What is an alpine garden?
The Garden is a garden composed primarily or exclusively of plants that come from mountain climates. These plants are called "alpine plants" and are characterized by small leaves similar to shrubs and small flowers. The garden does not have to be in a mountainous climate to be considered an alpine garden, because the classification depends entirely on the types of plants growing, not the physical position of the garden. Alpine gardens at low altitudes usually require special care to flourish. Alpine plants thrive in rocky, acidic soil and require permanently cold climate.
The plant is considered to be an alpine plant if it grows in the Alpine climate - that is, if it is indigenous for rocky, mountain conditions. On the typical mountain, the base is fresh and green, but the trees grow alternating at altitude until they eventually disappear. Smaller plants persist on the rocks increasingly until there are no plants, just rocks and usually snow. The place where the trees stops is called "tree line"And everything above the tree line is considered to be an alpine climate. Alpine plants usually grow under the tree line, but excel in the Alpine climate because there are the only ones that grow there.
Gardeners living in mountain climates, such as rocky mountains in the United States or Alps in Europe, often use indigenous alpine plants in their arrangements. The result is often by default alpine garden. Plants common to lower gardens usually do not survive in a colder, rocket climate of the mountain north.
The simplest alpine garden is a live collection of indigenous alpine plants in a mountainous environment. More complex gardens include the artistic arrangement of alpine plants, often include rock sculptures and organization and identification of plants. Many alborn gardens are mostly rock gardens, with several varieties of wine, low -laid flora dispersed. Local governmentAnd private foundations in alpine conditions often sponsor the creation and maintenance of publicly accessible alpine botanical gardens to show the native landscape.
Alpine plants are valued for their aesthetic value even outside the mountain climate. Many gardeners with a lower altitude will try to integrate alpine plants into their gardens, both as a means of introducing diversity, as well as a way to earn potentially low water or drought. Many alpine plants are used to growth with small water and their planting in dry soil is usually not a problem.
Just because alpine plants survive at lower altitudes does not mean that they will be there. Gardeners trying to create settings of the alpine garden at a lower altitude will have to pay special attention to the conditions of growing alpine plants. If the soil is also the air, the air is too bright, or the wind, the plants may suffer.