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After the jungle city of stone, we want to escape to nature, listen to the noise waterfall, sit on the stone to breathe the aroma of flowers, stretched to travke, listen to the birds singing. In modern life does not have enough time to go far, to where this tale. What remains to do? The answer is simple: move closer to nature itself.
Improvement areas - those of work, giving a section of the well-groomed appearance and flee. Garden paths, artificial reservoirs, irrigation systems and lighting, rockery and many others.

Rockery - a stony gardens, imitating the mountain landscape and its vegetation.

A few words about the conditions in which plants grow, planted at the rockery devices and principles rocky gardens. Plants high in the mountains there are usually under difficult circumstances - in the crevices between the rocks, speaking on in-depth and in small, light-filled with loose soil.
Under the stones used in the device rockery, accumulated moisture - mountain plants can deploy their roots and thus set the debris of rocks and boulders. Stones also protect smaller plants from wind, help retention of snow on fields. They accumulate afternoon heat, gradually giving him at night.
The most appropriate place to rockery can be considered a natural slope, embankment, ravine or reservoir shore.
Size of rockery is determined the size of the garden. At a small land slide appropriate compact, does not violate the harmony of the garden. Rockery looks more attractive if it goes smoothly in the adjacent flower.

When landing at the rockery should be collected plants in height, colour and form of leaves and fruit, flowering time, take into account some other characteristics. When selecting your plants will bloom alpine slides from early spring until frost.

Usually at the rockery grow juniper, dwarf mountain pine, western red cedar and cypress, as well as some broad-leaved plants: cotoneaster, procumbent osier, heather, rhododendron, euonymus, cherries.

For dry alpine slides suit different types of achillea and alyssum, chickweed, thrift, alpine asters, cerastium, pink, genista, sunrose, immortelle, Hypericum Olympic, marjoram, alpine poppy, pasqueflower, saponaria, stonecrop, campion, Thyme, veronik. At a damp mound and in the half-shade better grow creeping houseleek , anemony, columbine, rock cress, campanula carpatica, some geranium and avens, sorrel, phlox Subulate, primroses, buttercups, violets.
Rockery - perfect decoration for your garden!

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