Rock Garden

Today I want to tell you about my visit to a rock garden, or alpine slide. I arrived at the Botanical Garden on a rainy day and had already given up hope of taking beautiful photos. But within half an hour, I was no longer paying attention to the drizzle, as the alpine plants amazed me with their arrangement among the stones, boulders, and rock formations.

 

The alpine garden features all kinds of natural stones: sea or river pebbles, sandstone, limestone, crushed stone, and gravel. It's worth noting that stone is the foundation of all structures: alpine slides, rockeries, dry streams, bridges, retaining structures, and garden paths.

I liked the look of the old boulders. The gravel mixture near the plantings imitates a dry stream. The alpine slide lacks any symmetry; all the garden paths, paved with stones or tiles, twist and turn. 

 

I noted that most of the garden plants are perennials: this gives the rock garden the most natural look and saves time and effort on maintenance.

 

 

Ducks kept the rock garden in order, glaring at me to make sure I didn't disturb it.

 

The designers and gardeners at the Botanical Garden used low-growing, slow-growing conifers, combining plants with different colors and crown shapes. Furthermore, conifers can create the perfect natural environment, far removed from human intervention.

This beautiful alpine rock garden was an unexpected discovery for me.

 

 

 

November

 November. According to the calendar, it's the last month of autumn. But the weather always makes its own adjustments to the calendar. This year, which is almost certainly drawing to a close, spring arrived very late. The cold weather lingered until May. The vegetable seedlings remained on my windowsill until the end of May. 

  

Now autumn is in no hurry to leave, as if eager to give us a little warmth we missed in the spring. It's trying to preserve its colors to delight northerners. Only frequent rains prevent us from walking in the fresh air and enjoying the autumn.

 

 

The trees and shrubs didn't shed their leaves in October. Only with the onset of cold, sometimes frosty, nights in November did the leaves begin to turn yellow and fall. Although the warm season is drawing to an end, we can still hear the crunch of yellow and golden leaves underfoot and admire the rays of sunlight filtering through the tree branches. 

 

 

What is November like in your region? Are you enjoying the colors of autumn, or is autumn just beginning? Or perhaps spring has just arrived and everything is blooming?