Rock show
Teresa Fields sits in front of the rock yard she created over the course of three years. Nearly everything in the garden came free, she said, including the repurposed concrete bench.
JOEL MARTIN/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
In September 2022, Teresa Fields’ yard was mostly bare dirt with a few rocks waiting to be arranged. Today the entire yard is a drought-resistant rock garden.
Where other yards would have a sidewalk through the grass, Teresa Fields’ rock garden has a pebble path with a birdbath at the crossroads.
This tree cropped up as a seedling from a neighbor’s tree, Teresa Fields said, and she just let it grow and put a rock cairn around it.
Gabion fences, basically metal baskets filled with stones, keep the piles of rock around the trees from rolling away.
Here and there, a small, native plant adds a muted bit of green to Teresa Fields’ rock garden.
MOSES LAKE — In the Basin, rock gardens are looking like a better idea all the time to some people. Not only do they save money on watering, but they’re not all that expensive to create. Just ask Teresa Fields of Moses Lake.
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