by Nan Porter I started my garden many years ago when there was a 20 to 30 minute rain practically every afternoon.I would expand every summer with more wildflowers and perennials.The garden grew and grew and grew.Then the rains stopped and I had to water by hand since we are in the country on a well. The ground around my flowers is rock hard since I only watered the plants individually.That took about 2-3 hours every other day. I weeded, and weeded and weeded. Oh, and I got a horse that I wanted to ride.Hmm, should I pull weeds or go ride my horse?
I had to figure out what to do.I didn’t want to kill my sparse flowers that were significantly getting even sparser the drier the climate got.I had used river rocks for borders.I love rocks, collected them on walks, vacations, even got a ton for a Mother’s Day present a few years ago!
The answer to my dilemma: ROCKS!I decided to fill in the borders with more river rocks. Then I decided to add rocks where there were bare or weed infested spots.
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