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I planted this thing last fall and it is now 3 feet tall and bushy as hell, but it does, in fact, bring all the bees to the yard.

While prepping my side yard pollinator patch, I excavated a lot of limestone (enough to edge the beds + a path through + some random decorative rock applications + so much more!). I still have probably 2-3 wheelbarrows worth of XL chunks, and a few buckets of smaller rocks. Because I’m lazy and don’t want to pay someone to haul them away (and also I’m weirdly attached to them after putting in all that work with a sledgehammer and mattock), I was thinking of attempting a crevice garden situation with limestone barren/glade native plants. Has anyone tried anything like this? Any warnings/suggestions? This section at the end of the driveway is the island of misfit plants (giant overgrown ‘Hot Lips’ salvia, random chrysanthemum, mean poky Adam’s needle, some dwarf palmettos I think might be the result of squirrel interference, dumping ground of cemetery irises), so I’d love for it to become a more cohesive space.

Pic 1: homegrown native rocks

Pic 2: potential crevice garden location (ft. red admiral enjoying the native concrete)

Pic 3: design inspiration

Pic 4: another angle of my potential location