This Week: Introducing our Garden Themes: Rock Outcrop Garden; Weekly Photo Points.


Introducing Our Gardens- One Bed at a Time 

Over the next several weeks, the various themed garden beds will be introduced. Check back each week to see what is happening in our garden.

Rock Outcrop Garden

Our granitic Rock Outcrop Garden (composed of recycled rip-rap and a crushed granite mixture) went in the ground during the spring of 2013,  Once installed, the plantings took hold with very little effort. As seen in the photo below, taken just prior to winter pruning, the use of mulch was heavy and will be removed in March with the warmer temperatures.

                           
                                                  Rock Outcrop Garden. January 15, 2015



The idea behind the rock outcrop gardens is inspired by the water wise planning of landscapes, and as most people prefer, a minimal amount of required maintenance.

The photos below show fairly rigorous growth between the original planting date in April 2013 and the second photograph from May 2013.



                                            Installing crushed gravel and rocks. June 2012.

  Several days after initial installment. November, 2012. 

The brown patches are clumps of donated soil for seed salvage.
 March 2013.

  Six months after plant installment. May 29, 2013.


A list of our outcrop plants... as of last summer (we'll see what survives the winter)

  • Conradina verticillata   Cumberland False Rosemary
  • Helianthus porteri   Stone Mountain Daisy
  • Xyris sp.
  • Coreopsis sp.
  • Oerothera sp.  Sundrops
  • Coreopsis pulchra   Slender Goldenrod 
  • Hypericum dolabriforme   Straggling St. John's Wort
  • Agave parryi var. Huachucensis   Parry's Agave
  • Eryngium yuccifolium   Rattlesnake Master.
Noteworthy:
The E. yuccifolium proved to be quite weedy within the first year, when we didn't deadhead.


Weekly Photo Points

January 15, 2015. All of the following photos were taken on 1/15/15.  





















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