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

[astragalus]

Kris, your tufa garden is beautiful.  Can you please tell me some of the plants that have been successful for you in and next to tufa?

[Steve Garvie]

Wow!!!
A very impressive-looking tufa garden Kris!

[krisderaeymaeker]

Thanks Steve and Anne . Off course I wil share those information with you and this great forum Anne . Come back on this soon .....

[astragalus]

Planted on the top part of the tufa garden early this morning and covered it with some screening because it's in full sun.  Won't be able to plant again until this evening.
Leaving in two days for the NARGS Annual Meeting in Michigan and questioning my sanity.  I hate to be away for 5 days at this time, but it will be worth it.
Posting some daphne pictures even though not yet in prime bloom.  The air on top of the cliff is heady with their scent, just wonderful.  The second pic ture seem to be another form of D. velenovskyi.  It differs from 'Balkan Rose' but is also lovely.

  Daphne velenovskyi 'Balkan Rose'
    DSC00755
Daphne x napolitana 'Bramdean'.JPG
Phlox 'Lehmi purple'.JPG

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Super plants Anne !
Have fun on your trip ! 

[ranunculus]

Wonderful, Anne … we can smell them from here!  Have a great time in Michigan, lots of photos please.

[Maggi Young]

Forumist Koko (KK) is in Ann Arbor, for a start .....  hope you can have a forum get-together     

[astragalus]

Thanks for the heads up, Maggi.

[astragalus]

Top part of the new tufa garden partially planted.  Other plants in bloom in the crevice gardens.

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 Daphne x hendersonii 'Fritz Kummert'.JPG
 Daphne 'Rick Lupp form'.JPG
 Hymenoxys lapidicola.JPG

[astragalus]

And some more, such an exciting time of year, full of surprises both good and not so good.

  Phlox borealis at top of cliff.JPG
  Phlox griseola.JPG
  Daphne 'Maisie Larae'.JPG
  Astragalus spathulatus - white form.JPG

[Matt T]

Some wonderful plants you have there, Anne and your excellent photographs really do them credit.

[astragalus]

Thanks, that compliment means a lot because I took the photos.  Usually Joe takes them because good photography takes more patience than I have.
Another great little plant below., Astragalus barrii.
And of interest is two kinds of foliage on plants of Lomatium grayi.  Same plant but one has much more dissected foliage.  That one seeds itself under the plant's skirts.  The other one, with the coarser foliage, self-sows in the general vicinity of the parent, and more plentifully.  Guess I'll never know why.
Astragalus barrii.JPG
Lomatium grayi.JPG
DSC00729.JPG

[ebbie]

The Phlox borealis and the Onosma in the foreground are especially wonderful! But the two Astragalus are superb!

[Lesley Cox]

This is just the result of one morning, so very early stages.  In my head, it is completed and flowering of course!
Elsewhere in the crevice garden, Onosma caerulescens has started, and all the daphnes are beginning to open.

You did this in one morning? It would have taken me weeks!

[Lesley Cox]

And what amazing and wonderful plants to follow. Thanks so much for these Anne. I remember with deep pain, watching the Americans, Danes, Swedes and others packing up their Daphne plants in the Czech Republic while we NZers could only weep quietly into our glasses, knowing we could never have them.