A man delivered 10 tonnes of old roofing tiles and filled the hole with them (for free), could have done with just about half of that but the digger just kept tipping and tipping and he said he couldn't stop once he had started.
Anyway here is a pic, as I say still very much 'work in progress' but it is better than the hole I originally started with.
I hope it 12 months time it will look very different - fingers crossed.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
I had a lovely rockery but the weeding was horrendous-working on slopes was very tiring. You notice i am speaking in the past tense, the rockery is no more much to difficult to maintain. wish you luck with yours
Thanks Conifer. You can't really tell from the picture but I actually have a little sunken path between the two piles and that has made weeding easier. Tricky though, if you try to weed when they are tiny too fiddly, if you leave too long they are rampant.
I have planted a lot of 'creeping' plants (as opposed to creepy) so I am hoping eventually they will crowd out the weeds. Also hoping they will make it look less like a mound of soil , the picture doesn't really do it any justice - honest.
Gardening, never an easy road.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
DD the creeping plants will eventually do the job for you but you must be meticulous with your weeding while they are small. the weeds seem to grow through them and that can be a big problem later on. Snails did no harm on my rockery they merely did the job they were intended for to clear up dead matter I did think of planting through weed control material but never got round to it
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I wonder what the outcome was?!
Hi Jeannie,
The 'big rock' as predicted is still at the entrance.
The rockery is up and running though, albeit a bit short of plants and still 'work in progress'
A man delivered 10 tonnes of old roofing tiles and filled the hole with them (for free), could have done with just about half of that but the digger just kept tipping and tipping and he said he couldn't stop once he had started.
Anyway here is a pic, as I say still very much 'work in progress' but it is better than the hole I originally started with.
I hope it 12 months time it will look very different - fingers crossed.
I had a lovely rockery but the weeding was horrendous-working on slopes was very tiring. You notice i am speaking in the past tense, the rockery is no more much to difficult to maintain. wish you luck with yours
Thanks Conifer. You can't really tell from the picture but I actually have a little sunken path between the two piles and that has made weeding easier. Tricky though, if you try to weed when they are tiny too fiddly, if you leave too long they are rampant.
I have planted a lot of 'creeping' plants (as opposed to creepy) so I am hoping eventually they will crowd out the weeds.
Also hoping they will make it look less like a mound of soil 
, the picture doesn't really do it any justice - honest. 
Gardening, never an easy road.
DD the creeping plants will eventually do the job for you but you must be meticulous with your weeding while they are small. the weeds seem to grow through them and that can be a big problem later on. Snails did no harm on my rockery they merely did the job they were intended for to clear up dead matter I did think of planting through weed control material but never got round to it