Re: [Alpine-l] Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3539) 2-shows Miniature garden close-up
I have rock-lust in my heart. --- On Sat, 10/20/12, Cliff Booker bookcli...@aol.com wrote: From: Cliff Booker bookcli...@aol.com Subject: [Alpine-l] Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3539) 2-shows Miniature garden close-up To: Alpine-l@science.uu.nl Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012, 4:39 AM Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3539) 2-shows Miniature garden close-up From: Cliff Booker eMail: bookcli...@aol.com Name: 2-shows Miniature garden close-up Note: URL: http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=AlpenPixid=3539 File: 2-shows/2-shows_Miniature_garden_close-up_3539.jpg ___ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l ___ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
Re: [Alpine-l] Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3539) 2-shows Miniature garden close-up
Dear Cliff, It is so cruel to send a photo of this magnificent creation and not tell us a lot about it. I have to wonder if you have written anything about making such gardens where we can access your blog, inclusion in a bulletin or whatever. Such info as: how large this planting is, if not old, did you drill holes and put them in the holes and then take a photo before they or their blooms started to expire(smile), and how large the tufa and holes are, as well as how you would expect to keep this going...smile. Surely that is not too much to askbig smile. You are truly a plantsman and photographer of the highest order. Thank you for what you share. Best always, Marcia Meigs Ithaca, NY, USA currently on Cape Cod in Truro where all the names come from English towns way back in the 17th and 18th centuries. -Original Message- From: Cliff Booker bookcli...@aol.com To: Alpine-l Alpine-l@science.uu.nl Sent: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 6:39 am Subject: [Alpine-l] Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3539) 2-shows Miniature garden close-up Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3539) 2-shows Miniature garden close-up From: Cliff Booker eMail: bookcli...@aol.com Name: 2-shows Miniature garden close-up Note: URL: http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=AlpenPixid=3539 File: 2-shows/2-shows_Miniature_garden_close-up_3539.jpg ___ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l ___ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
Re: [Alpine-l] Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3539) 2-shows Miniature garden close-up
Dear Marcia et al, Firstly, please let me clear something up straight away, though I have (in the past) created a number of miniature gardens for exhibition at AGS Shows, these two examples illustrated here are not my creations!!! There are a small number of exhibitors who take their creations to the national shows and the same mini-gardens appear at quite a number of events. They are all semi-permanent plantings (please see my full response to Michael's query above). Plants establish themselves better if they are young and tiny. Holes are drilled in the tufa and the bare (washed) roots are introduced at the same time as a modicum of gritty, sandy compost. I have searched the files and discovered these three links that will illustrate many other gardens and how they were created. There are at least three pages of information on each of these links courtesy of the SRGC and the AGS. I hope these will assist all you budding miniature gardeners? Kind regards to you all, Cliff Booker Whitworth, Lancashire. UK. Unzoned (thankfully) LOL. http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/pdf_files/publication/11_MiniGarden_sc.pdf http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2591.0 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0 ___ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
