(B) The Do-it-Yourself "Hardcoat" version of the Miniature Hillside
The model below demonstrates the use of Toprock’s "Hard-Coat" (TM) to make a self-supporting
hillside shaped out of your soil, and located anywhere in your garden (or as a stand-alone unit),
This model uses bonsais, but alternatively you can use small shrubs.
This
model
also includes real stones to boost the "mountainous" effect.
Stones add further interest
and realism.
Also shown is a quickly-painted backdrop for perspective, not vitally necessary. Alternatives include commercially bought screens, a simple one colour paint job, or most often no backing at all.
All the extras present in the Rock-and-Bonsai 'Miniature Mountainside' Landscape are available, namely: mountain streams and lakes, misting, lighting, shading, drippers for the plants, etc.
But the price-tag for us to make the Miniature Mountain Landscape (around $6,000) is about five thousand five hundred dollars more than you would pay for making your own "Hardcoat Hillside"kind..!
You can also use Hardcoat in any part of your garden,
to make water-efficient, creative shapes, in which your plants will flourish:
By providing a supportive environment: free of weeds, watered by hidden drippers, and moisturised beneath the Hardcoat "permanent mulch",
you can expect the impressively quick growing results shown below.
Also shown is a quickly-painted backdrop for perspective, not vitally necessary. Alternatives include commercially bought screens, a simple one colour paint job, or most often no backing at all.
All the extras present in the Rock-and-Bonsai 'Miniature Mountainside' Landscape are available, namely: mountain streams and lakes, misting, lighting, shading, drippers for the plants, etc.
But the price-tag for us to make the Miniature Mountain Landscape (around $6,000) is about five thousand five hundred dollars more than you would pay for making your own "Hardcoat Hillside"kind..!
You can also use Hardcoat in any part of your garden,
to make water-efficient, creative shapes, in which your plants will flourish:
By providing a supportive environment: free of weeds, watered by hidden drippers, and moisturised beneath the Hardcoat "permanent mulch",
you can expect the impressively quick growing results shown below.
After 3 months, here is the plant-growth in the Hard-Coat holes!
- Needing 50% less water than a mulch-free surface.
- Slopes staying in place.
- You never need to weed this area.
- Dripper lines are hidden under the soil.
- Plants are perfectly watered.
Further Hard-Coat (TM) information
Model of Hard-Coat, showing dripped plants installed.
On-site
application
of Hard-Coat:
(1)Hard-Coat is seen here holding up the banks beside a stream,
(2) It is also providing planting-holes for recently-positioned ferns etc.
(plants are drip-watered, with pipes hidden under the coating)
Above Right: The same project, with Hard-Coat in foreground.