Alpine hill with your own hands

An alpine slide made of wild stones and "alpine" plants will help to make the originality of the country cottage area unique. Modern slides can be made in the form of a rocky hill, steep mountain slope, gorge, plateau, or a stony ravine, as in the photo. In this case, the composition of wild stones, overgrown with exotic plants, can be performed independently, giving it any sizes preferred by the naturalist himself.

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Building an alpine slide with your own hands will require:
Step-by-step instruction for creating an alpine slide with your own hands
1. Selecting a site.
2. Site preparation.
3. Soil preparation.
4. Selection of stones.
5. Stacking of stones.
6. We select plants.
Photo of the alpine hill with your own hands
Video of creating an alpine slide with your own hands

With the right approach to work planning, the alpine slide is created by the for the day. It is important at the same time to comply with certain rules, so that later collected with great difficulty masterpiece did not have to be altered or completely disassembled.

Building an alpine slide with your own hands will require:

an open, well-lit plot of land to be refined;
gravel, or broken brick for drainage;
beautiful stones of large and medium size;
assistant for moving stones;
collection of plants for decoration.
photos of alpine hills.

Step-by-step instruction on creating an alpine slide with your own hands

The whole process of creating a composition can be divided into the following stages:

Site selection.

What happened was seen in the photo( apologize for the poor quality of this photo):

So, your site will soon decorate the alpine hill with your own hands, the design scheme of which begins, first of all, with the layout of the site. In this case, the selected location should be a noticeable and well-illuminated corner on the site. Therefore, the choice is better to stop on the spacious and sunny south or south-west side of the site. Having decided with the appropriate location, you can proceed to the preparation of the terrain.

Site preparation.

The device of the alpine slide with its own hands provides for a good drainage system. At the selected site, it is necessary to dig a foundation ditch, the depth of which will depend on the area of the built slides. With an average area of 2 to 2 meters, the depth of excavation is usually about one meter. For the formation of the lower layer, gravel, slag, broken brick can be used. Above the lower layer is laid a layer of sand of coarse fraction. In this case, all layers must be watered abundantly.

Soil preparation.

Coaster primer can be purchased, or prepared independently. It is necessary to mix clay soil, which is sufficiently clean from weeds, with peat in a ratio of 3: 1.After that you need to add a bit of gravel in the ratio of 5: 1.

We lay geotextile:

We make drainage:

We put on top soil:

Selection of stones.

Which stones to choose and how to put them?

Creating an alpine slide with your own hands begins after choosing the style of the construction of a slide, because there are many different styles of design. For example, the alpine hill with their own hands, the plants on which are absent, made in the Chinese style, symbolizing the "elements of the earth".Such a rock garden is a pile of chipped stones without vegetation. Horizontal strata of stony-shaped stones covered with coniferous dwarfs are the Karelian style. Japanese style requires the observance of the original arrangement of stones, the construction of a harmonious space.

When selecting stones, it should be noted that:

boulder sizes should be proportional to the size of the rock garden itself;
design of the alpine slide with their own hands should look natural;
the color and texture of boulders should be in harmony with the overall picture;
heaps of stones in nature are more common from one breed.

Stacking of stones.

Stone laying should be carried out by tiers. Large boulders are more suitable for laying a foundation on which smaller stones will be placed. Each layer should be poured with moistened soil. For greater density of construction, large stones are 2/3 buried in the ground. Before laying stones should be checked for stability.

We select plants.

The hill will serve its owners for more than one season, so you should try to plant long-lasting plants. Ideal are undersized plants that grow quite a long time. You do not need to plant pine or dogwood, as they will quickly grow and take up the whole territory. Ideally suitable spiraea, cinquefoil, herbaceous perennials. At the top you can plant a symbol of the Alpine mountains - edelweiss.

That's all, the Alpine hill, made by own hands, as in the photo is ready!

You can admire the creation and call friends. Let them also appreciate the stone beauty.

Photo of the alpine hill with your own hands

We suggest you to see below the photos of the Alpine hills made by yourself. They will help you to clearly understand the structure and scheme of the Alpine hill. We hope that our step-by-step instruction with the photo helped you. If it was not clear to everyone how to make the Alpine hill with your own hands, then for clarity, look at the video in the article!