Stone element in your garden.

[size=large]Do you give a lot of importance to the stone element in your garden? Do you have a corner for a "rock garden" and what plants/flowers do you grow in it?[/size]

 

Its funny you should mention this, because only yesterday I saw an excellent stone feature in someone else's garden, which has inspired me. It basically looked like the head of a well, made of sandstone. I have a load of sandstone boulders and always knew I'd use them somehow, but was stuck for ideas.

 

I hadn't thought about it until you asked, Miraflores, but yes I do have a couple of stone elements in my garden. A couple of small beds like this


And a rock bed in a corner

 

That looks very nice Alice. I might pinch your idea

In the first pic, is that nasturtium I see covering the fence?

I also like the red/orange thing that appears to be on a tall stand. Is that a begonia?

In general, I like your planting scheme. It seems the 'hot' colours work very well with the more pastel colours. It works very well indeed, and until I saw your pic I didn't think it would, because all my gardening books seem to say you should go for one or the other but not both at the same time.

 

We have a garden full of glacial erratics ranging from gravel to too heavy to lift by me alone. So, we have a fair number of stone features in the garden, if only to use the bits we have got.

 

[size=large]Very nice Alice. I also love the display in Kew Gardens. I actually wrote down a few names of flowers which I meant to buy, taken from that display (...yet some more on the list), see if i find it! If I bump into it I will let you know.[/size]

 

Thank you Clueless.
Yes, that is nasturtium on the fence and a begonia in a pot.
It's all a work in progress. This is only our 3rd year here and when we moved in there was NOTHING !
It's an old house so I'm not just sure how that was achieved

There's no great overall plan. I'm looking for an informal, cottage garden look so it's just falling into shape as we go.

 

Here is a pic taken in July 09 after I decided to eliminate all grass and use a red sandstone pavement design.

Must take an up to date pic but it doesn't look good at the moment as the two exceptionally bad winters have wiped out 50% of my plantings. People have said I started my garden at the worst possible time as no-one could have forecast the two last winters that we got. The stone is brown and the plants are brown at the moment.





Anyway, it's to show you the use of stone in our front garden.

 

[size=medium]That will look so good when it's done, Kindredspirit.[/size]
[size=medium]I can just see it all [/size] [size=medium]Just super.[/size]

 

[size=large]kindredspirit - very nice[/size]!