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[miniaturerockgardens] Re: (no subject)

From: "john andrews" <johnandrews@lineone.net>


>Okay in a place I am not supposed to feel too dumb here again I ask
>Please can someone define a Rock Garden and more specificly an ALPINE rock
>garden.
>
>--leslie
>who is planning to move to Zone 6 by June 1 (Louisville Ky)



Sorry to be so long answering Leslie, I was waiting for the pearls of wisdom
falling from the lips of those more experienced than I. The truth is I don't
think there is any single answer to your question, after 6 months on Alpine
L it is obvious that people in different parts of the world grow radically
different plants under the name of alpines.

I am a novice in this area like yourself, but have come to the conclusion
that you grow whatever takes your fancy, my current rockery is only about 10
feet by 4 feet, and the plants some people grow as rock plants in the US
would swamp it. Personally if it takes my fancy I will try to grow it.

Yesterday I went to the Loughborough Show of the AGS here in the UK and
realised again what enormous diversity there is in the plants peole grow.
From Dionisia a foot across to Prunus Shrubs three feet tall. There are
obviously definitions about what you can show, but the main one seems to be
that it should be capable of surviving either outside, or in an unheated
greenhouse in the area it is shown.

Sorry if that is not very helpful, but afterall its your garden.

John Andrews
York, North Yorkshire in the UK



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