With a wealth of information about Australia’s rocks behind us, there’s one last thing to do – start landscaping with rocks. Let’s Rock the Design What nice triangular shapes within a triangular shape! And the distribution of plants and posies is charming. The designer has a fine-tuned hand and uses it to advantage in this […]

Now “nitty” and “gritty” take over—geometry, color and texture arrest our attention to study, evaluate and find their place in our lexicon and design ideas.  And for this we need to take a different direction so as to have a rich resource from which to choose when we make design decisions.  Makes it that much […]

In an earlier article, we talked about rocks having “purpose,” finding enough evidence to support the claim. Since then more exploration has discovered, perhaps, that their most important purpose has been their role as the recording medium to reveal the story of cultures. Tasmania has rocks containing petroglyphs that were created over 40,000 years ago. […]

Aborigine Mystery They were a complete mystery for years until someone must have talked to the right person and learned that they were a kind of track border, perhaps to the next aboriginal village or an intervening sacred place. This is located along the Anne Beadell, from Perth to Coober. But let’s look at several […]

“Steady as a Rock,” “Solid as a Rock,” “Rock of Ages,” “Love You like a Rock”—pretty good indications that rocks have “Purpose,” wouldn’t you say? We’ll achieve a balance by leaving the esoteric and move into the practical aspect of their existence, shall we? We will also take a closer look at designing with rocks. […]

One great thing about rocks: you don’t have to mow them. Oh—and you don’t have to water or feed them either. Low maintenance landscaping design? Onto something here? Because brain cells are synapsing away over a few delightful things to ponder. Alright then, it’s on with “Rock the House!”— a purpose revealed if you take […]