Flower bed - a cute heart of a beauty island at the cottage. Do you want a stone flower garden to be the subject of your limitless pride? Make it yourself! And our article will help you in this!

Time to choose stones

First, decide which stone you most like. The choice of materials is very wide. In addition, in the design of the country flower beds, it is not one, but several types of natural stones.

Sandstone

Beautiful stone warm shade: brown, terracotta, reddish, yellow, grayish green. The material structure is rather porous, so it is better to choose a decorative version of the stone - fine-grained, with a grain size of 0.1 to 0.25 mm. And although there is an opinion that the sandstone is not a very reliable stone in terms of durability, special experiments confirm its ability to transfer about 50 seasonal cycles (from the total freezing to complete thawing).

Limestone

Porous material of milky white, light gray or pleasant cream shade. When creating a cottage composition, the cracks in limestone are filled with soil and plant decorative plants in these improvised "pots". Especially good on the surface of the limestone, moss and algae are coming.

Tuf, or Travertine

This is a variety of limestone. To create flower beds, both polished and untreated breed. Yellow, white, brown, stone will bring tranquility and comfort to your site and become a beautiful background for bright spots of soil plants. Flowers are planted in a hole on the toufe so that their stems could sput his surface.

Slate, or gneiss

Attractive rock rock can split on neat thin plates. The rich shadeful variety of stone is exactly what is needed for flower beds made by their own hands. There are yellow, red, burgundy, brown, gray, green, black plates with a mass of intermediate shades. The durable structure of the shale is characterized by an expressive and unique surface texture: it will make your flower garden one of a kind.

Granite

This noble material is used not often, due to its ability to strongly oxidize the land. It, of course, is used in the creation of a flower garden, but as a supplement to the main breed.

Basalt

This amazing stone is born in the reserves of the current volcano. A dense and fine-grained breed of dark gray and coal-black flowers is often used in the device of stone flower beds. Basalt is one of the most spectacular natural stones.

Galka

Rounded smooth pebbles of different sizes and colors will give your creation unique individuality. They are successfully used in the creation of all varieties of flower.

Dolomite

An unusual and beautiful stone is often used as an amicing material. Breed colors are a variety of: gray-white, greenish, pink, red-brown, yellowish, dark brown and even black! It has an unusual glass glitter. This decorative stone for the flower bed is a real find.

Your future flowerbed can consist of one large or several large boulders who surround a few smaller stones. Do not forget about the drain flow of the flower garden - without it nowhere. Therefore, pour enough sand, large rubble and gravel. For mulching, wood bark is needed, fine crushed stone and peat.
An excellent continuation of the flower bed or an addition to it can be decorative stone tracks or miniature artificial water bodies, with swept-in pebble pebbles.

Types of stone club

Their styles are very different, but the overall feature for everyone - they are unusually beautiful. Flowers from stones in the photo of this confirmation.

Rocarium

This is a composition of several stones located in small groups or one on the smooth surface. The overall picture is copiously complemented by fine-flowing stones (shale, tuff) as a decorative filler.

Alpine Gorka

This is a man-made, but not less picturesque, a hill of a variety of stone breeds. In the process of creating an alpinory, a special chic is to bring the look of its mountainside to the natural way. For this, the stony surface is necessarily decorated with high-altitude plants.

Slope terrace

Miscellaneous stones are folded into a multi-level composition in such a way as to get beautiful thresholds, on which bright flowers are playing there. For the base of the terrace, a sturdy bold stone is chosen (quartz, for example), a secondary element serves as limestone or sandstone. They will gradually transform under the influence of bad weather, which will give an artificial landscape a more natural look.

Japanese garden

Certainly becomes a heart and a paradise of any country area. The dominant role here is not plants, but large, covered with moss stones. The general type of composition displays parts of the collapsed rocky array. Japanese garden does not accept the abundance of plants, all free space is filled with pebbles or small rubble. The specific feature of this extraordinary place is privacy, so it will certainly be protected by a green hedge or elegant forged fence.

Flowerbed with a stone border

The most popular and popular today is an option for a small cottage. Border often form from slate. Make such a stone flowerbed with their own hands the easiest.

Plants for stone flowerbeds

Flowers are selected depending on the type of flower bed.

1. For regular-style flower beds, multiple roses, hyacinths, lilies, daffodils, hostes, tulips, attacks, gladiolus are perfectly suitable. Floral planting in the form of geometric shapes looks effectively: square, rhombus, oval.
2. If you need to fill the landscape-style flower beds, forget about any system - the flowers should grow in an arbitrary order, obeying the unified composition. This is a winning option for rocaria or mountaineering. Plants are suitable for every taste: Spring crocuses, Carpathian bell, forest strawberry, roses and stork.
3. A real decoration for vertical flower beds will be Liana. This live carpet will close the banned wall of the house or transform the darkest or empty corners of the garden. For gentle Lian Clematis, Lemongrass, Wisteria and Aktindia, they will need supports that hold them vertically.
4. A decent decoration of large stone flower beds can be dwarf coniferous trees: Thuja, Barbaris, Dwarf Pine and Creeping Willow. Perfectly diversified by the landscape of flowerbed with miniature shrubs, perennials (carnation, evergreen Iberis) and fluttering plants (Carpathian bell, thyme, sofa). Elegant small flowers that are not afraid of dry weather, plant in masonry crevices.

We divide the flower garden for all the rules

The stone border for a flower garden can even a schoolboy, but the creation of a whole flower beds from stones is a more complex process and at the same time more fascinating. It is not necessary to form a flower garden from the boulders of one breed, it is not necessary to try to lay them out in a strict geometric shape. Everything that your fantasy will tell you will be correct. You only need to not forget about several basic rules that relate to the general style of the garden, buildings and flower:

1. A small neat flower bed with a motley blunt is often smashed near the fence - so it will refresh the general view of the site and does not prevent your garden walks.
2. More attention is focused on a stone flowerbed located in the center of your garden, especially if it is not small. Such a flower garden can be made a full place to relax, even the gazebo will not need.

Do not forget about the recommendations common to all types of stone flower beds:

1. A cushion of stones is massive in nature, so it is very responsible for the choice of space for it. Such a flowerbed should not interfere, on the contrary, one of her kind should help you relax. The most optimal places in the country for creating a flower garden - a plot along the fence, a dacha center or one of its extreme corners.
2. The flower beds of the uncomplicated shape look better than frightened chopped flower beds.
3. One big flower garden is easier and faster than two miniature, but this is a controversial question, as it all depends on your desire.
4. Plants for the flower bed before landing are necessarily sorted by similar to their requirements for conditions for normal growth and flowering. So, ferns and parquinka to taste the shadow, and the velvets and gentle lupins do not survive without the sun.

Phased instructions for creating stone flower beds

Let's look at the approach to creating a high stone flower beds built from several stone levels. This construction combines the solidity of the natural stone rock and the fragility of decorative flowering plants.

• If you want your future creation to be durable and solid, start with the styling of the foundation. With the help of rope and wooden rivers, mark the place where the flower bed will appear soon. On the perimeter of this area, dig a shallow trench (30 - 40 cm), the width of which will be sufficient to accommodate the stones you choose. From the surface of the marked territory, remove the turf.

• The exposed land cover the size of a robust polyethylene film suitable in size or rubberoid. It's time to pour a concrete foundation. Only after it dries, stones are laid on top. By the way, the concrete support is not a prerequisite for the construction of flower beds. You can stay on the groove around the structure: Place geotextiles and three-quarters of sand. When it is well lost it, put the biggest boulders from above.

• A stone flower garden is owned by the unique appearance of natural material. However, precisely because of this unofficiation, the elements of the flower garden are so difficult to "customize" each other - clefts are inevitable. Put them, good ramming land. The result of the initial stage of your work should be laying by half looking out of the trenches of stones, reliably fixed land and sand. This is the base for the flower bed.

• After the cement finally freezes, apply a special hermetic substance on a stone masonry, which will protect the location of the stones of stones from the formation of cracks. You can fall asleep in the flower in the flower beds and plant flowers in a week - it is so much time is required cement to frozen completely.

Advice

1. Applying a solution of concrete, do not forget to make drain holes in the cement of the lower laying level for water drain.
2. In the stone flower beds, cement is used only from the inside of the wall to maintain the visibility of dry masonry.
3. If your stone masonry is not higher than 60 cm, the stones can be laid in a dry way, without cement. Just just as possible to dock the elements of the breed and fill the gaps of the earth.

As you can see, there is nothing impossible. Stone flowerbeds only in the photo look so inaccessible. In fact, there is not much at all: a desire, diligence, a few hours of your free time - and this beauty you have in the country!