Ideas required

We bought our first house a little over a year ago. We inherited a garden that obviously had been looked after for many years, however the previous owner let it grow wild. We spent the majority of last summer deweeding and removing unwanted ever greens.
The garden is starting to look good but we seemed to have hit a brick wall with what to do with this rockery area. It’s a fairly decent size so deweeding and buying new plants seems like a time/money pit.
Any of you green fingered friends got ideas on what to do with this space to make it low maintenance yet aesthetically pleasing?




The garden is starting to look good but we seemed to have hit a brick wall with what to do with this rockery area. It’s a fairly decent size so deweeding and buying new plants seems like a time/money pit.
Any of you green fingered friends got ideas on what to do with this space to make it low maintenance yet aesthetically pleasing?





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As for what you could grow in there, that will depend on a number of factors, such as:
How deep is the soil? What compass direction does it face? That will determine how much sun it gets. Is it shaded by the house, fence, large trees? What type of soil is it: clay, which holds water; sandy, which doesn't, or a happy medium? Acid or alkaline?
I generally don't do flowers so I would recommend some fruit which is far less maintenance. The only maintenance needed is yearly pruning.
A colt grafted cherry tree like lupins or sunburst which would grow about 3 meters tall would be great in that spot but it would take up a lot of sun and maybe not what you want.
So if you want something that doesn't block all your sun I would recommend either Currant bushes, gooseberries or blueberries.
Each has their advantage and disadvantages. Currants need a bit of pruning whereas gooseberries and blueberries don't as much.
Gooseberries don't yield as much as blueberries but blueberries need acidic soil before you plant them which makes them hard to start with and then very easy for years to come.
I have mentioned types of fruit that will thrive in that location without any maintenance except a bit of yearly pruning. If you want advice on which varieties would be good, let me know. You can get tall, small, spreading, vigourous, really tasty, more suited for cooking and so on.
I think you could get 9 bushes into that location but what is that big concrete lump in the middle?
I think anything you do will involve work, I know I'd rather plant a few bushes than concrete the area and set up a garden bench or something. Up to you