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English Wall Gardening 



REFERRING to the picture of the retaining 

 wall for plants in The Garden Magazine 

 for May, 1912, at page 241, let me say, as having 

 some experience of such a work here in England, 

 that the right way is not to make pockets, ample 

 or otherwise. Done in that way the structure is- 

 never right and the plants on it will not resist the 

 heat. 



The right way is to build with blocks of stone — 

 even square blocks if one has them — exactly as 

 though there were no plants in question; then put 

 the slightest dusting of soil above each layer of 

 stone, and on that put the plants — seedlings, they 

 should be, or cuttings. Put another layer of blocks 

 above the plants. 



It will be clearly understood that these battered 

 walls are only made from necessity — to keep up 

 the banks of earth. It often happens that we have 

 to cut through the earth and the best way to 

 support it is to build one of these dry walls. Each 

 row of stones should be set back from the other an 

 inch or so, and each stone should, as far as may be, 

 slope backward and downward so that it may catch 

 all the rainfall. 



Alpine plants have the curious habit of rooting 

 very deeply, and I have seen a plant not more than 

 one inch high that had its roots growing twenty 

 inches deep into the crumbling rock. Therefore, 

 the roots of such plants make no difficulty about 

 getting to the back of a dry wall and a sandstone 



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These sun roses and campanulas were set in this 

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A wall of sandstone blocks set without monar. 

 Sedum dasyphyllum and alpine toadflax growing 

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