A Short Overview To Landscaping Rock Gardens

| Tuesday, December 13, 2011
By Leon Mieler


Not every single landscape is perfect and getting a rock garden may help in a lot of those places. You might have an area that is just too shaded and also you cannot have plants due to the fact there just is not enough sun throughout the day to help them grow, or you may have an area that has become too dry because you're either going through a drought or rain just won't reach it.

Or, maybe you've got an excessive amount of rain and your land is just too soggy to support good vegetation and has now become really swampy. Rock gardens can assist in all of these problem areas and most are really low maintenance.

Good planning can help any novice to rock gardens, but often a professional's opinion might be the difference between ordinary and amazing.

If your land is too rocky, then you can just clear up some of the rock and try to arrange what is left in an aesthetically pleasing pattern.

Adding some shallow rooted plants can assist break up a huge, rocky region with some green. Or, if the area is too dense with rock, then you can build a border around the region with an artificial border, for example railroad ties - or use little plants to trace around it.

A hilly area on your land will cause your soil to erode. Placing your garden in a strategic location of your land will cease the erosion and at the same time adding a good lawn decoration. Bringing in rocks indigenous to your area will give the illusion that the garden is far more natural.

An area which is just too dry or maybe has non-fertile soil is another suitable location for a rock garden, and perhaps you should even consider a Japanese rock garden.

This type of a garden makes use of sand and rocks to put patterns into the ground and if you have an incredibly dry climate, this will seem intentional despite having a bad spot within your yard.

Shady areas can have a rock garden with plants that thrive inside the shade. Instead of having plants which can be found naturally around rock, you would take plants that do well within the shade and populate your garden with those. It's an awesome approach to expand on the rock garden idea and have a more personalized decoration.




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