How To Make A Rock Garden – Indoor Or Alpine
If you want to know how to make a rock garden that is much more organic and want each to grow directly in the container the procedure is slightly different.
You will have to begin by lining the container, ensuring that there are holes for drainage, so that your plant roots do not stand in any water. Plants generally need at least 6 inches of growing room. Then place a layer of broken crockery, terracotta or medium gravel and cover the entire bottom of the container. This prevents the plants from standing in water as any excess will easily soak through to the bottom.
Using a mixture of one part peat moss, one part garden loam, and one part clean coarse builder's sand, as well as a slow release fertilizer, fill up the container to the top. With this type of mixture your can plant anything from Cacti to Alpine Plants, so when choosing plants, select a wide variety of colours and shapes. When selecting the rocks, select sizes and shapes that compliment your plant selection and place them throughout the container. Take note of the maximum size of each of your plants when placing your rocks, you will want to give them room to grow and flourish.
When you transfer each of your plants from there individual smaller pots, it is recommended that your lightly brush away some of the soil from the root ball. This will assist in the growth rate and the plant will better set in the new environment. When placing each plant carefully put them at the same growing level as was in there pots, and then fill in any gaps between the rocks and plants with your planting mixture.
Once you have set-up your container continue to regularly maintain it with watering and light fertilizing during the growing season, but remember that an Indoor Rock Garden will require less overall watering than one located outdoors.
