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In this talk, Paul will delve into all things rock and crevice gardening. From history and inspiration to design and construction, and of course a palette of mouth-watering plants.

Paul Spriggs has been rock gardening for roughly 27 years and building crevice gardens for about 20 years. He is an avid plant explorer, photographer, mountaineer, owner of Spriggs Gardens Landscaping company, and past president of the Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society.

He has a passion for all wild plants especially those of dwarf stature and collects and cultivates them at various gardens in his hometown of Victoria, BC, Canada. Paul has learned the craft of crevice garden building directly from one of its innovators, Zdenek Zvolanek, of the Czech Republic.

In the past decade and a half, he has built many gardens in public parks and private homes that range in size from small feature troughs to large installations involving many tonnes of stone. Paul is passionate about spreading the word of this style, through speaking to garden clubs all over the world, and by giving workshops for those keen on learning the finer points of this developing art form.

He is co-author (with Kenton Seth) of the first North American book on crevice gardening, entitled "The Crevice Garden: How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants from Rocky Places." 

We hope you can join us for light gardening, garden refurbishment and socializing at our CSU Extension demonstration garden this Saturday. Guests are welcome!
 
We will have a set of gardening tools that you can borrow, but we encourage you to bring your own.  Please mark your tools so you can identify those that belong to you.