Garden design is the art which lead to beautiful landscape around your home. Garden designs consist of process of designing and creating plans for layout of your garden. There are several types of garden plans such as kitchen garden, cottage garden, formal garden, residential garden, rock garden. You can choose any of these to enhance the beauty of your garden.

What is rock garden?

• The plants of rock garden are usually small in size. These plants are grown in pots or in well drained soil in the ground. These plants require less water but well drained soil for their growth.
• The garden consists of rocks which are placed in between the gaps of plants. These rocks are esthetically arranged near the roots of plants.
• Stones are aligned to form a bedding plane. Plants are often used to conceal the joints between the stones thus rocks are essential part of the garden.
• Rock garden was common in the time of Victoria. They were often designed and built by professional landscape architects. As these gardens provide natural beauty and relaxing atmosphere.
• Nowadays rock garden is used in modern campus or commercial landscaping and also in smaller area like private home gardens.

What is Japanese rock garden?
The Japanese rock garden, is referred as Zen garden. It is a special kind of rock garden made by hard plants.

How rock gardens enhance the beauty of landscape?

• Rock garden can be created by using home waste. Make natural compost for your garden by adding kitchen and other waste. Lay the rocks around the boundaries of your garden and apply them in making pathways in the garden. Boundaries made by rocks personalize your garden area.
• Choose attractive designs made by rocks for entrance as to provide inviting feeling for the guest.
• The odd shaped rocks are best suited for retaining walls and for the boundaries of water fountains.
• Rock garden makes the place fireproof and there is no maintenance cost, these gardens can be same for many years. There is need of painting and clearing the stains from the walls.
• Rocks can be used in garden for providing sheds and some rocky benches can also be made for providing seating in the garden.

There are various ideas to enhance the look of rock garden you can read many books related to it. Thus supply rocky look to your garden area to make your garden natural.

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