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Sand Gardening In Southern Indiana

Verbascum bombyciferum, Allium christophii,  and Salvia nemorosa ‘May Night Strain’

I heard of Peter Korn’s sand gardening a long time ago at one of the Czech Perennial Plant Association afterparties in the Botanical Garden in Prague. My friend Martin Hajman, then the head gardener of the Pruhonice Alpinum (now head gardener in Tromsø Botanical Garden), was talking enthusiastically about the sand gardening approach. I forgot Peter Korn’s name immediately, but the sand garden topic stuck in my head. 

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Lavender Hill, the first eperiement with sand gardening
Peter Korn’s sand garden in Sweden (Photo by Peter Korn)
Bringing in the sand for the garden
Pots laid out and ready for planting
Potting soil removed from the roots before planting
Penstemon barbatus ‘Coccineus’, Echinacea  ‘Public Domain’ and Centaurea orientalis
Penstemon ovatus with Penstemon pallidus
Cheiranthus x allionii with Penstemon ovatus
Palafoxia callosa, an underused late blooming native annual
Euphorbia polychroma ‘Bonfire’
Muscari armeniacum 
Saponaria ocymoides, Amsonia ‘Midway to Montana’, Iris ‘Elatior’ and fresh green leaves of Solidago sphacelata ‘Golden Fleece’

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