Blogs on Rocks & Stones

One man's Rubble is another man's ROCK GARDEN

Through the pages of many excellent alpine and/or rock garden club publications, newsletters, and of course internet postings,...

FLINTSTONES

No not the animated American TV series about a working class stone age family ........ Flint has been used by humans to make...

Funny Faces 3rd edition

Here are more funny faces that I came across this year: Look's like he's had a silver filling! (West Runton, Norfolk 14.5.15) Life's...

Pond updates June 2016(last pic)

Some of you may remember the trouble we had trying to get the installer to return to deepen the pond as per spec. We gave...

Funny Faces in Stones

As with trees, I enjoy searching for and photographing 'funny faces' in stones, rocks and any other natural surfaces. These...

JEWELS ..... between rocks and hard places

October has been mild ... a good gardening month ... even though Truffle the Terrier tried to find a short route into November...

Front Garden Facelift

At the start of September, I decided that if I worked very hard, I could fit in one more major gardening project before the...

Ontario Rock Garden tour

by John Beaulieu Each year I try to go on at least one of the Ontario Rock Garden & Hardy Plant Society tours. Even...

A Sink Garden.

We found a number of these old Belfast type sinks around the garden. This is how I turned them into alpine growing areas. The...

Freebie Rockery Stones

These are the stones all loaded up for transport to our back garden. I am so chuffed with them. They'll be so useful when...

Painting Rocks

I had a couple of people ask about painting rocks, so I'm going to keep a record of the stages next time I do a flower rock. For...