Do You Have Design Ideas for This Rock Garden?
I have a small area of a garden with clay loam soil that was getting too wet. So we built up some mounds of the gritty mix and tried to do some rock garden designs with succulents. Two of the areas are shown in the photos below. How would any of you change this, and what are some ideas for design elements to add to what is already there? I am using Echeveria and Sempervivum succulents here. I would be open to some cactus ideas. Keep in mind that the Echeveria hen and chick plants will fill out a large area eventually, so I left space for that.
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4 months agowestes Zone 9b California SF Bay thanked Patricia Colwell ConsultingRelated Discussions
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4 months agolast modified: 4 months agoWe are designing the rock garden into a tiny sliver of available space, between a walking path and a stone circle with a statue in the middle. Hopefully, the constraints on space are clear from the photo below. This area has clay loam soil, and it was not draining well, so succulents never thrive there. We decided to build a raised mound, and for mostly aesthetic reasons we used desert soil (i.e., the gritty mix) for those mounds.
The tubes running throughout this area are an irrigation drip system. To be honest, they installed too many tubes, and they made those 1/4 inch tubes drip lines instead of distribution tubes. So the design is wasteful. It would have made far more sense to install one or two 1/4 inch distribution tubes, and then branch off those to specific plants. Eventually, those tubes will be partially buried by the soil and less visible on the surface.
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