Alpine hill will decorate any house and yard. To ensure that your efforts are not in vain and the site has a masterpiece, you should competently select plants for the alpine slide. There are several types that are usually planted, they are conventionally divided into conifers, ground cover and perennials. Now consider in more detail which plants to plant on the Alpine hill and how to arrange them.
Ground cover plants for the Alpine hill
Such coverslips have fairly long shoots, which occupy most of the area of the hill. For the alpine hill the following soil cover plants are ideal: carnations, daisy, St. John's wort, thyme. These plants grow very quickly, and therefore require you to constant attention and care. Rapid growth should be limited to a rejuvenating haircut.
If you decide to plant plants with long mustaches (this may be alpine strawberries, daisies), then these same whiskers are constantly removed entirely. There are plants in which shoots are underground, they are most difficult to care for. To such plants it is possible to carry east St. John's wort, yarrow, linen. Keep in mind that the untimely shortening of the shoots will lead to the fact that you will have to fight them and remove the whole hill.
Try not to combine several types of plants in one area. It is better to combine the ground cover and bulbous in the neighborhood, so you can look after them without problems, and the plants will feel comfortable.
Perennial plants for the alpine hill
It is perennials most often used to create a rock garden. Typically, among perennials choose bulbous plant species. These include crocuses, hyacinths or tulips. In addition to an unusual color scheme, these flowers amaze the imagination with its own form.
Good fit decorative varieties of onions, which look no worse than perennial flowers for the alpine hill. The color range is not less wide: from pink-lilac to yellow or golden. For every gardener the subject of pride is the edelweiss, which has very peculiar flowers-stars of a silvery hue.
If your hill is in the shade, you should pay attention to the May lily of the valley or an oak-tree anemone. In addition to beautiful flowering, these plants form a fairly dense carpet of dark green color.
Today, exotic perennial plants for the alpine slide are becoming increasingly popular. To such plants carry arizemu Amur or Japanese, which has unusual inflorescences-cobs.
Coniferous plants for alpine hill
Coniferous plants for the alpine hill are selected with a special predilection, because they become a kind of accent composition. Carefully look at the species suitable for this and give preference to one, several different conifers nearby will look too piled up:
- Spruce. Suitable for almost all of its types: prickly, ordinary, blue. Very beautiful looks dwarf variety, no less effective looks coniferous waterfall, which falls from the top of the hill.
- For a rocky garden, larch is very suitable. Use the following varieties: American, European, Japanese. It looks very nice even in winter due to falling of needles, it is possible to pick up weeping or twisting varieties.
- Juniper. Here you can choose from a variety of varieties and species of this plant and almost certainly pick the right option for your hill. You can use fir or tuyvik.