Saxifraga Event at Waterperry March 2012

[Maggi Young]

From Adrian Young:

The Saxifrages at Waterperry will be flowering soon

These “Rock Diamonds” are pure, perfect and complete.


See the National Reference Collection and talk to experts
over the weekend of 24/25th March, 11.00 – 4.00pm.
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Talk from expert grower David Hoare- Sunday 25th March

‘God Almighty first planted a garden.
And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures’.
~ Francis Bacon



See you on the 24/25th March at Waterperry    

Waterperry Gardens,
Nr. Wheatley,
Oxfordshire,
England
OX33 1JZ.

Note: If you're using Sat Nav, it is  recommended to use the postcode OX33 1LG which will bring you to Waterperry Village. This is a no through road - and Waterperry is right at the end.
 SaxifragaPosterMarch2012.pdf (140.25 kB - downloaded 116 times.)

[Lesley Cox]

ny Forumist who attends this event, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take lots of photos of the plants and post them here. We in the Southern Hemisphere are badly Saxifraga-deprived.

[adrian young]

The three plants featured are

1] S. Vaclav Talich from Karel Lang
2] S. Frantisek Holenka from Karel Lang
3] S. Coolock Kate seedling from Geoff Mawson

[adrian young]

Last week Tim Roberts and myself placed the brand new Tufa in
our two new raised beds. Well actually Tim did all the work,
he is a very experienced Landscape Gardener who has an
expert eye for Rock and how to lay it.
The beds are 30' long and 5' wide, the compost is
20mm Ballast and medium grade Moss peat 50/50.
We put around 5 tonnes of Tufa in the two beds,
it came from Rocky Mountain Tufa BC and it is good quality
stuff. Now we wait a while for everything to settle, then
the planting starts.
These two beds will hold a Plant Heritage National collection
of Ligulatae Saxifrages.

[Lori S.]

Wow, I can't imagine shipping tufa all the way from North America!   (Although, on the other hand, I suppose building stone of different sorts is shipped around the world as matter of course... I just tend not to think of it being done for rock gardening purposes very often!?)  I heard about this shipment when I had tufa delivered last fall - looks like it's going to great use!
As the boulders are being placed with a lot of "surface" visible, is there going to be a lot of drilling to make planting crevices?

[adrian young]

Yes there will be plenty of drilling.
There are a lot of crevices also,
so no shortage of planting area's.

[Lori S.]

I can't wait to see it planted up! 

[Neil]

Adrian

Please would you let me know who supplied the tufa.

Thanks

[angie]

Wow can't wait to see it get planted. Wouldn't mind Tufa like that. Please keep posting pictures for us to see.

Angie 

[adrian young]

Adrian

Please would you let me know who supplied the tufa.

Thanks

Tufa came from Canada, Rocky Mountain Tufa.
No Tufa available in UK or Europe


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[Neil]

Thanks Adrian

[Leiomerus]

Hi,

Everyone is so wild about tufa, of course, tufa is the best rock for alpines, because it's so porous and has so many nutrients in it. The only problem, and the biggest, is that it is hard to get.
There are other possibilities, maybe not as good, but worth trying : I experiment with plantings in other kind of rocks like sandstone and marble stone.
You will see a picture of Saxifraga Winifred, that has been thriving for 6 years now in the hard marble stone.

[Lesley Cox]

Winifred certainly looks like a happy lady.

Lori, we have here in Dunedin a Chinese garden, largely gifted to the city by our Chinese connections and it has become one of our best tourist attractions. (To my shame I've not yet been to see it.) The rocks and gravels, the building materials all were imported from China and also the men who built it over many months - all from China. Everything in fact, EXCEPT THE PLANTS! They were raised locally and seem, from the outside at least to be mainly trees. It's called a "Scholars' Garden" and is apparently one of only two genuine articles outside of China itself.

[adrian young]

The Saxifraga weekend is getting close
and the plants are responding.

sax WPY 130312S
S.Torrisholme Rose2-WPY060312S

[adrian young]

Some saxes in the raised beds

S.Allendale Comet WPY060312SS
S.Gregor WPY 130312 ESS
S.Mary Golds WPY130312SS