Show me your rockery!

[DaisyChainsForever]

If you have a rockery can you show me a picture please? I'm looking for inspiration! Ours is currently a pile of dirty rocks that we've gathered together while doing the garden up. No idea where to start when it comes to buying plants etc.

Here’s mine (although calling this random assortment of stones a rockery might be a wee bit generous!) Sorry OP, not much help - but I’m watching with interest as since I cleared all the weeds away from mine this morning, there’s nothing left. Really need some inspiration in terms of what to plant!

This is mine, I’d like to take credit, but it was in the gRden when we bought the house. The other advantage is that it’s built on the side of a rock faced hill, with very little soil.
The plants are sedums, alpines such as rock rose, thrift, Cerastium ‘snow in summer’, alpine achillea.
There is also a lot of mountain thyme which has to be managed otherwise it swamps everything. Micro gardening is the way to go to stop invasive weeds, which can be v. small.
Try Pinitrest for construction diagrams.

Ours is currently very 'rocky' (pic attached) Yours looks great @JT05, pinterest is a good idea! @Sunshine49 hopefully we will both get some inspiration

Thanks.

Just been out micro gardening the rockery and I realise that some of the rocks are placed horizontally like steps.
I don’t know if it’s deliberate, but they are useful to step on when reaching over.
Please post some pictures when you’re constructing them.

Watching with interest. I have a small rockery which currently is devoid of any life. It looked great in the spring with lots of alpines in it, but everything seems to have died off (or been trampled - looking at you ddog). Can't find anything in the garden centres that might work - seems to be the wrong time of year for most alpines.

Also watching with interest! I have lots of rocks that I am hoping to form into a rockery, however I am still trying to find the right spot in my very large garden!

Just a question, do rockeries need sun or shade, are there more plants suitable for one or the other, or does it not really matter?

Mine is in full sun for most of the day. Although the plants are hardy and don’t need much soil, in general they don’t mind the cold, but don’t like sitting in wet.
The soil they sit in should be mixed with gravel so they drain. If they’re sitting on rock they need to be placed on a slant for drainage.

I read a book once about garden planning, and there was a really good section in it about rockeries. It said that the best way to lay them out is that in nature, the planes of the rocks will all slant in the same direction, so try to copy that if you can. Especially if they are something like slate or have strata like sandstones do. Otherwise it will look as though a random pile has been dropped from a great height

I think id better look into it more. They are all similar sized rocks. Thank you for the advice.

Mines a bit of a mess lol

@TaraCave i love yours!

The rockery was the perfect place for this year's funny Christmas present from my gorgeous eldest daughter....The Teeth 😅

Ooo placemarking

We have a bit at the back of the garden that gets no sun ever, even grass does up there, so we were thinking if a rockery of some kind

TaraCave I love yours!

Only rookeries do like sun, but a Fernery planted between large rocks could look amazing.

Rookeries and rockeries both like sun!

I'mtherebutimnotthere ..... love yours!
I've started a mini one at the front of my house, not too sure how it's shaping up. I'll post a pic so you's can let me know x

Oh, I have a fernery @JT05, I never knew it had a name!

Tara your rockery is so cute! I love it!

Oh I didn’t know rockeries and rookeries needed sun too 🤦🏻‍♀️
I’ve never heard of a Fernery but upon googling they are lovely, do they not need sun then? I’d assume something that green would need lots of sun (I’m not much of a gardener in case you couldn’t tell 😬)

No, ferns don't like much sun - that's why they like forest floors. Mine are planted against the north face of a high wall and never get any direct light and they love it.