moving up;
• for the top of the composition you need to choose the most beautiful cobblestone;
• for each major stone, it is necessary to make a "foundation" of one to three flat stones;
• stop stones should be so that their tops are in parallel to each other;
• multiple stones should be laid so that they can walk on them;
• after laying each row, the layer of land is laid, which is well seal and spilled by water;
• at the top of the slide set the most beautiful cobblestone.

Alpinarium and rockery: differences and similarities

Alpinarium and rockery - two various methods Klumba devices. Roccarius is a flowerbed of stones, most of which stones of one breed occupy. Cobblestones are laid in parallel to each other or in any order. Chaotic placed stones imitate the natural environment. Rokary also has vegetation, but in the form of a background that performs a secondary role. In the Alpine Hill, bright vegetation appears in the foreground.

Before building an alpine slide, appreciate the conditions of the site.

The main criteria when choosing a place and type of rocky garden are relief, groundwater level and the degree of illumination. It is difficult to change them, so it is better to use the existing conditions better.

• On a sunny, drained plot having irregular relief, you can build stony Sad. Any style.
• On a shady area with relief irregularities, almost any rocarium style is also possible. The only difference will be an assortment of plants used. In such a garden, it is advisable to plant forest plants: ferns, orchids, tricirts, smilacins, hoofs, mountaineers, etc.
• A small elevation can be used for rocky slide. (The slide is a small hill with stones placed in the "natural disorder).
• If the plot is converted, it is not necessary to dry it. It is wiser to create a small pond or a swamp with a stone outlet on the shores. For such gardens it is not difficult to choose the spectacular moisture-boring plants: hosts, irises, primroses, stamps, bow, etc.
• To make an alpine slide on a flat plot as high as possible, you will have to deliver soils, think about binding to the area. It is better to choose the type of flat garden, imitating the mountain valley, or build a small elevation.
• The steep slope allows you to create a terraced garden or a complex combined rocky garden with rocks, terraces, cascades and streams.
• A deep pit or drainage channel is convenient for the construction of a "ravine" type alpinera. Combination of the ravine with a rocky slide will visually increase the roccage.

The next thing to take into account before making an alpine slide with your own hands, this is what materials you need.

Stones and other materials for alpine slides do it yourself (with photos)

Stones for alpine slide - very important element Future landscape. In such gardens, the main advantage of the stone is natural, so the old stone is valued higher than recently mined, with fresh chips. It should be remembered that not all rocks Suitable for construction and to live plants.

Self suitable stones For the alpine slide, erected with their own hands is a layered limestone and lime tuff. These are warm, driving water and air stones, and plants will settle near them with a big hunt.

Good and sandstones: they are beautiful and also passed air. The only drawback is short-life, therefore sandstones containing lime are most valuable: they are not only suitable for the life of plants, but also durable.

Very beautiful in the form and texture of basalt and volcanic tuff. Blinds of these breeds are great for creating terraces and strengthen the slopes. From the volcanic tuff is great imitation of the weathered rocks.

On these photos, it is shown which stones will be required for the Alpine slide, erected with their own hands:

Try not to use stones of different breeds, otherwise the garden will be too distround, inhomogeneous.

Granites and Gneisse are beautiful, but keep in mind that the soil next to them is easily sculpting!

In addition to stone, the construction of the Alpine slide will require concomitant materials.

Crushed stone of different sizes, dolomite or granite, - best Material For drainage. Large rubble drain the base of the rocarium, a smaller fraction - separate seats (wells and terraces). The smallest granite crusp - an indispensable material for mulching the soil on plants unacpended by plants and for submissions under pillow-shaped plants that are afraid of the convergence. The granite crushed stone treated with a glacier (Pelois) is great for filling the stream of streams and bottom of the reservoirs, for paving the bottom of the terraces in rociries-cascades.

Large gravel is also used for drainage, the best is considered granite. Lime-containing gravel (for example, dolomite) is mixed into the ground to plants requiring herbalization. Sands are used to drain and bursting the soil. Sand is better to take coarse-grained - it contains minimum salts.

Here you can see photos of materials necessary for the construction of an alpine slide with your own hands:

Riding peat is characterized by high acidity, so it is added to earth mixes for plants in need of acidic soil. It is good peat as a mulching material and for covering plants not occupied by plants. When mixing 1 part of the peat and 3 parts of large purple sand, the best substrate for planting plants is obtained.

Soil Most mountain plants prefer weakness or weakly alkaline. On sandy soils, only succulents can grow; Mountain meadow plants require high-humus soil, but at rock and high mountain species too rich soil leads to a change in coloring and loss of compactness. The best substrate for growing most mountain plants is the weakly acidic or neutral, poorly inflamed medium loam.

How to make an alpine slide on the garden plot with your own hands (with photos and video)

The alpine slide device is a small elevation on which stones and plants are placed. Before making a mountaineering with your own hands, you first create a drainage basis.

• From gravel, rubble or mixture gravel and sand pour the hill and give it the form of a future slide. Note that the soil will fall and the slide will become below about 1/4.
• On top of the base, put on the sand with a layer of about 20 cm.
• Give two months on shrinkage.
• After this period, the base is based on a layer of the Earth about 30 cm thick.

The rest of the soil add gradually, as stones styling.

See step-by-step photos of drainage devices do it yourself for the Alpine Slide:

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Stones lay in the following order:

• The largest stones are inserted into the ground at the foot of the slide, they will fix its contour and become the basis of the lower terraces.
• The space between the stones and the drainage bases fall asleep the earth. The first tier of the terrace is ready.
• Now put the stones from the bottom up the slope. All major stones should rely either on the drainage base, or on the foundation. Foundations can be made of stones that do not represent artistic interest. Drop the pit, pour the drainage base; Top to put the stones of the foundation and pour them with soil. Placing the main stone over the foundation.
• Small stones can be put without support.

In order for the stones naturally and at the same time the seats formed between them, observe the following rules:

• Stones with a wide base are laid down the plane down, putting the foundation under them.
• To make an alpine slide in the country with your own hands, stones having a smooth beveled face, install so that this SCOS is facing the top of the slide. The result is the wells - "pockets" with land, comfortable for planting plants.
• Stones, split into two parts, use to create narrow sliding holes. In the gap, put a spacer stone and pour extra drainage.

The main advantage of the slide is not height, but proportionality. The smaller its size, the more thoughtful there should be a composition. To avoid symmetry, combine narrow and wide tiers, protruding and concave terraces.

In the range of plants for - slides enter dwarf varieties , barberries and spirits; Molden, cocheps, primroses, bells, camneur, kruks and many other species.

To better understand how to make an alpine slide, look this video:

\u003e Roccarium located on a canopy natural hillside or in a ravine, looks very impressive.

To make an alpine slide with your own hands at the cottage with the irregularities of the relief, act as follows:

• The drainage base for such a rocarium is required.
• First, form the slopes, removing the loose soil to the level of dense soil.
• Based on the slope, the massive stone is horizontally in 1/2 -1/4 height.
• All the following stones are jumping, moving along the slope from the bottom up, on 1/2 or 2/3 of the height, depending on their size.
• Withdrawn the ground, fall asleep space between the slope and stones - as a result you will have horizontal terraced sites for planting plants.
• If the stones are similar in shape and size, do not place them near or at the same distance from each other.

As shown in the photo, when the Alpine slide is erected in the country, you can not only scrape the stones on your own hands, but also to lay:

Most massive set down as a support. They put the soil on them, on top of which to put the stones of the next tier, and less stable - on the main.

All stones are installed very tight. Good boulders are good - covered in Earth, they form not only terraces, but also reliable steps. It is undesirable to use narrow and elongated stones - they are suitable only as a supports attached to rounded stones for greater sustainability. Spectacular reception is the rapprochement of several stones resting on each other - this creates a comfortable sliding hole.

The video "Alpine Gorka do it yourself" demonstrates how to arrange a rocque on a natural slope:

Construction of the retaining wall for the alpine slide

For a steep slope, the best solution is a rocque, formed by the system of terraces and retaining walls of different height and length. Wall is erected by the method of either dry masonry or masonry per solution. For construction, the layered limestones are especially good - it is convenient to work with them and they are best suited for the life of plants.

• The wall must be durable and durable, so put the foundation for it. To do this, take the plates more powerful and insert them into the ground almost entirely.
• Lay out the wall on the principle of normal brick masonry: Plates lie in a checker order, the top row overlaps the gaps between the slabs of the lower. If any stove is superior to the sizes of the Lower Bar Stones, it must be balanced by the supporting stones under it.
• When building an alpine slide, each next row put with an indentation from the previous one so that the wall is not vertical, and with the slope, it will add to it stability.
• Having finished the laying of the next series, pour the land between it and the slope and compact it, thus fixing the entire design. Adjust drainage if necessary.
• To arrange planting places in the masonry, lay the stones not right on each other, and make earthy layers between them. Best sad For them - semi-proverse meadow turf. Such interlayers serve not only by the place of rooting plants, but also are shock absorbers, mitigating deformation - plates in the frost and heat.
• Plates with side excavations overlap the slabs of the lower row is not completely, and the gaps are formed between the rows. Put the land in such a gap and the resulting "pocket" will land small or young plants. Do not forget that adult plants disembark during construction, as the next tier is styled.
• So that the Earth does not fall out of the gaps between the stones and the roots were not taken out, damage the gap sphagnum.

On these photos, it is shown how to make a retaining wall for the alpine slide with your own hands:

The choice of plants and combinations of their landing in such a garden is very diverse. One of the possible options for the Alpine Slide Device with your own hands is a combination of dwarf wood and cascades descending from the walls of quenching plants.

In the slot between the masonry or in the earthen "pockets" will land the rocky plants: dwarf ferns, ampel bells, bugs, kruks, molded. Very spectacular looks with sharpening wood. On the edge of the formed wall of the terrace placed descendants, wormwoods, empty.

For the device Alpinaria, created with their own hands on the slope of a small rapidly, the most acceptable combination of bush and horizontally growing coniferous and shadowless forest fern, different species Voronets, Puppet, etc. Against the background of natural moss. Rockery-ravine looks effectively when plants are planted not too every instance or group.

In the wet area you can create a spectacular rocque, simulating the pond surrounded by stones.

• On a swampy place, just discard the soil on a small depth - most likely the pit will be filled with water. On the site of the village at first will have to make a small pond.
• At the edges of the reservoir, pour the soil, form a low chille from it.
• In the coast, the granite boulders, which occupied the granite boulders, which were significantly "recessed" into the ground.
• Plant the center of the pond by marsh plants: a white bolder of a marsh, three-lines, cereals. Place the moisture-boring plants around the edge, leave the rest between the stones on the shore.

As shown in the photo, with the device of the Alpine Slide with their own hands near the solar pond, narrow-collar irises, Brunners, Buzulniki, Valerians, Kaluzhniki, Derbenniki, Some, Lilyniki, violets, etc.:

Water cascade, mountain stream - elements of landscape rocaria or independent art composition. Running between water stones - spectacular, but with inappropriate use is very cunning designer reception. Incorrectly calculated proportions or incorrectly selected location can make the composition look ridiculously and even absurd. It is logical and naturally looks a cascade of water bruises with a stream and a waterfall only on the slope of a large rokary or with the competent use of the facelines of the area. It is very important that the structure is not cumbersome and did not look artificial, so freshly stones are not suitable for creating a cascade. Look for copies of natural shapes, preferably with the edges smoothed water.

The cascade for the Alpine slide on the site is a stepped system of terraces. The stages of the terrace are fixed with monolithic boulders or fold from stone by analogy with walls laid out dry masonry. Each of the terraces can become a swimming pool or its imitation, and the walls hold it - the ledges of the waterfall or their imitation.

The photo shows that during the construction of an alpine slide on the plot, the area and the height of each terrace can be different:

The water cascade is built in the following sequence.

• Form soil terraces and steps on the slope. To achieve naturalness of the composition, alternate the steps of different areas and heights.
• Drop bowls of the basins of the desired size. If you want to be viewed bottom, bowls do not deeper than 30 cm. If you plan to plant the pitches (nymphi), the depth must be at least 50 cm.
• Align and lay the walls of the bowl.
• Soften the bed of the pools with sand or peat.
• Place a special film on the bottom of the pools to keep water. Leave the stock of 20-30 cm around the edges.
• Fill water to check the level.
• To disguise the film, put the stones or plates from above.
• Turn the edge of the film, protruding the edge of the pool.
• Cascade with stones and plates, masking the film; Vertical steps (waterfall rolls) lay out dry masonry method.
• Fall off the bottom of the pebbles.

Look at the photo, how to build a cascade on the alpine slide with your own hands:

Create a quick stream with waterfalls can only be using powerful pumps. One of their most difficult moments in the construction of the cascade is to calculate the water balance. You should not forget about saving water - to arrange a water cascade without installing the circulation system is unacceptable.

On the shores of the cascade, species in the coastal zone naturally look: Siberian and Japanese irises, cereals, primroses, bow, fern. Beautifully looks down to water carpets and mosses.

Dry cascade for alpine slide on garden plot - This is imitation of water flow. Just like during the construction of a water cascade, create a system of steps and terraces. The plane of each terrace seems to be compressed from the sides by walls or large stones - only in this case the illusion of the flowing down flow will occur. The effect of imitation is enhanced with a single style solving all the planes of the terraces. Planes flow with rubble or pebbles, plant carpets or shorts. The best solution is to maintain the terrace with a cobblethorn, and at the edges of the terraces to plant carpet plants, which will go down, moving from one terrace to another and causing a visual sensation of the streams of the stream.

On this video, it is shown how to make a dry cascade on the Alpine slide with your own hands:

Different parts of the Alpine slide, erected on the plot with their own hands, can be associated with the stairs. When building stairs to dry masonry, follow these rules:

• Construction Start from laying the bottom stage.
• All steps for sustainability should be based on the foundation grounds. To create an alpine slide, the foundations, bricks, stones can serve as the foundations.
• Foundation plates, in turn, install on a sandy-gravel base. It is at the same time drainage and the "pillow" on which the plates lie softly and steadily. It is possible to neglect them only on sandy soils. For even greater reliability between the foundation and step, pour a decade -antimeter layer of sand or a mixture of sand with cement in a 1: 7 ratio.
• According to proper technologyWhen creating an alpine slide with stairs, each subsequent slab lay with a support to the previous one. Under the back of each of the plates to put the foundation stones, and the steps will keep each other.
• If you plan to land between steps soil plants, lay the plates at a distance of 5-10 cm isolated from each other. The steps of such a staircase rise each other by 10-15 cm.
• Platforms that came on the site of the missed feet form the transition from one ladder march to another. On the same principle laid tiled paths. Plates are placed either close, or at a distance of 5-10 cm one to another. Mandatory "pillow", which creates stability: lower layer - 20 cm gravel, upper layer - 10 cm of sand or mixture of sand and cement in a 1: 7 ratio.

Alpine slides with stairs on the garden plot are demonstrated on these photos:

At the end of the XX century, another type of rocaries appeared - "Rolls". These stony gardens are usually small in size and represent a new modification of the Alpine slides. Fashion for such compositions came from the Czech Republic. "Rolls", compared to traditional terraced mountaineers, have many advantages. The main undoubted advantage of creating such alpine slides is a comfortable planting plants - vertical cleft plants, from which these alpinariums consist. In such narrow and deep places, plants are very cozy, especially those possessed by rod roots. In vertical crevices, there is never a stagnation of water, such a dangerous for the mountaineers, but always enough air allowing plants to successfully winter even in severe frosts. Another important advantage of the "Rock" is considered a relatively small weight of stone plates, compared with stone blocks, which are most often built by other types of rocaries.

The best stone for the construction of the mountaineering-"rock" with their own hands is the plate - limestone, sandstone or shale. Of course, you can build "Rolls" and from the brothing dolomite or other flat-coded stone, but the visual quality of the composition and its comfort for plants will be completely different.

The construction of the "Roll" is carried out by the method of vertical dry slab laying. Start construction from the installation of powerful extreme plates, which partially roll into the soil for stability or fixed with metal pins. All the plates "Rolls" are installed with a support for the previous ones, close to each other - plane plane, leaving minimal gaps for planting plants. Part of the slots are preferably made relatively wide, but only in the upper part of the "rill", because at a depth of 5-10 cm below the soil surface, the plates must be installed tightly. In this way, when creating an alpinory-"Roll" with your own hands, a tier-vertical seating places are formed, designed to plant plants that do not have a deep root system, but requiring good drainage. As a rule, these are carpeted plants like camneurock. At the time of construction, the cracks are clogged with land and small rubble. When installing the planes of the plane of their outer faces, they can coincide with the adjacent and form a single puff pads, or perform the ridges, creating shadow pockets.

As shown in the photo, during the construction of such alpine slides on the site with their own hands, all open spaces fall asleep by pebbles of the main breed:

Often built on all the rules "Roll" looks strange and defiantly, because it fits badly into the overall composition of the garden.

Most often this happens because the vertically standing extreme plates of the composition is unnaturally sticking out of the ground, which makes the "rolling" like a strange ridden stone hill. It is better not to start construction from the installation of vertical plates, but in the base of powerful reference horizontal blocks in the base, and only then turn to the installation of the slabs obliquely and vertically. Such a composition is interpreted by me as an artistic miniature of a dilapidated rock. This idea is especially important, who already has a traditional terraced rocky garden, which requires an addition in the form of a modern component - "Rasse".

The advice for beginner builders is the training building "Roll" on a sandy pile of small stone tiles, which will allow you without physical effort to master the technology of building a rock slide and develop an option that is most acceptable to your garden.

The inhabitants of "Rolls" can be only very compact and tight pillow-shaped mountain plants. Such a composition allows you to grow the most rare rock species - miniature guilty and bells, fisoplexis, edyantuses, cyanantus, porphyronian stamps, leftis, supercompact views of the Ar-Nariy, mining, carnations, rock ferns and other prestigious collectible plants. Unusually good at the "Rods" Supercaric grades of coniferous plants, which not only asks and diversify the composition, but also become a natural priest for the capricious horses.

Check out the photo of the mountaineering - "Rock" created by your own hands:

The picturesque landscape of the Alpine Mountains inspired gardeners to the creation of an alpine slide, which traditionally consist of a combination of stone with mountain plants.

Relatively recently in landscape design for replacing classic flowerbams, chains and gypsum sculptures came new types of decoration of the site - Alpinaria. They are satisfied with rich estates and in summer cottages, in city gardens and squares, on lawns near offices and in the territories of restaurants. Competently and tastefully chosen stones and plants will create a zone of luxury, aesthetics and peace even on the most modest piece of land near the country house.

Alpine slide densely planted plants to break the eye with its bright, juicy paints

Being a peculiar and very time-consuming decoration of the landscape, the mountaineering seems difficult in execution and increasing elements of the decor. However, if you figure it out in the creation technology, the Alpine slide at the cottage can be arranged and without attracting expensive designers.

A piece of Alps on your cottage

Working out the design of the Alpine slides, it must be borne in mind that it is an imitation of rocky natural sites. So, the basis of the composition should be stones and sparing low plants characteristic of high-altitude areas. And the definition of "slide" dictates a general form of a mountaineering - an elevation with mandatory elements: soles, slopes and vertex.

Alpinarium - "Raisin", able to instantly transform the appearance of a garden landscape

Distinguish several variants of alpinarians who repeat their appearance different sites Mountain Area:

• rock Rock is a pod of almost bare large boulders with a minimum of plants in niches and "pockets";

Connection of functionality and decorative function: Stone Stages and Rocky Alpinarium

Larger plants are planted on the tops of the rolling pin, emphasizing the dynamics of the height difference

• mountain slope is a complex high composition of stones of different sizes and with a large variety of quenching and low-grade plants;

For the design of such a mountaineering, dwarf plants are used, as well as large stone blocks, imitating rock fragments

• valley in the mountains - large stones, partially protruding from the soil, surrounded by richly flowering decorative plants;

Natural landscape made it possible to create a flowering stone slide

• the gorge is the most difficult in performance, but also the most spectacular view of the mountaineering, which can be placed in a natural hollow, framing the slopes with stones and disembarking representatives of the rock flora.

Customly folded stones in the form of a semicircle in compositions with blooming plants - the effect of the club in your yard

A separate view is considered to be rocque - the garden of stones, which are the main "acting persons", unlike the mountaineering, where the stones serve as a background for plants.

As a site for the creation of a rokary, any landscape of the area, including absolutely flat soil, will suit

How to make an alpine slide on the household plot?

If you firmly decided that the alpine slide will be decorated with your own hands - step-by-step instruction will give you the opportunity to avoid gross mistakes and get the desired result. Before starting work, sketch the mountainaria sketch - it will help you decide what area it will occupy what configuration and how many tiers you will do on it. You can even approximately estimate how much the alpine slide costs - a scheme made on a scale will help to calculate how many stones you need, what amount of drainage, sand and soil will need to be prepared. It is necessary to make the scheme in binding to the area to use all the most advantageous moments of an existing landscape.

Creative decoration of Alpinarians - clay bowl with plants

1. By defining the place for the future Alpinaria, do not forget that it will be necessary to watch it - choose the most profitable angles. In addition, think - perhaps you want to spend your own free time. Then you will need an adjacent smooth area with tracks, a place for a table and a hearth.

The track from the mountaineering leads directly to the recreation area

Cozy corner for holidays in the "Garden of Stones"

• Lached plants for the Alpine slide will need solar heat - it means to orient the slopes are necessary to the south and east.
• Very interesting visual effects will result in the use of natural relief irregularities - elements inscribed in the natural landscape will become a great supplement it.

Spectacular alpine slide with a small pond

This is not imitation of the landscape, but just an art composition from asymmetrically arranged stone blocks with paths between them and vegetable compositions

1. The next step will be transferring your scheme to the site. Marking up with the help of ramp or sleeping the necessary lines with contrasting material - sand, lime. This will allow you to look at the alleged place of the mountaineering from the side. You may decide to slightly change its configuration in accordance with the relief.

Alpinary serves as a bright garden decoration, standing out against the background of green lawn

1. By approving the choice of place, you need to prepare the platform for laying stones. Soil, to a greater degree consisting of clay or chernozem, will have to drain, sand soils do not need such preparation. For drainage, remove the earth to a depth of at least 30 cm, the pit filled building materials Large fractions, tram and cover with soil lured with the surrounding ground. For sealing the explosive soil, it is spilled by water.

Miniature garden of stones with dwarf plants, located around the perimeter of the terrace, add the individuality of your recreation area

1. On the perimeter of the prepared platform laid the largest boulders. If necessary, they can be broken into the soil - then they will have a more natural look. The inner space is filled with soil, which will become the base for the next tier, as well as the habitat for plants.

Stone composition, located from the main facade of the house, excellent addition to the image of your housing

• Recovering the estimated distance from the first row, invest the next chain of stones, while maintaining the desired configuration of the alpinearia.

Council! Placeing large stones, leave the free space between them, which will be filled with soil - plants dropped by plants will need a place for the development of the root system.

1. After performing the required number of tiers, make up the vertex. To do this, you can put one large stone, or use some small pyramidally folded. This will prevent the blurring of the soil, and also give the completion of the composition.

Work on the Alpinarium tab is better to start in the fall, then to the spring, the soil, fastened between the stones, will take place, and it will be possible to glue all the voids formed. In addition, before planting plants, you will have the opportunity to make the latest adjustments to stones.

Vertical blooming alpine composition Creates a romantic mood

Retaining wall in the form of a mountaineering - a new salvation from the "boring" walls

Tip!The main rule - the mountainaries should look decorative and beautiful even without colors. Stones should be harmonious and balanced to create a stable and extremely natural composition. The less symmetry in it, the more organic it will look like.

The pride of the homeowner - the Alpine Gorka do it yourself

Implemented step-by-step instruction of the Alpine Gorka will give you the opportunity to create a real masterpiece on its site landscape design. And so that he become immaculate, we will reveal some secrets that will help you in work:

Mini-Alpinarium in flowerbed is very relevant for small courtyards, where there is no place for standard stone compositions

To create a miniature mountaineering, you will need only dwarf plants, pebbles and terracotta pot

• Stones for alpine slide need to pick up the same type, one breed. Then the mountaineering will look extremely natural.

Alpinarium with a pond decorated by stones of approximately the same OPR

High slide, folded with stones and green spaces, can serve as a fencing of the site

• The size of the stones must correspond to the area occupied by the alpinarium - than it is more, the larger the boulders can be used to fill it.
• Selecting the flowers for the Alpine slide, focus on the timing of their flowering. Maximum decorative is achieved with a continuous series of a variety of blooming spots on the surface of the alpinory you are created.

The minimalist version of the Alpinarians is the simplicity that emphasizes the architecture in the background

• The species composition of the plants should be selected from low and evergreen options. Then the mountainaries will not hide behind the brown greens, and the fall does not have to choose the foliage among the stones.
• For a slide, you can take a pair of low-speed coniferous plants. They will fit perfectly between the stones without clinging them. Between them well place the creeping or coating species - green spots between the stones look very decorative. Flowering plants Also select low growth and with small colors.

The most popular plants for Alpinaria:

• dwarfish
• thuja
• juniper,

Juniper looks beautifully in the compositions with stones

• cypressian,
• kisser

When arranging the Alpine slide, it is certainly necessary to take into account the characteristics of the landscape and, on the basis of this, choose the appropriate accommodation option

• dryad,
• iberis
• juvenile
• rocky rock

Mountain waterfalls are also characteristic of alpine landscapes.

• short Suitable carnation,
• camelight

Camerys will make color accents in the Alpine Corner

Decorate your household plot is quite bye yourself. It is not necessary to attract the team of professional designers to break out flower beds or just plant flowers along the path. And you can also enlighten all neighbors to arm a selection of photos of the Alpine slides - the landscape design of your site, made own forces And on its own project with the help of mountaineering, it will become unique. From one name "Alpine Gorka" blows a mountain freshness, and harmoniously inscribed in the landscape of the plot, it will delight the look all summer, creating an atmosphere of the Alpine meadow, with its freshness, emerald grass and a variety of flowers.

Motherland Alpinaria, despite the name, it is considered to be Japan. There was always a shortage of free land, hence the centuries-old experience of using every square. See free square. Therefore, an idea arose to add beauty space by creating cascades from natural materials - Earth and stones. Such a combination of the unshakable strength of the stone and the delicate shortness of the living colors is formed by the fascinating duet.

In Europe, the Alpine slides came in the XVI century. They were accepted to disemboditate the rice of the plant with straight slopes. Fashion reached Russia in the XVIII century. Even the members of the royal surnames gladly developed the projects of the Alpinarians, not bended to personally plant the selected plants there with their own hands.

Such an unusual decoration immediately becomes an emphasis of any garden. They are happy to use modern designers, because the rules of the Alpinaria device and the source set of materials are the same for all, but the end options are an infinite set.

You will be sincerely proud, looking at the created with your own hands, the photo of the Alpine slide on your site will certainly decorate the family album.

But it will be a huge mistake to assume that enough a bunch of stones of different magnitude, the slides of the earth and a couple of dozens of plants with mountain slopes - and you can call it all this alpine slide. It will take quite a lot of physical forces, money and fantasy so that the mountaineering look harmoniously. And the scale is important - the same alpine mountain in miniature, and the mountains require space.

Choose a place

Look at your site. It will take a well-lit corner, visible from any point - after all, then you will probably want to boast by alpinaria before the guests. Soil is very important - it does not need drainage on the sand.

Wonderful if the relief of the site itself will be organically merged with a slide. Think up how comfortable approaches to the hill are. Well, if you are able to sketch the project of the future masterpiece. If there is no strength or desire to do so, it is reasonable to have an "Alpine Gorki" landscape design photos and recommendations on planting plants before your eyes.

Getting to work

We prepare everything you need: tools, stones of different size, drainage material, soil, decorative stone crumb, seedlings. Location.

Note that alpine plants Do not love water stagnation, so the foundation is necessary. For this, a layer of soil is removed, no more than 30 cm. A little gravel, crushed brick or rubble, watered and tightly trambed. In the center layer should be thicker. The sand layer is on top. Soil prepare themselves, mixing the basic soil and peat.

For base soil take in equal shares, clean soil (if possible, collect the soil rendered to the surface with crumbs), large sand and humus. This mixture is poured in small layers, watering and trambus each layer. If this is not done, the slide will flood after the first rain.

You can make the basis of several holes instead of a solid pit. After the hill mounds make a break so that the layers lay down.

Laying stones

On any photo of the alpine slides created by their own hands, the landscape design emphasizes their pyramidal shape. Stones are unfolded by tiers, creating the illusion of the natural yield.

It is better to use natural stones, without sharp chips, one texture and close color, but different in size and form.

They are injected into the ground by a third, it will emphasize the effect of naturalness.

Taruses are usually an odd number, symmetry under the ban - there is no place of geometric accuracy in nature. There is space between the stones, then it will be filled with flowers.

The vertex is made up with a large stone or several, tightly laid, small.

The slide is abundantly watered, if necessary, adding soil.

Looking out plants

Sprinkle green "nose" more often in spring, or in the fall to frosts. Prepared seedlings are planted from top to bottom, observing the technology of landing of each plant. A set of plants - if desired, everyone sees her slide in its own way.

But most often use the following plants:

• edelweiss Perennial (Alps Symbol);
• coid (their several species, are great for edging, destroy weeds);
• moldova (decorates flowerbed and greens, and modest flowers);
• camery (you can land on the shadow side of the slide, small abundant flowers cover stones with a solid carpet);
• stretch (perfect for a slide, blooms first);
• juniper;
• spirea Japanese;
• viola horned;
• dwarf barberry;
• crocus;
• aKVILIA;
• floxo Shiloid.

The main rule: plants should not require careful care and have different periods of flowering.

Edelweiss Perennial - Alps Symbol

The trees or shrubs are planted at the top. Flowers planted so that they do not cover the stones. They pour around in order not to give to grow weeds. You can add plants from the nearest meadow.

You can view thousands of the landscape design of the alpine slides, but two are hardly finding, because the combination and location of the elements will be unique. Therefore, you should not add the uniqueness to your alpinaria with artificial elements - garden statuette, plastic decor, glass details.

Alpine slide must be as close as possible and personify the atmosphere of the mountains. 2 main elements - stone and plant are so self-sufficient and harmonious that they do not need unnecessary tinsel.

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Landscape design can be enjoying again and again. To admire the picturesque beauty and harmony, you do not need to travel, it is enough to inspire its creation on the household site. Competently and tastefully decorated alpine slide with their own hands will be a worthy decoration of the house garden. Step-by-step guide will allow you to equip the alpine slide without the help of designers.

Alpine slide - what is it?

Alpine slide is still customary to call Alpinarium - this landscape composition, its external species Mimics mountain landscape. Stones rose in the center of the composition, they symbolize the top of the Alpine Mountains. By its slopes, low-spirited flowers and evergreen shrubs are growing. Above the creation of tastefully decorated hills, landscape designers who know how to make an alpine slide. Inspired by their ideas, you can build picturesque corner on the site, where it is always cozy.

Selection and preparation of a location for a mountaineering

If it is decided to create an alpine garden, step by step guide Allows you to avoid errors and get the desired result. When designing the Alpine Garden, keep in mind that you need to recreate the imitation of a rocky area (build a hill). It is very important to choose the right place on the plot where it will look more winning.

Before you start drawing a sketch of a stone garden, you should decide on the place, the number of levels, and also:

• When choosing a place where an alpine slide is located with stones, you need to use useful elements existing landscape. For example, place it in a deaf fence or on the rocky garden.
• Look at the most favorable places, if you are supposed to be equipped with a rest area. It is better to choose a spacious platform, on which the hill will be turned on, decor elements, garden furniture and tracks.
• The relief of the imitation of mountains should be perfectly fit into the overall landscape and be a harmonious supplement of the site.
• Taking into account the above factors, the place must have maximum illumination, a good review and placed on the square.

After the place is approved, it is necessary to prepare a plot for laying stones and plant planting. Visually arrange details, make an outline of the future garden. If everything suits, you can proceed to the next step.

How to choose the right stones and other materials

Stones that are used in the creation of slides are divided into natural and artificial boulders. Choosing stones, you must define their size, breed and properties. If you do not think about it initial stage, It is possible in the future to face the difficulty of carcase. Landscape designers know one trick: alpine Klumba I must successfully look, even if it is without plants. That is why much attention is paid to stones.

To select suitable stones, you must consider what functions they will perform: decorative or foundation. For decor, petty pebbles are suitable, large stones serve as the basis of the mountaineering. If you wish, smooth stones can be lacquered, then their surface will find a certain shade.

Types of stones that are best suited:

• Granite. The solid breed of valuable stone. Since it does not live in vegetation, granite is most often used to decorate the alpinearia.
• Limestone. Porous stone rock. It is processed. The shape of the stone can be changed taking into account the designer idea, plants are good on it.

Taking into account the characteristics of stones, the limestone is best used inside the alpine slide. It quickly turns mountain plants. As for granite, the stone without visual changes will last for a very long time and does not turn moss.

In addition to stones, it is necessary to prepare the soil from the mixture of different compositions:

• overwhelmed leaves;
• turf soil;
• needle and peat;
• verecheskaya Earth.

For the subfolder, fine pebbles or crushed stone, pine crust, harvested.

Step by step guide how to make an alpine slide with your own hands

1. Work on the laying of a stone garden is better to start in the fall. The slide until spring will resist. In addition, before planting plants, the location of the stones can be corrected.
2. A platform prepared under the flower leaf from the garbage, unnecessary stones can be used as a basis for a hill (drainage). Make a mound, good to catch her. So that in the process of the hill is not donkey, it is necessary after the submail to pour.
3. Large boulders and stones, if necessary, get into the ground, so they look more realistic. Place stones at a certain distance, if they lie back, the plants do not have enough space.
4. When the stones are erected, it is necessary to make a dedication of fertile soil. Its composition is chosen from accounting for the features of the bushes, which will grow there.
5. Earth must be treated with herbicides from weeds, otherwise it is difficult to get rid of them. Even if the mountaineering is located on little plot, from weeds it does not save.
6. The next step is to make a falling colors. For Alpinaria, low-spirited plants are well suited, decorative shrubs, dwarfish, thuja, juniper.
7. After planting, flowers and shrubs are regularly watered. To save yourself from these troubles, you need to pre-flowerb to provide drip irrigation.
8. Additionally, the slide is made up with backlight or garden sculptures.

Performance options on a small area

If a country cottage area It does not allow you to build a big flowerbed, you can do the miniature alpinarium. Take a limestone, put it at the selected place, make a depression in stone, in which to plant mountain flowers. If they water them, they are quickly rooted. The slide can be made of cobblestones, they are laid out in arbitrary shape to designate the borders of the flower beds. Inside the ground be satisted, embarrassed bushes and decorated with pine bark. Very good as a subtype looks marine pebbles, artificial stones From multicolored glass.

If the flower garden is placed on evergreen bushes, it will function round year. Although the stones themselves attract attention, remind of mountainous areas.

Alpine slide care in the country

It is mistaken to believe that the mountainaries do not require care if you do not comply with some rules, for the next season it will come to run. To the hill always looked well-kept, picturesque corner requires year-round care.

• In the spring. With the onset of warm days you need to remove the winter shelter. Clear weeds, garbage. Expect the slide, eliminate possible damage. This should be done before the phase of active growth in colors. So that the plants develop well, feeding (fertilizers) is required. For aesthetics, change the mulch, refresh the intake of the pine crust. Works in the flower bed neatly, otherwise you can damage the bulbs and primroses.
• In summer. Watch the soil did not drive. Regular watering is carried out. Clean the weed grass, dried leaves, fallen flowers. Plants should also be treated from diseases and insects. In the middle of the summer, cut the bustling bushes. If necessary, put the decorative cultures.
• Autumn. Assembled with flower beds open soil bulbs. Seed perennials, do it you need until mid-September. Before the onset of cold, the mountainaries are not very removed from the fallen leaves, they can serve as a shelter from frosts. So that the plants are not frozen, it is recommended to cover the slide with cellophane, fir branches, but not straw in it can get rodents.
• In winter. If little snow defend the hill from the wind, otherwise the hill will have a dull look. Do not forget about the removal of melt waters, otherwise it will cause icing and freezing the roots. So more often happens if there is no drainage. Snow Alpinaria does not harm, and its lack of destroying. If the winter is not frosty, cellophane shelter must be removed periodically, the ventilation will not allow bulbs.

As for the formation and year-round care, to the flower bed always had decorative View, It is important to prevent its launch. It is necessary to trim the crown of the scratched trees and bushes. For the fight against weeds will help the "Roundup", but use the means to be used carefully. Application of the drug should be pointing to do this enough to drop the means on the core of the weed.

Alpine slides in landscape design

Arrangement of the Alpinaria opens a wide field of activity on dackets landscape decoration. The flowerbed should fit perfectly into the overall design of the site, and also be his harmonious addition. Variants of the Alpine slides exist a wide variety of, its appearance depends on the fantasy and design idea. You do not need to try to repeat someone's idea, be original, then you can be proud of the result.

• The easiest version of the decoration of the decorative hill is the rock cliff, when it is adjusting it is needed a fairly steep slope.
• In the landscape, it seems to be imitation of a mountain arrangement from different stones on dimensions.



It is impossible to meet absolutely identical flower beds, because the summer houses bring something in them, unique. When designing alpine hills, straight lines should be avoided, all angles should be smoothed. Starting with a small one, over time, you can create an artificial stream with waterfalls, but this is another topic.