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Stone garden – how to make it yourself? Alpine slide with stone elements. Create stone beauty with your own hands

The desire for excellent every person expresses in its own way. One of the types of implementation of such a desire is to reflect its home in order to create a beautiful and cozy atmosphere in it. This applies not only to the house, but also the surrounding territory.

Garden philosophy

Currently, landscape design can offer you a large selection of all kinds of decoration styles of both houses, offices, apartments and their facades. Separate attention deserves a nursery territory.

One of the most popular trends in recent years was the use of stone elements in the landscape, both in a single copy and in the harmonious population of their. And not surprising.

Stone is a natural material that retains the original shape, despite the seasonal changes in nature, it does not require special and careful care.

If you are a fan of contemplative philosophy, in this case such an idea may seem interesting to you. The concept of the garden of stones came to us from Japan. For residents of the subway, the creation of such a landscape is a sign of the greatest skill and not everyone can master this skill.

But for the mentality of the Slavs, this process is not superficial. And each person can independently reflect his plot by making a Japanese garden of stones with their own hands.

The main idea of ​​the stone garden is the desire of a person to the original nature. The main requirements for it are minimalism and the incarnation of naturalness. For the latter use untreated stones. As for minimalism, it only applies to the use of items, but this rule does not apply to the exercise territory.

If your site does not feel in the riots of the paints, then you can highlight a small corner where only stones will dominate. So you will get a quiet place where you can come to get rid of stress and calmly facilitate contemplative meditation.

Garden stones do it yourself

If in Japan, the starting pad to create a similar garden is the desire to find spiritual harmony with nature, we have more landed goals. Often, in such an unusual way we get rid of the shortcomings that are present on the site.

They may be irregularities of herbal cover or deepening in the ground, which cannot be so easy to eliminate, but there is a possibility for it «disguise». And the first thing we are thinking about is what kind of our future garden will have, how harmonious it will fit into the overall picture of the site. And think about what is there because there are actually many options.

Let’s consider the most popular of them:

• Classic or garden of the sevencal structure;
• Four forces;
• Alpine slide;
• Desktop Sad.

Sevenginous structure

Classic Japanese version, but the most difficult in its embodiment.

If you want to ultimately get the correct result, you need to consider such conditions:

• Seven stones participate in the composition;
• Spearly draw on a seven-star star designated for the garden;
• Create an inside the star geometric grid by connecting all of its sides;
• At the points of the greatest intersection, lay the stones.

Ideally, you should get a composition in which items do not intersect. Japanese masters pay special attention to a detailed calculation. Considering the slope of each element of its height and even the length of the shadow discarded.

Four forces

According to Eastern philosophy, harmony is the right combination of all four elements: air, fire, water and land. And this version of the stone garden clearly demonstrates how they can interact with each other. The stone personifies the earth and its place is always in the center of the composition, there are plants around it, which symbolizes life.

Between the stone and green plantings should necessarily be space – «air». Water element can be represented as a small decorative reservoir.

Creating a pond, please note that water should not be worth it should be in motion. It symbolizes the speed (stroke) of time.

The classic platform for the garden is the gravel flooring. It must necessarily place wavy lines as a symbol of fire. For this type of geometry is not so important. Therefore, you can place items in your taste. The main thing is the presence of all elements.

Alpine slide and rockery

The most familiar option for us. If you decide to embody something similar in your country, then you can start with rocaria.

Roccarius is a combination of all elements inherent in a hill, but in contrast to it, the composition is on a flat section. The main components of the elements of this type of garden are stones and green plantings. Unlike the classic Japanese garden of stones, with its inherent minimalism, the principle of diversity is valid here.

Than a variety of stones and plants, the more attractive composition looks. But not any chaotic pile of stones with growing flowers can wear a proud number of rockery.

He has a number of specific features:

• When choosing a place, give preference to the sunny side. Because the main feature of the rocarium is more mandatory presence of not only ferns and moss, but also annual plants that are very dependent on sunlight;
• It performs a binding role between the main elements of the garden;
• The platform for its placement should be smooth without a hill on the elevation. Therefore, all the flowers and shrubs should be at an altitude as close as possible to each other;

As for the requirements for the design of the Alpine slide, then they are:

• Creation of artificial raising relief;
• Stones – Alpine Slide Heart. The largest must be on its highest point. Small must be framed in a circle in such a way that the greens do not cover them;
• Main Plants – Ferns, Moss and Mountain Flowers. These include Edelweiss, stamping, gubastic, disguised, mounted, crawling;
• Plants are planted with non-smooth beds, but in small groups. This is how wildlife imitation is created;
• The presence of water is not a mandatory requirement when performing this landscape. But her presence will not spoil, but rather, will add harmony and the naturalness of your man-made landscape.

Desktop Sad

If you are not the owner of the land of the land – do not be dug. At home to make a table stone garden personally actually very simple. To do this, you will need a small wooden box or any other container, the main thing is that the form is in the form of a square or rectangle. All components you use must be made of natural materials.

Place the cut of dense fabric. Filling can be different, for example, sand, shellucas, fine pebbles or culinary spanks made of wood. When choosing stones, you should pay attention to what feelings do you have when contemplating them. Make a friendly tools convenient for you. And your miniature table garden stones ready.

I want to offer another option. Take the usual stone if the natural deepening in it is small or you are not satisfied with their number, give it the right form yourself.

In the holes, pour the land and drop on the surface of your stone dwarf plants, lichen or moss. You can add tiny houses or shells here. So you have the original mini slide that will decorate your interior. It is needed minimal care.

As you can see, you can become the garden owner without having a country house or a country area. In order to be able to enjoy the grandeur and beauty of nature, it is not necessary to resort to the services of landscape design masters.

You will be quite able to do it yourself. And get at the same time no less pleasure than from his subsequent contemplation!