Designing With Garden Rocks

Choose a variety of smaller rocks to complement your larger ones.

Designing with garden rocks. Add sturdy bulbs such as narcissus wild tulips and alliums for contrast. Both plants are drought tolerant and thrive with little maintenance. Here the orange blooms of eriogonum umbellatum stand out against the gray green foliage and pink blooms of mojave sage salvia pachyphylla.

Stones and rocks are an affordable and unique way to decorate your outdoor space. White or light color rocks would be the best choice as they absorb less heat from the sun. Creeping groundcovers will soften the appearance of the hard rocks.

Rock garden plants tend to be smaller to complement the scale of the rocks. Dry scaping or xeriscaping is the landscaping with drought tolerant plants and using decorative river rocks is the perfect option for such projects as these rocks require minimal upkeep. Rocks garden design with blooming plants should be arranged away from large trees which create shade and take water and nutrients from the soil competing with rock garden plants.

Whether you use them to give your yard a natural feel or decorate them to add a pop of color these homemade garden decoration ideas will fit any outdoor style. One of the principle rules of rock gardens is rock variety. Use perennials ornamental grasses and small shrubs to add vertical height.

Pick out stones and pebbles that will complement the larger rocks they are to surround. That s why we ve compiled this list of 23 fun diy garden projects with rocks for you to try. When designing your rock garden think of the space as a series of eye catching vignettes that paint the overall landscape.

You could paint the rocks or stones with different colors or use colored stones to create the butterfly designs. Create several butterflies along a single file and there you are with a cobbled pathway in your garden. To further anchor the rocks visually into the garden bury portions of the rock down into the soil.