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With all respect for the efforts. May I make two (unkind?) comments??#A: Will those still alive around 2025 say "Look at this camp period piece from 2008-2012 with all rocks standing up" ? #B: It is possible to make plants grow in horizontal crevices as well. CheersGöte
VOJTĚCH HOLUBEC This quiet gentleman spoke in England, Scotland and USA about rock gardening. He is agricultural expert and botanist by training and for the last 15 years one of the Czech best seed collector. Vojtěch wrote about two decades ago Czech handbook about rock works (together with Ota Vlasák) and he will be one of the speakers at Alpines 2011 (his subject are plants from Central Asia). He was one of the first constructers placing rocks in angles slightly tilted out of the vertical position. I assisted him with sandstone desks in Dortmund (together with Josef Jurášek) and learn the basic tricks. Another assistance was in our Show garden in Prague where the brave tilt of heavy limestone slabs started to go slightly down (after 7 winters) and I had to support it with block of stones. But tilting layers towards a slope is safe from frost actions and very naturally looking. Now you can see samples of Vojtěch´s designs in following post. The fat limestone layers are in his home rock garden in Prague.
Quote from: gote on December 13, 2009, 09:57:15 AMWith all respect for the efforts. May I make two (unkind?) comments??#A: Will those still alive around 2025 say "Look at this camp period piece from 2008-2012 with all rocks standing up" ? #B: It is possible to make plants grow in horizontal crevices as well. CheersGöte#A That may well be said of these projects but I don't see that it negates their validity when they prove to be a good home for alpines. #B Of course it is.... I did not see any suggestion to the contrary
Thank You Zdenek, I learn very much from this thread.I hope Forum Friends wouldn't mind to put here some pics of my crevice trough which I made this autumn. And I would be grateful if Zdenek cpuld comment it as he did for Mark's trough... Thanks in advance!P. S. I know, that the pot is not the best one, but at least it is a good quality clay pot (about 30 cm diameter).