A gravel garden through the seasons
Tim Vojt sent in a series of photos showing his Ohio crushed rock garden through dissimilar time of year . He writes :
I was inspired by Beth Chatto ’s gravel garden book to see what would grow in the pretermit gravel parking tablet behind my 1911 home . It had conglomerate a underweight layer of greensward well before we buy the theatre , so I stripped that off , cleaned it up , added stone and the sandstone column , and started planting . I ’m constantly changing it up allot to my whims and what does ill or is over - exuberant .
What a majuscule way to wrench a difficult patch into a beautiful garden !

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The gravel garden in March, with plants just starting to wake up.

In April, the plants are beginning to grow and fill in.

The same garden in May wreathed in flowers.

Photographed in July – the dog days of summer aren’t slowing these tough, drought tolerant plants down!

Even under snow, a few plants poke through promising of warmer days to come.

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