YES! I love stone accents! When I moved into our new house, I started letting neighbors know to get in touch if they're ever looking to get rid of rocks. Every few months someone will get in touch and I'll walk down the street with a wheelbarrow to pick up some neighborhood boulders or river rock. I've been arranging them around my pond and now I'm creating a little fern/moss garden in a corner.
Love this post. I so appreciate what you take the time to come up with! I have two concrete mushrooms similar to the ones you have pictured. Love them. Would like to see them develop some character but they are just too new I guess. Someone said you can use buttermilk to encourage moss? BTW, I am "embracing" moss after reading your book and have tuned my husband in to NOT disturbing moss in our gardens! I inherited a lot of flat rocks when we moved to our current property. 3 years ago I decided to move all of the white ones to the front of the house and stand them on end coming out from a corner of the house into the front bed. I was trying to elevate the portion of the bed that was up against the house and create a "wall" effect with the "free" rocks from the backyard. It meanders down from the corner only about 12 feet and then tapers off. We had gotten an estimate from a landscape company for a wall similar to what I did and it was $5,000! We were born and raised in Denver, CO so my white rocks with their jagged tops became my "shout out" to my beloved Colorado Rockies! It gives me such joy every time I go out to water there. Some of my inspiration came from taking the National Garden Club Landcape Design Course, which I have now finished. You would be a great instructor for that course and maybe you have been in NY state? I live in PA. We have had Kirk Brown (I know you know of him) and George Weigel among others. With Zoom now it is so easy to teach and take courses all over the country, as you know.
White Rocks like the rockies - how poetic. Obviously you are also a 'rock hound' as I am. Rocks speak to us if we would only listen. I love your story! Yes I am thinking of giving a course on line but never thought of the NGC! Lots to chew on. Thank you Sheri!
YES! I love stone accents! When I moved into our new house, I started letting neighbors know to get in touch if they're ever looking to get rid of rocks. Every few months someone will get in touch and I'll walk down the street with a wheelbarrow to pick up some neighborhood boulders or river rock. I've been arranging them around my pond and now I'm creating a little fern/moss garden in a corner.
I love the image of you walking down the street with a wheelbarrow! I can relate... The Rock Lady. Thanks for sharing that story!
Love this post. I so appreciate what you take the time to come up with! I have two concrete mushrooms similar to the ones you have pictured. Love them. Would like to see them develop some character but they are just too new I guess. Someone said you can use buttermilk to encourage moss? BTW, I am "embracing" moss after reading your book and have tuned my husband in to NOT disturbing moss in our gardens! I inherited a lot of flat rocks when we moved to our current property. 3 years ago I decided to move all of the white ones to the front of the house and stand them on end coming out from a corner of the house into the front bed. I was trying to elevate the portion of the bed that was up against the house and create a "wall" effect with the "free" rocks from the backyard. It meanders down from the corner only about 12 feet and then tapers off. We had gotten an estimate from a landscape company for a wall similar to what I did and it was $5,000! We were born and raised in Denver, CO so my white rocks with their jagged tops became my "shout out" to my beloved Colorado Rockies! It gives me such joy every time I go out to water there. Some of my inspiration came from taking the National Garden Club Landcape Design Course, which I have now finished. You would be a great instructor for that course and maybe you have been in NY state? I live in PA. We have had Kirk Brown (I know you know of him) and George Weigel among others. With Zoom now it is so easy to teach and take courses all over the country, as you know.
White Rocks like the rockies - how poetic. Obviously you are also a 'rock hound' as I am. Rocks speak to us if we would only listen. I love your story! Yes I am thinking of giving a course on line but never thought of the NGC! Lots to chew on. Thank you Sheri!
You would be perfect for NGC but maybe they don't pay enough to make it worthwhile for you! You are a cut above some of the instructors frankly.
Thanks! I am trying to impart as much as I can through this substack - I think I will post an old video next...let me know what you think!