Crevice gardening.

kindredspirit · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:05 pm Post subject: Crevice gardening.

Anyone have a crevice garden here?

If so, have you any suggestions, hints, tips, etc.,? (for our wet climate.)

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:43 am Post subject:

First two.

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:45 am Post subject:

'nother few.

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:19 pm Post subject:

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:21 am Post subject:

Greengage · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:52 pm Post subject:

Check this one out http://www.lissadellhouse.com/Alpine%20_Garden_Report.html

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject:

Did 12 more on Saturday.

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:27 pm Post subject:

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject:

Lewisia.

kindredspirit · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:10 am Post subject:

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Jun061338982706BULB_LOG_2312.pdf

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:58 pm Post subject:

The black plant in the pic is not dead. It's a Southside Seedling resting before coming on. Very Happy

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:17 pm Post subject:

Got permission off a farmer to quarry some weathered limestone in some of his fields.
Put some of the rock into a trough the other day and this is the result.
Plants are;
5 Saxifrages,
Potentilla Nitida Rubra,
Erysimum Amoenium,
Helichrysum Pagophilum,
Asyneuma Pulvinatum,
Antennaria Dioica Minima,
Anchusa Cespitosa,
& Petunia Patagonica.

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:11 pm Post subject:

Revamped a trough today putting Lewisias into perforated volcanic rock; they'll get good drainage with that.

Sive · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:32 pm Post subject:

Where do you source all your plants kindredspirit ? You have an amazing collection.

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:48 pm Post subject:

Hi Sive,

Half come from local farmers' fields or rivers that run through their land. True!
Alleys in Dundrum must be the best value garden centre in the country.
Future Forests in Kealkill are the salt of the earth.
Chris Pattison in Gloucestershire is the BEST value nurseryman on the planet.
And I got the Lewisias in Woodies for €2.50 each, so they cost me €15.00. I bought them on impulse. I normally prefer not to use chain stores.

Believe it or believe it not, I'm not into shrubs or individual flowers. I prefer banks of Colour, Shapes & Structure. Cool

If you ever escape from Wexford and are wandering aimlessly around County Limerick, I can give you spare plants that I have in pots. Smile