Remove rockery

Nellybee

Hello
I have planned t remove a rockery its on a bank seperating the bottom patio and top lawn with steps through the middle .Its about 10ft wide and 30ft long with a retaining wall at bottom about 3ft high the top just has lawn edging .The problem i am having is i really dont know what to put in its place sick of the rockery so it has to go .Anyone any ideas im at a loss .:beer:

I_have_spoken

Edge with box and infill with annuals and spring bulbs to form a parterre garden?



or keep the formality of box edging and then have exuberant in-fill planting

Mojisola

I would think about using things that you might not want to plant elsewhere in the garden because they spread and root or self-seed - Lamiums, Strawberries - cultivated or wild, Saponaria, Ivys, Sedums, some types of Campanula, Alchemilla mollis, Hypericum 'Hidcote', etc.

There's also a lot of lovely ground cover roses available now.

A mixture of colours of Aubretia tumbling over the wall will look lovely in the Spring.

Heathers and low-growing junipers will give an all-year-round display with very little work once they're established.

Choice of plants will partly depend on how much sun the area gets and how dry it is.

poorly_scammo

I'm converting my rockery into a raised bed for veg.