If numbers are anything to go by, the public interest in a recent workshop on crevice gardening suggests it’s the next big thing – in gardening.
Visiting American expert and author Kenton Seth enthralled a local crowd with the intricacies of the gardening art form, in the rock garden area of Christchurch’s Botanic Gardens.
In 2020, he and other enthusiasts built New Zealand’s first crevice garden, one of only a few public crevice gardens in the world.
Seth says crevice gardens replicate the rocky places on earth which provide more warmth and dryness to the top of a plant while providing both drainage and moisture to its roots.
Alpine plants, maritime plants and plants from the steppes are typical of the vegetation grown in a crevice garden, plants usually from the more extreme parts of the earth, including the desert.
- By John Spurdle
