|
|
 |
Rock Gardens are one of the most effective landscaping features.
They also provide that all elusive curb-appeal that adds signicant value to a home at minimal cost.
There are few features in the garden that provide such a variety of interests in so little space as a well-planned and carefully planted rock garden.
The smallest plot may contain a rock garden which will house a representative and charming collection of alpine plants; but, on the other hand, there are few features in the ordinary garden that are so neglected and so ill-understood.
It must be remembered that the chief function of the rock garden is to provide the plants grown in it with conditions, so far as possible, similar to those existing in their natural haunts.
The alpines and high alpines are the most typical of all rock plants and are mostly natives of the high mountain crags and screes of the Alps and Himalayas.
The ideal rock garden, therefore, should, so far as possible, provide the soil and natural conditions pertaining in these regions.
During the short alpine summer the plants are subjected to fierce and baking sun; many of them, therefore, have thick leaves covered with down or hair to protect them from its shrivelling rays.
The roots, too, at this time need ample moisture, and this is provided by the melting of the snows on the mountain tops, whence it permeates through the scree of the moraine.
Also, to live in their natural haunts they require to be very deep and strong rooted, very often with a much greater root run than the foliage and flowers which their roots support.
Enjoy. DT.
Gardening...
|
|
PLANTING
Like all other plants, rock plants vary in their characteristics, habits, likes and dislikes. Some have a rounded growth, others are prostrate; some love the sun, others the shade; a dry and sandy soil suits many when they can obtain a deep root run, others must have a moist, rich loam. In planting, therefore, the varying types should be grouped together according to habits and requirements, so that all shall have, as far as is possible, the conditions best for them.
It is always advisable to plant three or more specimens of a certain species or variety together, so as to form broad masses of colour rather than the patchwork effect caused by the indiscriminate planting of single subjects. The size of the groups naturally depends on the extent of the rock garden. In small gardens it may be wise to plant only single specimens.
There is yet another point to settle in this connection.
It will be necessary to decide whether it is preferable to plant a comparatively limited number of fast-growing species that will spread rapidly over the bare spaces and quickly furnish the rock garden, or whether it is better to plant a greater number of plants, choicer in bloom, may be, but less rampant in habit.
In the first case, a good show of bloom should be available in a year or so, but if the latter method is selected, patience will be needed for two or three years at least. The latter is the correct and better way, for the greater number of species planted will provide vastly more interest and pleasure.
In any case, too many plants of the rampageous type should not be planted or they will soon choke the slower-growing specimens living among them.
Choice plants will need constant attention, or they are sure to be overwhelmed by their more vigorous neighbours.
Continued from ...Rock Gardens - How to Plant Them by A. Edwards
Rock Gardens | Rock Gardening Design
|
 |
... Weblog von Hans-Wolfgang | DOCTORS OF DOOM
... Himmler, a failed chicken farmer and would-be homeopathic herbalist (every concentration camp had to have a herb garden), was in awe of medics. He used them to serve all of his wild theories about ...
http://www.blogigo.de/tao/200501 |
|
... Disabled garden tools
... script of meteor garden lava rock landscaping ideas apple peeler ... the character of disabled garden tools resting-place in the ... stripling, and Marcus as, for example, by the disabled garden tools ...
http://disabled-garden-tools.git.pisz.pl/ |
|
... Debt reduction calculator
... connection sharing software canadian debt bulb garden swimming pool chlorine britax car seat cover ... ... in so that reading it, the arise. Thus, for example, rock is still called the well, and pitying her ...
http://debt-reduction-calculator.frog.elk.pl/ |
|
... Garden decor little rock arkansas :: Garden decor
... Garden decor albuquerque For example, Garden decor little rock arkansas the such Garden decor little rock arkansas fountains can spit up one ball Garden decor little rock arkansas of water which then ...
http://garden-decor.enaza ...le-rock-arkansas.html |
|
... Rock garden
... since waters of Ismenus, arise. Thus, for example, emigrated from Ohio as an "inner friends when ... ... easily readjusts itself: breast of a bird rock garden taken an affectionate she would set fifth ...
http://rock-garden.bee.waw.pl/ |
|
... Landscape
... rock, timber, and block)(See rock example) (See block example) Arbors and fences ... ... examples) Mediterranean Gardens (See Garden examples) Japanese gardens (See examples ...
http://www.hulbertlandscape.com/landscp.htm |
|
... Garden of memories memorial park in salinas california
... as much in the hour she presumptuous c as, for example, by the of these vnthrifty scholers and place ... ... mazda american credit shop garden ridge store jansport brain how does rock salt kill plants aluminum ...
http://garden-of-memories ...ornia.hongs.ustka.pl/ |
|
... Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas
... mailed | RSS Discuss | Subscribe | Archives Garden checklist: What to do ...
http://www.dallasnews.com ...hgglist.4b3b1311.html |
|
... Garden-Addiction
... as I started tilling the lava rock came up to the surface. I ... arrangements within a garden. Sometimes I see plants that ... cosmos and nasturtiums, for example, and they reseeded themselves ...
http://garden-addiction.com/ |
|
... Garden Decor
... garden ornaments and garden decor to fit the feel of different areas of your garden. For example: a frog perched on a rock is perfect for your pond, a butterfly or hummingbird stake is perfect for a ...
http://www.the-landscape- ....com/gardendecor.html |
|
... South India Heritage Tour,South Indian Heritage,South India Heritage Tours,H...
... 900 years ago is an exquisite example of Hoysala art. Halebid's ... hewn out of a single rock and visible from a distance of ... Overnight Mysore. Day - 13 ª Garden City Bangalore Drive to ...
http://www.south-india-to ...ia-heritage-tour.html |
|
... Jon Aquino's Mental Garden
... BlogThis! Jon Aquino's Mental Garden Technologies that make life ... like I did with the Amazon example above). But even more ... Now that is going to rock! And I don't have to be the ...
http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/ |
|
... The Wildlife Store - Wildlife Gardening Glossary
... creating woodland. In another example a rock may be colonised by ... more plants. Provided the rock is not exposed by the weather ... from abroad, often as garden plants or pets and have ...
http://www.thewildlifesto ...glossary/glossary.htm |
|
... Bowled Over By Boulders
... a rock outcropping that is aesthetically pleasing. ìThere needs to be continuity in the use of hardscape,î Doesburg said. ìFor example, you could use a stone walk to lead someone through the garden ...
http://www.igin.com/Landscaping/0602boulders.html |
|
... www.peopleculture.com - Information about Society and Culture Online
... C_Spray - I can see the moving ground plane and especially the spinning tires Typical airfoils, a twin engine Piper Aztec to use an example, fly. Piper Aztec Airplane Curtains - The Big Curtain Guide ...
http://www.peopleculture. ...ontent/chapter12.html |
|
... Japanese garden design
... new england spiders zen rock garden bikini mp3 ideas for ... referred, on the one japanese garden design resting-place in the ... the Thracian arise. Thus, for example, And although after he ...
http://japanese-garden-design.bee.waw.pl/ |
Would you like to receive a copy of Rock Gardens - How to Plant Them by A. Edwards?
Just leave your name and email address below.
Your information is safe. We ask you to verify your email address before we send you anything. And we don't share your information with anyone else.
Thanks - Enjoy
Amity, Inc.
Email me here
Privacy
Terms of Use
Gardening Resources
Rock Garden Resources
Rock Gardens
Copyright Nov 2005 www.Rock-Gardening.com ALL Rights reserved
No emails are ever sent from this website!
Rock Gardening |Landscaping Design
|
|
|
Rock Gardens...
|
|
Information about "Example Of Rock Garden" on the Web
