Garden Gallery | North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox

Resistance To Challenges: Poor Soil

8 gardens

Border Garden- Pathway

Bright blue container to break up the space.

Hostas create a foundation for an dramatic garden sculpture.

Border against turfgrass.

An inviting pathway through the woods.

Dry Rock Stream Garden

Dry Rock Stream Garden

Rock Dry Stream Garden

This is attractive feature year round

Summer foliage frames rock bed

View from walk to home

Dry Rock stream garden

Fence Planter

Lake Wall Garden

Lake Wall Garden

Lake Wall Garden

Plants along lake wall

Lake Wall Garden

Lake Wall Garden

Lake Wall Garden

Paver Pathway

Paver Pathway Garden

Pollinator Garden at the Cabarrus County Extension Office

Draft design sketch

Initial plants set out at new garden

Initial design from another angle

Additional angle of initial layout

Rock and Crevice Garden

Rock garden ice plant

Verbena & Iceplant

Salvia in Rock Garden

Stormwater Demonstration Garden, Orange County

Garden at 14 months (July/2020)

1-foot gravel edging to capture runoff (March/2019)

Highly compacted soil with 80% runoff (September/2018)

Boulders, stepping stones & gravel (March/2019)

0% runoff at 6 months (October/2019)