How Do I Use Lava Rocks For My Flower Garden?
Lava rocks add interest to the landscape. They come in many sizes from boulders to gravel. Decorate and protect the flower garden by using lava rocks as a frame. Create your own rock garden by placing lava boulders within the flower garden itself. Rocks provide a primal material for borders and focal points. They can shelter fragile plants and give a feel of a living work of art, as though an area of nature came to being in your yard from the base of a volcano on a tropical island. Put on work gloves. Set the lava boulders and rocks out next to the garden to examine their sizes and shapes. Group the smallest ones together to use for the flowerbed border. Put the largest ones to the side to use as accent elements inside the flowerbed. Pair lava boulders with a flowerbed that has at least some plants taller than the rocks. This way the flowers aren’t overshadowed by the rocks. Set the large stones between flowers. Place them at least a foot back from the flower garden’s edge. Use an unev
