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

[astragalus]

Thanks so much, Ebbie.

Lesley, the tufa crevice garden is not finished yet.  Due to impatience I planted part of the top third.  It won't get disturbed by the next step in construction.  Which will be immediately after the Meeting in Michigan.  They will be selling tufa there but I can't very well bring it on the plane.

I can sympathize with your plight re: the daphnes.  You should have seen me at Nottingham where there was no one to do a phyto.  That meant no buying plants at the wonderful sale, not to mention at Robin White's garden where he was selling some wonderful daphnes.  I wasn't willing to risk smuggling them home.  Too law abiding, I guess.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Superb series, Anne !

Your Phloxes (and many other plants) keep amazing me !  Respect !!!

[Lesley Cox]

Yes Anne it's a terrible burden being a basically law-abiding person. How much fun we could have if we were not!

[KK-Ann Arbor]

Thanks for the heads up, Maggi.

Anne,

We will be looking forward to a exciting week.  I will be helping out on registration on Thursday.  If you see a gray haired asian, that will be me!
Keeping our fingers tightly crossed to see a kind side of mother nature for the event.

Koko

[Maggi Young]

As a far away NARGS member, I'll be thinking of you all, Koko and Anne,  Malcolm, Bobby, Matt M  etc etc!  Have fun!

[rgc]

Hi
Last November, I started building a south facing crevice garden and posted my first effort in this forum a few months ago on 23rd November. Since then, I have extended it and the result is attached. Its planting includes a dozen Kabschia saxifrage plus aethionema, androsace, primula marginata, sempervivum, lewisia, other saxifrage and some dwarf primula, dianthus and aquilegia amonst others. The plants are all still small, but will hopefully develop and give a good display next spring.

Managed to take the picture in a break from all the rain we have been having.

Any suggestions for improvement, warmly welcomed.
Bob

[Maggi Young]

That's looking well, Bob. Amazing how these little plants are so weatherproof, isn't it?

[David Nicholson]

Looks good Bob, very good.

[Maggi Young]

Friends  in the Hampshire  AGS group had a visit to Wisley  this weekend - they had a grand time - including  beingshown round the "backroom" areas by Curator Colin Crosbie.
I've pinched this photo by Paddy Hinton Parmee of  part of the crevice garden -

[astragalus]

More from the crevice garden where everything is blooming at once because of the heat.  The Cytisus x kewensis is establishing itself in a very deep crevice between 2 huge pieces of ledge which seem to protect it.  The hedysarum is not in bloom yet but the buds are so beautiful I had to take the picture.  The astragalus and oxytropis are actually in a trough but couldn't find the trough thread, sorry.  Astragalus barrii has been in bloom for 3 weeks and just keeps getting better.  It likes the heat much better than I do!

[Lori S.]

Fabulous, as always, Anne!  What charming buds on the Hedysarum!

[ranunculus]

So beautiful …

[Luc Gilgemyn]

An astonishing array of plants Anne in a fabulous lay out !!

[astragalus]

Many thanks Luc, Cliff, Lori.  I think the hedysarum buds are just as wonderful as the flowers.  Wish we had a long cool spring this year so that things would last, you wait so long for the garden to wake.
Paeonia mlokowitschii and Paeonia tenuifolia only lasted a matter of days and they were gone.

[astragalus]

One of the great creviceplants, Genista depressa.  This one is being attacked by an asperula planted above.  The second picture is Eriogonum umbellatum v porteri, a true alpine and one of the easiest to grow.