Alpine slide in the garden.
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An alpine slide is a small part of your garden that sits on a slight elevation. Usually it is decorated with large and small stones, flowers, conifers and other plants. Such decoration will look very beautiful and interesting on your site. Making an alpine slide in the garden with your own hands is not at all difficult.
Alpine slide in the garden: choosing a place
Alpine slide in the garden: photo
An alpine slide in the garden is best placed in an open, well-lit area, because the plants located there need a lot of solar heat.
Also, the Alpine slide should be clearly visible from all sides. For example, you can install it in a recreation area so that you can admire it while swinging on a swing or sitting on a bench. Another alpine slide will look good when entering the site.
As for the soil, the best alpine slide takes root on sandy or sandy loam soil. If you are the owner of clay or loamy soil, we need to make drainage from small stones, pieces of brick and other things.
Preparation for work
Alpine slide in the garden: photo
Before you start building an alpine slide in the garden with your own hands, you need to clearly determine what you want to see in the end.
Look on the Internet for photos of finished slides. Choose the ones that you like best and that best suit the landscape design of your site. Next, go looking for stones and plants. The stones can be bought in specialized stores or found on their own. The first option is easier and faster, because you do not have to carry and transport heavy boulders. Choose plants based on your preferences, taking into account the region in which you live. Coniferous trees and shrubs that do not take up too much space (thuja, juniper, mountain pine, etc.) are best suited for alpine slides. You can also use various perennial flowers (marigolds, carnations, lilies of the valley, nasturtiums, and others).
Stages of creating an alpine slide in the garden with your own hands
DIY alpine slide in the garden: video
- First of all, when you have decided on the location of the rock garden, you need to outline its boundaries.
- Now we are doing the drainage. We remove the top layer of earth (about 70-100 cm). Next, we put stones, crushed stone, broken brick or something like that into the resulting depression. The drainage layer should be about 15-17 cm.
- Water the drainage abundantly with earth, and lay a layer of earth on top. It is best to use a mixture of fertile soil, sand and peat. Watering again.
- At this stage, you can install the stones of your choice. They should be varied in size and as natural as possible. Fix the stones carefully so that they sit well and firmly on the ground. For this, concrete can be used even in places invisible to the eye.
- Now you need to plant the perennials that you prepared in advance and water them thoroughly. And after that we plant conifers.
- When all the plants are in their places, you need to cover the remaining bare earth with stones.
- Now water the entire structure thoroughly again.
That's all. The alpine slide in the garden is ready, now all that remains is to take care of it in a timely manner: water, feed, remove weeds. It is not necessary to cut conifers at all, because the more natural your alpine slide looks, the better.
