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A horrible trend over here in Germany and Austria are stone gardens. Not the artisan Japanese style, but the supposedly-no-maintenance-dead-as-can-be-heat-traps
by TomK32 7y ago
A horrible trend over here in Germany and Austria are stone gardens. Not the artisan Japanese style, but the supposedly-no-maintenance-dead-as-can-be-heat-traps. It's so horrible that a few towns have started to outlaw them for new-builds.
Here's an instagram of someone who collects photos of that type of garden https://www.instagram.com/gaerten_des_grauens/ https://www.instagram.com/gaerten_des_grauens/
- MandieD 7y agoOMG, the caged rocks that have shown up all over this place the last few years! There is no reason not to have a plant yard in Germany and Austria - even if you never water, there will be plants, and at most, running a lawnmower over them twice a month will keep the neighbors from getting too mad at you. We have a sorry-looking conventional “Rasen” (grass lawn), but I’m looking into how to turn it over to clover for happier bees and less ongoing work.
- TomK32 7y agoPlants will beat stone gardens every time. Simply make the Rasen smaller: when you do add some bushes, berries or largeish plants on the borders, make the borders two meters deep and not just half a meter. You want to use many different sized plants to get achieve visual depth and colours. If you can squeeze in a little bench or chair hidden behind waist-high plants it's even better.