New beginnings...a rock garden in the Alps

[Ragged Robin]

Maggi, it's so true what you say but I'm only a beginner willing to fly the flag in every sense - see PS in my post to you above!

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, it's so true what you say but I'm only a beginner willing to fly the flag in every sense - see PS in my post to you above!

 Robin, that's exactly what the "Forum Kit" range needs... a photo of happy Forumist wearing it in lovely Alpine setting!!   Who needs Twiggy modelling for M&S, we can have Robin in the Alps!

[tonyg]

Wow!  Green with envy for that slope and the opportunities it presents!

I am so glad you have decided to share all this with us ..... but there is no-where flat for me to pitch the tent when we come avisiting

[Maggi Young]

Tony, I think you just nail your sleeping bag to the slope and squiddle into it! 

[Ragged Robin]

Tony, welcome....am still laughing at the idea of competing with Twiggy!!!!  If you insist on camping you can certainly enjoy starlit nights from the terrace otherwise I suggest B&B chez-nous with hot chocolate in return for expert advice 

[tonyg]

Twiggy eh?  ...  One would think that Maggi had met Tanya ... who does have the height.  And having met both Robin and Tanya I can testify to the family likeness

Book me (& Jacinta?) in for the B&B - we'll let the girls camp on the terrace   Do we come for summer sun (and rock gardening) or winter snow?

[Paddy Tobin]

Wow, wow, wow, Robin,

You have been busy. What a site! That front lawn is like a ski slope. You certainly had to work hard to make your rock garden. It's funny really - we who live on the flat spend our time trying to create slopes for our alpine plants and here you have an almost vertical one.

I must say the natural meadow planting is simply the most beautiful thing I can imagine.

Please take a booking for tea on the terrace. I would so love to visit this area; it is so beautiful - and there is a great garden there.

Great of you to post the photographs of the garden, loved seeing them, a real treat.

Keep us up to date.

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

There are two main remits for the SRGC website .....one: to disseminate information about and encourage interest in rock garden and alpine plants and ,
two:  to provide a place for members  (...new. old and potential!) to exchange views and communicate generally about their plant interests (thus providing a "virtual"  Local Group of members where anyone around the world can feel fully a part of the Club).

I rather think that Robin  is proving the point of those remits very well, don't you? 

Perfectly so, Maggi

Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

Book me (& Jacinta?) in for the B&B - we'll let the girls camp on the terrace   Do we come for summer sun (and rock gardening) or winter snow?

    You weren't expecting a holiday Tony, were you  

[Ragged Robin]

Paddy, tea and scones on the terrace (as i know you are good at that sort of thing as well as gardening!)with local jam from forest berries....   I think you would enjoy the area it's very interesting and peaceful   in fact you could get 'lost in the mountains' here without the Forum 

[tonyg]

Book me (& Jacinta?) in for the B&B - we'll let the girls camp on the terrace   Do we come for summer sun (and rock gardening) or winter snow?

    You weren't expecting a holiday Tony, were you  

The people I work with would not call my trips to the mountains a holiday .... far too much like hard work! 

[Brian Ellis]

Amazing Robin, you really have made great strides already.  I couldn't manage that slope but I do envy you the range of growing conditions, I look forward to seeing the garden mature as it is enlarged.  It's far from flat East Anglia

[Ragged Robin]

So Tonyg is really a psudo name for Mountain Goat   

[Ragged Robin]

Brian, thanks for your kind comments.... the slope is quite a feature and takes some getting used to - I go down sideways - rolling rocks down is not exactly a doddle but I'm pleased with the result for the time being   

Rock Gardening on the flat is another sort of creative challenge 

[Lori S.]

It looks absolutely wonderful, Robin!
What is the yellow-flower-spike plant in photo #17?



P.S.  If that is Euphorbia cyparissias in photo #13 (or do my eyes deceive me?), a word of caution... it becomes horribly invasive after a few years even here in zone 3... shoots popping up 10' away in all directions, etc..