Crevice Gardening ......in defence of rock.....

[Lesley Cox]

Look at all the promise of flower in the Convolvulus- that's one generous plant, Anne!

That's one clever grower!

[astragalus]

Just starting now, the acantholimons. The one I used to grow as Acantholimon androsaceum had better color and shorter stems, but I'm told this is the same plant.
Maybe hindsight embellishes things like color but my pictures (slides) still show shorter stems.

[astragalus]

The crevice garden is quieting down from the riotous colors of April and May.  Now there are some repeat blooms on daphnes etc and a few new things coming into bloom.  Then things will be relatively quiet until latter half of August when the zauschnerias will start making splashes of color I hope).
1. Heterotheca jonesii (crevice garden)
2. Heterotheca in scree
3. Daphne arbuscula sp starting to rebloom

[ranunculus]

Beautiful plants Anne.

[astragalus]

Thanks, Cliff.  Leaving Thursday for the Dolomites and hoping the deer will leave the garden alone during my absence.

[Maggi Young]

Anne, I don't "do" holidays.... but I could have been tempted to some garden sitting and deer scaring for you.  

 Have a super holiday 

[astragalus]

Maggi, you'd have to be ready to be a "night person".  We have motion detection lights that the deer are always triggering at night.  Then I lean out the window and do "primal scream" to make them leave.  I refrained from doing this during Cliff and Sue's stay with us!!

[ranunculus]

Maggi, you'd have to be ready to be a "night person".  We have motion detection lights that the deer are always triggering at night.  Then I lean out the window and do "primal scream" to make them leave.  I refrained from doing this during Cliff and Sue's stay with us!!

...  If I'd have known about this I would have asked you to carry on, but wouldn't have told Sue ... 

[Maggi Young]

Anne, I'm a frightful insomniac so no problem. I also do a very good cat scaring scream so I am ideally suited to this task..... maybe next year?

Cliff, you are a bad man, a very bad man. 

[astragalus]

Maggi, you'd be very welcome!  It would be a bit warmer than your weather has been (a big understatement).

[astragalus]

Not in my own garden but in my "other" garden in the Dolomites.  Seen in a tiny indentation on a towering limestone cliff, an Androsace hausmannii the size of a 50 cent piece.

[Maggi Young]

Really, how could anyone see a perfect little plant like that and not be captivated and infused instantly with a desire to get an order in to the nearest Seed Ex and grow such little gems?

[astragalus]

Seen today growing in hairline crevices in a cliff in the Dolomites, Saxifraga caesia.

[Lesley Cox]

These ones should also go in the Saxifragas in the Wild thread Anne. They are beautiful.

[astragalus]

Thanks, Lesley.  I'll do that.