Fleurs des Montagnes

[Armin]

Hello Gishlain,
welcome - an impressive start on the forum.
Looking forward seeing more pictures from you rock garden 

[Ghislain]

Thank you very much. Viele Dank. Here is another view of the arrangement of stones.

Minuartia capillacea + centaurea montana + Hippocrepis comosa + Penstemon grandiflorus 'Prairie snow' + Anthyllis vulneraria ssp pyrenaica

[David Nicholson]

Very nice show Ghislain, you obviously have a good eye for plants and positioning. Your posts have given me lotsof ideas.

[Ghislain]

Thank you David and I hope that you will obtain beautiful flowers….

[Ghislain]

It is spring... !
Here are the first flowers !!
Iris reticulata 'Gordon' photographed on 26 January 2009 in the garden.

[BULBISSIME]

Bienvenue Ghislain, et content de trouver un compatriote de plus 
Welcome Ghislain, and so glad another compatriot joined the SRGC.
Very nice pics from Pyrenées and you rock garden looks very natural.

[Ragged Robin]

A place of new rock garden

Ghislain,
Super arrangement of plants and rocks!

Gerd

So natural...like a river of flowers, it's breathtaking Ghislain!  Your arrangement is what I have been searching for plus an idea of how to start/compose the rock bed so it stays on the slope, which is steep, and and doesn't shift too much during the snow melt in the Swiss Alps! Merci pour les photographies....je veux voir plusiers, s'il vous plait....

[Ghislain]

Thank you for your compliments. Here are some "natural" pictures of the garden.

[Ragged Robin]

I'm very happy....... what a wonderful sight, thanks so much Ghislain.  I am looking in detail at the terrain as well as the plants and see that you have created some small terraces - this fits in with the terraced slope that I have and I shall incorporate this idea....which way does your rock garden face?  Mine is almost due south.

[Ghislain]

Sketch of the garden.

[Ragged Robin]

This afternoon after seeing your garden photographs Ghislain I started to sketch out ideas and went outside to try and imagine them in my snow garden!  Now I see your sketch in 3D it is easier to imagine how I can create a mountain rockery flowing down the terraced slope.  The mixture of plants that you have in your garden are some of my favourites and work well with the wild flowers in the grass here.  I just can't wait to start when the weather permits. 

From your website I also picked up a link to www.faune-valais.ch and went in search of flora happy in the mountains here...what an amazing photographer Roland Clerc is and I see he has occasions when he shares his photographs at conferences - he lives in a village only a few kilometres from here! 

Thank you so much for inspiring me!

[tonyg]

What a great link Robin!  I'll browse the galleries for longer later

[cohan]

thanks for the photos, ghislain! great stuff--both nature shots and the garden! i guess you are already in a mountainous area? here we have only random stones found in the earth, left by glaciers, but there is no exposed rock...
i will be looking at costs of moving some, this year....

[Ghislain]

Thank you Cohan. No, the ground is flat and without stones. The stones come from a quarry. The hilly landscape was formed, as for creation of this mare.

[cohan]

Thank you Cohan. No, the ground is flat and without stones. The stones come from a quarry. The hilly landscape was formed, as for creation of this mare.

wow! all the more impressive! so there is some hope for my flat land, although i dont think i will be achieving your scale anytime soon