I just read the entire article. Really interesting. The local president of our rock garden group (or maybe it is the alpine plant group lol) said the same thing. Attend meetings, workshops, go on outings. That is the best way to learn. Our botanical garden built 18 new hyper-tufa troughs last year and I spent a very cold wet fall documenting each trough, what was in it, taking pictures both of the entire trough then each plant, then entering them into IrisBG - our plant inventory. I even built a garden cart (or rather added infrastructure to an existing cart to cover it is visqueen so I could carry all my note books, cameras, hand held that uploads from IrisBG, tags created from IrisBG, legs to place them - what ever. I needed someplace to have this stuff out of the rain. I just bundled up in raincoat and carried on. It was great. Just before freeze up they added a wall perpendicular to the new troughs that will also have rock garden plants. We have a long real tufa mound further on and three little hillocks. Nothing like the fancy places 'outside' but still they hold the most interesting plants. Any way. Obviously I could go on forever with what was done in the past, what we are doing now to fix the results of some years of neglect, and what our future plans are. I am just a volunteer (3 hours a day three days a week - except when I am totally engaged and forget the 3 hour thing
) and have to control my impulses to think I have any vote in how things are done but I am so privileged to be a part of this garden.
