Elements of landscape design

Most recently, about the elements of landscape design only knew a few, but today without them can not do any one owner of a modern garden. At first glance, it's simple: would the stones, soil and stunted plants. But if you want to definitely become a creator, listen to the advice of a professional. Not every flower growing on the stones to create rockeries and rock gardens can use a variety of stones - about, boulders, flagstone, litter, gravel, etc. But not all plants are suitable, but only specific to mountainous areas or activities that resemble mountain vegetation. This may be stunted or prostrate pillow varieties of conifers and deciduous shrubs, perennials, ground cover, low spring primroses. Not the Alps, but the mountain rock garden is shaped like a small hill. However, simply pour a lot of land is not enough: it raspolzetsya of the first heavy rains. Rock garden should be well-formed. For this purpose it is necessary to lay a good drainage, because alpine plants require a good while and irrigation (especially in spring), absolutely not tolerate stagnant moistening. Internal frame can serve as a coarse gravel, broken bricks, pieces of pipe. It may be even entire concrete structures. The stones that make up the hill, laid steadily, building with bricks or other stones. Sometimes they are fastened together. The gaps between the stones backfilled loose and light soil with the addition of drainage and planting plants. If the slide flowing waterfall or stream, you must correctly place them on track, so that the water was the most visible and with the greatest effect. When you create a rock garden should also to take care of the wiring and hoses, providing water upstairs, not to dig out after a year has already finished construction. No hills Rocard, by contrast, perfectly flat. As an option - slightly rotated. Plants are planted in the prepared well-drained soil. Gaps between them filled with large and small stones, various dumping. Subsequently to less weed control, and the stones left in the ground beneath them is sometimes placed geotextile. Classical composition landscape design of conifers in ornamental stone dumping can also be considered rockeries. In rockeries can be planted and quite tall pyramid-shaped plant, but they should serve as a swing arm for a track or set it necessary accents. Bad when the plants in rockeries obstruct the landing and other beautiful stones, instead of stress. Planted too regular, or clustered all in one part of the composition, they also can make it out of balance. But the most common mistakes when creating a rock garden, usually related to its shape and relative position of plants, it has even become comical images. None other than the classics can be considered "dog grave" very distinctive look, rounded "high-calorie muffin, with regular raisins large stones and kolonovidnym plant at the very top. Dry creek Relatives rockeries and rock gardens - dry water bodies (streams, ponds) - more commonly used in landscape design. Especially in the case where there is no way to equip the station creek or pond, even though they literally suggest themselves to be exactly in the wrong place. For example, it is impossible to hold the wiring to connect the pump, or even impossible in this place to dig. It was then, and rescues a dry creek, which allows you to simulate the water surface. To create it, you can use rock dust, pebbles and rounded boulders characteristic of natural streams, shells. Such a reservoir can be formed even groundcover. This work is subtle, almost artistic. Riverbed, the contours of the pond giving a characteristic natural forms, shaped bends, rapids, backwaters, islands. Such a body of water, as well as the present, we can obsadit wetland plants. To simulate water and riparian vegetation will suit a variety of plants. Furthermore, many wetland and coastal species under normal irrigation well and grow without necessarily submerged in water (irises, reeds). Island in the pond can be shaped, for example, artificial mound covered with grass. To create a fuller and more vivid image of the reservoir good idea to install it a boat mooring bridges, bridge the gap across the stream. If there is a path, it must necessarily pass through the bridge. All these details will help to create the illusion of real water.