Kenton Seth
Presentation topic:
What are Crevice Gardens, why are they relevant to climate change and how do I build one?
This increasingly popular style of rock garden is showing up worldwide. Partly what drives this trend is its use in ecologically responsible landscape designs of the future, especially the dry and intermountain western US. Join garden designer, author, and plant addict Kenton Seth from Fruita, Colorado, to find out how to make a crevice garden that is not only trendy, but appropriate in our region and helpful for the earth.
Owner, Paintbrush Gardens
Based in Western Colorado, specializing in cutting edge gardens and landscapes, my main specialties are three, often overlapping: Crevice gardens serve to elevate and host special plants in a novel way, representing natural rocky places. Meadows provide habitat, forage, and beauty, with less input. My native designs save water, money, and effort by uniquely being able to go completely without regular irrigation- the most ecological, economical answer for landscaped areas in the dry American West. Meanwhile they boast a long-term without chemicals, no landscape fabric, while providing beauty to humans and service to wildlife like birds and pollinators- far surpassing that of traditional landscapes.
An unwavering bent for the right plants necessitate having my own small nursery to grow specific species for my work, using innovative net-zero greenhouses.
I work primarily in Colorado and nearby on projects both public and private, but also travel nation- and world-wide for special projects.
Kenton is a Grand Junction native, garden writer, seed hunter, garden designer and plant addict. He has a studio art degree and worked in various capacities at a public garden and in nurseries for ten years until he started Paintbrush in 2013, after which he traveled extensively to build over 50 crevice gardens and write a book on them. He lives in Fruita, CO, with a dog and his partner who is a mountain bike and poetry goddess.