I wanted to redo the bed with a little interruption as I could to the plants already there as well as not raid my bank account in the process. So here is what I did.
1. First I took our work trailer and picked up so good size rocks from the roadside, pastures and other vacant areas- Please get permission if it is private property.
2. The I started with the first layer, a large ring of rocks about 12-16 inches from the already existing boulders we had in place. (as seen by the picture)
3. After the first ring was in, I then had to pull out the existing plants and quickly re pot them, in case I did not finish this project in a couple of days.
4. I went to the local Nursery with my work trailer and bought top soil ($60).
5. Then I filled in the inside of the first ring, wet it down, to see if I had any areas that were not level, and moved onto the next ring.
6. I made about 4 rings of rocks and filled them in, so I now have elevation in the flower bed.
7. Then I went back to work and planted what I had taken out.
This bed took me a couple days to complete from start to finish, I did gather up the rocks prior to the actually bed building. For this size of bed and elevation I was working towards, it took me a couple days to find and deliver enough rocks for the project. Keep in mind if you want to use other items to build up a bed, you may want to consider rail road ties, old drift wood, etc, it is all up to your imagination.
Depending on your water source to your flower bed, if you elevate, you may want to consider putting risers on the water heads as to get the plants/flowers at the top portion of your bed.
Also if you have any trees in the bed, you will not want the soil up high on the tree, they do not like that, so where I had a tree I placed rocks around it and no extra soil, I did not want to make them mad.
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