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Re: Troughs
« Reply #180 on: June 04, 2010, 01:19:05 PM »
hi, orostachys and dianthus erinacea...


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Re: Troughs
« Reply #181 on: June 22, 2010, 03:51:49 PM »
Trough in the garden taken during bloom time of Vitaliana and various western-american phlox.  The purple one is Phlox kelseyi "Lehmi Purple'.  Taken from below trying to be "arty".
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #182 on: June 22, 2010, 09:22:40 PM »
Chris, I'm not sure that your Dianthus erinaceus IS  that species. There is another which is often sold as erinaceus but whose foliage is finer and softer. The true plant has really painful leaves, as sharp as a hedgehog's prickles. This is the true plant. This one is a seedling from my original and darker in colour, from the ACW expecition to Turkey in 1966. Most are a softer pink.
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #183 on: June 22, 2010, 09:32:54 PM »
The picture quality is poor, being scanned from a colour print.
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #184 on: June 22, 2010, 10:12:19 PM »
lesley, thank you for showing, i was not sure yet, i had more varietys from dianthus "erinacea" i bought so  ???...
do you have seed from yours, i´m very interested about... ::)
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« Reply #185 on: June 23, 2010, 12:49:14 AM »
Chris I sometimes get seed and next time I do, you are welcome to some. Sometimes it doesn't and I think it is because it gets very dry. It flowers best if well watered in early spring. Mind you, harvesting the seed is a very painful process. :'( ::)
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #186 on: June 23, 2010, 06:18:58 AM »
Dianthus freiynii with a single flower.
A new trough is ready. Still another time - Ian's recepe was made use of.
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #187 on: June 23, 2010, 09:38:47 AM »
Very nice colour on your D. erinaceus Lesley !!   :o

Oleg, a very promising trough !  Don't forget to post a picture once it has been planted !  :D
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #188 on: June 23, 2010, 12:09:05 PM »
lesley, fine...thank you....i´m happy  ;D
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #189 on: July 19, 2010, 12:59:04 PM »
My trough 3. The same rewcipe, but new experience of mixing concrete with water at +34C.
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #190 on: August 08, 2010, 05:54:03 PM »
I have a trough that wasn't doing too well and decided it needed a complete overhaul.
So as a distraction from the weeds and tidying that needed doing elsewhere I gave it a go.

I thought I would combine trough and crevice and here is the result. I only have two plants for it at the moment; Teuchrium subspinosum and Dianthus arpadianus
I have wanted Saxifraga longifolia or 'Tumbling Waters' for many years so will probably give one of those a try. The rest will be either glaucus or silver leafed but I don't know what they will be yet.

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #191 on: August 08, 2010, 06:38:52 PM »
Oleg, how did you make your troughs?
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #192 on: August 08, 2010, 06:44:43 PM »

A new trough is ready. Still another time - Ian's recipe was made use of.


I think Oleg may be on holiday, Mark......

This is Ian's trough recipe Mark.... seek and ye shall find........ :-X

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #35 on: July 05, 2009, 08:18:14 PM »
This is my first trough finished today following Ian's instructions in Bulblog 1, 2008.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/020108/log.html
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #193 on: August 08, 2010, 06:53:46 PM »
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« Reply #194 on: August 08, 2010, 06:54:00 PM »
first place I looked http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/020108/log.html

and the second
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/170908/log.html

The last one is how I do it and will be making about 6 before I start my new job
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www.snowdropinfo.com / www.marksgardenplants.com / www.saveourswifts.co.uk

When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

 


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