Satelite disk a second life
Jan Tholhuijsen
The satellite tuff disk
Found on the old iron dump, satellite dish, concrete base and iron pipe with flat top.
The pipe in the concrete base, the satellite dish screwed in at the head of the iron pipe, drilled holes for drainage and painted with hamerite.
A large tuff (65 kg), 15 holes of 25 mm dia drilled.
6 watered sponge cloths for under the stone. For additional water prior to the capillary action of the stone.
The large rock and some flat tuff for a small crevice part around the stone.
The substrate mix for around the stone. 40% coarse sand, grit 40% 2-6, 10% tuf dust and 10% white peat and loam
The stone with the sponge cloths underneath.
The base is ready.
The stone is planted with young saxifrage. 1383 Minuartia stellata 'Minima' 182 Saxifraga x megaseaeflora 'Hradčany' 474 Saxifraga 'Agrippina minor' 701 Saxifraga x irvingii 'Harry Marshall' 1078 Saxifraga [Conspecta Group] 'Jan Preisler' 1340 Saxifraga x lincolni-fosteri 'Salome' 1343 Saxifraga 'Má Vlast' 1344 Saxifraga x megaseaeflora 'Liboc' 1346 Saxifraga x anglica 'Amberine' 1347 Saxifraga x boydilacina 'Olympus' 1349 Saxifraga 'Clermont Ferrand' 1350 Saxifraga 'Sanne' 1358 Saxifraga Sdlg. B.Moerland ‘Capricorn’ 1360 Saxifraga Wendelboi coll kandovan more ‘Kandovan’ 1361 Saxifraga New B.Moerland ‘Marquis de Sade’ 1367 Saxifraga ‘Voltaire’
A satellite dish to a small crevice garden The powder coating was still perfect. Degreased and washed.
Holes drilled.
With Hammerite paint smeared so that the holes do not rust.
Impregnated small beams to scale legs, glued
Support made for the first slate and hammerite.
With cloth covered the holes
And see yet without plants, and now sprinkled with Japanese split, after planting this spring is sprinkled with crushed slate
Aquilegia jonesii Asperula sinntenisii Calceolaria fothergillii Erigeron scopulinus Globularia incanescans Pinus Mugo sport mops 'Mini" Primula marginima Sempervivum minimum Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Linda' Sempervivum 'Braune Maus' Sempervivum Syn. arachnoideum subsp. Tomentosum 'Lagerii' Sempervivum 'Latex' Sempervivum 'Edward Balls' Sempervivum Arachnoideum var. Tomentosum Sempervivum 'Bella'