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

[Maggi Young]

Ian Bainbridge sent this link :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25975251  asking " is this extreme rock gardening??!"

[Matt T]

 
With hindsight, perhaps not the best place to build a house?!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

... if only it had been a tufa rock... 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris, it looks wonderful.  Please post a picture when the buds open.  Nothing will show in the crevice garden before April (assuming no snow).  But it is early April these last years, it used to be mid-April. Is your crevice garden in a protected area?  Mine is exposed to wind all the time.

Thanks Anne. I try to post pictures when the buds aren open ! We had a very warm winter so far. In comparision with last 3 years it was very warm .....We even had no frost . This is rather unusual and tricky to......When weather changes some problems may be expected .......
Also this piece of the garden is protected against cold eastern winds. 

[fermi de Sousa]

Ian Bainbridge sent this link :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25975251  asking " is this extreme rock gardening??!"

So - not the first time it's happened as the pic showing a third boulder that's been there a few years! Thoughts of "the gods playing lawn bowls"!
Won't help the re-sale value
cheers
fermi

[annew]

Maybe they'll get the message and move...

[Lesley Cox]

Good to have a car in one of those boulder pictures. It shows very clearly, the relative size of the boulder!

[krisderaeymaeker]

I think you don't have to wait that long Anne ....
Pictured yesterday in my crevice ..........Callianthemum kernerianum .
Don't tell Cliff ....

An update .........what you think ?

[krisderaeymaeker]

And more ......

[astragalus]

Congratulations, Kris.  They just look like they'll get better and better, such lovely plants.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Congratulations, Kris.  They just look like they'll get better and better, such lovely plants.

Thanks Anne , it is also very important to grow or get  the right form/clone and only good suppliers make the right selections.......In this case the good breeding was made by Keith Lever ....Yes  I love this plant to and it brings a lot of joy those days . With thanks to the knowledge from Mr. Lever and his family.

[Maggi Young]

See Kenton Seth's pix of his own crevice gardens and the fantastic work of Mike Kintgen at Denver Botanic Garden  here : http://www.kentonjseth.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/my-big-fat-czech-crevice.html   

[ranunculus]

Sorry Kris, I somehow missed the updates above. I must have been invading Scotland). They are looking beautiful.  My own pots are just about to come into full flower this week, weather permitting, some three weeks after yours in Belgium.  Are yours under cover or do you have more hot air than me?  (Go on Mr Nicholson … jump in on that cue). 

[David Nicholson]

Are yours under cover or do you have more hot air than me?  (Go on Mr Nicholson … jump in on that cue). 

Never one to miss an opportunity!  That's an impossibility

[Lesley Cox]

Kenton Seth's blog is very interesting but I have to remark that many of us who are now to be classified as (almost) old, find the pale writing on black background, very difficult to read. I probably need new glasses but even so....