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GARDENING - Rock Gardening
#8: In the series of 10 Reports!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[1] An Introduction to Rock Gardening
[2] Designing a Rock Garden
[3] Rock Gardens for Landscaping
[4] Common Rock Garden Plants
[5] Rock Garden Ponds and Waterfalls
SAMPLE: An Introduction to Rock Gardening
There are many types of gardens you can have for your yard to make it more attractive in the neighborhood. Everyone knows that a nice, manicured lawn will go a long way to improve the overall look and appeal in any neighborhood.
Some of you may even have messy neighbors who don’t care about their lawn and having a fabulous garden could even offset the shabbiest of lawns. There are many types of gardens you could use for enhancing your lawn, but probably the simplest is the rock garden.
Rock gardens are a type of garden with an emphasis on rocks and stones with a few small plants that are found in naturally rocky areas. The plants are generally small and de-emphasized but are vital to help in the aesthetics.
Because the plants are native to rocky areas, they’ll be small and like their soil to be drier than most plants but can’t completely be without water. A popular type of rock garden is where bedrock is arranged to imply there was a bedding plane that had shifted or had come up partially above the ground.
Plants are arranged in this type of garden to hide joins between stones, whereas in its natural setting it would likely be one continuous piece. This type of professionally designed rock garden, or rockery, was popular in the Victorian times.
A Japanese rock garden, sometimes misnamed ‘Zen garden,’ is a sand box with sand, rocks, and very occasionally grass. The sand in these gardens tends to represent water, with the ridging caused by rakes to symbolize the ripples.
The rocks would then be islands. Some people believed these gardens were supposed to soothe the mind, but this was not the original intention. Understanding how to put together an effective garden for your terrain type would enhance your landscape.
Just because you don’t have fertile soil or lots of space without rocks, it doesn’t mean you can add to your landscape by having a garden. Even if your land is flat, you can bring in rocks for your rock garden. Just about every terrain type can support a rock garden.
Published by Dunway Enterprises
Author Ken Dunn
Copy Right 2012
http://www.dunway.comGARDENING - Rock Gardening
#8: In the series of 10 Reports!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[1] An Introduction to Rock Gardening
[2] Designing a Rock Garden
[3] Rock Gardens for Landscaping
[4] Common Rock Garden Plants
[5] Rock Garden Ponds and Waterfalls
SAMPLE: An Introduction to Rock Gardening
There are many types of gardens you can have for your yard to make it more attractive in the neighborhood. Everyone knows that a nice, manicured lawn will go a long way to improve the overall look and appeal in any neighborhood.
Some of you may even have messy neighbors who don’t care about their lawn and having a fabulous garden could even offset the shabbiest of lawns. There are many types of gardens you could use for enhancing your lawn, but probably the simplest is the rock garden.
Rock gardens are a type of garden with an emphasis on rocks and stones with a few small plants that are found in naturally rocky areas. The plants are generally small and de-emphasized but are vital to help in the aesthetics.
Because the plants are native to rocky areas, they’ll be small and like their soil to be drier than most plants but can’t completely be without water. A popular type of rock garden is where bedrock is arranged to imply there was a bedding plane that had shifted or had come up partially above the ground.
Plants are arranged in this type of garden to hide joins between stones, whereas in its natural setting it would likely be one continuous piece. This type of professionally designed rock garden, or rockery, was popular in the Victorian times.
A Japanese rock garden, sometimes misnamed ‘Zen garden,’ is a sand box with sand, rocks, and very occasionally grass. The sand in these gardens tends to represent water, with the ridging caused by rakes to symbolize the ripples.
The rocks would then be islands. Some people believed these gardens were supposed to soothe the mind, but this was not the original intention. Understanding how to put together an effective garden for your terrain type would enhance your landscape.
Just because you don’t have fertile soil or lots of space without rocks, it doesn’t mean you can add to your landscape by having a garden. Even if your land is flat, you can bring in rocks for your rock garden. Just about every terrain type can support a rock garden.
Published by Dunway Enterprises
Author Ken Dunn
Copy Right 2012
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