We select plants for the alpine hill

The now fashionable landscape, which these photos of the Alpine slide represent, requires, in addition to design experience, some knowledge in botany and floriculture. We can confidently say that the Alpine slide is a painting in kind, a picture constantly changing with the seasons, not bothering the look. It is not enough to choose and place tastefully stone material on a designated area, giving it the appearance of a rocky mound. It is necessary to select the necessary plants for the alpine hill, place them so that they do not interfere with each other, do not obscure the original beauty of others with their exceptional and unique beauty, but make up an integral composition, naturally blending in with the natural stone into the general background (garden, buildings ) In addition, it is important to take into account the growing conditions: some need the sun, others cannot do without moisture, and still others need good drainage.

In natural alpine meadows, plants are ranked according to height: at low elevations, bright, bright spots of flowers amid lush greenery, the highlands are covered with more modest vegetation. Even the famous edelweiss prefers catchy beauty fluffy villi on its surface, protecting it from the cold heights of the mountains. But a man-made landscape is created for the soul, and here, choosing plants for an alpine hill, you can depart from the strict rules dictated by nature. On your own slide, in the search for originality, you can allow bold fantasies and combine incompatible ones. Imagine the splendor: bright tulips among gray stones against the background of a pyramidal thuja, which occupies a central place and visually raises the hill. In the sunniest place - the arrows of a decorative bow surrounded by youngsters and stonecrops, Siberian irises, among which the bright blue eyes of the gentian occasionally, but boldly peek out. Below are spherical junipers, interspersed with broadleaf incense on the slopes, with pink boiling of awl-shaped phloxes, with yellow sprocket stars. Along the edge of the hill in crevices are stunted ferns, brightly blooming dwarf primroses, blue-eyed periwinkles, white daisies, interrupted in some places by the “explosion” of luxurious leaves of the hosta. Even lower ... No, fantasy is enough. It's time to move from words to action.

Slow-growing conifers - European spruce (height up to 1 m, dark green needles), Weimutov pine (height up to 1.5 m, bright green needles), prickly spruce (1.5 m, silver-blue), thuja, Korean fir , pillow-shaped and Canadian spruce - the list is not finished. All of them need an open place in the sun, good drainage. Ground cover junipers are Cossack and scaly, medium- tall handsome yew berry (black hard berries are poisonous!). Coniferous deciduous shrubs, such as dwarf forms of common barberry, spirea, Fortune euonymus, and Forsythia Kid, will perfectly complement coniferous shrubs. The choice of hardwood is even richer. But they cannot be overdone: falling leaves can disfigure a hill in the fall, and decaying leaves can harm other plants.

There are a lot of such plants with decorative foliage and flowers for the alpine hill . We will name some of them. Ground cover: alpine lichen (up to 15 cm, pink), styloid phlox (up to 15 cm, hot pink), divaric phlox (blue, up to 30 cm), saxifrage (different colors - white, blue, pink, up to 30 cm), alpine aster (lilac, up to 30 cm), periwinkle (bright blue, 20-30 cm), grass clove (pink-purple, up to 25 cm), incense with shiny leaves that do not fall in the winter, heichera - a fashionista with fireworks light small flowers, the host is the queen of the shadow, ferns with carved leaves. From the early spring - muscari, crocuses. Of the bulbs - tulips, daffodils, hazel grouse. Succulents - stonecrops, younger. From medicinal - fragrant thyme, cinquefoil white and yellow.

Annual plants for an alpine hill

Many of them are good - eschscholzia, alissum, viola, honey phacelia, limnantes, nemophila and many, many others.