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A tiny rockgarden in Wollaton's Hardy Plant Society Nottingham Group Botanic Garden https://www.nottmhps.org.uk/ #rockgarden #wollaton #nature

My neighbor down the road and I traded garden plants. This about 1/10th of the hens-n-chicks she gave me for my rock garden. It’ll take a while to get them all planted. 🪴#niceneighbor #rockgarden #succulents

A rock garden with hens n chicks plants.

Stage 2 of my little rock garden is complete. We had enough of the right sized aggregate and some pea gravel on hand to mulch the slope and most of the scree.
Micro weeding before spreading the aggregate was the hardest part. I left some local volunteers, including the ridiculously tall fleabane, just because I like them. They'll eventually be replaced by chosen imports.

#rockgardens #RockGarden #gardening #xeriscaping

A smallish rock garden backed by four large boulders and mulched with crushed stone and pea gravel. A tall purplish flowering dianthus is in front of a large rock and a small pink flowering one is on the scree. Several succulents with different coloured leaves nestle on the various levels. You can see two small blue fescue clumps on the scree closer to the front of the bed. Along the near edge of the bed you can just make out wild strawberry plants sending out runners to make baby plants.

DIY win! I have been wanting a rock garden for acupressure and researching how I could do it within the confines of renting (the ones I fell in love with were outside with stones embedded in cement). This is a portion of an 18kg bag of stones from the hardware store in the tray from pup's first kennel. Washing the stones was a bit tedious but otherwise, this is probably the easiest DIY ever. The stones are heavy enough that I can vacuum them with an attachment to remove pup's fur. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

#Acupressure #AcupressureTherapy #RockGarden #Feet #DIY

Feet in a rock garden from the perspective of the owner looking down over legs clad in a pair of baggy pants. White feet standing in a tray of stones, The tray is on top of a white towel.

A rock garden visited today by Perseverance, by the edge of the rim of Jezero Crater

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#Mars May 17, 2025 - Sol 1507
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #rover #Sol1507 #WitchHazelHill #JezeroCrater #NorthernRimCampaign #space #science #STEM #Astrodon #news #PerseveranceRover #Mars2020 #geology #solarocks #rock #garden #rockgarden #rocks #Mastcam #mosaic #photography #Mars2020 #crater

An ochre toned mosaic of 50 images capturing a Martian landscape

Today, Leith Hall garden💙 #leithhallgarden #ntsleithhall #rockgarden #kennethmont #aberdeenshire

Four photo collage: sunny, warm, early summer day, deep blue sky, bright, sparkling colours. A rock garden and pond with a variety of plants, most flowering, and nearby trees. Pinks, purples, bright greens, dark greens, deep red, yellow.

@Pollinators @Broadfork here's another view- from the left side compared to the first photo- from a week ago when the Drabas were still at peak..
#BloomScrolling #florespondence #garden #RockGarden #NaturalGardening

Looking at part of a rock garden, with late afternoon sun hitting parts of the bed, other parts are in the long tree shadow of a spruce tree some distance away out of view, and the foreground is partly shaded by higher parts of the bed itself. The bed is built of native soil with local gravel and rocks, a bit like a glacial moraine or deposit, and that would be the origin of the mostly smooth rocks of various sorts and colours- local glacial deposits found in fields, roadsides etc. The rocks range from gravel to a fist or two to a few at the limits of (my) movement without equipment. We are looking at a sort ridge which runs down the centre of the bed, left to right in this view,and the bed drops away front and back. Among and over the stones are many plants, mostly low alpines and similar. There are masses of low Drabas covered with tiny white or yellow flowers at peak so we barely see any of their foliage. We also see mats of Sempervivum/Hen and Chicks in green and re, patches of small botanical tulips with green almost grassy leaves, with flowers closed for the day; various things making leaves not yet in flower,the red brown of an Armeria/Sea Thrift on the far side that suffered some winter damage. Beyond is a grassy area, not yet mowed for the year, just greening and littered with scattered dry leaves.

It seems like the #TimeOfFlowers #season has barely begun and I'm already hopelessly behind on sharing photos! Things move fast at this time of year, new things opening every day or so, previous waves of flowering wrapping up.. These are from 10 days ago, some finished or on the way out.. White Draba dedeana Yellow Draba aizoides and D. bruniifolia ssp olympica. Tulipa urumiensis (or something..) #garden #RockGarden #spring #NaturalGardening #Alberta #Canada #z3

Low late afternoon sun shines from left onto part of a rock garden, creating soft highlights and dark shadows on the plants and rocks. Most of the view is a small mound of glacial remnant rocks, generally smooth with a roundish one in front right, others more angular, various tans, browns to purply grey. These are decent size rocks, the largest would cause you a little sweat to move, and you wouldn't want to move them far! Near the centre, a small low Draba plant sits ( a few stray bits of grass rising through it!), completely covered with tiny white flowers. To the upper left, on a higher part of the bed is a larger patch of another Draba, this one with bright yellow flowers nearly obscuring all the foliage, bits of this spill down below on left and behind the mound of rocks to right. In front we see the out of focus grassy leaves and closed yellow flowers of small tulips.

Bright mid-afternoon sun lights a cheery piece of rock garden built of glacial remnant rocks, generally smooth and rounded but not round-- this view shows mostly light coloured speckly pinky granite, several rising to modest soft 'peaks' enhancing the miniature mountain feeling. Among the rocks grow masses of low growing Draba white and yellow mingling in the middle, with the foreground mostly the white flowered species, and the back, at the edge of the rock ridge, bright yellow. In the centre a few small tulips are set against the largest rock - this would would cause you a little sweat to move, and you wouldn't want to move it far! The tulips have narrow shiny glaucous green leaves and small cup shaped deep yellow flowers (mature flowers on warm sunny days fully open to flat stars, these are only 1/2 to 3/4 open, so we see some centres but also the green streaked outer sepals.) Beyond the rock bed we can see a bit of a mowed area, low grass just beginning to green for the season.

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As discussed- here are the first garden flowers- first few snowdrops and Drabas from yesterday- I saw first crocus this morning, no photo yet. In the wild just poplars and willows so far.
#garden #BloomScrolling #florespondence #Alberta #Canada #spring #RockGarden #FirstFlowers

Numerous clusters of grey green slightly fleshy narrow grassy leaves emerge from between stones- generally smooth glacial till of variously coloured weathered quartzite and granite, a larger dully pinkish quartzite at the back. White dangling buds top stems coming from the leaves, just a few open with drooping white sepals(?) around small white central tubes marked with green, more buds on the way.

The sun shines on the tips of a low growing alpine plant (this one is a bit lower/more compact than the D aizoides) made up of many stems a few cm/couple of inches tall, densely spirally clothed with narrow dark green stiff leaves forming a rosette at the top of each stem. It fully covers the ground in this limited view, littered with dry grey stems from last year's flowers. Most of those rosettes have a short stem emerging with numerous dark purply buds, ssome showing a hint of white at the tip where they will open, and just a half dozen tiny white flowers partly to fully open.

The sun shines on a low growing alpine plant growing between smallish rocks of glacier till pale and orangey quartzite made up of many stems a few cm/couple of inches tall, densely spirally clothed with narrow medium green stiff leaves forming a rosette at the top of each stem. Most of those rosettes have a short stem emerging with numerous yellow buds, some just on the edge of opening. Bits of old dry flower stems and a few dry poplar leaves etc litter the ground, and rosettes of several Sempervivum/Hen and Chicks in green with red tips and all red can be seen.

This week we've had some warmish dry days, a bit of rain and this morning some snow, followed by sun, more clouds, graupel, sun again.. These views from late morning, the #snow is all gone in the sun, lingering in shade... notes in alt
#spring #Alberta #Canada #nature #garden #RockGarden #weather #photography

The edge of a small naturalistic rock garden bed, most of which is out of sight to the bottom/ left. We see small mostly rounded glacial stones, with scattered dry grass and stems especially around the poorly weeded edge. Above from left to centre is a large stone haf a foot to a foot tall, a couple of feet wide and flat though not exactly smooth on top. It is sort of reddish brown though since it is wet it looks mostly dark with the sun making near white reflections/highlights. Behind the rock is a small native shrub (Symphoricarpos) with many very fine erect to arcing stems. Outside the bed the ground is snow covered with sun highlights, blue tree shadow and dark spots where the ground is melting through.

Eriogonum species. Morning sun shines on a low growing mat of a plant with many tiny rosettes of small spatulate leaves, silvery grey with new leaves in the centre showing green with pinky stems. It is perched on the ridge of a tallish narrow rock bed. Beside it we see a chunk of a pale granite, behind dry stems of other small plants, and beyond the ridge is in dark shadow, with a few dry old candelabra stems of rock jasmine hanging off the ridge, and a dimly seen self sown spruce seedling holding remnants of the morning snow.

A chaotic patch of Sempervivum/Hen and Chicks. Most are still mostly closed up in winter mode with red leaves and bits of dry outer leaves. Where the rosettes have started to open up for spring, like the larger one in the centre, the green lower parts of leaves can be seen. The sun hits the centre of the patch, but above and below are in shadow or just emerging, and still hold the morning snow, huddled around the outer rosettes. We can see a bit of wet rock and a clump of green leaved plant to the right, along with bits of dry stem of this and that scattered about.

Closish view of part of a small spruce sapling with the morning sun just hitting it and about to melt the light coating of snow it carries. We see one fine branch coming in from the right in focus in centre, with other branches blurred behind, in the upper section the camera has made some small pearls of light from the sun hitting snow crystals.

Yesterday morning's light #snow on a #RockGarden in front of the house, only partly melted out of the #winter snow pack (highest part is a lot of snow; mounds in the background just snow). The house is just to the right, so it has been shovelled there and also the light/heat reflects off the wall, so that side melts first though it is north facing. A lighter dusting last night, still lots of winter snow around, but days in the low to mid teens C coming. #Spring #garden #Alberta #Canada #weather

A large mound of snow several feet high comes into frame from the left. It conceals and rises above a rock bed, which we can just see to the right where some rocks and dry stems have melted out of the winter snow pack, now lightly/partly covered in fresh snow. To the right we see a bit of mowed brown grass which has been shovelled and melted out. Beyond the rock bed, mid right is another grassy area, still freshly snowed but starting to show through. Above centre and left are more mounds of shovelled snow with bits of dry grass, tree trunks and a shovelled strip showing through in the blurred background. The sun is coming through trees out of sight farther away, and partly lighting the snow with blue shadows where it doesn't land.

Daffodils in the rock garden.

#BloomScrolling #daffodils #SpringFlowers #YellowFlowers #RockGarden #April3 #granite #bedrock #FlowersOfMastodon #flowers #gardening #FlowerGarden #florespondence #spring

A photo showing three daffodil flowers. There is one facing left on the left side of the plant and 2 facing right on the right side of the plant. The rear right one is not fully open. They are yellow and yellow coloring. Below them is dry grass and pine needles with new grass growing from it. Behind them is a solid piece of granite bedrock protruding from the earth. It is aged with weather and natures staining and appears white to gray to black in places with maybe a hint of reddish or tan.

It's garden planning time in our neck of the woods and I'm working on a planting list for the small rock garden I built last summer. Any suggestions or discussion of suitable plants would be welcome.

So far I have 2 small sedums to move in from a temporary location and an abundance of wild strawberry and creeping thyme all over the place.

The garden is south facing on a slope in full sun, North American climate Zone 4a, min winter temp -30C to -35C. There's a paved path on the south and west sides and a wall of the house on the east. This makes it fairly warm, and thus dry, in spite of the 80 to 100 cm of precipitation (much of that snow) it gets every year.

Edit to clarify: images were taken last summer. More snow today and coming this weekend.

#gardening #mastogardening #RockGarden #rockgardenplants #perennialgardens #xeriscaping

View from below of a small unplanted rock garden on a slope tucked into the corner of a curving paved path. The large rocks from the local area have spaces between for planting and give way to a shallow sloped scree below.

View from above of a small unplanted rock garden on a slope tucked into the corner of a curving paved path. The large rocks from the local area have spaces between for planting and give way to a shallow sloped scree below.

A couple of #morning views, one from yesterday with #frost kissed tree tops and today with fresh #snow #CountryLiving #Alberta #Canada #winter #spring #sprinter #March #GoOutsideForMe #BorealForest (those are wild native spruce trees behind the house) #garden (the mound to the right in second shot is a #RockGarden with a native Aster at the edge) #photography #weather #SolaceInNature

Looking over the roof (out of view below) we see part of the tops of three spruce trees and a bit of a poplar. These spruce trees are a bit skinny- lots of branches, we don't see too much of the trunk, but the branches are a bit long and thin and floppy, especially the two that are one to each side. Those two are natural dark green. The one we see in the centre, farther back is just a bit more compact and since we are only seeing the very top, it is all coated in frost (as is the top of a poplar we see in front of it). This would have been from freezing fog, and clearly it moved through rather high up as only some of the tips of trees were coated. Behind the sky is blue.

Looking down at the ground covered in a little more than an inch, maybe 3 cm of fresh fluffy smooth snow.Left of centre is a path which goes from lower left to upper centre, where it branches off to left and right. It is surrounded by mounds of snow to left, right, and at the top of the frame. The morning sun is from the left, so the left mound is casting a strong blue shadow, the other spots vary from nearly white in sunny spots to soft shadows from trees etc. The mound on the right is the edge of a rock garden covered in fallen and shovelled snow, and just where it meets the path a single dried plant around a foot 30 cm tall sticks partly out of the snow with many dried brown stems and old seed heads, and lightly covered with fresh snow as well.

Stone Steps in the Rock Garden

Stone steps wind upward, nestled between large, layered rock formations surrounded by lush trees and fallen leaves. Sunlight filters through the branches, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere amid the natural landscape.

Eagle Point Park
Dubuque, Iowa

#TravelPhotography #DubuqueIowa #EaglePointPark #GreatRiverRoad #WPA #rockgarden #stonesteps #photooftheday #fediverse #fediart