This is how you design it yourself

What you need for creating a mini rock garden

If you want to create such a mini rock garden on your balcony, then you can with this one Shopping list in the nearest garden center (if necessary, a hardware store with a garden department will do the same) go shopping. You need:

• a bowl of any size or another Planter (e.g. B. Pot, Flower box(€ 149.00 at Amazon *) or balcony box ...)
• this should only be rather flat and also have at least one drainage hole on the floor
• suitable substrate (e.g. B. Cactus soil, Herb soil or a mixture of Potting soil and sand)
• suitable rock garden plants (e.g. B. Houseleek, gentian, Cyclamen, Edelweiss ...)
• Stones and pebbles of various sizes

Caution: stone vessels may be too heavy

It is of course particularly stylish if you place your mini rock garden in a stone planter - for example in a natural stone or trough cast from concrete. Please note, however, that such a container could be too heavy for the balcony due to static reasons. However, stone troughs are very suitable for the garden or terrace.

Suitable plants for the balcony rock garden

First of all, you should not choose the planting of your mini rock garden solely on the basis of aesthetic considerations. It is much more important to choose plants according to their common needs: All plants in the planter should have the same requirements in terms of location as well as nutrient and water supply. Otherwise, you have a large number of suitable perennials, grasses, bulbous and bulbous plants to choose from. Due to the lack of space, take mainly dwarf-growing varieties and create a lot of variety in the planter.

Suitable plant species are, for example:

• Houseleek (Sempervivum)
• Spicy stonecrop ((Sedum acre)
• Sedum plant (Sedum)
• Tripmadam (sedum reflexum)
• RosetteSaxifrage (Splendid Saxifrage, Saxifraga cotyledon)
• Gentian
• Alpine aster (aster alpinus)
• Ice plant (Aizoaceae)
• Cyclamen
• Cranesbill (Geranium)
• Blue fescue (Festuca glauca)
• different types of sedge (Carex)