New Rockery

Just my kind of project - it looks great, and so does the rest of your garden. Your new rockery blends very well with what is there already. Really like that.

Oh thank you, I'm so pleased you like it Ojibway, you wonder, dont you, what others will think of what you have done. But I've enjoyed doing it and I am pleased. Thanks.

really nice job done Cinders, the Lewisia will need protection as winter rain may rot the crown, i have mine planted on it's side which works is yours angled slightly...

Thanks for that SL. I will tilt it a bit more then. I'll remember that and make sure I protect it a bit for the winter.

your welcome :-)

looks lovely, makes me want a rockery too!! maybe that will be my next project. The pink-flowered plant in the last photo is just beautiful.

Thank you Laurum, the pink flowered plant in last pic is Saponaria, commonly known as 'tumbling ted' in my neck of the woods.

What a cracking job youve made of that Cinders. Youll have fun seeking out new plants for it, although it looks really well established already. Your garden looks really pretty and the new rockery blends in really well. If it were me I would be very pleased with myself.

thats really very pretty

Thank you so much Poppy. I've left one or two gaps as I know I shall be tempted when I go to GC. but I am pretty pleased with it so far.

Thanks Sticki. When you bringing the cake ?!!!

What a great job you've done there, Cinders...that bed looks perfect as a rockery. Well done! :)

soon as i can cinderella!!!

all your garden looks so perfectly looked after and so pretty.

Thats good then. thanks for the compliment - it mostly looks after itself these days Sticki.

well if thats the case even more well done to you for excellent planning!!! its a bonus if you can have time to enjoy it too!!

It looks great Cinders and yes it does blend in well, those rocks for that price is darn good, I think they are a ridiculous price at GC`s, makes me wish I could drive I`d head off to the mine in Wales. Your garden is lovely and a credit to you...

Thank you Lincs, it was a really good price for the rocks, just may have to get one or two more.

Looks fab Cinders. Nice choice of plants there

Wonderful Cinders, dont you just love a rockery :-)
& wow to that Hosta it looks great.

Thank you Sheila.

Willi, thank you also. That Hosta is great isnt it. It was divided up into four last year, think its done it good.

Looking great Cinders and a lovely selection of plants too, I love that Salmon pink and I have Lewisia which is a gem never stopped flowering since I planted it, Well done it all looks very pretty and colourful;0)

Thank you. Strangely I have never had a Lewisia before, but they are looking so lovely at the moment I couldnt resist this one.

It's very nice, and you've still got room for some more plants :o)
I like all your pots aswell ...

Thank you for your lovely comment Hywel, its a dead cert that I will be buying some more plants for it !

Lovely job there Cinders it looks great, the rocks were a bargain a nice Lewisia too :o)

Thank you Neellan, I was really chuffed with the rocks.

Looks really good great job :)))))

Congrats Cinders....! Just saw Amy's pics of her rocks! now I find your blog...lovely, because I've been thinking the same thing about an area in our front yard which is very dry at present and hauling water is just too hard in the heat... You achieved a transformation in a short time and that's what I think I need. It has to happen FAST...lol.

Thanks Mark

Thanks Lori, for your lovely comments, this spot had been the same for so many years, so it was due a change. So out with all the plants and bulbs. Enjoyed doing it, and pleased with the results.

sorry I don't know how I missed this blog, however its fantastic, you must be so pleased with yourself, and what a bargain for those rocks, did you do it all alone, a lot of work there

I did most of it, Alan lifted the rocks for me, thats all. They were a bargain weren't they.

I'm on 'catch-up' this afternoon, Cinders ... so glad I saw this blog as I love what you have done ... proves a change is as good as a rest! ... I paid £6 for two rocks at a local GC a couple of years ago so I think your fiver was definitely money well spent ... :o) ... Also, is it really a year ago that we met up at Dottydaisy's open garden? ... My, the time has flown .......

I'm glad you like what I have done Shirley, I enjoyed doing it I must say and am very pleased with it. Those rocks were certainly a bargain. Yes it really is a year ago that we met, and I am sorry that we can't meet up again this year, but circumstances won't allow. However, when you are better perhaps we can arrange something. Hope Dotty does well.

I'm sure the weather won't have put people off visiting ... gardeners are usually a hardy lot! ... Shall take you up on that, as and when ... :o)

Look forward to it.

:o)))