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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Ross Barbour on August 16, 2014, 12:59:18 PM

Title: Concrete
Post by: Ross Barbour on August 16, 2014, 12:59:18 PM

I am building a new Rock Garden which will include a raised bed for sand on one side and gravel on the other. To separate them I want to make a crevice. I have a limited amount of lime stone to make the raised bed and no crevice rock, however I do have a pile of waste concrete lumps.
Has any one used concrete to create a rock garden or know of any links to anyone who has. Also any feed back on using hyper-tufa to join the concrete together or even coat the concrete.

ross

Title: Re: Concrete
Post by: Maggi Young on August 16, 2014, 01:13:30 PM

Hi Ross,

Ian has been using broken old breeze blocks in troughs for a while now with considerable success.

 Old breeze blocks or concrete should have had most lime leeched  out of them. There's info in the Bulb Logs - will look up some links for you shortly- USA  visitors about to arrive here meantime!

M 

Title: Re: Concrete
Post by: Maggi Young on August 16, 2014, 01:58:12 PM

Visitors not here yet, so........

These links are  for Bulb Logs with mentions of our use of broken concrete blocks
( most could be found from the Bulb Log Index but those from 2014 were easily found with a google search!)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2009Nov181258556803BULB_LOG__46_comp.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2009Nov181258556803BULB_LOG__46_comp.pdf)


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012May021335975211BULB_LOG_1812comp.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012May021335975211BULB_LOG_1812comp.pdf)


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Jul041341398623BULB_LOG_2712.pd (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Jul041341398623BULB_LOG_2712.pd)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Aug221345633412BULB_LOG_3412.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Aug221345633412BULB_LOG_3412.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Nov281354112077BULB_LOG_4812.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Nov281354112077BULB_LOG_4812.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Dec181355829765BULB_LOG_5112.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Dec181355829765BULB_LOG_5112.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jun261372239741BULB_LOG_2613.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jun261372239741BULB_LOG_2613.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jul101373457945BULB_LOG_2813.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jul101373457945BULB_LOG_2813.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Aug071375877969BULB_LOG_3213.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Aug071375877969BULB_LOG_3213.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Sep111378892369BULB_LOG_37.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Sep111378892369BULB_LOG_37.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Nov201384944737BULB_LOG__4713.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Nov201384944737BULB_LOG__4713.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Mar261395831136BULB_LOG_1314.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Mar261395831136BULB_LOG_1314.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jul021404293276BULB_LOG_2714.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jul021404293276BULB_LOG_2714.pdf)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jan291390996341BULB_LOG_0514.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jan291390996341BULB_LOG_0514.pdf)


And this :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7551.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7551.0)   is Gote Svanholm's comment on the use of concrete blocks

Title: Re: Concrete
Post by: Ross Barbour on August 16, 2014, 06:18:39 PM

Fantastic, this is exactly the kind of thing I am looking for. Very inspirational, I love it. I have now gone from having loads of surplus concrete lying around the nursery to finding myself needing more. Many thanks