Garden Rocks

"You can add a lot of rocks to your landscapewithout hauling them in your car. The catch is, you make the "rocks"right there in your garden. It's an easy and inexpensive way to adddepth and texture to your landscape design." Meriel Bradley show you how at at the hgtv website. If you click on this link it'll take you to the page with full instructions and more pictures:

Make your own rocks

I like the idea of making large, boulder-size rocks in a cardboard box to help retain the cement and mold and forming the rock where you want it to bein the garden. Then you can just rip off and discard the box when thecement has set. Anything larger than a box sized rock gets a bit heavy to drag around, and three visits or more to the physiotherapist starts to get expensive. I know from experience!

I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to do this, and to make them look aged, and if you've tried a method that works well, please let me know and leave a message.

I have to say that most of my gardens feature rocks of some sort in the design and plan - sometimes just 5, sometimes 30 tons of them. I'll continue to buy 30 tons from the quarry!

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