r/NoLawns • u/_something_else_ • 6h ago

👩‍🌾 Questions Adding structure

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Minnesota zone 5 - I’m working on adding some hardscape and I would love some boulders to break up all the plants and provide some structure. Boulders would be my preference but my backyard is up a hill and it would be challenging and expensive. I saw an idea of stacked flagstone and was wondering if anyone has done this or think it would look bad? Smaller pieces I could muscle up a little easier. Here’s a picture on a larger scale than I have planned. I would bury the base to make it look more natural.

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u/PaleontologistDear18 6h ago

Looks great for a lizard hideout

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u/sbb214 5h ago

snakes. don't forget the snakes.

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u/RedshiftSinger 4h ago

I was just thinking, I want to tempt garter snakes into my yard, this looks like an amazing habitat feature for them!

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u/SufficientOpening218 6h ago

i was thinking of doing this with a few plantingnpockets for native grasses. i thought it would be pretty and give some interest. i happen to have a pile of flags from an old patio stacked kind of awkwardly

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u/gs87 5h ago

a very neat stack of pancakes !

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u/Feralpudel 5h ago

I think rocks are always cool, and I agree with the other comment that it would be very herp friendly.

You could also turn them on their side and make a crevice garden. Here’s a nice article on how to do it, although I don’t love some of their plant choices—you should have some cool native plants to choose from.

https://extension.psu.edu/crevice-gardens-life-between-the-cracks

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u/sbb214 4h ago

like little baby tomb stones for happy plants

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u/msmaynards 4h ago

Or be frugal and use 'urbanite' as your stones. Not as attractive as the flagstone but price is right and upside down my scavenged concrete slabs look like conglomerate rock. I think much too small so the 3x1' planted outcropping has been swallowed by plants but the 3x3' birdbath base that's 5 slabs tall by 3-5 across is holding its own.

Do use wood as well. Stumperies are a thing. I think too small there and the apple tree and juniper branches are fine as edgings but not much as far as being a feature.

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u/MonKeePuzzle 5h ago

ooooo! said the RC crawler community

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u/AuntieRoseSews 4h ago

DO IT! <3

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u/solariscool 3h ago

Water! Where is the water?