Devin Devine, traveling stone artist based out of Pennsylvania
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Dry Stone Spiral Herb Garden, built using dry stone wall techniques, somewhat in miniature.
We built this one as a double-faced wall with through stones and a full-cap. Same way I build dry stone walls, but smaller.
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Happy to report that this permaculture spiral was built using all hammers and chisels, zero saws, zero grinders. No mortar or adhesive either…just stone!
Almost every spiral herb garden that I’ve seen thus far has been small, like this, or smaller. I’m also not sure if I’ve ever even seen an herb spiral before that was built using this type of dry stone masonry/walling style. My plan is to find the right place one of these days, soon enough, to build a significantly larger dry stone herb spiral…more like 15 feet wide (or wider) about 4 feet high at the tallest. I’d like to take my time more on the details…and of course add a more sculptural and mosaic elements.
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UPDATE, here it is 1 year later and planted:
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wow, I have never heard of a spiral herb garden before. This is an extremely interesting structural process. The concept is unique and the finished product looks extremely attractive! Putting flowers in a large one would look cool!
There’s an idea–I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these planted with flowers before 🙂
Absolutely outstanding projects. Can this this method be used for basements, approximately 10′ in ground, that will be built up to a one floor structure
In a word: yes. Dry stone foundations for houses are a thing that’s done sometimes for cob/strawbale houses.
But what sort of house are you building? There’s too many details here I don’t know.