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Posted by maggie5IL IL (My Page) on Mon, May 23, 05 at 11:35
| My husband is hounding me to let him put a lot of large boulders at the front of our house. He's insistent about this, saw it somewhere when out of town, yet all I can visulaize is my yard looking like beings from beyond have landed in my front yard. I've searched Google for "landscaping with boulders" unsuccessfully. (Is this the right forum, or should I be on landscape design?) I'm very interested in seeing any pictures of your homes, or suggested websites that have actual pictures of real homes with boulders incorporated in the landscape. I'm afraid of the whole project. Please help me if you can. Thanks. |
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RE: Landscaping with boulders
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| I have a lot of boulders in my yard. This is definitely the right place for your question. My way of using them is only one of many possibilities. I have to get a new picture of the one with my house number engraved on it. That was just done a few weeks ago. Here's a link to various picutes of my yard. They all have rocks except the shade garden pictures. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Various Yard Pictures
More Boulder Pictures
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| Here's a picture from the Landscape Design Forum. This isn't my house, but I really like the pictures posted by Dominogold. It's a completely different use of boulders. |
Here is a link that might be useful: From the Landscape Design Forum
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| Large boulders can look very strange when just plunked into the yard. I'd suggest digging a hole and burying at least 1/3 of the stone. And try to use a type of stone that comes from near your house, so it has a chance of looking natural. |
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| I second creatrix's suggestions. |
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| I had my excavator plant this humongous pink granite boulder. It was left over from digging our foundation. I feed all kinds of wildlife off of my boulder. It's right in front of our dining room bay window. Everyone enjoys seeing what comes to eat off it. Turkeys, bambi, tree rats, of course many birds, and the occassional black bear. It's better than tv! 
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| sounds like your hubby is being insistent on having boulders maybe just go with it. i agree with the above about burying them. also look out for what i call pea soup where the rocks are dotted they always look best when placed in clusters of odd numbers if you do have to go with the rocks put as much imagination as you can into it i.e. think about how they will work with the plants you are wanting to use small ground covers in front maybe some grasses in between the rocks and shrubs behind |
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| Maybe you could use Moss rock to line the edges, then the boulders can be placed presentably... |
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| We used a lot of boulders in our landscape project last year. We developed a outdoor classroom showing fire resistant techniques people could use at home. By fire resistant I mean wildfire resistant concepts, I live and work in a high fire prone area so we wanted to educate people about how they could have attractive properties without taking everything flammable away. You can see how we used rocks and boulders in our design at our web page. http://www.odf.state.or.us/AREAS/eastern/walkerrange/ Click on the In The Garden link and then scroll down to click on the photo gallery. Click on different areas within the drawing for pictures pertaining to that area. Haven't updated with this years pictures yet but you will be able to see the rock.
Let me know what you think. |
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| Wow, that's looking really good! When you have all the after pictures taken, please post pictures in it's own thread so that people get a chance to see them. |
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| If you are still considering using moss rock or landscape boulders, you should take a look at the following link. http://www.pioneerstonemt.com/index.html It has pictures of river rock, moss rock, and boulders that you might consider using. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pioneer Stone
RE: Landscaping with boulders
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| YES YES YES...I SAY IT'S A GO! ROCKS IS TIMMLESS NOT TO MENTION NATURAL..AND WITH THE RIGHT FLOWERS,PERENIALS,GRASS'S,AND SOME SEASONAL PLANTS WORK REALLY WELL NO MATTER WHAT THE HOUSE LOOKS LIKE..I TOO AM PLANING ON A PROJECT!KEEP US POSTED WHAT YOU DID..OR PLANS |
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| I have a dilema. There are ugly and non-practical steps going down to my front yard. In between the steps are rows of gorgeous boulders. I have planted perenials along the front of the boulders and up above. When we remove the steps it will leave an area that is 10 to 12 ft wide, 4 ft high and 4 ft deep. I could move some of the boulders or plant tall perenials, bushes, I was thinking Rose of Sharon. It's very sunny so ponds or water doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? |
RE: Landscaping with boulders
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- Posted by botann z8 SEof Seattle (My Page) on
Sun, May 10, 09 at 5:15
Here are some rocks in part of my garden. Proper arrangement is the key.
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RE: Landscaping with boulders
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Juggler,
I don't know if you're still around, but that Garden Walk is excellent.
Plus, your Gallery was incredibly fast, and easy to navigate. I'm envious of the great stones that you folks have!
And, Botann, you have a beautiful, mature property!
Nice Cryptomeria. Josh |
RE: Landscaping with boulders
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| Yep, I'm still here. Thanks for the compliments! |
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- Posted by patann Z5 SE Mich (My Page) on
Fri, Jun 26, 09 at 14:44
| botann, I am swooning. Thank you! |
RE: Landscaping with boulders
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| In my area boulders are quite expensive at the garden centers. Can any of you turn me onto a less costly source? Thank you. |
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| All my rocks and boulders came from local farm fields. I live in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan. Around here there are a lot of glacial rocks and boulders. I guess it would stink to be a farmer here and have to pick all the rocks out of the fields, but it works well for me. They're all piled up somewhere, and the farmers are generally pretty glad to be rid of them. Small rocks that are light enough to be rolled up a board into the back of my Jeep are free. Boulders are the price of moving by someone with heavy equipment. |
RE: Landscaping with boulders
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| Check out the hypertufa forum...I've been making stones and rocks all summer...cheap and fun hobby. |
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