I have been interviewing rocks. That is to say, I have hundreds
of garden rocks of sizes from the diameter of my fist to twice the size of my
head, plus many smaller and a few boulders even larger. Most of these are in
use but all are being considered for relocation to my new cactus garden.
The size, color, and texture patterns of each rock determine whether it gets
relocated. Also, if it is still needed where I had it originally. For example,
the rosemary border between the house and driveway has overgrown its
rock edging so all of those are being wiggled out and moved either to
the cactus garden or to replace rocks now in the cactus garden. My son Paul
helped me move 40 rocks on Saturday. He said he would rather lift weights.
Some of the rocks came with our Willow Glen house and I moved others from our old
house. Still more were collected in our driving trips around California
and Nevada each summer. The yellow quartz stone below came from Jake’s Creek
behind my Great-Grandparents’ Elkmont cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains
in Tennessee. Below are photos of some of my favorite rocks,
plus work-in-progress images of the cactus garden.
My neighbor came by to see what was happening. She said that the
caboose in the cactus garden looked like Disneyland. I hadn’t been thinking
of Disneyland as a source of garden design inspiration but I include
two photos from Splash Mountain’s small cactus garden below for comparison.
As you can
read in my blog, my daughter Jessica and visited
Disney World – Magic Kingdom after participating in the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in October 2007.
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Buying more gravel
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Dark gravel in arroyito
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Starting to place stones
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Moving stones
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Silver Torch blooms
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Trichocereus Carmarguensis Crest
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Cactus without nametag
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Last barrel cactus
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Top gravel placed
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Making progress…
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Splash Mountain garden 1
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Splash Mountain garden 2
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