Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
For almost 40 years, Elisabeth Zander has been into rocks—that is, planting in them. Twenty years ago when she moved to Goshen, CT, she and her husband, Rod, decided to begin lifting their boring lawn and turning it into an artful rockscape featuring a panoply of hardy alpine and xeriphytic plants perfect for a Grow Zone 6a.
For almost 40 years, Elisabeth Zander has been into rocks—that is, planting in them. Twenty years ago when she moved to Goshen, CT, she and her husband, Rod, decided to begin lifting their boring lawn and turning it into an artful rockscape featuring a panoply of hardy alpine and xeriphytic plants perfect for a Grow Zone 6a.










