The Rock Garden

The Rock Garden is a delightful contrast to a lush green and thriving natural garden or vegetable garden. The combination of rigid stone and delicate plant life creates a calming atmosphere and brings alpine atmosphere "in the rock garden. 
The alpine atmosphere is created in the rock garden, since most of the flowers that grow here, originally come from mountainous regions. Many such plants are a challenge to the rock gardener because they need special care in order to the arid climate thrive optimally. Nevertheless, the rock gardenis also for the beginners. Particularly indigenous varieties of plants are very easy and the fact that they make do with little moisture, makes it a popular planting object - especially given our increasingly becoming hotter and drier summers.
If you want to create a rock garden, you should consider when planning the site. The heat-loving plants, which include succulents such as Sempervivum prefer sunny places such as niches in south-facing, sunny stone walls even without direct water supply they can survive long periods without problems.  
In addition, make few demands on rock garden plants to the ground. The most suitable is a loose, porous soil layer, can run well through the rain water.
Spatial effects can be achieved in the alpine garden, if the structure is small hill. Thus, the rock garden does not flat and visually appealing. Color accents can be pretty of course, create or cushion plants with perennials. For those who believe that a dry or rock garden consists only of green plants, is wrong. Many species of flowers adorn the bed in the spring and summer with colorful and sometimes exotic flowers. Different-sized trees add variety to the image and can be well integrated into the structure of a rock garden. And who wants planted here was to nibble - such as strawberries or aromatic herbs such as thyme.