Sunday, February 20, 2011

The Art Of Rock Garden Landscaping

By Leon Mieler


Not every single landscape is perfect and having a rock garden will help in a lot of those areas. You might have an area which is just too shaded and you cannot have plants due to the fact there just is not enough sun during the day to help them grow, or you may have an area that has become too dry because you are either going through a drought or rain just will not reach it.

Or, perhaps you have too much rain and your land is just too soggy to produce good vegetation and has now become really swampy. Rock gardens can assist in all of these problem areas and most are very low maintenance.

Excellent planning can help any novice to rock gardens, but at times a professional's opinion might be the difference between normal and magnificent.

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

Adding some shallow rooted plants can help break up a big, rocky area with some green. Or, if the region is too dense with rock, then you could build a border around the location with an artificial border, like railroad ties - or use tiny plants to trace around it.

A hilly region on your land will make your soil to erode. Placing your garden in a strategic location of your land will prevent the erosion and whilst adding an excellent lawn decoration. Bringing in rocks indigenous to your location will give the illusion that the garden is much more natural.

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

This type of a garden uses sand and rocks to put patterns into the ground and for those who have an really dry climate, this will look intentional despite having a bad spot within your yard.

Shady regions can have a rock garden with plants that thrive inside the shade. As an alternative to having plants that are discovered naturally around rock, you would take plants that do well within the shade and populate your garden with those. It's an excellent method to expand on the rock garden concept and have a more personalized decoration.




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