I posted recently that I was creating a sort of rockery on the right of the garden pond. It's not really a rockery as it is minus the rocks so I'm naming it The Pebble Garden.
I'm still collecting small plants for this area and spotted one in a recent trawl around garden centres (when we were looking for summerhouse furniture).
It's a houstonia caerulea - Texas Blue. The common name is bluets and I understand that it grows wild in parts of the US. I was attracted to the lovely blue colour of the flowers.
A pebble garden really does have to have pebbles otherwise it is no better than a rock garden without rocks is it? We have chosen a 'mulch' or 'dressing' called Golden Flint.
All the rain that we have suddenly been having certainly shows off the colours of the pebbles.
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I love pebble gardens, I think its because I really like the delicate rockery plants that tend to be planted in them. Yours looks great.
ReplyDeleteStill one or two more plants to pop in Liz, but I'm not sure what they will be until I see them
DeleteThis look lovely Sue...did you put membrane down before the pebbles to make keeping it tidy easier??
ReplyDeleteNo I didn't put down any membrane Tanya. To be honest weeding doesn't seem to be a problem in the garden possibly becuase most of it doesn't get dug and digging brings the weed seeds to the surface to germinate. It's not a large area anyway and laying membrane would have been fiddly because of the shape and the stump.
DeleteThe pebble garden is a great idea. Its so much fun to develop a new area! The bluets plant is a really nice choice.
ReplyDeleteIt is fun developing new areas Kelli and this year there has been no shortage of areas to develop and still more to come. Then we'll start again.
Deletemaybe get some thyme in there..... it would love it?
ReplyDeleteIt would Muddy, although we do have quite a few thymes in our herb pots.
DeleteI have my won pebble garden, but it is really a pea gravel pathway. Plants just seem to love to sprout up out of gravel. More than a few times I have thought of learning from this accidental garden and building upon the idea of a pebble garden.
ReplyDeleteI bet it's interesting seeing just what does sprout up Jennifer.
DeleteLooks very good, did you ever come up with something small and scented?
ReplyDeleteNot yet BW - I saw some dianthus in the garden centre but they would have grown too big - I'm looking for diminutive!
DeleteI love pebble garden too but i's hard to maintain right?
ReplyDeleteThe blue flowers look good!
The only thing to do for maintenance is to make sure that the plants don't spread too much Malar which isn't a problem with such a small bed.
DeleteThere is also the matter of removing any weeds but that's the same with any gardening.