Rock Gardens.
May. 9th, 2013 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprigI've been thinking about rock gardens.
I even have a Pinterest board of rock gardens.
See, our property has a lot of rocks. It's got so many rocks, it's sort of like someone dumped a thin layer of topsoil over a gravel quarry.
(Someone did. The glaciers. We're at the bottom of the Finger Lakes, which means we're the dumping ground for a lot of Canadian rock. Anyone want their rock back?)
So as we do anything in the yard... we pull out rocks. Big rocks, little rocks. Tiny rocks and huge rocks.
We've started covering up a pretty horrid border garden to the west side of the house with large flat rocks, tucking Coleus plants in between the rocks. It's looking decent so far; will look better once we get down more weedcloth.
But we have this wet sunken corner of the yard... and I'm thinking more rocks. Rocks, and a little water feature. Maybe a waterfall.
What do you think?
I even have a Pinterest board of rock gardens.
See, our property has a lot of rocks. It's got so many rocks, it's sort of like someone dumped a thin layer of topsoil over a gravel quarry.
(Someone did. The glaciers. We're at the bottom of the Finger Lakes, which means we're the dumping ground for a lot of Canadian rock. Anyone want their rock back?)
So as we do anything in the yard... we pull out rocks. Big rocks, little rocks. Tiny rocks and huge rocks.
We've started covering up a pretty horrid border garden to the west side of the house with large flat rocks, tucking Coleus plants in between the rocks. It's looking decent so far; will look better once we get down more weedcloth.
But we have this wet sunken corner of the yard... and I'm thinking more rocks. Rocks, and a little water feature. Maybe a waterfall.
What do you think?
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Date: 2013-05-09 01:34 pm (UTC)And making use of what you have seems smart to me. :)
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Date: 2013-05-09 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-09 04:02 pm (UTC)