>I love rocks. I’ve collected stones since as long as I can remember, and still do. I have 3-pound rocks that I brought back from Greenland in my carry-on luggage, and rocks that I brought back from Croatia, England and the Danish shores.
Because I have had to house my collection in my apartment, my rocks have been living in my windows, gathering dust at an appalling rate and requiring constant cleaning, but recently I brought them up to the summer house. They are now sitting in a box up there, but they’re not going to stay inside; I want to integrate them into the garden and somehow make them part of it.
This is a major inspiration. The picture is taken on the walk from the bus stop to the summer house, and I love the texture of this classic piece of stone fencing, separating the old royal forest from the surrounding used-to-be-farmland-but-is-now-summer-house-district.
I love the colour of the stones; the mossy greens and grays that cover the original colours of the stones and somehow add a softer feel to them.
While I do have some stones from Greenland that will need to go wherever the angelica grows (since to me angelica is linked to the small, basic gardens of the old town in Nuuk), I am beginning to think I would also like to create a larger, boulder-filled area in The Woodland. Not a rockery, but something more akin to the boulder fence above, where the stone is not a ground covering for plants but a feature in themselves. It will have to be en miniature, though, as I can’t carry large boulders around on public transport. Even I have my limits. I might make a pile of large-ish stones under the permanent shade of the trees, though, and that could give a smaller version of the boulder fence. Eventually. Pick up a rock here, a stone there, and eventually it will become something.
I hope.
>Rocks are great mementos and beautiful in the garden. I first thought of a rock garden for you, but your idea of something natural sounds great. There are miles (probably thousands) of rock walls like your photo in New England US where farmers cleared their fields. They're beautiful.
>I always feel ambivalent about rockeries; somehow they often seem twee when compared to the mountain regions they replicate on a small scale, and though it CAN be pulled off with great aplomb I'm just not sure I could manage that. A pile of boulders, though, with moss and whatever else growing on them, is surely within my capabilities and in keeping with the garden in general.
>That is very nice, my dad also colects rock from every part he can. I think you will make a really nice colection for your garden, look forward to seeing how it is
>What about a way to hide the driveway?
>Amateur: I was thinking about either that or out against the road where the cover doesn't quite reach down to the ground, but definitely anything planted in the Woodland patch should be placed to provide as much cover towards the drive and the road as possible.