Gravel garden: technology of self-planting and gardening

Gravel garden: technology of self-planting and gardeningThe gravel park for our garden plots did not appear unreasonably for a long time, it looks very neat, beautiful and beautiful, therefore some summer residents and owners of private houses want to equip the park with them for the site. Anyone can make a gravel park with his own hands, with all this for his product will not need special costs. The beauty of this garden is based on a combination of gravel mound and low plants and shrubs. Gravel is a good background for the sake of blossoming, and for the sake of not budding plants. Very beautiful in this garden look representatives of the conifer family. Compositions from plants in a gravel garden can be changed, at times updating its appearance.
Step-by-step gravel masterpiece
The schedule of work is as follows:
For the first step, you need to select a room, where you wanted a desire to equip the park. If there is not enough space for the site, it can be made even for an area of ​​1-1.5 square meters.
We perform cost calculations and prepare materials.
Then, like the room is selected and the materials are bought, we need to prepare the earth. The sand bottom is more comfortable for the sake of creating such a garden, although it is permissible to perform it everywhere. The area should be marked out, having designated its borders - to drive in pegs, to pull a rope. Then the ground is removed from the ground for 10-15 cm. Increased attention should be paid to the removal of weeds together with the roots. Weeds are usually the main problem to be leaving because of the gravel garden. Then, like the discharge of earth and weeds are removed, the pit with wet soil is left for 7-10 days, during this period of time the rootlets of the weeds will grow and they can be removed altogether.
Then a part must be dug up, adding to the soil baking powder - vermiculite, expanded clay dust, coarse-grained dust. Thus, you will drain the earth, so that excess water is removed through the roots of plants, which will then be planted for this site. In the soil it is permissible to add organic fertilizers, peat, so that the planted plants perfectly started and grew.
The soil needs to be compacted and geotextile is not enough. Geotextile rather hamper the germination of weeds, and also restrain the discharge of gravel through subsidence.
Now gravel is allowed to sleep. There are two possible options here: plant plants, then gravel or gravel discharge, or before filling, and then planting plants. The main variation seems more comfortable, although some choose specifically the 2nd variation. Gravel in the garden - not an unprecedented matter, who is allowed to extract. For the sake of this garden, a stone will also suit, its round appearance and gray paint will look great for the background of the surrounding lawns. Large stones are not used to develop a garden of gravel.
Separating curbs. Borders will help preserve the boundaries of the garden, if the rootlets of other plants over time will seep into the part, and the gravel edge will be washed through the rain.
Planting plants. If you decide to plant the plants then gravel packing, in the allocated for this place the gravel discharge should be razgristi, fill a hole in the agglomerates, deepen, and plant the plant. Then remove the unwanted pieces of agrofiber, and carefully level the gravel.
Oh, it looks like this all the time: This is a sample cost calculation for the construction of a gravel site, the prices are quite burning. Most likely you do not have to extract the geogrid - if you work on the slope
Stone is a successful election for the sake of a gravel garden. In this case, a stone path is made on top of the main cover and a plank floor is laid out so that it is more convenient to alternate according to the garden
The frame is allowed to execute from plastic, iron, bricks or extract a curb rock
For the sake of the design of the garden, it is permissible to extract gravel, for no reason, and motley. With the help of 2 colors, effective patterns are created
Also we offer you a step-by-step video-instruction for the sake of executing a path from gravel:

It seems to be right to pick plants?
Trees and bushes
The plants are planted in groups or individually, so that they stand out against the background of the gravel, rather than merge with each other, in this case the park looks pretty much the least beautiful.
In the gravel garden, low and dwarf trees look great-weeping willows, willow, birch, rowan. The vertical coniferous plants - spruce, western thuja - are very resurrecting the atmosphere in such a garden. Needles of different colors, pyramidal view of conifers decorate the park. From the bushes are suitable barberry and cotoneaster, they have a fascinating view of the crown and leaves, the reddish fruits and leaves will be mostly good in the garden in autumn.
The thickets of the Cossack juniper are allowed to be located at the border of the garden. For the background of gravel paths, the Japanese spiraea with its round form and gentle rounded inflorescences, Arendse's saxifrage, which is idyllically florets and leaves, are perfectly smoothed out. Barberry bushes with blushing foliage transform the park, making it more flashy
Suggestion. For the gravel garden it is better to choose plants with a luxurious form of leaves, bushes and trees with a unique shape of the crown. Stone or gravel will only emphasize the appearance of such plants, making the park unusual and aesthetically attractive. Grassy perennials
The garden will be decorated with crocuses and alpine edelweiss, forget-me-nots, wild flowers, colorful multi-colored luxurious flowers of herb cloves. In May, the eye will be cheerful.
The bushes of alpine asters, recognized by us in the people like September, will be an ornament of your garden of gravel in the autumn season.
No future future cleaning (ground cover plants) perfectly suited as plants for the sake of a gravel garden.
In such an ornamental garden, it is not necessary to plant a plant all the time. It is permissible to extract, for example, thuya in huge pots, geranium. The same soil cover will grow well in the pot, and if you like to change the situation, tubs and pots with plants are allowed to evaluate at times to another room. This park is also decorated with plants in clay pots - geraniums, petunias. They perfectly bloom, and the pot is allowed anywhere in the world
One of the basic rules for the development of a gravel garden - plants should not exist extremely abundantly, if the very initial opinion of the creation of such a garden is rather lost.
Coniferous plants, trees and shrubs help to place the main accents of the garden composition, and herbs and blooming plants will be finished. Here to be decorated garden used coniferous plants. It turned out to be very successful, besides, this park is beautiful at least some age
In a gravel garden, it is permissible to remove wood decks or lay out a path from huge flat decorative stones or spills - in accordance with them it is comfortable to tread, and, besides this, these are beautiful decorative elements. A very beautiful path was created with the help of gravel, decorative fence and spills
In general, the product of a gravel garden is creativity, in which the individual can succeed. Furorov!