A little "easter egg" I tried to keep visible is the stamp from the original, excessively deep, 8" (20cm) concrete poured driveway that this used to be. 1976.
As an exhibit within Aurora Water's Waterwise (Demonstration) Garden in the largest suburb of Denver, Colorado, this will be totally unirrigated once the plants (spring of next year) are established. We'll use temporary microsprays for the first season. The soil is real, local, unamended soil, which will settle a lot and need to be topped up after the winter.
Plants to go in will be dry crevice favorites like Hymenoxys scaposa, Escoabria leii ,Yucca "nana," Opuntia debrezyi, a few more, and a trial of Erigeron tener and others like Acantholimon. I'm aiming for clean looking plants, and especially tough buns. I mean, rugged... buns.
I think we need to keep our definition of crevice gardens open to its fullest extent. I am personally, in my own private sphere, a lifetime disciple of the naturalistic, nature-worshipping rock garden. But in order to grow and persist, a thing must adapt and evolve. (High Naturalism won't go away any more than books died with the invention of e-readers) Resistance is futile.
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Lots to think about. I actually really like the cube and could see a design like that working much better in my garden than trying to make something look natural. Hmm...
"The only thing that is constant is change." Heraclitus. I look forward to watching its progression as I live only 4 miles away.
It's a pretty much full time job running around trying to catch up with all your dadbured gardens, buddy! This one looks really different and striking! Bravo.
I like the more squared forms of this kind of crevice garden, too. I'll need to find this garden next time where I attended high school - Aurora!
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