How To Design A Crevice Garden
To create a lean well drained soil for your crevice garden i recommend mixing by volume 1 2 soil and 1 2 large perlite or small crushed gravel or expanded shale pellets and yum yum mix at recommended rates.
How to design a crevice garden. Water is funneled down through the rocks and encourages deeper root growth while the top of the plant stays dry. Once your crevice garden is built not much landscape maintenance is required. Crevice garden plants are generally smaller in size.
One should slope gradually known as the dominant side and the other one slope should descend gradually and the other a touch more steeply. Plants from dry climates get the good drainage they crave while those that want more water can have their roots guided deep by the tiles to access the moist native clay soil below. A crevice garden should be at least 70 cm tall.
Lean well drained soil for the crevice garden.