A new accent piece.

DavidWilloughby · Post by **DavidWilloughby** » August 9th, 2013, 6:53 pm

Hi All,

I had thought about doing this for the last few weeks and today bit the bullet and actually did something about it. My shadehouse has a microclimate of its own, seperate to the backyard and many self sown ferns have cropped up over the last couple of years. Here is a recent photo of part of my shadehouse I am referring too,

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The thought had occurred to me over the last few weeks about how one of those mounds you see in the above photo, which is bushrock from Holsworthy Barracks (thanks Dad for that) would look in a shallow pot. Well today I decided to lift one and see how it would work and I am rather happy to say the least on how it turned out. The following two pics are two possible fronts, depending on what it is on display with (if I was to ever show one and need an accent), but the only part of this I have done is merely pick the rock up, place it in a pot and then put moss around the edges, I cannot nor will I take any credit for this as I have simply not done it.

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I had thought about adding a tree to it, but as a dear friend pointed out that it would merely complicate and ruin it. I shall heed his thoughts. There is a maidenhair fern, a couple others that I have no idea on the name of, baby tears and moss on the rock. Who knows, it might come in handy one day.

Cheers

David

Josh · Post by **Josh** » August 9th, 2013, 7:09 pm

Looks good David. I used to work in a English cottage nursery years ago and used to love the baby tears etc. in between the pavers and rocks. I have to disagree though, I reckon a small tree hanging off the side would finish it nicely, would need to be small though.

Josh

Post by **kcpoole** » August 9th, 2013, 11:05 pm

Nice

I agree, a small tree will look awesome on the topr right hand slope section

Ken

Shane · Post by **Shane** » August 9th, 2013, 11:45 pm

What are the dimensions of the rock and pot? Don't you just love how Nature knows best.

DavidWilloughby · Post by **DavidWilloughby** » August 10th, 2013, 1:46 pm

Hi Josh and Ken,

While yes the thought of putting a tree onto it is appealing, I don't really want to mess with it at all and keep it simple, I do however have a few others that I might just had to put a tree on, which I can see happening soon.

Hi Shane,

The rock is 220mm high and 300 wide and pretty heavy too lol. Couldn't agree more with you that Nature knows best.

Thanks for the comments Gents.

Cheers

David

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