superb ....

otherwise i am speechless ...

ken

ps: your definition of fun .... seems to include a lot of hard labor.. lol ... protect your back.. you aint as young as you used to be ... at least you didnt suggest you are moving the rock ...

WOW! That thought always comes into my head whenever you post a photo. Your gardens always take my breath away and whenever you make a post, I immediately come view.
Cher

Looks like something straight out of a magazine! Love the third pic

Spectacular is an understatement.

Jon

Looks like it was put there by Mother Nature. Best compliment I can give.
Gary

That is impressive. I have done a little rock work myself but nothing on the scale that even comes close to what you have accomplished.

Handling rock the size of these tells me you had help. Positioning them on the steel channel and then placing them where they need to go requires assistance of some kind.

What did you use?

Dave

Looks like it was put there by Mother Nature. Best compliment I can give.

Exactly what I thought!

Thank you for the compliments.
Yes Dave, I had help. A friend I worked with and I put it together. We each had a steel bar and a shovel. One pried up using another rock for a fulcrum while the other backfilled. The bars come in especially handy when positioning the rocks into their final position to get it 'just right'. Rolling square rocks around that size is a two man job for sure.
Yeah Ken, I'm not getting any younger and I won't be doing much rock rearranging there. Maybe a little tweaking is all due to some settling here and there over the years. Ken,I'm not worried about my back. I've always watched it closely. It's my mind I have to be careful with. ;-)
Again, thanks for the compliments.
Mike...68 years young.

Mike, I admire your courage to make such a difficult job! Your rock garden looks so natural! It's looks like the stones have fallen from the mountain as after of the earthquake. And it's been a very very long time ago. So long that rocks have grown into the ground and plants ... which is placed their root between the cracks ...

You are not just a gardener, you are a great artist! Indeed!

With sincere admiration, Ireena

Wow Mike, this is a very nice project and you aren't an amateur for sure, you're a real professianal!
It seems that you build this all in your first youth, now you can enjoy it in your second and I hope for the rest of your live!
Your rock garden remembers me to Bob Fincham's rock garden, only the assortment of plants is differend...
Congrats with your very beautiful result!

I like the rock work, it's better than usual.

Always a pleasure seeing the different aspects of your property.

Josh

All the superlatives fall short... you are an artist and so much more! It's like being immersed in a symphony. I wish I could see it, listen to its music...

Wow!

I like the limbed up look on the larger trees, it seems to accentuate that fantastic rock.

Thought I would show another rock garden I have on the front side of the house. Looking north at my front door.
Mike

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Spectacular Mike. That needs more than to be on a calendar. Some artist needs to paint it. It's perfection!
Cher

Cher,

Maybe someone could render it in oils or watercolor; but the artist has already painted it.