Here, I suspect, the rocks may not be super expensive (I'm not extremely far from the foothills/mountains) but the delivery is likely the part that would get expensive quickly, since the nearest town where a company might be located is 20miles away..
I actually really like rocks as well as liking plants! So I hope to 'celebrate' my mixed stone :)) Certainly the plants living is a key point :)) I have to say, Bob, looking at Panayoti's pictures of your place, it was not what I'd expected based on your past posts--I sort of visualised a series of troughs and raised beds in some sort of gravelly fully exposed hilltop :)) -definitely trees and shrubs didn't feature in my imagination ... maybe that's the other side? ;) Cohan West Central Alberta, Canada, Zone 2-3 record temps from 10-20 miles away: min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus > My style has always been a pile of dirt with rocks stuck in here and there. > Very classy. The dirt always has a backbone of unsinkable material. My > neighbors are by now used to the sight of me shuffling down the street with > a wheelbarrow looking for junk to put under the raised beds. The financial > aspect of rock gardens also means that the raised beds have *different > kinds of rocks* (horrors) depending on when they were built. > Well, who knows, maybe the plants I put in will actually live, and hide > most of the gravel. > > Bob Nold > Denver, Colorado, USA > > _ --
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