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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #90 on: May 21, 2017, 07:46:03 PM »
Hi David,

Best thanks for correcting the names. If berries are present in the autumn we can determine this coprosma again. I got these plants from private individuals ... Now I buy almost only in UK ... ;) ;)

I also have Coprosma petriei ... she's also just blooming. In reply number 10 you see the fruits of last year. I hope this time everything is correct. ;D

A question ... is it possible that the different types of Coprosma fertilize?

Thomas

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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #91 on: May 27, 2017, 09:01:17 PM »
Today in my New Zealand bed ...

Epilobium crassum
Gaultheria parvula
Dracophyllum prostatum

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« Reply #92 on: May 27, 2017, 09:10:02 PM »
... and I am especially pleased ... after five years have waited my two specimens of Leucogenes grandiceps buds. I had almost no more hope ...

L. leontopodium blooms every year.  The other two species also develop very well.  :)

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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #93 on: May 29, 2017, 09:26:10 PM »
Hebe buchananii var. minor
Hebe amstrongii
Geranium brevicaule
Luzula ulophylla

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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #94 on: June 04, 2017, 09:18:32 AM »
Hello, David,

 I has once again a question to you.

I have an Acaena and am not sure whether it A. saccaticula is. The foliage looks thus. The plant would be found by my friends with an excursion in 2000... The Remarkables, to the east of a parking bay, 1650 metres about sea level. However, the plant has very long desires / branches... much longer than with A. saccaticupala and A. caesiiglauca. Is able to do it also a form from A. inermis HOOK.?

I would be glad very much about a correction or confirmation  of you.

Many thanks and the best greetings
Thomas
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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #95 on: June 04, 2017, 12:52:52 PM »
Hello, David,

 I has once again a question to you.

I have an Acaena and am not sure whether it A. saccaticula is. The foliage looks thus. The plant would be found by my friends with an excursion in 2000... The Remarkables, to the east of a parking bay, 1650 metres about sea level. However, the plant has very long desires / branches... much longer than with A. saccaticupala and A. caesiiglauca. Is able to do it also a form from A. inermis HOOK.?

I would be glad very much about a correction or confirmation  of you.

Many thanks and the best greetings
Thomas
Hello Thomas,

Yes, your plant is Acaena saccaticupula. The fruiting heads have barbed spines and will stick to your clothing. It is common in the alpine zone and I would expect to find it on the Remarkables. A. inermis usually does not have spines. Here are two examples one from the Mavora Lakes and the other from the Old Man Range where it is growing with Wahlenbergia albomarginata.
David Lyttle
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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #96 on: June 05, 2017, 07:13:40 AM »
Hi Thomas

Beautiful plants as usual ;)
How do you consider Luzula ulophylla? I'm still not sure if it is really frost-resistant, short lived or if I just don't give it the right conditions. I must always think about renewing the plants I have by sowing them constantly every year.
I'm trying different locations in the rockbed, but let's say that from 10 adult flowering plants during one summer, I probably only manage to keep one or two for the following season.
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Annual precip:200/250cm,3.5°C mean annual temp.

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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #97 on: June 05, 2017, 08:02:04 PM »
Hello, David,

 many thanks for the confirmation. This picture of Wahlenbergia albomarginata is especially nice. I get to know always new plants by your photos.

 Thanks for it.

 Greeting Thomas

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« Reply #98 on: June 05, 2017, 08:22:55 PM »
Hello, Philippe,

 Luzulla ulophylla is absolutely sure about frost with me. I plant straight also between Raoulia and Scleranthus uniflorus... around an interesting natural structuralisation to achieve. I may grow into one another it if the mats. So nicely as on the photos of David it is not. But I leave some areas to himself. Picture 1. The nature is the best designer. The other photos show some examples of L. ulophylla... Maybe it may if it is a little more humid.

 I will collect anyway seed for you.

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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #99 on: June 06, 2017, 12:31:47 PM »
Even grass-like plants are beautiful within cushions and other carpeting species in NZ ;)
I have sown quite a lot of Luzula ulophylla last fall. It's sprouting very nicely right now. I can now go on with my dispatching task around the rockbed.
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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #100 on: June 11, 2017, 06:57:49 AM »
 

I have an Acaena The plant would be found by my friends with an excursion in 2000... The Remarkables, to the east of a parking bay, 1650 metres about sea level.
Thomas

You certainly grew the NZ alpines well Thomas.

Thought you might be interested in this 'average ' picture I took a few years back of large patches of Acaena growing northeast below one of the parking bays on the Remarkables. I took the photo looking up as so to avoid including the numerous vehicles a few metres away on the flat area just above.
Dave Toole. Invercargill bottom of the South Island New Zealand. Zone 9 maritime climate 1100mm rainfall pa.

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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #101 on: June 11, 2017, 07:50:28 AM »
Hello, Dave,

 it pleases me very much to see this nice photo. Maybe this is even the mothers plant of my copy. I am always enthusiastically from the great photos and am glad about other pictures. I hope I can experience this nice scenery once live... in five years I become 50 years old and would like to give myself a trip on the south island. This is my biggest wish.  :)

Thomas

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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #102 on: June 15, 2017, 09:13:57 PM »
Today I was once again in the Arctic alpine garden in Chemnitz... has been worthwhile. ;D

Celmisia spedenii
Helichrysum bellidioides

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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #103 on: June 16, 2017, 09:13:20 AM »
Hello Thomas,

It is good to see NZ plants growing so well so far from home.

An update on a name Helichrysum bellidioides is now known as Anaphalioides bellidioides
David Lyttle
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Re: alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand
« Reply #104 on: June 16, 2017, 10:21:42 AM »
Hello, David,

we are to be set up anxiously these brilliant plants in the garden. But as nicely as on your photo they are not. The nature is always the number one. Maybe are fulfilled my dream and I can see this nice scenery once.

Many thanks for the new name. I will say it my friends of the Arctic alpine garden.

Thomas

 


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