The Benefits of a Rock Garden

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The Benefits of a Rock Garden

Staff Writer · Nov 9, 2009

A lot of property owners who are looking at good design choices can consider a rock garden as a specific kind of installation for helping to put together an attractive overall design for their home or other property. Having a rock garden in your balcony, in your yard, or elsewhere on your property can make a house look good. Here are some of the main benefits of choosing a rock garden for an exterior space.

Rock Gardens and Maintenance

A rock garden is one of the best features a homeowner can choose for installations and spaces that require little to no maintenance. Over time, this can be a big deal for property owner. Traditional gardens, flower beds or other similar installations actually require a lot of maintenance. Even wooden or concrete walkway designs will require some general maintenance over several years. But a rock garden needs very little in the way of maintenance (unless you include specific features like fountains), and so presents an attractive option for those who don’t have a lot of time to keep up their property.

Filling in Exterior Ground Space

In some American climates, it can be very hard to grow a good yard. Grass may not take root at your specific location, and some property owners despair when repeated efforts to seed a yard or lawn space are not successful. This is one situation where a rock garden can provide a very effective solution. Property owners to want to replace ailing grass can choose any combination of rocks with loose gravel fill in between to create a neat, attractive yard space that inhabitants and visitors can enjoy.

Geology as Art

A rock garden allows a property owner to take advantage of the aesthetic qualities of natural rock. Rock enthusiasts can tell you how igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock exhibit color patterns that can rival anything in a graphic designer’s portfolio. Homeowners looking at rock gardens have a vast variety of designs to choose from, and installation can be as easy as arranging for shipment and specific placement of larger rocks or boulders.

Withstanding the Outdoor Elements

Just as rock gardens need little maintenance, many of them don’t need any shelter, either. This makes a rock garden a great choice for properties where winter weather scours an exterior yard space annually, where flower beds or other installations don’t fare very well year-round, or require planting every spring.

The above are some of the common reasons why rock gardens are so popular, either in hot and arid climates like Phoenix, Arizona, in wintry locales where vegetation doesn’t flourish, or anywhere where a property owner doesn’t have time to do a lot of upkeep around the property. Take a look at design magazines to see how rock gardens crop up in homes and properties all across the country, and to see what other homeowners are doing to experiment with geological installations that will help them show off their homes.

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