ornamental Rocks and ornamental Stone - Landscaping
It's time to break out of the daily landscaping design. What does your lawn consist of? Lots of green grass - that takes a lot of time to mow and a lot of water to look healthy, trees and shrubs. Possibly some flowerbeds flanking the house itself.
ornamental Rocks and ornamental Stone - Landscaping
But there's so much more you can do with your landscaping, if you just conclude to do things a bit differently.
In desert locations, of course, like Arizona and Mexico, why bother to try to force grass to grow at all? Why not plainly cover your yard with attractive, attractive rock and stone, with a few shrubs. Or as the joke has it, "I'm retired, I've mowed my last lawn!" The intuit is straightforward - you may think water is a renewable reserved supply - but it doesn't renew as fast as mankind is entertaining it. In desert states where water comes from below ground aquifers, the level of this fresh-water source is lowering every year, and rainwater cannot replenish that level fast enough.
Even if you don't live in a desert climate, there's no intuit why you can't make a rock organery - either large or small - in part of your yard. Such a organery will cut down on the time needed to mow your lawn, there'll be no need to spread pesticides around, and it will be a quiet and restful place around which to sit.
Like any other landscaping element, a rock organery does have to be planned carefully. Rock doesn't suck up water - so any rain run-off will go straight into your lawn and does need to be carefully drained off. Don't put your rock organery over electrical or phone lines, either.
You may think that a rock organery is equivalent to a Japanese garden, but that isn't necessarily the case. The Japanese organery combines three elements: stone which represents mountains or islands, water - representing purity, and plants. A Zen organery is what most population think of when they hear the term Japanese organery - a stretch of white sand with black rocks located strategically about, and one meditates by raking the sand smooth.
There are two ways to setup a rock garden...one would be to make the rock look like a natural outcropping of bedrock...used to cut off an inconvenient slope. The more usual construct is to pile up the stones - both large and small - in harmonious groupings...and if you plainly must have greenery, leave small gaps in the middle of the rocks into which the plants may be placed.
Surf the web to get ideas for how to construct your rock garden, and speculation far and wide, into sites from Japan and India as well as the United States. You'll find charm everywhere.
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