Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Peter Korn, Sweden on October 25, 2011, 06:02:30 PM
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Yesterday I and Viktor built a limestone crevice garden for Ulla Hansson in Bollebygd, east of Gothenburg. It will be planted in the spring and then covered with limestone gravel.
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Hey, Peter! That looks good.
Lucky Ulla, but she did not tell us that she was getting you to make this garden for her... a lady of mystery, heh? :D
You would not be making such a project in Aberdeen this week... the weather is terrible!
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She helped me repotting bulbs so I helped her with the rockgarden.
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She helped me repotting bulbs so I helped her with the rockgarden.
A fair exchange! 8)
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Peter I hear good reports from your Belfast lecture. Sadly I had to work
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I hope Ulla will keep us up to date with the planting to come, and then flowering. We can't get enough of these fascinating gardens. :D
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I will try to keep you updated, the problem is that I do not know how to add images.
Peter is an amazing man, strong and fast, and with an eye for how to build a bed. His helper, Viktor, is a very nice young man, with an interest in what is growing. Maybe he's a future botanist.
When spring comes, I hope that Peter will come back and help me to place the pots.
It is a very exciting project that has begun. The crevisebed is beautiful as it is, but I look forward to filling it with plants.
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Ulla it's easy to post photos. I hope my screen shots show you how
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Hej Peter.
Nice and fast work.
Congratulation on your new bed, Ulla.
I totally understand your happiness over the new bed because Zdenek Zvolanek spent some of his holiday in Denmark in September with us. With help from a couple of our friends he replaced our two old crevice beds with a new 45m2 bed. For construction of the bed is used the sandstones from the old beds and 6 tons of new stones. I moved as many plants as possible from the old beds and had a lot of seedlings so there are already some plants in the bed, but also plenty of room for planting next spring
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wow it looks brilliant!
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I couldn't agree more !
Two wonderful new features both in Denmark and in Sweden - and made by two TOP crevice champions !
I definitely want to see how things develop !! :D
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Thank you Mark, I will try.
Kirsten, your new crevisebed looks fantastic.
It is wonderful to have such talented friends.
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Lucky Ulla and Kirsten. Your crevice beds are fantastic. I look forward to see more pictures in the spring.
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I am delighted with both crevices! (http://s19.rimg.info/fc4a1b028f2918f4f4c050cc86d6865e.gif) They look very natural and very suitable for alpines.
Peter and Kirsten, many thanks for showing building process. Wish I saw how that was built! And of course it would be very interesting to look at the crevices in spring with blooming plants.
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mouthwatering!
another project on my list. :D
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Terry Hatch (Joy Plants) is planning a crevice bed, and was moaning about the lack of slate, or any other suitable flat stone, here in New Zealand, when I visited him on Friday. I recommended a look at the SRGC Forum. I was absolutely delighted to see the extent of the nursery. Beds of huge clivias, separated into orange or yellow, under the totara and other trees in a lovely section of ancient 'bush' saved from the developers. I bought just two plants: Haemanthus coccineus and Crinum asiaticum. He says he grows Cypripedium reginae, but I'll save that for another day.
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How many of the neighbours are getting hooked on alpines after seeing these wonderful crevice beds? I am torn now between tufa or crevices for my next project (once my wife is looking the other way!).
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Terry should be looking in Cental Otago at the schist though it would be expensive to get it home. Talking of Terry, I was able at the Trillium weekend to swap something of mine for a small pot of Terry's double Rhodohypoxis 'Kiwi Joy.' It's a rich, lipstick red and in flower now. Pic shortly.