Article: Home & Gardens: Colour up in an alpine bed; For a profusion of flowers in spring and summer think about creating a low maintenance alpine garden, says Hannah Stephenson.(Features)

Article: Bring the Alps to your garden; Hannah Stephenson on how to create ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  April 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... plants which can create a haven of colour in a raised bed, stone trough or sink as you create a miniature alpine garden. Creating an alpine garden in a raised bed or trough is not difficult but it needs to ...

Article: Gardening: Plants with altitude - Part three You don't have to ...
The Independent - London;  October 11, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... like second spring in a well planned alpine garden. Gentians, in cobalt or kingfisher ... next year. Scale is important in an alpine garden, where big daffodils would look ungainly ... collection of plants help compose a classic alpine garden. Such important practical considerations ...

Article: Alpine garden show
The Press;  September 7, 2002 ;     281 words ...The New Zealand Alpine Garden Society's show next weekend is a good opportunity for alpine and rock garden fans to find rare and elusive plants, says society ...

Article: Jobs to do in the garden; Waimarama community open day; ...
The Nelson Mail;  May 26, 2006 ;     511 words ... ... upper Brook Valley, continue up Brook St from the Nile St east roundabout. Registrations are still open for the Nelson Alpine Garden Society's annual winter study weekend at the Alpine Lodge, St Arnaud, from June 9-11. This year's guest speakers ...

Article: Alpine Garden; On the Peaks of Silver Spring, Snow ...
The Washington Post;  February 20, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Alexej Borkovec is a connoisseur of rare plants. A rock gardener for 30 years, he has created a complex of stony terraces and narrow walkways at his Silver Spring home that transcend the limits of geography. Borkovec grows "alpines," those species of tiny plants whose origins are in the windswept

Article: Alpine garden expert is guest at flower show
The Northern Echo;  February 19, 2000 ;     336 words ...ONE of the world's leading experts in alpine gardening will be among the guests at this year's Harrogate Spring Flower Show. The Schynige Platte is the highest botanical garden in the world, at 2,000m in the Bernese Oberland mountains of Switzerland. It contains 80 per cent of the Swiss mountain

Article: An Alpine Garden Exhibit Unites The Fussiest of ...
The Washington Post;  March 18, 1993 ;     601 words ...George Whiting sums up his rural property in Spring Mount, Pa. thus: "I am fortunate enough to live on a rock outcrop." A strange boast for a gardener, until you realize that Whiting is one of 4,400 people across the country with a passionate interest in rock or alpine gardening. Popularized in