How to make rock garden (rockery) at home

Building a rockery or also known as a rock garden is frequently done in a special place in the yard. 

No matter the size of your rock garden is must be an exquisite and spectacular every season of the year. Rock gardens are suitable for all kinds of yards and they can be situated in different places like along paths, along water areas, stairs or along the stone wall or fences. 

It is necessary to comply with certain requirements to build a rockery or rock color area in the garden and yard.

 When crating a rockery in your garden it is good to remember that you are recreating a mountain landscape and that you should use plants that are typical for the region represented in it. Your rock garden can be created on any terrain steeper or plain. If you have a plain one use low conifers or shrubs to increase the visual height of the place where the garden is. You can also use different types of herbs or spices with different flavors.

How to make decorative wall with dry masonry

Dry masonry means to build a wall without using a binder (cement, lime, etc.) (an example of this are made by slm, tiarescott and ng yrizarry), which is one of its biggest advantages, because if you have a river near you or a stone quarry, the only cost you will have is to bring several cubic meters of stones. 

Decorative retaining walls of dry masonry are preferred for landscaping, the distance into the grout is used to fill with flower seeds and herbs even spices.
Such walls you can see everywhere in rural areas, and areas that are close to rivers and quarries. 

Usually constructed of slab stones with different size, but they should not be too small, because the wall will be unsustainable.

Retaining wall - some materials in the yard and gardening

The retaining wall and gardening

There is one accessory that almost necessarily is present when doing landscaping of a villa - the retaining wall. To have an attractive retaining wall in the yard or garden, it must be built from quality and effectivematerials . 

Nowadays there are many different ways to achieve this goal. Starting from bricks, concrete blocks ytong, concrete, reinforce concrete, stone (natural and artificial) and even wood. Some professionals in the field of landscape design and landscaping even make combinations of these materials, which are quite successful. 

But undoubtedly the most beautiful remains retaining wall built of natural stone that has a wonderful finish in the decoration of the yard and garden.