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The Crevice Garden

How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants from Rocky Places

Kenton Seth Paul Spriggs

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English
Filbert Press
21 April 2022
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. This book 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 and 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 specializes 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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Imprint:   Filbert Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 260mm,  Width: 200mm, 
ISBN:   9781739903909
ISBN 10:   1739903900
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

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.  

Reviews for The Crevice Garden: How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants from Rocky Places

"""Wow, this is a remarkable and significant contribution to the literature of the region. The photography is exceptional and despite my vast botanical library I've not seen at least 50% of the plants in any other book of this nature."" --Panayoti Kelaidis, Denver Botanic Gardens"


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