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The Crevice Garden

How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants from Rocky Places
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The Crevice Garden by Kenton Seth and Paul Spriggs is an inspirational guide on creating and maintaining crevice gardens, a unique style of gardening accentuating the aesthetic of rock formations and thriving plants. The book delves into design concepts, plant selection, and construction techniques, making it a practical resource for enthusiasts aiming to replicate these natural-looking landscapes in their gardens.
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You might enjoy this book if you are passionate about innovative gardening techniques and are interested in creating striking, low-maintenance landscapes. It provides insights and guidance on designing and cultivating a unique type of garden that thrives in crevice-like environments, making it ideal for those who love experimenting with their outdoor spaces and are eager to learn from expert gardeners.

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In this book, enthusiastic experts, Kenton Seth and Paul Spriggs, bring us in-depth guidance on the design, construction, and planting of all kinds of crevice garden from small gardens to public parks and including naturalistic scenes and non-traditional installations.

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Mountains, deserts, and coastlines are home to some of the most interesting plants in the world, and a crevice garden, with its closely packed rocks and free-draining soil media, provides the perfect environment for them. The Crevice Garden offers in-depth guidance on the design, construction, and planting of crevice gardens of all kinds, including those suitable for containers, small gardens, and public parks.

This book features over 250 recommended plants, from easy-going succulents to discerning alpines. Kenton J. Seth began his career in public horticulture and the nursery trade and is now a garden designer who specialises in crevice gardens, drought-tolerant natives, and meadows. He writes for a variety of local, national, and international magazines and lectures to rock garden clubs at home in Colorado and overseas.

Paul Spriggs has been rock gardening for 23 years and building crevice gardens for the last 16. He is a professional gardener and landscaper and an avid plant explorer. He has a passion for all wild plants, especially miniatures, collecting and cultivating them at home in Victoria, British Columbia.

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The Crevice Garden is praised for its exceptional photography and its significant contribution to regional literature. Even for those with extensive botanical collections, the book introduces a diverse array of plants, many of which are seldom seen in other similar resources.

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ISBN: 9781739903909

Publisher: Filbert Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 April 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Filbert Press

Illustration: 275 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Kenton J. Seth is a Colorado-based garden designer who works at home and abroad specializing in crevice gardens, drought-tolerant natives, and meadows. His flower palette is fortified with wild-hunted seed and plants grown in his small nursery. He writes for a variety of publications from local plant clubs to national magazines and international rock garden clubs. He and his partner Tori grow vegetables, ride bikes and watch sunsets over the canyon country in Fruita, Colorado. Paul Spriggs learned how to build crevice gardens building directly from one of it's innovators, Zdenek Zvolanek, of the Czech Republic. In the past decade and a half, he has built crevice gardens in public parks and private homes that range in size from small feature troughs, to large installations involving many tonnes of stone. He has a passion for all wild plants especially those of dwarf stature, and collects and cultivates them at various gardens in his hometown of Victoria, BC, Canada. He is an avid plant explorer, photographer and current President of the Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society.

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