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

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris, all are wonderful plants and so nicely sited.  The foliage on Paraquilegia is outstanding, but I don't think it will grow here. 

Thanks Anne , I think you are right about the Paraquilegia .Drought is one of the enemy's of this plant.
I have planted it  on the coolest place in the crevice where only some evening sun is shining.
It is also protected against dry winds in summer or cold winds in winter (eastern winds) who destroy this plants in late winter.
Even in winter I thinks it is important that it never dry out completely. (but not to wet to )
I did see it growing in China in damp places and high mountains where temperatures never get that high ... Not a xeric thing in my opinion .......     

[krisderaeymaeker]

More resistance to drought : Campanula rupicola . This Greek one is growing very wel in a more Sunny spot of my crevice .

[ruweiss]

Anne and Kris, thank you for showing us your fine plants
in such an excellent condition.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Anne and Kris, thank you for showing us your fine plants
in such an excellent condition.

It is a pleasure to do Rudy . Only sharing gives pleasures .

[krisderaeymaeker]

Last year I planted some young Androsace pubescens in different places and positions . Always away from the sun ............Already this spring the first flowers showed up.

[astragalus]

Kris, I really like your Androsace pubescens.  The only one I do well with is Androsace villosa, but I like it very much.
Photographed this morning in the crevice garden.
Astragalus detritalis
Astragalus iodanthus

[astragalus]

And two more.  The perfume of daphnes is everywhere now as they are flowering more and more.

Daphne velenovskyi 'Balkan Rose'
Daphne x napolitana 'Bramdean'

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Kris, I really like your Androsace pubescens.  The only one I do well with is Androsace villosa, but I like it very much.
Photographed this morning in the crevice garden.
Astragalus detritalis
Astragalus iodanthus

Trying to make us jealous with these formidable (for us ungrowable) Astragalus', Ann ?? 

[astragalus]

Absolutely not, Luc.  I'm always hankering over the plants that you grow with such seeming ease that I can't grow well.  Primula and campanulas come immediately to mind, also the Kabschia saxes ... the list could go on and on.  I admit a tremendous fondness for all the pea plants, but many of them are difficult for me to keep for a long time.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Absolutely not, Luc.  I'm always hankering over the plants that you grow with such seeming ease that I can't grow well.  Primula and campanulas come immediately to mind, also the Kabschia saxes ... the list could go on and on.  I admit a tremendous fondness for all the pea plants, but many of them are difficult for me to keep for a long time.

We always seem to think the grass is greener on the other side of the mountain, don't we Anne ! 
Let's learn to live with what we have ! 

[astragalus]

That's wisdom, Luc.  When I first started rock gardening I tried all the "classic" alpines and had a large plant cemetery.  Then I grew as much seed as possible and tried a much wider range of plants, discovering plants that liked the conditions here.  I've learned to love the plants that perform well.  No two rock gardens are the same.

[krisderaeymaeker]

That's wisdom, Luc.  When I first started rock gardening I tried all the "classic" alpines and had a large plant cemetery.  Then I grew as much seed as possible and tried a much wider range of plants, discovering plants that liked the conditions here.  I've learned to love the plants that perform well.  No two rock gardens are the same.

More wisdom Anne  ...We al have to discover the possibilitys and the potential of our garden and rockgarden.

Nice pictures and plants again you showed us......
Sometimes we have to try a few times more , I have some promising results with some Phlox that I could not grow in the past.
I hope to post more pictures from creviceland .... 

[krisderaeymaeker]

A late flowering Saxifraga without a second name ......but with nice flowers. Discovered by Harry Jans in a Czech collection many years ago.

In a tufacrevice : Androsace x marpensis

[astragalus]

Beautiful plants, Kris.
Today in the crevice garden.

Onosma caerulescens
Penstemon nitidus, growing next to crevice garden

[ebbie]

Wow, that Onosma is wonderful. The finest Onosma that I know.