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Post by stoner on Jun 7, 2006 21:00:50 GMT -5
Okay, now I told you my rock garden was in buckets and totes and such, well, here's a pic of one of my rock gardens. ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/orekar/DSC03647.jpg) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by sandsman1 on Jun 7, 2006 21:12:21 GMT -5
hahaha too funny ed
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Post by Cher on Jun 7, 2006 21:33:49 GMT -5
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Post by stoner on Jun 8, 2006 0:52:05 GMT -5
Sorry, I just happen to notice this as I was taking some pics of some slabs and the devil made me do it.
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Post by puppie96 on Jun 8, 2006 1:42:18 GMT -5
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Post by creativeminded on Jun 8, 2006 9:30:43 GMT -5
Those rock gardens are beautiful. Tami
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Post by lithrick on Jun 8, 2006 13:52:19 GMT -5
Fantastic! It's great to see rocks being used in such creative and beautiful ways. After all, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "JUST A ROCK"! ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by Cher on Jun 8, 2006 16:39:18 GMT -5
Looking good Deb, you've got a great start there. Looks like you have to use a soaker hose too. I gave up on my desert, it just got to be too much of a pain in the backside to try and keep anything growing there. I'm going to make it a rock garden, no plants allowed.
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Post by WyckedWyre on Jun 8, 2006 22:21:00 GMT -5
I never tire of seeing little piles of rocks. Nice gardens but I think I like Ed's the best. Is that grass in that bucket?
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Post by NM Stone Supply on Jun 8, 2006 22:24:23 GMT -5
Part of my front yard rock garden is a stone water fountain. ![](http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h83/NMONYX/100_4205.jpg)
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Post by joe on Jun 8, 2006 22:35:54 GMT -5
I wish you hadn't started this thread for another month or so. I have a rock garden that's uh, "in progress". Kind of a future rock garden. Basically a place to put the rocks after I get some of those white quartz driveway rocks they sell and put them on the dirt underneath where the good rocks go. The good rocks are piled up on top of a low landscaping wall I made a few years ago. Ok, this is about as clear as slurry! Let's clear it up. Future Rock garden ![](http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c357/Joesart/FutureRockGarden1456.jpg) Rocks now piled up atop the wall behind birdbath. ![](http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c357/Joesart/FutureRockGarden1466.jpg) Obsidian and a granite slice ![](http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c357/Joesart/FutureRockGarden1461.jpg) More cool stuff posing on my aventurine wall. I bought two tons of "Idaho Stripstone" at a local landscaping yard. It turns out to be a brown and orangy stained white aventurine! Who knew? ![](http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c357/Joesart/FutureRockGarden1462.jpg) This shot shows the dendritic staining of the aventurine. Those dendrites were why I chose this rock! ![](http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c357/Joesart/FutureRockGarden1463.jpg) More cool stuff ![](http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c357/Joesart/FutureRockGarden1464.jpg) When I get the white rocks that I gotta buy down around the birdbath then I will put all the non-aventurine rocks on top of them. Then add some of the rocks I keep in the garage now. Like the ones I got from Susan's backyard. Of course, once I get this 10'' saw going all bets are off as too how many rocks make it out of the garage alive!! ...now don't you wish you had waited a month to start this thread?
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Post by NM Stone Supply on Jun 8, 2006 22:57:35 GMT -5
My marble and granite garden ![](http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h83/NMONYX/100_4204.jpg) My 1000 lbs E Bay sales piles. ![](http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h83/NMONYX/100_4190.jpg) Scraps on the house side ![](http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h83/NMONYX/100_4203.jpg)
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Post by puppie96 on Jun 9, 2006 0:43:31 GMT -5
Looking good Deb, you've got a great start there. Looks like you have to use a soaker hose too. I gave up on my desert, it just got to be too much of a pain in the backside to try and keep anything growing there. I'm going to make it a rock garden, no plants allowed. Hey Cher, the deal with this is that we had a tie wall (not visible in picture) that was rotted almost to destruction, a fence that was falling down, as well as 3 rose of sharon trees where the new rock garden is, all of this left by the previous owners (we moved in here in 1997). The trees didn't have enough space and were seriously leaning over & one died. So last summer we replaced the fence and while I was away in AZ the landscape guys came and replaced the tie wall with a stone version and took out the rose of sharon trees, leaving a lot of gravel (the stuff underneath the big rocks) and it is sort of cool gravel, it's supposed to be glacial till and there's a lot to search through if I ever run out of stuff to do. Joe got busy and put together the 2 arbors over Mem. day weekend & up where the new wall is, I planted a lot of perennials (they didn't put the gravel there) and then figured out that a rock garden would do double duty as the storage area for all the rocks that keep showing up here. The soaker hose hopefully will get my flowers going and be simple enough for house-sitter types to deal with when we go on vacation. I like how it's coming along, but it will be better when the mandevillas and the clematis I planted do their climbing thing up the arbors.
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Post by puppie96 on Jun 9, 2006 0:57:32 GMT -5
The pups have always loved to poop in that gravel area, which could give a whole new spin to the search for coprolites among the Arizona rocks.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jun 9, 2006 4:11:06 GMT -5
those all look great especially stoners lol.
nmonyx i like the fountain - c'mon tell all!
kim
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