Rock Layer

If the rock garden is located on a slope permeable soil, the drainage is not required. Otherwise, after the clearing of land for a rock garden it is covered with a layer of rubble or gravel layer of 10 cm, it poured a layer of coarse sand 5 cm, and the top layer soil without fertilizers (a mixture of bog land with the addition of sand, peat and humus). Pre-mark the paths and steps of the smaller flat stones for the care of the rock garden, plan for different lighting zones (open sun, partial shade, shadow) by the device 'valleys', 'tops', 'breaks', 'Plateau', 'terraces', 'rocks', 'Gorges' to meet the requirements of various plants. After planning to start placing stones (following the precaution, in leather gloves and sturdy shoes, rolling stones on the board along the path of the round sticks). Starting with the foot and going to the top of the gangway of planks, digging a hole (above the surface to be located half or less of the stone) and put a stone at her with a crowbar (placing layers of flat stones), pour a foundation of stone rubble and soil. Tightly rams log ground – a stone should not wobble, carefully fall asleep clay-soil turf all the voids. When laying the stones avoid geometric harmony, put them randomly, simulates mountain landscape. Planting can begin when the ground settles, after zaravnivaniya empty seats and grooves formed after the deposition. Placing plants in the alpine in rockeries can be placed not only Alpine plants, and prairie, desert, forest, meadow – if only to harmonize with gorkasozdanny alpine landscape, complementing and emphasizing the beauty of each other, making rockeries elegant year round.