rocky garden
I like rocky gardens, they look original, since we are all accustomed to standard flower beds, and such a garden immediately stands out. It is clear that stones are needed to create it, but what else is needed? What plants to choose for such a garden?
Well, in rocky gardens, plants need to be planted in groups. Ornamental grasses, such as gray fescue, hostas, and ferns, look good. Of the flowering ones, I like armeria, grass carnation and other similar plants.
Lobelia is also suitable for such a stone slide; it will look like a blue waterfall! In general, mostly hanging plants are planted on a rocky hill.
The rocky garden looks very cool, I’m also thinking about doing something like this at the dacha. Can you tell me which stones are best to use? If you made such a garden yourself, then tell me where you got the stones.
Yes, that’s right, just like on an alpine hill, the layering of plants is also important here, and also that they all bloom at about the same time. It will be especially beautiful this way. As far as I know, stones are transported from the sea or specially processed, our cobblestones are ground.
I understand that when you call a rocky garden you mean an alpine hill? I also really like this type of landscape design, but I am not able to create it. Training stones is not so bad, but planting plants on them is a whole science for me, which I cannot master.
The name rock gardens refers to the creation of a Japanese garden. It looks very interesting, but you need to work hard on such a creation.
It is simply unrealistic to create such a garden yourself. You need a large area of land and you definitely can’t do it without an architect. It’s a completely different matter to arrange an alpine hill and a dry stream on the site.
The concept of a rock garden is somewhat different, and what you are describing is simply decorating the garden with stones. I also saw how these stones are painted in different colors. It turns out very beautiful and unusual.
I once saw a garden made of stones, I’ll tell you honestly, it looks very beautiful, but you also need to put a lot of work into such a garden. Yes, and you can’t just train stones, you need to think through everything carefully beforehand.
And such a garden requires constant care, otherwise such gardens that have given up on them look very sad - just a pile of stones overgrown with weeds.
I very much agree with you, such a garden requires care and attention, you need to devote enough time to it so that it looks decent, because sometimes a couple of weeds create the impression of an unkempt area.
It depends on what kind of garden you are creating, if it is French, then, indeed, everything in it should be perfect, but in an English garden, on the contrary, there should be a look of some abandonment, but this abandonment is created specifically by designers.
A stone rose will look very good in a rocky garden.It will fly along the ground and also multiply. Very beautiful!
looks very nice)) but they are expensive as far as I know)))
We just laid stone paths throughout our dacha. The stone was taken in a smooth marine shape and pressed directly into the ground and adjusted evenly to each other. It turned out great. As for the rock garden, we heard a lot about it, and after seeing your post we decided to create something similar for ourselves.
A rocky garden has been my long-time dream. I was interested in this topic a lot and I can say that it is difficult to implement this idea on your own. I will invite a designer, I really want everything to be perfect, the plants to be harmoniously selected.