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Making A Rock Garden In Your Apartment: 7 Steps
To
begin
with
a
basic
rock
garden
should
not
take
too
much
trouble
to
make.
Making
A
Rock
Garden
In
Your
Backyard:
1.
The
choice
of
place
will
depend
on
what
kind
of
plants
you
are
growing.
Most
alpine
or
mountain
plants
are
good
with
bright
open
sunshine
but
there
are
a
few
that
prefer
shady
spots.
If
it
is
a
tropical
climate
you
are
looking
at
then
it
is
best
have
this
spot
of
the
garden
indoors
in
a
place
that
receives
slant
sunlight.
2. What you really need for a perfect rock garden is a slope. Any kind of inclined surface is the best suited for making a garden of this kind because it ensures that the water flows out of the soil quickly. Rock plants are used to growing on slopes and cannot stand water logged soil.
3. The rocks that you choose for making the structure should be rock solid. You need to start with two huge rocks and then balance the smaller ones on it as you go up. It is always better to have two rocks that are gripping each other for that perfect balance that can be rarely achieved with a single stone.
4. Almost any kind of stones will yield results but an expert's pick would be lime stone because it is porous and the plants can extract calcium from the lime. Granite provides stability and a burst of colours to your garden. It is not like all the rocks have to be from the same family; you can mix and match to add contrast to the ensemble.
5. After you have built the rock structure, you need to fill in the gaps with soil for the indoor plants to grow in. now you need to be very careful while choosing the composition of the soil. Mountain soil is fertile but grainy with sand that makes it well draining. When you are growing rock plants they need to have more humus rich fertile top soil and the percentage of sand needs to increased in the lower layers.
6. You can also try doing a what mountain farmers do; terrace planting. Plant the rock plants at different levels of rocks so that the top soil washed from one level gets deposited on the nest and that brings us to the most important element, water.
7. Most rock gardens have a flowing source of water. You can easily make this yourself with the help of a motor pump and couple of pipes. You need to have the pump at the back and a water pool made of rubber or polythene in front of the garden.
Use these gardening tips to make your rock garden rock!
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