Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Saxifraga => Topic started by: alpinelover on October 26, 2010, 08:57:37 PM
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Saxifrages has very nice flowers, we all do now that. Butt I admire the rozettes and the cushions also. These plants are eyecathers the hole year.
The first photo is a S. juniperifolia.
The second one is a S. 'Roklan'.
S. 'Arabella' is the thirth one.
The plant on the fourth photo is S. 'Cranbourne', an old classic saxifraga.
The last photo shows a pan with different porphyrionsaxifrages out the floweringseason. Butt even then, it's a delight to see.
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Saxifrages has very nice flowers, we all do now that. Butt I admire the rozettes and the cushions also. These plants are eyecathers the hole year.
The first photo is a S. juniperifolia.
The second one is a S. 'Roklan'.
S. 'Arabella' is the thirth one.
The plant on the fourth photo is S. 'Cranbourne', an old classic saxifraga.
The last photo shows a pan with different porphyrionsaxifrages out the floweringseason. Butt even then, it's a delight to see.
you are right, they look great--i esp like the juniperifolia foliage, and similar upper right in the group planting
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I'm jealous. I cant keep that kind of Sax alive :'(
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They're difficult here too Mark mainly because among all the "ordinary" summer days when we can shade them and water them to keep them cool, we have a nor'wester-type day with a wind like off the Sahara desert and no amount of cooling will save the porophyllum saxes. They simply die from heat and drying and they do it so quickly, before we've realized they really need refrigeration. Not the easiest when they're in a large tough. I love them all but really struggle to keep them happy and we have lost so many here in recent years, never to be replaced.
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Mark , just read that you celebrated your 50th. -many happy belated Birthday Wishes . I join all the others : you do not look your age . Some 3 years ago in Praghue I asked you what rejuvenating beauty potions you were using on your face -but did not get an answer.
I'm amazed that you find the Porphyrion ( Kabschia) Saxifragas difficult in your climate . They grow reasonably well here ( the few Hyb. and species we have here in Australia) , even though we have a few summer days when the temperature reaches 40 degrees .
Sax. poluniana was particularly lovely this spring .
Lesley , with your cooler climate in Duneden , I thought you would be more successful with these Saxes than we here in the Dandenongs . Tomorrow (Sat.) Ian and Ann Christie will be up here , Ian to give a lecture to Ferny Creek Hort. Soc. in the afternoon,
and lunch at my home .
Otto.
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I think Dunedin generally is OK for them Otto but remember that my place is very warm and horribly dry for around 6 months.
You'd better have a look at the "Garden Benches" thread. :D
Give my kindest regards please to Ian and Ann. I think I may miss them here though I believe they will see Susan and David L.
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They're difficult here too Mark mainly because among all the "ordinary" summer days when we can shade them and water them to keep them cool, we have a nor'wester-type day with a wind like off the Sahara desert and no amount of cooling will save the porophyllum saxes. They simply die from heat and drying and they do it so quickly, before we've realized they really need refrigeration. Not the easiest when they're in a large tough. I love them all but really struggle to keep them happy and we have lost so many here in recent years, never to be replaced.
You're right, Lesley. They do not like of drought and heat. Here in Belgium it is usually not a problem. We usually have rather cool and humid summers here. However, if we have a long hot period some may already have problems.
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Not exactly a cushion, certainly not now!
This is all I can see of my roof grown saxes today!
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Not exactly a cushion, certainly not now!
This is all I can see of my roof grown saxes today!
Looks familiar to me .Stil a lot of snow and all the alpines covered with a blanket...
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One of the highlights of my trip to Kazakhstan last September was finding Saxifraga albertii, the only Porophyllum that grew in the Tian Shan where we travelled, growing far above treeline (a single small specimen) but then again below treeline on a harsh, gravelly riverbed on the steppes! The picture was taken at the edge of the Djabagly Nature reserve, actually on the Kirghizstan side of the river separating the two nations (we crossed illegally!): it was such a surprise to find a magnificent cushion nearly 30cm across on gravel, at such a low elevation! We did get quite a bit of seed. I would love to see it in white bloom in the spring!
The last picture shows the highest peak in Kirghiztan, not far from where I photographed the saxifrage: it is apparently very popular with climbers: the day was a bit overcast, and I had to zoom in a bit to get the shot...the peak is about 5000m: the Tian Shan are truly awe-inspiring mountains!
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That was some real cushions, though!
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A few more cushions, anyone?
1) Saxifraga bronchialis in the eastern slope Rockies;
2) Saxifraga sancta var. macedonica - very undemanding here;
3, 4) Saxifraga paniculata var. minutifolia 'Red-backed Spider'(?) in bud and in bloom. (This is probably a questionable cultivar name, as I've never found any reference to it.)
5) Saxifraga caespitosa, eastern slope Rockies.
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Nice cushions, Lori! Have you ever tried them as pillows ;D?
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No, for comfort, I prefer this sort of cushion but it wouldn't do near so well outdoors... ;)
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nice to see the natives, lori; i haven't seen them, or not that i was able to identify at least..
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No, for comfort, I prefer this sort of cushion but it wouldn't do near so well outdoors... ;)
Nice embroidery, Lori, your handiwork?
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Thanks, Trond! No, it is my sister's work. I don't do anything clever or useful... other than going to work, I guess. ;D
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Thanks, Trond! No, it is my sister's work. I don't do anything clever or useful... other than going to work, I guess. ;D
You do! You garden!
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One of the highlights of my trip to Kazakhstan last September was finding Saxifraga albertii, the only Porophyllum that grew in the Tian Shan where we travelled, growing far above treeline (a single small specimen) but then again below treeline on a harsh, gravelly riverbed on the steppes! The picture was taken at the edge of the Djabagly Nature reserve, actually on the Kirghizstan side of the river separating the two nations (we crossed illegally!): it was such a surprise to find a magnificent cushion nearly 30cm across on gravel, at such a low elevation! We did get quite a bit of seed. I would love to see it in white bloom in the spring!
The last picture shows the highest peak in Kirghiztan, not far from where I photographed the saxifrage: it is apparently very popular with climbers: the day was a bit overcast, and I had to zoom in a bit to get the shot...the peak is about 5000m: the Tian Shan are truly awe-inspiring mountains!
That is most certainly a beautiful cushion. :o
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Not exactly a cushion, certainly not now!
This is all I can see of my roof grown saxes today!
Here in Belgium, near the coast, the snow is gone for a week. Some flower buds already showing. Soon it starts again. :D
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Oops, i forgot the photo.
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On a tufarock, the cushions are even more compact. Saxifraga stribrnyi on the first photograph stands on a tufarock, the plant on the second picture stands in the soil of the rock garden. By the first plant the rosettes are closer together. Also, the color of the rosettes is more intense. Tufa and Saxifrages are born for each other.
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I did forgot them again. >:(
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Very nice, alpinelover!
My cushions are not so tight and compact neither with nor without snow! Too much shade where I grow them. (The snow has disappeared from the cushions now.)
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The first of your two pictures is just what we should aspire to Alpinelover. I've recently planted out some seedlings of S. stribrynii in a trough and they are more the green shade. I have no tufa available but will add some pumice and see what happens.
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Love your cusion, Lori - the best kind for the winter.