Rockery
If
you want to include a miniature mountain landscape in your garden you have
to create a rockery or rock garden. A space efficient rockery design provides
garden lovers an opportunity to have a rugged mountain look in a small place.
Naturally present or
 Rock Garden |
artificially built slopes provide a better opportunity for a different look in your garden by means of a rockery. To give it a more natural look and to prevent the washing down of soil, rockery is normally built with carefully insertion of stones. Various evergreens, shrubs, |
cacti,
ground covers are used in a rockery. Inclusion of water features,
barriers, planters, steps will make a rockery
much more interesting. To splash color in your rockery, use annuals and for that,
the rockery should be in such a place where they can get at
least 4 to 5 hours of sunlight. Some dwarf flowering shrubs also a good
choice for round the year coloring of your rock-garden. Regular inspection
of your rockery is required for the stronger growing species, as they will
attempt to swamp the other ones. This can be resisted by regular pruning
of the plant. If you include
| plants like Dianthus, Phlox etc they have to be on the bottom side from the lime hater plants. Good drainage is an essential for rock garden as most of the plants there is a low water consuming varieties. Rockery |
plants need
soil which is both water and air permeable. Rockery plants do not thrive
in water logged conditions. If you use clay soil as main medium you must
mix good amount of compost and course sand with it to make it air and water permeable.
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