I wanted to share s workshop/lecture I went to last Friday at Far Reaches Farm in Port Townsend
The lecturers where Kenton Seth from Colorado and Paul Spriggs from British Columbia. It was instruction on how to build container crevice gardens and a crevice garden. Here are pictures.

Julia this is so exciting. I have already chosen one of my larger shallow containers to try this. I will take photos as I go. Might have to have some advice from those following this thread. Tomorrow I begin, hope to have it finished by the end of the weekend.

I can't wait to see your crevice garden container, Lynn. I find crevice gardens fascinating!

Will be fun to see what you do. Did you know that you can get more plants in a crevice garden because of the vertical rise?

I like the sound of that Julia, the more the better. Like Connie's two table gardens. Love those.

Connie, I will post photos. Hmmm, wonder what it will look like by Clinic time?

I think we will have at least a good idea of what it will look like even though it won't be "mature" yet.

I have to really think about what plants I will use.

I love this!! Thanks for posting it, Julia.

When I was attending the Perennial Plant Association convention in North Carolina last year Tony Avent's garden, he had set up three really long crevice gardens. Semps were prominent in this planting along with other succulents. It's a very good look.

I was lucky to have the worker that actually constructed these tour me through the garden so he was able to describe the construction. I think we'll see more and more of these.

Kevin

I would have loved attending this. I love this look! Where to source the rocks is what I am wondering. I have been keeping an eye on Craigslist recently and emailed a guy this morning about some scrap slate pieces. My parents have more land than I, maybe I'll poke around the edges of their yard.

Has anyone read Rex Murfitt's book that Kevin suggested? I am curious if provides tips on what goes well together and design fundamentals. I love when Kevin makes those suggestions in his suggested cultivars chapter. "Plant these red rossetts near pastels to make them pop" stuff like that. I also would love suggestions like this in regards to companion plants.

Julia wow this looks so amazing!! I've played with these ideas a little bit, and I'm thinking of doing it in one of my troughs, but that'll be lots of work cause it has plants in it still Anyway thanks for the pics, it gives clear ideas of what to do with the rocks!

Greg one of your troughs would make a great crevice garden.

Okay, I didn't get started until today with my miniature crevice garden. Sorry there is one piece of petrified rock in it. I couldn't find any more slate of flat pieces.

I don't think the chunk of rock is working?

Here is the mix I made, equal parts Fox Farm Ocean Forest potting mix (which has a lot of sand and pumice already in it, #2 Chicken grit and pumice.


I don't want to plant until I feel like I've got this right.






Ideas are appreciated.

I like the flat pieces best, but I don't have any flat pieces in my piles of rocks. Actually it seems like anything goes. When planted I think that arrangement would look good, Lynn.

I think it looks fine too. Would the integrity of the formation be compromised if the pieces were staggered a little? Just a thought.

Okay, using these rocks. Bev, how do you mean "staggered"?

I just meant instead of all rocks being directly behind each other you could move the inside ones off from the other rocks just a wee bit. Not sure if that would affect the support system or even if you like the look. Might not even make a difference but you never know...

Photo tomorrow. I just finished planting it. It will be easy to change if I don't like it. I planted the yellow form of allionii, Oxallis adenophylla, S. speciosum and Delosperma 'Grenade'. Different colors and textures. The delosperma blooms until frost and stays low to the ground and not an agressive grower. The oxallis blooms off and on but has low to the ground leaves all growing season.






I still have room to plant a couple more things for more color if needed.

Interesting plants with great color!