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Decorative Rocks and Ornamental Stone - Landscaping

It's time to break out of the everydaygarden does have to be planned carefully.
landscaping design. What does your lawnRock doesn't absorb water - so any rain
consist of? Lots of green grass - that takesrun-off will go straight into your lawn and
a lot of time to mow and a lot of water todoes need to be carefully drained off. Don't
look healthy, trees and shrubs. Perhaps someput your rock garden over electrical or phone
flowerbeds  flanking  the  house  itself.lines,  either.
But there's so much more you can do with yourYou may think that a rock garden is
landscaping, if you just decide to do thingsequivalent to a Japanese garden, but that
a  bit  differently.isn't necessarily the case. The Japanese
garden combines three elements: stone which
In desert locations, of course, like Arizonarepresents mountains or islands, water -
and Mexico, why bother to try to force grassrepresenting purity, and plants. A Zen garden
to grow at all? Why not simply cover youris what most people think of when they hear
yard with attractive, ornamental rock andthe term Japanese garden - a stretch of white
stone, with a few shrubs. Or as the joke hassand with black rocks placed strategically
it, "I'm retired, I've mowed my last lawn!"about, and one meditates by raking the sand
The reason is simple - you may think water issmooth.
a renewable resource - but it doesn't renew
as fast as mankind is consuming it. In desertThere are two ways to install a rock
states where water comes from below groundgarden...one would be to make the rock look
aquifers, the level of this fresh-waterlike a natural outcropping of bedrock...used
source is lowering every year, and rainwaterto cut off an inconvenient slope. The more
cannot  replenish  that  level  fast  enough.usual design is to pile up the stones - both
large and small - in harmonious
Even if you don't live in a desert climate,groupings...and if you simply must have
there's no reason why you can't make a rockgreenery, leave small gaps between the rocks
garden - either large or small - in part ofinto  which  the  plants  may  be  placed.
your yard. Such a garden will cut down on the
time needed to mow your lawn, there'll be noSurf the web to get ideas for how to design
need to spread pesticides around, and it willyour rock garden, and venture far and wide,
be a quiet and restful place around which tointo sites from Japan and India as well as
sit.the United States. You'll find beauty
everywhere.
Like any other landscaping element, a rock



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