A new accent piece.
Posted: 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,
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.
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
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,
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.
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
