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

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Expertly done, Leiomerus !  Looks superb !

[annew]

It really does look good! I like the way you have blended into the path.
I'm cracking on with my stegosaurus bed too. For a few weeks I think I had the only crevice bed with a moat!

[krisderaeymaeker]

Great projects Anne and Jan. I like both constructions but I must admit that I love crevice gardening....

[Leiomerus]

Thanks everyone !
I do my best for my plants because they do their best to flower in unnatural circumstances (the weather), so in return I try to give them a natural home that also protects them.  If the 'home' looks good, it's a bonus.
I hope the plants will respond with marvellous flowers ..... and prosperous growth.

I even put a Dionysia for a while in this rock garden to take a picture and it looked good over there.
Of course I didn't leave it there .....


a little plant of Dionysia 'Ewesley Theta' :

[annew]

It looks very happy...

[Lesley Cox]

It certainly does look happy, as if it was born for that very position. 

[Leiomerus]

Hmmmm, maybe I might try a rooted cutting of Dionysia 'Monika' in this crevice garden.
I will plant it in a really small crevice and see what happens.

[annew]

An update on my crevice bed, now known as the Steggerhorn. The top layer of sand has been applied, and a few plants put in where needed to plug a gap in the ends. I'm intending to wait for another settling period, then plant up (I'm going to need more plants!), top dress with gravel, then with the remaining broken up stones, as I don't think there will be enough of the latter to top dress purely with that. I hope it will still look OK. Lastly I'll direct sow the seeds I got from the exchanges. The labels are temporary; when I've finished planting, I'll take photos of the 4 aspects and label the plants on the photos, before removing them.

[Lori S.]

It looks great, Anne!   The pictures are very tiny - it would be nice to see bigger versions and really appreciate that design.  I have a rather poor excuse for a crevice bed and should redo it one day.

On the subject of Dionysia, I thought this was very interesting:
http://www.wrightmanalpines.com/blog/harvey/2011-07-17/growing-dionysia
Some more amazingly natural looking stonework!

[Maggi Young]

It looks great, Anne!   The pictures are very tiny - it would be nice to see bigger versions and really appreciate that design.  I have a rather poor excuse for a crevice bed and should redo it one day.

Crumbs, Lori,  We've been trying to get the forumists to post smaller pictures, and Anne has taken the hint- please  don't encourage them to go backwards!

Anne's pix are a perfect size to open within screen size and of a large enough file size to allow them to be further blown up  by holding control and scrolling up if a larger picture is desired - I reckon the detail to be viewed there is pretty good! 

[annew]

It looks like tufa they've used for the Dionysias?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Looks very promising Anne !
Winter doesn't seem to be able to stop you ! 

[David Nicholson]

Smashing job Anne, it looks great. You were so lucky to already have the stones to hand though. I fancy having a go at something similar and as we were passing a quarry last week I popped in to have a look. A couple of tons of mixed size rockery stone would likely cost me in excess of  a couple of hundred £'s and delivery and off loading another hundred (a return trip of around 40 miles). Perhaps I could ask Luc if he could scrounge some for me from the Belgian mountains

I think I saw an article in an AGS Bulletin some time ago written by Richard Horswood about a crevice bed he constructed from broken concrete paving slabs he got from a garden centre. I must ask him more about this next time I see him. Would lack the texture and the differing thicknesses of real stone though.

[Tim Ingram]

It's amazing how a (rather refined) pile of stones can look so exciting! It looks very good now 'stegosaurus' is bedded in and it fits a corner of the garden like that to perfection. Must have been fun to make.

[Lori S.]

Crumbs, Lori,  We've been trying to get the forumists to post smaller pictures, and Anne has taken the hint- please  don't encourage them to go backwards!

Anne's pix are a perfect size to open within screen size and of a large enough file size to allow them to be further blown up  by holding control and scrolling up if a larger picture is desired - I reckon the detail to be viewed there is pretty good! 

OK, ignore that please!    Yes, the photos can be scrolled to a larger, perfectly viewable size  (... not something I was even aware of before... Live and learn!)   

Yes, definitely tufa for the Dionysia in the Wrightmans' link.