As I get older I realize that it will be harder and harder to maintain a large garden. Rock gardens are becoming more interesting to me because you can fit a lot of plants in a small place. Rock garden plants blend with rocks to give an alpine feeling to the garden.
The rock garden at DawnGardens was built in 2009.
The first year looked like this:
10 years later it looks like this in thesummer:
In the Fall:
In thespring:
In the winter before raking off the pine needles:
After raking off the pine needles:
This is how the rockgarden is watered:
Here are some rock garden plants at the Dawn Gardens rock garden: