A HOME-MADE ROCK GARDEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20644, 16 February 1929, Page 3

A HOME-MADE ROCK GARDEN.

Tucked away in a little village on the Yorkshire moors, 700 feet above sea level, a beautiful rock garden has been made out of what was once a waste piece of ground. Here a quantity, of earth and rubbish had been tipped which had been dug out of the garden when a site was being prepared !"i- enlarging the house. This piece of ground formed an untidy space between the house and the field, and lay at a much lower level than the rest of the garden. The problem was what to make of it. Then the idea occurred to make it into a rock garden. Five steps were accordingly cut to lead down into it and the paths were paved with crazy paving. The rock garden itself was made entirely of Yorkshire stone collected by the owners during their wanderings over the adjacent moors, and chosen for their colour and shape. Protected on one side by an old garden wall, on the other by flowering shrubs and small fir trees, the rock garden is a veritable sun-trap and the air in summer is laden with the scent of flowers and the hum of Dees, labouring unceasingly to collect sweet honey from the flowers. Here one finds clumps of catmint, aubrietias of every colour, as well as every sort of heath, and white, yellow, and orange shirlcy poppies. The view from the garden is magnificent, stretching over Kowl V'ood and Levishnm Valley, Newton Dale, the Hole of Horcum, Saltersgate, and Locktmi Ghyll.