The Crevice Garden
with Kenton Seth, principal and founder, Paintbrush Gardens
Thursday, October 3, 2-3 p.m. ET
Virtual
$15 AHS members/$20 non-members
This program is approved for 1 CEU with the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
A rock garden is an age-old institution in gardening, maybe even a crusty old one, but Crevice Gardens are the ultimate expression of the spirit of gardening with nature’s rocky places in mind. More and more of them are recently part of the exhibits of botanic and public gardens around the world- as well as home gardener’s back yards. Why is that? We’ll learn what a crevice garden is, a bit of its history, how all it can be used to create something special, grow challenging plants, or solve a problem. Finally, we’ll learn how to make an approachable one in the home garden, in any climate.
Kenton Seth is the owner of Colorado-based garden design business Paintbrush Gardens, co-author of the New York Times-acclaimed book The Crevice Garden, and former Head of Horticulture for Western Colorado Botanic Gardens. He is an international speaker, a nursery owner/operator, an accomplished propagator of novel plants, and a designer and plantsman of crevice gardens, meadow gardens, and native plant landscapes.
In his freelance garden design work, Kenton Seth consults for, designs, and installs rock, native plant, and xeric gardens. His landscapes span from Colorado to the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina, and New Zealand. He tests and implements cutting-edge planting systems, making them practical for use in both the private and public sector. While primarily an educator, consultant, and designer, he also installs public demonstration exhibits and residential landscapes to test, perfect, and demonstrate new techniques and plants. Seth operates a small nursery to supplement plant material for his designs as well as to supply plants to growers to support xeric plant availability. His mission is to demonstrate and facilitate examples of dry or unirrigated landscapes that are also ecologically beneficial, to raise the demand for such landscapes. Seth’s landscape worked is informed by his BFA in Studio Art from Colorado Mesa University and his Master Gardener certification from Colorado State University.
