Shale rock landscaping

Enhance the beauty of your landscape with the best flowers for rock gardens. Create a stunning display in your rock garden with colorful and drought-tolerant ground covers. Discover the ideal plants for poor soil that thrive in Mediterranean or alpine environments. Transform your outdoor space using a variety of rock garden landscaping plants, including flowering ground covers and climbing flowers for pergolas. Elevate the charm of your rock wall landscaping with these specially selected…

The Problem: When we moved into our present home the previous owner was a passionate gardener so a lot of the work was already done. But strangely they left one…

Edging is a perfect way to define your planting beds and keep them separate from your lawn. Rock and mulch are great for limiting weed growth and maintenance.

Rocks

Gravel around the foundation for drainage, plant shrubs along to help soak up water. Like the idea of the large rock to prevent erosion from the water spicket. Maybe a few cool pots or barrels with plants too? I like :)

Shale is the most common sedimentary rock, accounting for 70 percent of rock found in the Earth's crust — learn its geology, composition, and uses.

Antiform fold with axial plane cleave refraction across shales and sandstones (SW Portuguese coast)

Ranging from precipitous shale cliffs to open woods, Potts Creek's spectacular barren supports a unique plant community.

Expanded shale, a gravel-size rock that is pumped full of air, aerates clay soil, makes it easy to work and helps it drain better. Best of all, you add it to garden beds only one time. Work 4" of expanded shale & 4" of compost into your beds...be sure to mulch (watch out for red mulch unless the wood is specified as it may be dyed pallets which is harmful to your plants.) Your plants will thrive from the expanded shale/compost mixture!

Landscaping around trees is a clever way to turn something ordinary into a real garden highlight. Whether you’re working with a towering oak in the backyard