Cyril Lafong's new crevice garden

[Carlo]

Some day...

....some day....

[Lesley Cox]

I notice that in all the crevice garden pictures, it is Ian of the Christie kind that is doing all the work. Where is Cyril? Is the Secret Squirrel SO secret that he remains behind a shed while all the activity takes place?

[ichristie]

Dear All, firstly Gote you are a star even I could not move the  half ton stones, the garden looks superb very different to Cyrils and I look forward to seeing pictures of the plants in flower. What a great way to celebrate a birthday long may you continue. Cyril may well have been hiding but I did not have my camera silly fool but Cyril was on his hands and knees building the crevices he also helped to load up the wheel barrows with the sand. I will get some pictures of him when next I am over. I will also get some pictures from his glasshouse and the vast array of plants he has everywhere,cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Well, we really have started something here such great pictures form everybody, firstly my wheelbarrow has no licence to travel overseas sorry Luc.

mmmm I'm never lucky...   

Wonderful job Ian and Cyril - this will undoubtedly look marvelous !
I'll be watching this space for any further developments.
Thanks for showing us Ian i

[Maggi Young]

I notice that in all the crevice garden pictures, it is Ian of the Christie kind that is doing all the work. Where is Cyril? Is the Secret Squirrel SO secret that he remains behind a shed while all the activity takes place?

Someone has to take the pix, Lesley!!

[mark smyth]

Great work Ian. I'm very envious of the new rockery/crevice feature.

Why doesnt Cyril show his plants or garden on the forum? I see he joined way back 23rd November 2006.

[ichristie]

Hi Mark, everyone, Cyril is very dedicated to his work in the hospital he has a very high powered job and works long hours. He really is a very special person and every time i phone him whatever the time he is in his garden or glasshouse. I am sure that in time he will post pictures himself and i hope you have all read the article he wrote which Maggie ( bless her) put on this forum.  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Carol Shaw]

Hi Ian

Good to see the wonderful work you and Cyril have done creating his new crevice bed. Interesting to see the difference between your style and Carole & Ian's - our wee crevice bed is much more your style. Perhaps now that David is a gentleman of leisure  (well once the kitchen and our bedroom have been sorted  ) we will have time to tackle a bigger bed - I've even worked out where we could build it And by using the stone dyke he built there would be a slope - albeit not a steep one!

[David Nicholson]

Such is the life of the retired. Come on David get on with it!

[Anthony Darby]

Thank you again Maggie!!
.................. drive them some 750 m on a cart Göte ....................

Working on the average 15 m frontage for the houses in my street, that would take me to a house 50 doors away.

[ichristie]

Hi Everyone, here are some more pictures from Cyril, he and his son Andrew have filled up all the crevices with sand this will be left to settle down over the winter and I am sure that the rain will wash it in, it looks very full at the moment any way we made the best use of the stone we could find it was quite expensive at £ 50odd pounds a ton plus delivery so the whole thing cost a fair bit, the sand was a cost also. I will ask Cyril to keep taking pictures but it will probably be early spring before anything happens, watch this space, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Lesley Cox]

I notice that in all the crevice garden pictures, it is Ian of the Christie kind that is doing all the work. Where is Cyril? Is the Secret Squirrel SO secret that he remains behind a shed while all the activity takes place?

Someone has to take the pix, Lesley!!

Oh.

[ichristie]

Hi again, this is the last set of pictures for now, just a finishing touch which Cyril has done all by himself. When I visited the quarry they had huge mounds of shale just the slate broken up really it was mixed sizes from about hand size down to almost corn flakes. I asked if we could buy a bag and one half ton bag was delivered to Cyril this is clean slate and shows the natural colour of the stone Cyril has made a pathway all around the crecice garden and I think it looks great. I imagine we might get some more of this later, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

it looks very full at the moment any way we made the best use of the stone we could find it was quite expensive at £ 50odd pounds a ton plus delivery so the whole thing cost a fair bit,

The overall effect really looks great Ian  - if ever we'd want to build something similar though, it would cost a small fortune.  The price for the rock alone would be something between 300 and 400 pound a ton plus delivery....    
So if you'd obtain an international license for your wheelbarrow, please do not wheel it down here empty... 

[Paddy Tobin]

It would be interesting to see this feature developing. We have seen the construction and it would be nice to see the planting, initial planting and then as the planting developed.

Paddy