Our Rock Wall is a Puzzle

My husband Kelly has had to rebuild this rock wall 3 times now. He's determined and keeps making it more resilient each time. He starts with a pile of rocks...

rock wall under construction

... and fits them all together like a big 3D puzzle. The result is quite remarkable!

rock wall complete

Here are some more shots showing how perfect his alignment is.

Lava rock

This huge lava rock was a gift from a friend and came here full of cactus that I immediately killed. Well, actually, it took me a year but anything that has to come inside the house really has no chance here so I always say hello and good bye at the same time.

It is moved outside permanently now. Sitting in a prime spot at the drive entrance to the lower boardwalk garden. If you arrive in a car and come into the house, you have to walk right by the lava rock.

I am trying to grow golden creeping jenny on it and if that takes, by the end of this season, it will look like it has always been there!

Spring Shift

My husband Kelly has a rock puzzle to put together again this year as soon as the weather warms up. This will be his 3rd time rebuilding the dry stacked wall along our driveway. Spring in Nova Scotia means a cycle of freeze and thaw. Our roads are not the only thing impacted!

Introducing Little Stonehenge

Kelly has a propensity for moving big rocks around.  Since mid-summer he has been excavating the woods behind our garage.  Somewhere along the way we started calling it 'Little Stonehenge'.  What started out as a big pile of rocks has become, well, a more organized pile of rocks.  This upright rock above stands at the foot of the flipflop path.  He has it propped up to look like a console from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, or perhaps a DHD from StarGate.  I have to admit that I think many of his ideas are a little nuts but they always turn out, umm, interesting at the least.  This whole area is still under construction but a few plants are in and next year we should see a few blooms among the rocks.