Janet’s Rock Garden

A wall full of flowers

Eric Sternfels sent in today ’s photos . We ’ve jaw Eric ’s garden before ( Summer in Eric ’s Garden ) but today he ’s taking us along on a enlistment of a friend ’s garden :

Here is a group of pic from the nursing home of Janet in the Chestnut Hill locality of Philadelphia . Janet ’s an ship’s officer of theNorth American Rock Garden Society – Delaware Valley Chapter .

Rock gardeningis all about growinglittle plantsthat boom in the good drainage found in thecracks and crevice between rocks . This stone hold wall is a carpet of colouring material with all the howling short plants farm on it .

Looking down the bulwark from the other commission . awesome what an teemingness of plants and beauty raise in a space that would seem inhospitable .

Closer look at some of the beaut growing on and trailing down the rampart . Not just any gem wall can be planted up like this , they have to be built with space for the plants to go

Lewisiacotyledon(Zone 5 – 8) isnative to western North America , and thrives in the good drain of the stone wall .

A littlesucculenttucked into a space between the stone , while anornamental oregano(Origanumsp . , Zone 5 – 9 ) blooms above it .

Agarden trowelgives a good sense of scale to this rocks and the countless tiny plant growing on and around them . There is a whole miniature landscape painting here .

Aubrieta(Zone 4 – 9 ) greets spring with masses of richpurple flowers .

Spring bloomersfrom primrose ( Primulaspecies and hybrid , Zone 3 – 8) to fritillaria ( Fritillariameleagris , Zone 3 – 8) give an former show .

hen - and - chicks ( Semperiviumsp . , Zone 4 – 8) making a thriving colony between the stones . These fiddling hardysucculentsare well-off to keep happy as long as they have good drain .

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