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adrian young

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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #30 on: May 17, 2012, 09:54:51 AM »
At a friend's house today ... Saxifraga oppositifolia with a twenty two inch diameter. Haven't encountered anything as large or as symmetrical in the wild - and he swears he doesn't trim it.
At a friend's house today ... Saxifraga oppositifolia with a twenty two inch diameter. Haven't encountered anything as large or as symmetrical in the wild - and he swears he doesn't trim it.
I would love to see a pic of that oppositifolia in flower (job for you Cliff)
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #31 on: May 17, 2012, 11:17:37 AM »
I can't shoot them all. That's a part of my flowering collection.

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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #32 on: May 17, 2012, 11:56:24 AM »
Wonderful collection, Olga ... very impressive.
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2012, 12:33:06 PM »
I would love to see a pic of that oppositifolia in flower (job for you Cliff)

I have asked him to keep me well informed, Adrian.  I want to see it in flower nearly as much as you!!!   :D
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #34 on: May 17, 2012, 10:30:32 PM »
Nah, he's into making green crepes.
I take it the little brown spots are the has beens? It must have been very good in bloom. A question, is it easy to raise Sax oppositifolia from seed? I get a lot on my 'Ruth Draper' but even carefully sown, get very few seedlings.

Olga, that is an amazing collection. They must give you such pleasure.
« Last Edit: May 17, 2012, 10:32:18 PM by Lesley Cox »
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #35 on: May 17, 2012, 10:32:56 PM »
I have asked him to keep me well informed, Adrian.  I want to see it in flower nearly as much as you!!!   :D

Or are they buds?
« Last Edit: May 17, 2012, 11:40:34 PM by Lesley Cox »
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #36 on: May 17, 2012, 10:35:26 PM »
Or they buds?

Flowers are well past, Lesley.  The grower has never had a single self-sown seedling.
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #37 on: May 17, 2012, 11:41:54 PM »
Mmm, I though they were past flowers. I suppose any seed would fall back into the mat. RD sets lots of what seems to be good quality seed, black and with good substance, quite large for a sax.
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #38 on: May 19, 2012, 08:17:00 PM »
This is not my collection but wild growing and rather common here on the island. Not as impressive as Olga's collection though, just the everyday Saxifraga granulata.
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #39 on: May 21, 2012, 08:07:19 PM »
My silver saxifragas.
Saxifraga longifolia - self seedling.
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #40 on: May 21, 2012, 08:10:58 PM »
Stunning, Franz.
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #41 on: May 21, 2012, 08:47:57 PM »
I can't shoot them all. That's a part of my flowering collection.



Really nice collection, Olga! Are they blooming now at this moment?
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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #42 on: June 10, 2012, 04:30:38 PM »
Meant to do a day trip to Newfoundland last Monday and got marooned at the airport in dense fog until Wednesday night.  Temps werre 4-5c and extremely damp and chilly.  The season is easily a month ahead over there despite the weather.  My the mossies do well over there.  You even see them as colourful patches in folks' lawns.  Here one big patch beneath, of all places, a Norway maple in Spaniard's Bay.

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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #43 on: June 13, 2012, 09:09:52 PM »
Here is a couple of images from the botanical garden in Tromsø taken last weekend. The first one is a close-up of a group in the "Saxifraga-hill". The second is a gigantic Saxifraga marginata.

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Re: Saxifraga 2012
« Reply #44 on: July 04, 2012, 05:46:39 PM »
Saxifraga cuscutiforms. I'm a bit confused about this, in McGregor he lists it as a cultivar of S stolonifera "most commonly grown as a house plant" but it is also listed as a synonym of S stolonifera (if I've read it right).

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