Explorer's Garden Pitlochry: new crevice beds

[Maggi Young]

I hope you all remember the wonderful peat walls, sponsored by the SRGC,  built by Peter Korn and Johan Nilson last year at the Explorer's Garden at the Festival Theatre, Pitlochry?
This year Peter is back, with a new helper, Fredrik, to build some crevice beds at the garden. 
As we have come to expect of these  young Swedes, the work progresses at a considerable pace... only two days and much is already completed 
This message in from Pitlochry this evening:

"Hello
We have a great time and most of the crevises garden is finished. I send you some pictures for the website. There will be more in the end of the week.
 
Peter and Fredrik"

Here are some pix to let us see what these guys can achieve in such a short time......

....in this first shot, John Graham from Grantown on Spey is there to help with the tree stump removal, I think.... John's a fine strong lad!



Fredrik seems to wonder just what he has got himself into.......


The crevice beds roll out to cover the area  well.....



It's important that  they look good from all angles....


Here is a pic from last year, showing how crevice work was incorporated then, too..



click the pix to enlarge.

[David Nicholson]

If only I could work that quickly!!!

[Maggi Young]

Extraordinary, isn't it, David? I tell you, I've never seen anyone like Peter, he works at a prodigious rate and has SUCH a good eye for the overall construction. Ian and I used to reckon we could work at a fair speed but I don't think we could match Peter, even when we were twenty years younger!

I haven't met Fredrik but it seems he is in the same mould.

[Lesley Cox]

Are these rock formations hand made then? They look just like the native bedrock. The hallmark of superb artistry with rock.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

You're so right Lesley he's a genius constructing rock gardens.
I attended a lecture of his last Saturday in Holland about his own "rock garden" or should I say "Mountain chain" ?
He left us all flabbergasted !

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

Still having fun. Just started on the second area.

[Maggi Young]

That's looking very good indeed, Peter. From the glimpse of the Douglas Pavilion I can see which part you are working on. 
We will be down to see how it looks for ourselves at the end of next month, when we're in Pitlochry for a Beechgrove Potting Shed radio recording. Lily the dog will give her opinion too, of course!

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

Julias dog liked it. Nice to run in the sand.

[Lesley Cox]

Is there some kind of optical illusion there or is the roof of the building actually about to collapse forward onto its nose?

[Maggi Young]

It's a sort of pagoda shape, Lesley, really lovely building.  It is where the SRGC photgraphic exhibitions were shown and where the workshops are often held. It has a verandah looking over a gorge and stream and is one of the nicest garden buildings I have seen. I want one! Cost Megabuckss, I'm afraid! I have such good taste!

[Maggi Young]

Here's a shot of it from below.... the bit shown with the drooping roof line is behind and to the left as you look at this pic


Here is the view from the verandah

[Carlo]

looks like a little chapel in the woods...

[Maggi Young]

Some more shots of that pavilion... one of the view seen  from the verandah... in this case while Ian is about to demonstrate the fish-box trough technique


His audience assembling....
 the lady with the glasses, second from the right in the front row is Cynthia Sladen ... who came all the way from Australia!


A glimpse of the distant view from the verandah



A view of the interior of the building, showing part of one of the SRGC photo exhibitions

[fermi de Sousa]

I loved seeing this garden when I visited Scotland in May (seems a liftime ago!), especially with Julia showing me around. I'm looking forward to seeing it again when I next visit! More crevices by Peter Korn will be an added attraction!
I didn't take many pics there but the stonework in this pic was impressive to me!

cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

That's a very nice seat Fermi. Also pleased to see the pics of the pavilion and get the perspective right. And thanks Maggi for the pic of Cynthia. She and Otto and Fermi will be here in late January - only those 3 from Oz I'm afraid, for the NZAGS Study Weekend at which a certain Bulb Despot will be speaking and working with above-mentioned fishbox troughs. I'd forgotten Cynthias's other name.

Talking of fishboxes, I had a call yesterday from someone in the city council whose job is to do with waste and water services and she apparently heads up a recycliong unit and gets all sorts of odd things to distribute where possible to anyone who can use them. About once a month she is landed with a selection of heavy-duty polystyrene boxes from average trough size through to very large, in which pharmaceutical companies distribute their drugs to the hospitals etc. These are not re-useable by these companies so can be palmed off on the likes of Dave, Susan and me, if we want them, for little or no charge. She thought some of my Market vendors could use them for cartage but trough makers will be having first pick!