To create an alpine slide, plants should be selected from an ecological and decorative point of view. If the ecological goal is pursued, in this case the importance of the plant is given importance, but if the goal is decorative, then they are chosen according to their personal preference. The owner of the Alpine hill wants to have flowers as long as possible without excessive heterogeneity or monotony, everything around looked more natural. Even if you really like some plant, but you can not create the conditions necessary for it, you will have to abandon it.
Alpine slide in the gardenSmall shrubs and half-shrubs, perennials, which cover the soil, are taken as a basis. Filling the area between the stones of the original rugs and pillows, they will delight you with a luxurious blossom until late autumn. Here they are necessary to fix the relief of your alpine hill.
In the upper part of the rock garden, where the soil is dry and poor, it is possible to plant such plants as, for example, some species of half-shrubs, short-stemmed cloves. Very beautiful looks blooming white caps vein-green Iberis against a background of green creeping thyme.
A little lower on a sunny, more humid soil, plant a slatted phlox and a "princess" with a shade. They, starting from the middle of May, will blossom blue, violet-lilac and pink flowers.
In the lower southern part, on a horizontal platform, plant a calcareous saxifrage, in which the leaves are of silver color. Around the table, they will hold water. This plant constantly forms a constellation of rosettes, each of which after 1-3 years throws out the central stem. It is tall enough, it has inflorescences in the form of a panicle of white and pink color. You can also plant a dwarfed saxifrage on the side and sides, where there is a partial shade and there is a sufficient amount of moisture.
Perfectly contribute to fixing the surface on the sunny areas, and also very quickly expand rugs, cleaning. They love sandy-stony, scarce turf soils, they do not stand the stagnation of moisture. The etiastenia are magnificent both with their forms and with different colors: salad, light green with a shade of red, dark green. With the onset of autumnal cold, they acquire a pale-terracotta or purple-red shade.
Alpine hill can not be without tuber bulbs and bulbs. The first to begin to bloom snowdrops, woodlands, Hionodox, white flowers, then comes the tulip, muskari, and cannon. In the end, the crocuses of autumn and colchicum bloom. The latter blossom in September, when the leaves have already disappeared. Very beautiful colchicum is beautiful. In the spring, its large leaves are picturesquely looked, and in the autumn the corolla of the gentle-lilac appears with a shade of flowers.
On the south side, you can plant a beautiful crocus, the flowers are more modest, but the process of their development is similar. For the alpine slide, preference should be given to the wild and small species of onion and tuber-bulbous plants.
Brightly look on the alpine hill flowers with long-flowering, for example sunflowers, Atlantic poppy. Although their flowers are in the open half-day, but when there are many of them - it looks very colorful.
The first one will be pleased with his orange poppy flowers. Its flowering is at the end of May or beginning of June. In acidic soils and in places where it is small, Cambrian mekonopsis can be planted.
Then comes the turn to blossom sunflowers. These are semi-shrubs growing only in well-lit dry places. They are always green, in summer they are dotted with yellow, white or pink flowers, living only one day.
In the upper part of the southern zone of your rock garden, plant an air Missouri. It will let down its reddish stems with dense leaves, on them silky yellow-lemon wreaths will open in summer.
There are perennials, the flowering of which lasts from 1.5 to 2 months. These include the bell of the Carpathian, the geiger of the hybrid. Sometimes the bell grows large and then it is necessary to transplant it to the west side, but this is done if the hill is small.
High plants on the Alpine hill
On the Alpine hill it is necessary to plant several pieces of large plants, for example the lily Marchon, spruce, the spike litters, the nemalist of Emoda, the bird-bird of Narbonne. Lilies need a nutritious, moist soil spolutenyu, so it is best to take root in the lower part of the northwestern slope of your rock garden. She has slender stems with flowers resembling a turban. On land, planted with fir trees, plant thyme creeping, it will help slow the evaporation of moisture. Against the background of the trees, it will look very beautiful.
A tall plant from the Crimean Mountains under the name of the Nepbonese, the Chameleon, also looks great on the rock garden in its eastern southern slope. In summer, he will please you with a fragrant snow-white pyramidal flower. Even better, it will look in company with a silvery-gray carpet cleaner and a number of a growing cotoneaster.
Very much you will like one more representative of high-growth for rock garden - it is a moisture and light-loving Liatris Kolosovskaya. It releases from the middle of summer a stem with leaves and inflorescence, buds that have the shape of a cylinder, it looks very beautiful.
Other representatives of plants for the Alpine hill
In the west and north, beautifully planted tender beads. On the eastern and southern slopes, plant the chamber open and unusual, they have large blue-violet flowers. Against the backdrop of the stones, everything looks just fine.
In April and May the spring adonis will blossom with golden aureoles, followed by blooms, then the muscari will delight with blue-violet flowers.
In May, fragrances of phlox and gentian are fragrant. The north-east is pleased with the eyes of low-sized catchments and primroses, among which is a shoe-like. In the north, along the steep wall, there is a rift with its white flowers.
The age of the low watersheds, such as corolla-cream-white, sepals and blue and blue Venchikalpis, is rapid. They are very beautiful and in order to admire them regularly, they will have to be sieved.
There are a number of plants that will become a real decoration for your Alpine hill. These include: thin-leafed peony, willow netlike, Kamchatka rhododendron, St. John's wort, small ferns, pincers, lapchatka, lily mulberry, gentian chinese decorated and Farreri, all kinds of proglomerates.