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Show me your rockeries!
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I have some rocks (they might be concrete... but they look rocky) and I love alpines etc. But I cant think of a way to make a rockery fit (ie look right) in my garden. So I'm looking for inspiration - please post photos of the ways in which you grow such plants in your space.
Thank you.
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totally agree with Verdun.
For every good rockery you see, you'll see hundreds of hideous "currant buns"
"what shall we do with this soil we've got from digging out the pond? foundations for the extention etc etc. Lets ram some bits of stone into it and call it a rockery"
A rockery should mimic a natural stone outcrop, ie almost all rock with the tiniest of plant pockets.
slideshow here of how I created one of our 'rockeries' The rocks are all glacial erratics so not two are the same type.
http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/slideshow/New%20Paths
And how I built a Crevice style garden using concrete slabs.
http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/slideshow/The%20New%20Crevice%20Garden
Pansy, that's lovely!
That is beautiful, Pansy.
And thank you Berghill. I couldn't get the second link to work - does that show the final result of the first one too? Couldn't help but notice that lovely bench - did you make that?
Here is my pile of rocks, dug up from around the garden. There's about as many again in the front garden, used as path edging (typical 40s house).
I agree that many 'rockeries' look hideous, I was using that term a little tongue in cheek. But I'd like to find a use for these rocks that doesn't jar, and I figured that as I love alpines but don't have the garden for them really, I might be able to marry the two things together.
I hardly dare to post a picture of mine after all these comments but we really had no choice to construct it as the waterfall and pond were there already and we needed something to support the bank. It's only been done recently so isn't planted up yet though - most of what's growing there is weeds at the moment!
Haven't seen many "currant buns" so far HF. It seems to me if you're going to go for it.....go big time! (I was left a currant bun in my very first garden and my very first garden project was....clear it!)
Pansyface that is mind blowing!!!!!! Your planting is stunning and so natural looking. That wee foxglove just looks like it popped up there all by itself!
SG quite a few tips for planting there once your weeds move out.