G arden Masterclass — the UK series of online conversations on garden design — has hosted Kenton Seth and Paul Spriggs in conversation with Annie Guilfoyle and Noel Kingsbury about the crevice garden, the rock garden’s quieter and more rigorous descendant.
Crevice gardens borrow their structure from the way plants actually grow in mountain rock: closely packed stones set on edge, free-draining substrate, conditions that mimic the habitats alpines and other rock-loving plants evolved into. Done well, they let you grow species that most British gardens cannot — and they ask very little of the gardener once they are in place.
Kenton Seth and Paul Spriggs wrote The Crevice Garden for Filbert Press in 2022 — a complete guide to design, construction, planting and selection, with more than 250 recommended species for crevice conditions ranging from container experiments and small back-garden builds to public parks.
The Garden Masterclass conversation, hosted by Annie Guilfoyle and Noel Kingsbury, opens the book out — covering construction, plant choice, scale and what crevice gardening borrows from the older rock-garden tradition while quietly departing from it. The full discussion is on YouTube: Garden Masterclass with Kenton & Paul.
