Saxifraga 2013

[Leiomerus]

Some Saxes start to flower, but much, much too early.

1/ for instance, Saxifraga 'Antonio Vivaldi' started to flower TWO months later last year.
2/ Saxifraga 'Allendale Billows' is always an early bird, but not that early.

Many others are full of buds, and now it starts freezing.....

[David Nicholson]

I recently bought a parcel of plants from Gerd Stopp in Germany and included with them were two Saxes I know nothing at all about:-

Saxifraga candelabrum
S. presolanensis

I would really like some growing tips please. Also included was S. kusnezowiana which I think is a Kabshcia type, would this be better in a pot or could I risk it in a trough please.

[Maggi Young]

Well, I can tell you what is said about them in Malcolm McG's book : 
S. candelabrum  is in the section Rosulares. Stems 5- 38cm  up to 30 flowers leaves 6 x 1.4cm
petals 6.1 x 3.1mm flowers yellow with orange-red or purple spots     2000 to 4200m  in Sichuan, Yunnan


S. presolanensis Subsection Holophyllae, series Sedoides . Somewhat intermediate between series Muscoidieae because of the foliage, and series Sedoides, because of the inlorescence and flowers.
 From a small aea  to the north of Lake Iseo in northern Italy. Off-white flowers often marked greeny-yellow. Leaves 1.0x0.25cm Flower stem 6 to 10cm 2 to 8 flowers with notched petals 4 x 1.25 mm

S. kusnezowianum is a Kabschia type. Also known as S. juniperifolia. Spiny, glossy leaves to 13x2.5mm
   7 to 12 Yellow flowers( petals  to 6 x 3mm ) in dense head,  stamens and styles prominently exerted.. Flower stems hairy, to 4cm .  Caucasus, northeast Turkey, Bulgaria

That any help?

[David Nicholson]

Yeh, thanks for that Maggi. I have the book but lent it out and can't for the life of me remember who to

[Gert Hoek]

I recently bought a parcel of plants from Gerd Stopp in Germany and included with them were two Saxes I know nothing at all about:-

Saxifraga candelabrum
S. presolanensis

I would really like some growing tips please. Also included was S. kusnezowiana which I think is a Kabshcia type, would this be better in a pot or could I risk it in a trough please.

Hello David,

I have those plants, I grow the first two in a pot and the kusnezowiana grows in a tufa rock.
S. candelabrum and S. presolanesis are sensitive and I keep them in a pot with permanent raincover, from the last I have a few cuttings and will try it in a tufa rock too.


By the way, this is the website from Bart Moerland, a friend of my, who has a specialised Saxifraga nursery, he has a website too and you can find information about many Saxifraga's.

http://www.alpigena-saxifrages.nl

[David Nicholson]

Gert, many thanks indeed for the growing information, and thank you too for details of Bart's Web Site which I shall take a look at later.

[ChrisB]

Saxifraga 'Sissi' just bought at Discussion Weekend last year, now in one of my sinks

[Leiomerus]

'Sissi' is a very beautiful Sax. but I'm surprised that it flowers now already.
Here it has started freezing again, so the buds have to wait for a better time to open.

[David Nicholson]

Saxifraga 'Sissi' just bought at Discussion Weekend last year, now in one of my sinks

Very pretty Chris.

[Michael J Campbell]

Saxifraga Sissi
Saxifraga Allendale Jin
Saxifraga Coolock Gem
Saxifraga Godiva (x gloriana)
Saxifraga Peter Burrow

[Michael J Campbell]

Saxifraga ? Label lost.
Saxifraga? label lost
Sax in raised bed

[Gert Hoek]

A few pictures of yesterday, now we have snow.

Saxifraga burseriana 'Major'
Saxifraga unguipetala, some discussion about this plant/name, but I keep it under this name till ......
Saxifraga lowndesi -GS11-,  a species from the Himalaya, not always easy, but now lots af flower (buds).

[hadacekf]

Super plants and pics.
Saxifraga oppositifolia

[Gert Hoek]

Two Saxifraga oppositifolia in flower, the first is the earliest flowering 'Ecrins form' and the second is my own clon 'Col du Pourtalet 1'.
Collected on the Col du Pourtalet in the Pyrenees, I found 3 forms, and this is best flowering form.

[Gert Hoek]

After a period with frost and no snow the Saxifrages look fine:
Saxifraga sp. SEP 45
Saxifraga sp. SEP 164
Growing in a trough with a little more peat.