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For a more exotic dry garden rockery or zen garden, you’ll need to source specimen
rocks that suit your purpose. Quarries can provide the crushed ‘concrete stone’ in
mostly white, grey or purplish colours, and if you can’t find the perfect rocks, you
might have to get crafty with fibreglass and make your own, or you can find them at
Sanitas.
Succulents like Sedums, Echeverias, Kalanchoe, Euphorbia, Stapeliads and Aloe species
are all easy, good value plants for in and around rocks. Groundcover succulents like
Portulaca, Lampranthus, Mesembryanthemum and Carpobrotus not only soften rock
borders, but have beautiful flowers too. Cactus and grass species are good accent
plants for the dry garden. Living stone plants - lithops - are worth a try too if you can
manage not to overwater them, and prevent the rainfall from rotting or washing them
away. Don’t water Lithops from Autumn to Spring. Text by S.C & Pics: S.C & Pixabay

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