How to Create a Low Maintenance Rock Garden

If you love to have a beautiful landscaping around your home but don't have a lot of time to tend to it, you may want to consider creating a rock garden. Rocks and plants have a natural affinity for one another. You can find plants that are nestled into rock crevices, growing wildly in nature spreading all over the rocks. Even though there is very little soil and water, plants can still grow and have flowers.

Drawing inspiration from nature, we can soften any hard surfaces in our own yard whether it is a concrete path, walkways, patios, and stone walls by adding greenery and flowers. Rocks and plants complement each other. The sharp contrast of the hard surfaces of the rocks can provide a beautiful backdrop for flowering plants of different colors. On the other hand, plants can soften and add warmth to an otherwise hard, rugged, and cold surface of rocks.

Rocks can be a haven offering many benefits to plants. They have the ability to create their own microclimates. Rocks can hold heat and can prolong the growing season for hardy plants. They can also either offer the shade loving plants a shelter from the sun or reflect the sun onto sun-loving plants. Rock crevices can trap scarce water for plants which can provide nourishment during dry season.

Any nook or cranny between stones can be a home to a plant, even if it seems there is very little room for soil to be added.

Here are some ways that you can create your own low maintenance rock garden:

1) On garden walls or stacked blocks of concrete you can add a plant in the crevices. Tuck in the plants to allow the roots to go lower than the leaves, allowing water to run towards the roots and not away from them. Then add a handful of soil enough to cover the roots. Use a garden hose to sprinkle some water.