Rockery

This was my first attempt at creating a rockery, in the year 2005. I planted grasses (and other plant bits and pieces) rather than buy in alpines and more traditional rockery plants. Oops... That might prove to be a little shortsighted...

I moved in plants like tussock grasses and carexes which had seeded in other areas of the garden, and which I knew would grow quickly. The rocks were proper rocks, though - not those odd plastic look-alikes that I'd seen advertised in magazines.

Famous rockeries that I've visited (for example, the sloping rockery at Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens in Australia) cannot compare to this - my very first original Moosey rockery. I'll not elaborate!

Update - 2010

OK. So planting 'grasses and other plant bits and pieces' might not have been the best idea. Anyone with half a gardening brain could have foreseen what would happen to this rockery!

Where exactly are the rocks? Could one be lurking, submerged underneath that huge Hebe? Is another perhaps underneath that man-sized Phormium? Oh dear, dear, dear me. I didn't realise that rocks were so shy...

Mind you - I have been trying to prune out the giants. And I've added a couple of cute conifers - their labels said they were suitable. It's a fun garden but a failed rockery. Those little specialist plants would have been a better idea...