Rock Garden Style Eclectic
A shady woodland garden could border a patio filled with combination containers.
Rock garden style eclectic. 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. Either way it s a rock solid idea. Border plant container cut flower cut foliage dried flower drought tolerant easy to grow mass planting salt tolerant. Rock gardens are designed to recreate the free draining dry conditions of alpine meadows.
Cottage eclectic rock garden. Use of boulders nathan smith93. I like to use small mints sedums mosses ice plants and. 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.
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. In this front yard a stone wall offers an ideal foundation and border for a variety of low growing alpine classics including aubrieta royal blue phlox subulata and potentilla gypsophila franzii and dianthus tiny rubies fill crevices between stones and help to integrate the stone wall with the rest of the terrace. Think tiny when it comes to your rock garden plants. Not native to north america.
Design ideas for a large eclectic backyard full sun xeriscape in denver with natural stone pavers and with rock feature. An expansive prairie garden could contain a rock pile interplanted with alpine plants. Desert rock gardens feature cacti and other succulents as well as. Very wide flower spikes bear intense reddish orange flowers that open to peachy yellow for a two tone effect.
Smaller bulbs are nice choice especially small daffodils wild tulip species blue eyed grass or brodiaea. The beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the possibilties are limited only by one s imagination in an eclectic garden. 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.
Even if you don t have a naturally rocky site you can easily create one. 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. 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.