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Beware Of Falling Rocks: My Road To Crevice Gardening

The completed crevice garden.

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My Background

I am a horticulturist, but I was never much of a rock gardener. As the Director of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens in Wyoming, I commissioned a new crevice garden as I wrote about in the last NARGS Quarterly. That decision was motivated mainly by its hail resistance, but I quickly became enamored with its resilience, beauty, and ability to survive on less water. 


 

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the new garage before the crevice garden.
Collecting free Mesaverde sandstone
Placing the rocks for the crevice garden.
View of the crevice garden after planting
View of the crevice garden after planting
View of the crevice garden after planting
Delosperma ‘Fire Spinner’ flowers heavily but spreads too aggressively.
 A newly planted horse trough crevice garden
The new crevice garden in the hell strip
Acantholimon are stand-out critter-resistant plants in the crevice garden.
A whimsical “moon base” made from repurposed objects.

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