Rock Garden Style Eclectic
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Rock garden style eclectic. Creeping plants are fun to use too because they soften the hard edges of the rocks and help blend your plantings over time. Whatever type of rock garden suits your space lifestyle and gardening expertise start with the stone and build outwards with varying textures and colors of plants. A shady woodland garden could border a patio filled with combination containers. Border plant container cut flower cut foliage dried flower drought tolerant easy to grow mass planting salt tolerant.
Very wide flower spikes bear intense reddish orange flowers that open to peachy yellow for a two tone effect. Not native to north america. Rock garden designs can range from to sprawling naturalistic creations to faux dried river beds to rustic mounds of stones soil and plants it all depends on your preferences and the amount of space and rock you have to work with. Even if you don t have a naturally rocky site you can easily create one.
Smaller bulbs are nice choice especially small daffodils wild tulip species blue eyed grass or brodiaea. Woodland rock gardens made of mossy rocks and boulders demand ground hugging wildflowers such as trilliums violets and ferns. Use of boulders nathan smith93. Design ideas for a large eclectic backyard full sun xeriscape in denver with natural stone pavers and with rock feature.
Alpine rock gardens resemble a windswept mountain peak complete with rugged lichen coated rocks and boulders flowering alpine plants and twisted evergreens stunted by harsh growing conditions. An expansive prairie garden could contain a rock pile interplanted with alpine plants. The beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the possibilties are limited only by one s imagination in an eclectic garden. Finally a third type of rock garden is one inspired by mountain peaks where craggy terrain and dry conditions give way to rugged alpine displays.
Think tiny when it comes to your rock garden plants. Whether you want inspiration for planning an eclectic garden renovation or are building a. Rock gardens are designed to recreate the free draining dry conditions of alpine meadows. While rock gardens can be expensive to build and are labor intensive a pleasing rock garden can be created and enjoyed even when space and resources are limited by filling crevices between paving stones or using carpeting varieties at the front of a mixed border.
Desert rock gardens feature cacti and other succulents as well as. If you have a small area often the best design is a simple round raised bed made of select rocks this design can fit neatly into any well chosen nook and will. I like to use small mints sedums mosses ice plants and.