Happy Easter (if you celebrate it).

I am writing in a hurry...someone on Craigslist posted that they have several tons of limestone rocks. I went over and sure enough they do. Now, they recommended a bobcat but it's just me, my hands, and my Honda civic! I've tried looking online for rock garden photos but it seems most folks are using little stone (baseball size) or flat ones for retaining walls. We hope, eventually, to add a "Japanese garden" in the back of the house --behind a fence. What's there now is the start of a cottage garden--or at the least a happy thing with flowers.

I think my fiance will kill me if I try to bring in more stones--he already thinks I'm nuts.

Can anyone recommend websites or share photos of what you've done with big rocks? Some of them were a bear to get into my car--but manageable with leverage! I'd say some are a 12" long by 10" high x 10-12" wide. So...not huge, dramatic "billboard" types...but the size where you'd hold out your arms to hug someone. (Are you laughing at these descriptions!)

I hope I haven't taken too many with nothing to do with them.

We have almost no landscaping so I thought I could plop a few here or there into the beds for "structural" interest.

Brand new to rocks and trying it on the fly while the rocks are free!

Thanks (and my apologies if this is somewhere online and I haven't found it yet)

Sorry I can't help you.

Now if I can just figure out what to do with them. Right now they are just scattered here and there and it looks like it.

What does your bed look like in the fall/winter? I've planted rock loving stuff but it'll all die back leaving me a blank slate. Need to see if I can find some asters or something. (Am reading Beth Chatto's books, etc)

Codered- I'm in Nashville. Not sure re rocks. Sorry!

The rock garden looks pretty bare in the winter except where I have the creeping phlox. This does very well through the hot weather if I keep it watered well. Stays green throughout the winter. I did some rearranging of that this summer so I will have some evergreen to look at out my kitchen window. I also have lavender in one of the wells, It does keep it's leaves during the winter but they turn a greyish green during the winter. I cut it back in the spring and get lush new growth. Very fragrant.

I do like the way it looks when we have plenty of snow on the ground. Nice lumps of fluffy white on the different ledges. The center top always looks like a snow cone! I am still looking for more evergreens to place in the wells I made to keep some color in there when the snow flies. If I come across some good ideas I will definitely pass it along.

I keep adding on to the mound. I just finished adding two more wells. These were on the side facing the house and the base facing the rest of the yard. I threw some annuals in there to add some more color while I impatiently wait for the soapwort to rebloom. I cut that back recently because it was starting to seed heavily. New growth is starting up again. I should have it trailing back down in another week or so.