Rock Gardening: Don't fall into the error of thinking that the test tube boys have made gardening so easy that there is little to do but get the right kind of squirt gun or duster, the right kind of hormone or vitamin or the latest offspring of science that is being advertised and ballyhooed. Modern research has produced important aids to better gardening but they are canes to help us walk more easily, not crutches to limp along with or depend on entirely. To garden well you must be observant, willing to work intelligently and without skimping when basic tasks are done, and so informed that you can form sound judgments based on conditions as they exist on your particular plot. Gardening is an art, not an exact science.
The movement of the earth's crust may carry the Rock Gardening as much as 700km (454 miles) below the surface. Here the temperature and pressure will be even higher and the Rock Gardening will begin to melt. Molten Rock Gardening is lighter than solid Rock Gardening and it will begin to rise up through the overlying Rock Gardening towards the surface. If it reaches the surface as a lava flow it will immediately be ready for weathering and erosion and the start of a new cycle. More often the molten Rock Gardening solidifies underground and then all the Rock Gardening above it must be eroded away before it can begin the cycle again. |