Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Maggi Young on November 09, 2016, 03:29:28 PM
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Practical Projects for the Garden
Jan Tholhuijsen from the Netherlands is a chap with a great talent for making things – he turns his hand to all manner of projects to make good homes for his plants. He appreciates that it may be great to have access to and the finances to afford – garden “accessories” like old stone drinking troughs to use as planters but also realises that this sort of thing is not an option for many of us. Jan has shared various of his projects with the ‘International Rock Gardener’ (IRG) e-magazine – and some will also feature in ‘The Rock Garden’, the printed journal of the SRGC.
Jan’s articles are in these issues of the IRG :
August 2015 IRG 68 - HERE (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug261440625534IRG_68.pdf)
July 2016 IRG 79 - (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug261440625534IRG_68.pdf)HERE
October 2016 IRG 82 - (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug261440625534IRG_68.pdf)HERE
Jan has generously collected all his descriptions of his various “do-it-yourself” in one place so we may study them all to see which we might care to replicate in our own patch.
His subjects include “how to” instructions, with photos, of course, to make……
- a 3 metre trough
- a trough from a half boiler
- a crevice garden
- half pipe vitrified clay troughs
- a “moraine”
- a planter from a satellite dish
- a lightweight trough, developing Ian Young’s method to a new technique.
- tufa beds
- a saxifrage gutter
- winter plant covers
And doubtless more will be added in time!
You can find them all, titled Garden Downloads, HERE (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8wSWiwm_WABaDBzaGczZF9MYjg)
Jan has also made videos about his garden and these projects - Jpj Tholhuijsen is his YouTube channel which you can find HERE (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMDAaTWbeQBTu9EfYuZ355g)
As an example, this is a video of the garden 2016
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JKbbZ7ybVQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JKbbZ7ybVQ)
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Jan Tholhuisjen is really good at sharing his experiences with making things for the garden to keep his plants happy - now he has turned his attention to something else helpful for all - Jan has made a great compilation of Ian Young's trough making articles - "With permission from Ian I have 5 blogs about the fish box troughs collected and put into an e-book. It is very interesting info, to see how to make this type of troughs and see the planted results. You can download the entire report in PDF.
Click on the page, on the bottom right for full screen."
Click here to see the e-book : https://issuu.com/jantholhuijsen/docs/the_fish_box_troughs (https://issuu.com/jantholhuijsen/docs/the_fish_box_troughs)
Well done, Jan! Exactly what is needed for a wider audience to see all Ian's trough advice in one easy place!
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Jan T. is our "main man" when it comes to clever ideas to add to the planting possibilities in the garden - I saw this, in a Tweet from gardener/broadcaster Chris Collins, and thought it might appeal to some here....
If you can't spread out - spread up!
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...... first find your eight foot fence............ ;D
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...... first find your eight foot fence............ ;D
here is one I prepared earlier.......... ;D
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Where ??? ;D
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I also need to erect one, but i'm too lazy 8) Graeme you're welcome home ;D
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New from Jan Tholhuijsen - "You can read the ebook or download the description of the two disks that I made" https://issuu.com/jantholhuijsen/docs/satelite_disk_a_second_life