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Scott’s Brutal run 6/14/08

Evergreens and Shrubs for the Rock Garden Background

Evergreens and shrubs used for forming the background or setting for the garden are not subject to the restrictions for the actual rock garden, particularly as regards height.
Nevertheless the transition from the small scale on which the rock garden is planned to taller trees in the background should not be made too suddenly; and [...]

Evergreens and Shrubs for the Rock Garden

Dwarf evergreens and dwarf shrubs will help to produce the illusion of naturalness in the rock garden to a greater degree than any other form of plant materials, if they are used in the right way. There are very few rock gardens, indeed, regardless of their size or character, which cannot be made more attractive [...]

Construction of a Rock Garden

Once you choose the site of your rock garden, select the rocks you want to use and have the soil prepared, you are ready to start construction. The first question you might as is when is the best time of year to make a rock garden? The rocks and soil may be handled at any [...]

Details of Rock Garden Construction

The first step in the actual construction of a rock garden is to lay it out, at least in enough detail to show its general contour, to indicate paths and so on. These points had best be marked by fairly stout stakes driven into the ground, as otherwise they are likely to be obliterated.
Where there [...]

Materials For Rock Garden Building

Often the stones of which the rock garden is to be constructed may be obtained locally; sometimes on the place itself. Under these conditions, we must usually take what is available, and make the best of it. But not all stones are equally appropriate for rock garden building.
”Sympathetic” Stones
If rock plants ask for bread and [...]

Bulbs in a Rock Garden

In most books on rock gardening, a large part of the space is devoted to the description of plants, and of individual varieties. This is as it should be, and to those who are taking up seriously this fascinating form of gardening, the acquisition of at least one or two of these larger volumes is [...]

Rock Garden Foundation Planting

There is still another use for a customized variety of the rock garden which has been taken little advantage of. This is referred to as “rock garden foundation planting.”
There are a few such plantings effectively executed to feel content that there is a field here which has not yet been developed. In many sections where [...]

The Intricacies In Planting A Rock Garden

With most kinds of gardening or landscaping, the gardener may exercise a rather wide range of choices when it comes to treatment; he may make his planting formal, informal, natural, highly decorative, or more picturesque.
With a rock garden, however, formal treatment is precluded. Neither the materials used in the construction of the rock garden, nor [...]

Prepping For a Rock Garden

Watering a Rock Garden
Watering a rock garden is a matter of the utmost importance, which nevertheless is scarcely mentioned in rock garden literature. In England, of course, this is not so vital a matter as with us. With less sun, more rain, and more moisture in the air, rock garden plants, especially alpines, are as apt [...]

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