The desire for beauty, inherent in every person, has various manifestations. One of them is the desire to make your home beautiful and comfortable. This applies to both the home and the local area. It is no coincidence that many interesting trends in landscape design have recently appeared. For example, the creation in the garden of various compositions of stones. Stone is a natural material that goes well with the greens of grass and trees. You can create a rock garden with your own hands, this kind of garden decoration came to us from Japan, and if you are prone to contemplation and meditation, a rock garden in the country will help you to tune into a contemplative mood, distracting yourself from everyday life.
Option # 1 - Japanese-style rock garden
How to make a rock garden? This is completely uncomplicated. For the Japanese, special masters do this art, but for the Europeans, the stone garden is mainly a decorative element, and therefore the task of creating it is simplified. You will need: several large stones of a natural form - large pebbles or boulders; sand, crushed stone or small pebbles.
Ideally, for a rock garden, the site is prepared in the same way as for a gravel garden. It is necessary to remove the soil by 8-10 cm, remove the roots of the weeds, fence the plot with a rope stretched over the pegs. Cover the bottom of the recess with agrofibre, and pour a layer of pebble, sand or gravel on top. Set a border around the edge. Now you need to place large stones on the surface of the pebbles (or other material). Arrange them as your intuition tells you. As a result, the composition should look harmonious. In the space around the stones, stains resembling circles of water can be depicted. If desired, plants can be planted in the rock garden, but there shouldn’t be many of them.
A stone garden, for the creation of which granite boulders, pebbles of different sizes and crushed stone were used. A small amount of green plants significantly enlivens the picture
The rock garden is created according to the rules of Feng Shui, it must contain elements of the four elements - earth, fire, water and air. If you do not have a reservoir in the area, the circles around the stones will be its imitation. Make your rock garden a place for reflection, perhaps it is here that you will be visited by successful thoughts on solving problems.
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A classic stone garden of boulders and rubble. Flat stones laid on the gravel form an interesting path
Stones in the design of the garden can make it a very picturesque corner, this material is good because it allows you to create compositions according to your own taste, which will decorate only your garden.
Such a beautiful path can be created from pebbles of approximately the same size in different colors. if there are not enough dark stones, you can use stone paint and varnish
Option # 2 - painting on stones
Painting stones for the garden is another popular area in landscape design. Skillfully painted stone comes to life before our eyes, turning into a cute animal, a funny gnome or a bouquet of flowers.
Rounded pebbles - an ideal form for painting. It can be turned into a figure of a lying animal, an insect, a berry
You will need acrylic stone paints, a solvent for them, synthetic brushes and a palette for mixing. There should be several brushes. To make the picture look more perfect, you need to use both thin and wide brushes. You can use any plastic container as a palette for mixing paints. For the final processing of painted stones you will need a transparent varnish.
Stones for painting need to choose a round or flat shape. It happens that some stone already resembles any animal, and the colors will only help to show this image in reality.
It’s easy to paint stones under a ladybug and other bright bugs, with their help you can create a bright interesting composition
Professionals recommend that before starting work, treat the stone with a primer and apply a background on it. If you do not have light stones, any stones can be painted with light paint, dried, and then apply a picture. If you are not an artist, it is better to write your favorite stories. The simplest images are ladybugs, beetles, emoticons. To draw a cat or puppy is also easy, such a stone in the grass at first glance can be mistaken for a living animal. First, the image is applied to the stone with a simple pencil, and then you can start painting with brushes.
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Images of flowers painted on stones can be as good as natural flowers, but here it is not easy to choose a stone of the desired shape, sometimes you need to work on the shape additionally
Option # 3 - creating alpine slides
A slide made of stones in the garden always looks attractive, especially if flowers grow between the stones. The beauty of the mountain slopes in spring, where bright flowers bloom among the stones, seemed so impressive to lovers of beauty that they began to reproduce it, creating alpine slides in the gardens. An alpine hill is best arranged in a sunny place of the garden, on a slope or on a hill. A soil layer is removed at a selected location - up to 40 cm. A layer of broken brick or gravel must be poured onto the bottom of the recess so that excess water flows from the root zone of plants here. Garden soil should be mixed with gravel (3: 1) to provide good drainage.
After that, a slide is created directly. On the surface, we randomly lay the stones down with the flat side, about a third of the stone should be underground. Designers advise you to limit yourself to one type of stone, without mixing several varieties, but if you see that a combination of stones will be successful, why not try it?
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To create this slide, various stones bonded with cement mortar were used. Between the stones, a variety of plants grow flowers, the result is a bright picturesque corner
Graceful leaves of ferns shade the gray color of stones well, and flowers for a slide can be used not only alpine; almost any flowers look good among stones.
Option # 4 - single stone compositions
The composition of stones in the garden looks organically, making the style of the garden more rich and complex. To create compositions, you can use both natural stones and stone creations of designers. Figures made of stones for the garden today can be purchased in the store, made to order.
In a secluded corner of the garden you can place a fantastic sculpture - an expression of the flight of designer imagination
Funny cat is made of round pebbles of different sizes, ears, tail and bird are forging elements
It can be a fantastic composition located in a secluded corner of the garden and suddenly opening to your eyes or a bright and attractive group of stones in the very center. The main thing is that she does not get out of the general style decision. Show your imagination by creating stone compositions in the garden. The co-creation of man and nature is always fruitful - you can become the co-creator of real works of landscape art.
