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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #30 on: March 03, 2011, 09:03:07 PM »
Quote from: Katherine J on March 03, 2011, 10:52:09 AM
How I envy you guys up there in that mild climate and early and long spring!

Alpinelover (or Frankie?) do you feed artificially your beautiful plants in tufa, or just let it to their own devices? I will try now some Sax. federici-augustii ssp. grisebachii seedlings (SRGC seeds). They are just one-rosette plants yet.

They all say Frankie and i love alpines.
I do not give any feed, Katherine. They like tufa a lot. And those smal, young rosettes are ideal for starting in a tufarock. Good luck!
Is it still winter in Hungary?
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #31 on: March 03, 2011, 09:18:22 PM »
Some saxifrages on a tufarock today:

S. x boydi 'Faldonside' (photo 1 and 2) with nice big pale yellow flowers.
S. 'Peach Blossum' (photo 3 and 4)
S. burseriana form ‘Seissera’  (photo 5 and 6)

And a sax growing on a well drained soil:

A unknown cultivar, probably a apiculata hybrid. (photo 7)



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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #32 on: March 04, 2011, 07:57:50 AM »
Quote from: alpinelover on March 03, 2011, 09:03:07 PM
Is it still winter in Hungary?

Here it is how it looked yesterday morning:
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #33 on: March 04, 2011, 08:00:59 AM »
Here is my early bird. I bought it under the name of Saxifraga x elisabethae in Slovakia.
Last two years it had only 2-3 flowers, last summer I gave it dilute fertilizer with much K. But this is not tufa rock...
Now it will have much more flowers  :)

« Last Edit: March 04, 2011, 11:23:18 AM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #34 on: March 04, 2011, 08:03:27 AM »
Sorry, the picture was damaged, I had to download it again from my camera.
Here it is.
« Last Edit: March 04, 2011, 08:23:59 AM by Katherine J »
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #35 on: March 04, 2011, 11:26:45 AM »
The Sax. is growing well now, Kata. All that cold wetaher must be keeping it healthy!!

As we are beginning to get much better weather here it is quite a shock to see your cold snowy photo  :o

In the next issue of IRG  (International Rock Gardener) we will all be able to be cheered by an photo essay from Kata and her husband Ferenc on some of their favourite plant combinations in nature's own rock gardens in the European mountains.  8) :) :)
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #36 on: March 04, 2011, 11:42:12 AM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on March 04, 2011, 11:26:45 AM
As we are beginning to get much better weather here it is quite a shock to see your cold snowy photo  :o

Don't panic, it's almost gone by now.  ;D
But we will have another dose in the weekend, according to forecasts... :-\
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #37 on: March 04, 2011, 12:25:36 PM »
My sax's are starting to flower already too....

Sax 'Dawn Frost'

Sax 'Peach Melba'

Sax xirvingii 'Jenkinsiae'
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #38 on: March 06, 2011, 08:44:53 PM »
They look great, Christine, I have some more: Saxifraga stribrnyi (photo 1) and Saxifraga ‘Feuerworks’ (photo 2), both on a tufarock.
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2011, 09:52:48 PM »
With all these tufa grown beauties I thought I'd bring your attention to a pot grown Farrer Medal winner for Mark Childerhouse at the Loughborough AGS Show om 5th March.... picture by Peter Maquire here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6833.msg190716#msg190716

 It is Saxifraga  'Mary Golds'
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #40 on: March 07, 2011, 08:30:23 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on March 06, 2011, 09:52:48 PM
With all these tufa grown beauties I thought I'd bring your attention to a pot grown Farrer Medal winner for Mark Childerhouse at the Loughborough AGS Show om 5th March.... picture by Peter Maquire here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6833.msg190716#msg190716

 It is Saxifraga  'Mary Golds'

Oh yes, Maggi, she's a price  worth. It's a very good cultivar with every years a mass of flowers.
Today, two more, Saxifraga 'Petra' (photo 1) and Saxifraga 'Theresa Cooper' (photo 2)
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #41 on: March 07, 2011, 08:46:10 PM »
My Sax. Your Song is brilliant and the only one that likes me and my garden. All others struggle because of moss.
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #42 on: March 07, 2011, 09:06:29 PM »
In spite of frosty nights (down to -6°C) more and more Porophyllum Saxifrages
show their flowers in the open frame.
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #43 on: March 08, 2011, 06:49:43 PM »
Lovely pics everyone, keep em coming!
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #44 on: March 12, 2011, 10:52:03 PM »
Another time S. 'Roklan' with a mass of flowers. (photo 1)
S. 'Vincent Van Gogh' (photo 2)
S. 'Gregor' (photo 3)
S. 'Bohemian Karst' (photo 4) with a nice red colour. (photo 4)
S. marginata (photo 5)



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