How To Establish Rock Gardening
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
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
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
Peperomia
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