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Guidelines for Building a Rock Garden
21.05.2024 - 19:17 / finegardening.com
Last fall, this column featured Showy Native Plants for Rocky Soils. Not included in that plant palette were rock gardens. While similar in that the plants for such spaces require exquisite (or as one might hear across the pond, “sharp”) drainage, the spaces are worth distinguishing. Rocky soils occur naturally across the globe. Regionally, we have a preponderance of them. Rock gardens, however, are man-made. Here are some guidelines for building your own rock garden.
Culturally, the longstanding traditions of rock gardening have dual origins in both ancient East Asia and Victorian Europe. As we think of them here in the States, rock gardens are spaces designed after the Victorian concept: places to grow diminutive and delightful plants, particularly those from high elevation regions (like steppe and alpine environments) that otherwise would fail in cultivation. The rocks themselves help to achieve this goal by providing microclimates for such plants, but they also can be used to modify how water drains through the soil profile to improve its suitability. With a bit of creative rock work and thoughtful plant siting, a huge spread of plant species can be grown in a rock garden that otherwise would not succeed.
Perhaps most commonly, rock gardens are designed in “berms,” or mounded beds of soil. Large rocks are often used to help shape and contain the soil on such berms. When creating a berm, consider pathway access as well as how it will be irrigated. Conceiving paths and then working berms in around them can be most effective, though their shapes will change somewhat with rock work and earth moving. I’ve grown on berms ranging from 1 to 5 feet high and have found that a berm should be at least 3 feet high (after soil
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