The Crevice Garden: How to make the perfect home for plants from rocky places

The Crevice Garden: How to make the perfect home for plants from rocky places

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  • Create Date:2022-08-05 05:21:36
  • Update Date:2025-09-07
  • Status:finish
  • Author:Paul Spriggs
  • ISBN:1739903900
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Reviews

Karen Mace

This is one of those books that makes you want to rush out and create your own crevice garden!! The photographs alone are stunning and help paint the picture of just what it is to be a crevice garden, and alongside that the enthusiasm of the authors is infectious as they explore different aspects of this aspect of gardening。This is a book packed full of photos, plants, history and ideas! I knew very little of crevice gardening, my only real knowledge is of rockery planting, but this a more broad This is one of those books that makes you want to rush out and create your own crevice garden!! The photographs alone are stunning and help paint the picture of just what it is to be a crevice garden, and alongside that the enthusiasm of the authors is infectious as they explore different aspects of this aspect of gardening。This is a book packed full of photos, plants, history and ideas! I knew very little of crevice gardening, my only real knowledge is of rockery planting, but this a more broader range and a whole new level which is a better way for the plants - a way of working with them to suit their conditions than old ideas as it recreates their ideal habitat。It looks into the geology alongside the extremes of the climates that these plants thrive in and it always amazes me that there are plants out there that survive in even the harshest of conditions! With this background information you really do understand a lot more about the plants and it's made me want to learn more about these plants that can often be overlooked and not embraced into gardening schemes。There are brilliant step by step hints and ideas to help you set up your own crevice garden, and you don't even need a large area as they can be created in a pot。 It sets you in the right direction of rocks to use, soil and, most importantly!, the plants to be used! What was even more helpful was the list of plants for specific situations which makes it really easy to pick and choose for your own needs!A lot of American gardens are shown in some of the photos, but there are also photos from RHS Wisley, alongside gardens from Europe and it was really nice to see Crevice Gardening in action as it really gives you a good feel for the 'art' and I always like to see gardens that others have created。This was a comprehensive and illuminating introduction to Crevice Gardening for me and I'm thankful to the authors for sharing their enthusiasm and knowledge and I look forward to using this book for my own crevice gardening plans in the future!My thanks to Filbert Press for the copy in return for a fair and honest review。 。。。more