http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Palustris That's the world from my perspective - with a free weblog from blogigo. en Palustris Palustris Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:17:00 +0100 daily 1 The Dried up River Be d. There are not many people who can claim that their latest alpine plant growing area came about because they always wanted a Yew hedge. I have spent many hours in various National Trust properties admiring and envying the beautiful Yew hedges. Up to the beginning of last year, there was nowhere in the garden where we could put one, so it remained a dream. However, while visiting a local nursery we discovered that they were selling off 3 feet tall yew plants at £15 for ten plants. Now that was just too good an opportunity to miss, we bought 10. At the northern corner of our garden we have a small wood. The trees are actually Damson and the ground under them is full of a Galanthus nivalis form. I wanted to extend the area in which the snowdrops grew so I spent part of the winter clearing away the brambles and ivy from the section nearest the boundary. This opened up the wood to the strong... Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:17:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Palustris/Riverbed/2/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Palustris/Riverbed/2/ A Czech Style Crevice Garden . I am in the fortunate position of having a glasshouse which I use for growing alpine plants. When I first erected the structure I put in extremely strong staging as I wanted to create plunge beds into which I could put my pots of plants. The staging is made from 900 mm. by 600 mm. paving slabs resting on reinforced concrete lintels laid across brick walls. The staging is 2m.70cm. long and 600 mm. wide and on both sides. Since then I have grown fewer and fewer alpines in plant pots, preferring to have them either outside in the rock garden or planted in an indoor bed in the glasshouse. After listening to a couple of lectures on modern techniques of growing alpines I began to play with the idea of making a crevice garden. Strangely enough the lecturers showed the same sort of garden though one talked of it as the way ahead and the other as a rather ugly construction. Still I rather liked the idea and it did appear to be a successful way to keep some of the high... Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:27:36 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Palustris/My-latest-garden-project/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Palustris/My-latest-garden-project/1/