How Low Maintenance Are Rock Gardens?
If you don’t have time to spend on garden maintenance rock gardens are ideal. By design, our rock gardens minimize weeds. Quality soils are only laid where the rock garden plants need it. Combined with a layer of weed mat under the rocks, weeds are seriously disadvantaged.
Irrigation systems, designed in accordance with the Melbourne water restrictions automatically water your rock garden plants with exactly the amount needed, when it is needed.
Rock garden plants need minimal trimming and pruning, and needless to say the feature rocks look after themselves!
Will A Rock Garden Suit My Garden?
A visually exciting and attractive rock garden provides a warming influence to an outdoor entertaining area. Framed by your window, desert rock gardens can look something like an art piece.
Rock retaining walls are a good choice for sloping land, as the angle of the slope mimics mountainous regions. A rock garden on level ground gives depth to an otherwise flat garden bed.
Which Plants Are Suited To Rock Gardens Or Desert Gardens?
Rock gardens, like all gardens benefit from plants of varying heights. Rock gardens look best with ground covers and medium sized feature plants. The selection of rock garden plantsdepends on the style.
Desert gardens suit small grasses, cordylines, grass trees, and Yukka's. Japanese maples speak for themselves with their great autumn colors. Tree ferns, lilies and mosses suitalpine rock gardens. Hardy groundcovers drape over rocks like carpet, seasonally creating a blanket of flowers.
How Are Different Rocks And Materials Used In Rock Gardens?
In all types of modern rock gardens, including Japanese gardens, desert gardens and zen gardens, different size rocks are placed in the garden providing variation in the layout. The rocks provide many different openings and contrasts in which carefully selected plants can grow.
The type of rock or stone you choose for your rock garden will depend on your taste, and the desired theme. A colored mulch or sand can contrast creating a dry river bed effect. Sand is traditionally used for Japanese garden dry river beds. Natural Landscapes can show and discuss landscape material samples before starting the rock garden.
Other things like timber bridges, water features, and stone statues all work well in rock gardens. Japanese gardens look great with a small timber bridge or stone temples and statues. Cascading water features add to all types of rock gardens.
