Dry stone spheres... in the Garden Art forum

UrbanWild

Apr 4, 2021 9:05 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: UrbanWild
Kentucky (Zone 6b)
Kentucky - Plant Hardiness Zone 7a

Hopefully no one has posted this yet. But I just ran across Dry Stone Spheres. Looks terrific!

https://www.devineescapes.com/...

Always looking for interesting plants for pollinators and food! Bonus points for highly, and pleasantly scented plants.

"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." [“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero in Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro. 46 BCE

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UrbanWild

Apr 4, 2021 9:08 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: UrbanWild
Kentucky (Zone 6b)
Kentucky - Plant Hardiness Zone 7a

How about a video...

Always looking for interesting plants for pollinators and food! Bonus points for highly, and pleasantly scented plants.

"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." [“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero in Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro. 46 BCE

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UrbanWild

Apr 4, 2021 9:10 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: UrbanWild
Kentucky (Zone 6b)
Kentucky - Plant Hardiness Zone 7a

...and another video...

Always looking for interesting plants for pollinators and food! Bonus points for highly, and pleasantly scented plants.

"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." [“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero in Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro. 46 BCE

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vic

Apr 4, 2021 9:42 AM CST

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Name: Vicki
North Carolina

WOW - Fantastic

NATIONAL GARDENING ASSOCIATION ~ Garden Art ~ Purslane & Portulaca ~

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plantmanager

Apr 4, 2021 9:59 AM CST

Name: Karen
New Mexico (Zone 8a)

Handcrafted Coastal Inspired Art SeaMosaics!

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crawgarden

Apr 4, 2021 10:03 AM CST

Name: Rj
Just S of the twin cities of M (Zone 4b)

Very cool!

As Yogi Berra said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

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Maplesugar

Jun 30, 2021 12:36 PM CST

Name: Colleen
(Zone 5a)

I would love to have one of these spheres as a centerpiece in my garden! It would have to be balanced though because I live on a slightly sloping hill.

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plasko20

Jul 13, 2021 2:52 PM CST

Name: Orion
Boston, MA (Zone 7a)

Oh gosh, when you click the link that 6th sphere on a hill with the house at the bottom of the hill got my heart all aflutter.
An Indiana Jones flashback occurred.

Those are brave people.

Gardening: So exciting I wet my plants!

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DevinDevine

Aug 10, 2021 6:11 AM CST

Thank you everyone, and thank you UrbanWild for sharing this.

Maplesugar and plasco20, I assure you that I build these in such a way that there is no risk of them rolling down the hill :)

BTW, the first couple I built were fully dry, but my newer spheres (and similar works) are built to a dry standard, but with the addition of well concealed internal bonding agents.