Comments on: Garden Designers Roundtable : Stone – I Like It Small http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/ by Ivette Soler Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Costello http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11574 John Costello Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:21:33 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11574 As a geologist with almost 40 years of practice under my belt, I have collected the big and the small for many years. Some of my favorites are colorful, stream-rounded pebbles from various places. I had them hiding in a 5-gallon plastic bucket until last year when I suffered a stroke. While I was recuperating, my son took and placed them in a dish fountain where my beautiful granddaughter can enjoy their colors and the sprinkling water on hot summer days. God works in mysterious ways! As a geologist with almost 40 years of practice under my belt, I have collected the big and the small for many years. Some of my favorites are colorful, stream-rounded pebbles from various places. I had them hiding in a 5-gallon plastic bucket until last year when I suffered a stroke. While I was recuperating, my son took and placed them in a dish fountain where my beautiful granddaughter can enjoy their colors and the sprinkling water on hot summer days.

God works in mysterious ways!

]]> By: Lisa http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11436 Lisa Mon, 30 May 2011 15:43:08 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11436 I like local stone in a garden. It just seems right to me. One summer, when I was working in southwestern Indiana, and carpooling to the studio, I noticed that the chunky gravel where I was being housed was full of fossils. I still have a shoebox of those fossils, a dozen years later. I like local stone in a garden. It just seems right to me.

One summer, when I was working in southwestern Indiana, and carpooling to the studio, I noticed that the chunky gravel where I was being housed was full of fossils. I still have a shoebox of those fossils, a dozen years later.

]]> By: Genevieve http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11426 Genevieve Fri, 27 May 2011 19:38:51 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11426 I love the vignettes and your stories, as usual Ivette. You bring such vivid mental pictures with your writing, and then the photos bring your words to life as well. Lovely. I love the vignettes and your stories, as usual Ivette. You bring such vivid mental pictures with your writing, and then the photos bring your words to life as well. Lovely.

]]> By: Jenn http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11421 Jenn Thu, 26 May 2011 18:22:59 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11421 Love your little vignettes, Ivette. Always a pleasure to visit here! Love your little vignettes, Ivette.
Always a pleasure to visit here!

]]> By: commonweeder http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11419 commonweeder Thu, 26 May 2011 12:58:47 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11419 I love your gravel and small stones. Whenever I visit the ancestral farm on Lake Champlain in Vermont I bring home bags of the smooth gray slate stones from the lake beach. My cousins think I am crazy. I love your gravel and small stones. Whenever I visit the ancestral farm on Lake Champlain in Vermont I bring home bags of the smooth gray slate stones from the lake beach. My cousins think I am crazy.

]]> By: Scott Hokunson http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11409 Scott Hokunson Wed, 25 May 2011 11:20:11 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11409 YES! I collected also, but not as jewels. To this day I have stones and pebbles lying around all over the place, in the garage, the shed, in my office. The plan is always to find some artistic way of using them, but they are so cool by themselves, I usually just let them sit where they lie and admire them. Your pictures are great! What plant are the speckled rocks sitting on? I imagine they are in a crock's mouth. YES! I collected also, but not as jewels. To this day I have stones and pebbles lying around all over the place, in the garage, the shed, in my office. The plan is always to find some artistic way of using them, but they are so cool by themselves, I usually just let them sit where they lie and admire them. Your pictures are great! What plant are the speckled rocks sitting on? I imagine they are in a crock’s mouth.

]]> By: Jenny Peterson http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11405 Jenny Peterson Wed, 25 May 2011 00:38:00 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11405 I LOVE small rock, too! I have bags and bags of it just waiting for the right project. I use gravel and various types of river rock in almost all of my container plantings--my favorite du jour is Tejas Black. And, awesome pics, Ivette! I LOVE small rock, too! I have bags and bags of it just waiting for the right project. I use gravel and various types of river rock in almost all of my container plantings–my favorite du jour is Tejas Black. And, awesome pics, Ivette!

]]> By: Rebecca Sweet http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11404 Rebecca Sweet Wed, 25 May 2011 00:24:48 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11404 I, too, used to spend hours collecting the prettiest pebbles from our neighbor's garden. In fact, I'd even go so far as to dig them out of the asphalt in our cul de sac! I don't know why, but there were beautiful pebbles stuck in that ugly, black tar!! Jeez - I haven't thought about that for YEARS!! I, too, absolutely adore the crunchy sound of pebbles. But I also learned a trick from my mother - put a pea gravel pathway outside of the bedrooms and you always know when your kid is sneaking out at night! Yes, I never quite mastered the fine art of walking silently on that pathway!! ;) I, too, used to spend hours collecting the prettiest pebbles from our neighbor’s garden. In fact, I’d even go so far as to dig them out of the asphalt in our cul de sac! I don’t know why, but there were beautiful pebbles stuck in that ugly, black tar!! Jeez – I haven’t thought about that for YEARS!! I, too, absolutely adore the crunchy sound of pebbles. But I also learned a trick from my mother – put a pea gravel pathway outside of the bedrooms and you always know when your kid is sneaking out at night! Yes, I never quite mastered the fine art of walking silently on that pathway!! ;)

]]> By: Susan aka Miss R http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11402 Susan aka Miss R Tue, 24 May 2011 21:20:20 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11402 It's the sound of gravel being walked on that I think I love the most. Music and movement. I want to lick the speckled ones BTW. It’s the sound of gravel being walked on that I think I love the most. Music and movement. I want to lick the speckled ones BTW.

]]> By: Robert.Webber http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/05/23/garden-designers-roundtable-stone-i-like-it-small/comment-page-1/#comment-11401 Robert.Webber Tue, 24 May 2011 20:49:33 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1466#comment-11401 Used to collect stones as kid and still do! Thanks and best R Used to collect stones as kid and still do!
Thanks and best
R

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