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Crevice Gardening ......in defence of rock.....
Maggi Young:
Crevice Gardening ......in defence of rock.....
In another thread in the General Forum section " Denmark's giant crevice garden... how it was made...."
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4462.0
....I mentioned an article from the Rock Garden Journal of 2003 written by Zdenek Zvolanek.
ZZ has kindly given me permission to republish that article here and he will add some comments and more photos. :)
I will begin by this posting, where I will attach the 2003 article, broken down into four sections to allow for the Forum posting size restrictions.... they are in pdf format for easy download, to print or enlarge at will.....
ZZ's article : Crevice Gardening - in defense of rock..... in four sections, click below to download......
Stone Rider:
CREVICE GARDENING
One top American musician (trumpet player like me) told his audience in the Prague Conservatory, that very important for your progress is to listen the performance of maximum of good players in your free time.
I think that the same is in the case of a constructor of the rock outcrop.
He (she) must see (and study) the maximum of rock works from different stones and from different designers.
My plan is to show some of my designs and also the ones from another constructers to compare.
126-Rockwork in Connecticut ZZ granite side-walls, Connecticut
126 Cedicove bocni steny (Zvolánek) basalt side-walls, N. Ireland
´KING OF HEARTS´in faces of layers (schist), Canada
Anchusa caespitosa and Daphne ridriguezii small limestone side-walls, Karlik
Montreal Real schist side-walls ,Montreal Botanical Garden, Canada
Montreal Skalka schist faces of layers, Montreal Botanical Garden
Stone Rider:
There is very contrasting feeling if you see an outcrop towards Side-Walls (optic illusion of one compact rock) or towards Faces of Layers (not so perfect, sometimes little bit a busy; depends on the shape and the thickness of the layers). The best Main View is towards Side-Walls.
diabase faces of layers
Porphyr side-walls
porphyr faces of layers
schist side-walls. N.Ireland
schist side-walls , J. Papousek, Czechia
schist faces of layers, J. Papousek, Czechia
Limestone side-walls, KARLÍK
Limestone faces of layers with Moltkia petraea
mark smyth:
some of the photos are from N. Ireland
Paddy Tobin:
--- Quote from: mark smyth on December 10, 2009, 05:04:07 PM ---The first photos is in N Ireland
--- End quote ---
Mark, I believe I recognise June's snowdrops? Paddy
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