Your lawn and garden can be beautiful but low maintenance through
rock gardening. Although a rock garden is frequently built in garden areas specifically chosen for the purpose, it can also be constructed on any area of ground you have no other use for. It requires adequate planning, an appropriate selection of rocks, and careful placing of stones. Your goal is to re-create, albeit in miniature, a natural mountain slope in your own yard. There are as many reasons for building a rock garden as there are people who want to build them. Rockeries are an easy and unique way to reduce lawn are on a hard-to-mow slope. They can re-create a piece of nature in the back yard. They can add an element of movement to an excessively flat landscape. They make an ideal site for a collection of delicate alpine plants and are also perfect for highlighting less delicate but tiny plants that would otherwise go unnoticed.