Very nice Lenore,
You will love Frosted Jade when it growes up,one of my all time favorites.
And i love the Solomans Seal with hosta,you have a very nice start,just wait til next year,you will not believe how big they have gotton,thanks for showing us your pictures.
Carol

Oh, I hope so, Carol!! I can't wait to see them grow!

I also have some ferns in that bed with the Soloman's Seal, but it's been so dry, they have faded away a bit!

I looked hoping to find some dry stack fence photos that you would find all around Lexington, this seems to minds eye a method of using rock scaled to fit your space. I see these areas fenced like little Shaker cow pastures.

Don't listen to me!

Here is a link that might be useful: some rock use

Thanks for the link! I would love to have some larger rocks in the garden, but they are too heavy for me to carry! The large ones I have are my weight limit!! I do like to stack 2 or 3 together. I'm just playing with them right now. Who knows what it will end up looking like! I think little Shaker cow pastures would be pretty! :)

The large ones I have were placed with a backhoe, I used to move some of these fairly large ones around with poles, crowbars and elbow-grease.

My small temple stone is not much larger than your rocks.

Your new hosta beds look good Lenore and next year they'll be even bigger and better. Love the boxer too!

June

Hi Lenore. I like what you've done and can't wait to see the bed as it matures over the next few years. We've been putting in new beds (new house no existing gardens) this summer and have used rock in ours too. My mother-in-law suggested maybe we could paint the rocks white... which made me laugh! I think nature does such a beautiful job with plants and rocks, why would I want to mess with the way they look! Anyway, your beds look great. Thanks so much for posting pics.

Oh yeah--I'm a rock person, too--collect them almost as feverishly as I collect hosta,
well, I don't exactly 'collect' hosta, but I do seem to acquire a few along the way! ;o)

Can't wait to see how your good starts will develope through the next 2 summers!!!
Keep us 'informed'!!

Thanks June, jel48 and hey_j for the nice comments. June, I'm glad you like my boxer! I have two of them! I'm as passionate about boxers as I am gardening! They often get in my garden pictures, so you may see them often!

I am turning some ideas around in my head about ways to display rocks that Esther_Opal mentioned above. Lexington, KY (where I live) has lots of stone fences in the countryside and I am thinking of ways to recreate that on a very small scale, of course!

jel48, I was collecting rocks from a creek near a friend's house, and found a white rock! See the pic above with blue mouse ears in it, and the rock to the right is white. No painting done to it. It's real pretty.

I would love to see pictures of others' gardens using rocks by themselves or rocks with hostas!

"I think nature does such a beautiful job with plants and rocks, why would I want to mess with the way they look!"
jel

The Chinese speak of rocks as the "bones of the earth".

"Lexington, KY (where I live) has lots of stone fences in the countryside and I am thinking of ways to recreate that on a very small scale, of course!"

I've told this story so many times that everyone else can leave now, the garden that started my wife on gardening was a small subdivision lot 1/3acre or less. It was perfectly landscaped but in miniature to scale, so one didn't realize the size. Won awards every year on garden tour.

I can take you to spots on my place that are over planted and just look silly.

I wish I had that much space OHHH th possablities

EO, i love all your big rocks,is that 3rd picture from your yard also?
Love the way the rocks are layed out,must have been a tough job for sure.

Thanks to you both for the pictures.Lenora,your rock placment is perfect. :0)

Carol

Carol, I'm sure you guessed that is not my paradigm. Ok, for me to look at but couldn't live with it.

This is closer to my preference.

Here is a link that might be useful: Do you like God's work

EO,
What paradigm?

I was asking if that is your yard in picture 3 of your thred? :0)

I do so love the big rocks on your land,We can not even get close to Gods great beauty.

Thanks for the pica.

Carol

EO, What paradigm?
Carol

The very very VERY neat dry bed is not mine just an example of different taste.