How To Establish Rock Gardening

June 25th, 2010 by admin


HOW TO ESTABLISH ROCK GARDENING 

A rock garden is a re-creation of a natural landscape in a small scale.  It might be a rocky hill, a winding creek or a path on the mountain side. 

All rock gardens should be built as natural as possible. 

Don’t paint rocks or cemented paths as they are against the principle of rock garden construction. 

How rock garden is constructed 

The saint soil medium for any rock garden is a fertile, mellow loam or sandy loam soil. 

If you’ll use a miniature hills as the site for your rock garden, you should filled it with stones, rocks, and concrete debris to wage drainage and save the cost of buying garden soil which is quiet costly in the city and suburban communities. 

Sketch a layout plan of your rock garden to be constructed. Indicate the different parts of the landscape , including the plants to be grown. 

Mistakes and unnecessary expenses in fag and materials can be avoided this way. 

Make your rock garden small as it’s easier to maintain and for rather than a huge one. 

Plants saint for rock garden 

Small trees and shrubs found in your locality can be planted in your rock garden. Cactuses and other succulent plants, hardy vines and creepers, mosses and lichens expertly mixed with the flowering herbs will create in your garden an region closest to nature. 

The recommended plants for rock garden… 

Trees and Shrubs 

1)   Small pine trees                        7) Camachile 

2)   Araucaria, Norfolk Island pine    8)  Chaang gubat 

3)   Agoho                                      9)  Stick plant 

4)   Dwarf bamboo                         10)  Phylanthus myrtifolius 

5)   Certain species of cypress         11)  Thuya orientalis 

6)   Pomegrenate, persimmon          12)  Thuya occidentalis   

 Leafy plants 

1)   Corazon de Maria                                6) San Francisco 

2)   Mayana, coleus                           7) Baston de San Jose 

3)   Copperleaf, scalypha                    8) Corn plant 

4)   Maranta, prayer plant                  9) Spotted dracaena 

5)   Papua 

Vines and Creepers 

1)   Creeping fig                                5) Tribulus 

2)   Metal leaf                                   6) Snail plant 

3)   Mint, herba Buena                       7) Rose moss, portulaca 

4)   Verbena                                     8) Wandering Jew  

 Cacti and other Succulents 

1)   Opuntia, dilang-baka                   5) Sabila 

2)   Echinocereus                             6) Siempre viva 

3)   White torch cactus                      7) Episcia (silvery, common) 

4)   Dwarf snake plant                       8) Peperomia 

 

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Cris Ramasasa, Freelance writer, writes about home gardening and World wide web marketing tips. You can get a copy of his latest ebook “How to get started in Flower Gardening” and “Vegetable Gardening Made Easy”, also get lots of tips, Free articles, and bonuses  at: www.crisramasasa.com

 

 

Cris Ramasasa is a retired Horticulture instructor for 29 years and Freelance writer. Writes home gardening tips and resources. Written ebooks titled: How To Get Started In Flower Gardening and Vegetable Gardening Made Easy.

Soon to place up his website; www. how-to-get-started-in flower-gardening.com

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