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General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: ruweiss on April 06, 2015, 08:10:39 PM
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The Alpine House is a good place to get shelter from the nasty
weather we have now - weather forecast promises spring temperatures
at Thursday.
The Drabas start flowering, while the dionysias, androsaces and primulas
are in full flower.
Androsace dasyphlla from Kyrgistan wild collected seed flowers for the first time.
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Excellent.
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wonderful collection
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Lovely display Rudi. Can you tell us more about your alpine house please. How big it is etc?
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What wonderful plants!
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Fabulous.
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wonderful - please please post more pictures
I am particularly intrigued by the frosted glass in the alpine house? - can we have an inside and outside shot?
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Dear friends, please excuse the delay in replying your friendly comments - many thanks for all.
Now to your questions:
I bought this house 25 years ago at a gardencentre, it measures approximately 370 x 250 cm
with 2 extra louvre windows for more, ventilation.
1999 we moved to our actual place, but noted very soon, that the new place was not so ideal
for the plants which prefered more cooler conditions like Calceolarias, Jankaea, most asiatic
primulas, Meconopsis etc.
The place at our former flat between 2 houses was simply more shadier and cooler.
The sun from the West side heats this small house very quick, so shading and ventilation are
quite essential, during the warm season I remove the upper row of glass panes and replace
them with mesh wire to keep away blackbirds and companions. The same is with the panes of
the doors.
Additional ventilators maintain air movement all the year, controlled by a time switch.
The house is unheated all the year, but a thermostat controlled fan heater keeps the
temperatures from falling to more than - 7°C.
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Flowering now in the Alpine House:
Anchusa caespitosa
Androsace hausmannii
Calceolaria uniflora
Clematis tenuiloba
Draba longisiliqua
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thanks Rudi - much appreciated - never considered frosted glass before but will now
You have some wonderful plants - everything I would grow if I had the time.........
the Anchusa caespitosa is quite interesting - the last one I had rooted into about half the plunge bench
please keep posting pictures
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Thank you Graeme.
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More pictures:
Calceolaria penelli 1
Calceolaria penellii.
Campanula rupicola
Leucheria deimii
Pinguicula grandiflora rosea x vallisnerifolia
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Fantastic Rudy !!!
Here Nototriche macleanii from seed ....
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More pictures:
Calceolaria penelli 1
Calceolaria penellii.
Campanula rupicola
Leucheria deimii
Pinguicula grandiflora rosea x vallisnerifolia
Lovely plants Rudi.
I was particularly taken with Leucheria deimii but when I researched it, I couldn't find it. Could you tell me where you obtained it?
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Lovely plants Rudi.
I was particularly taken with Leucheria deimii but when I researched it, I couldn't find it. Could you tell me where you obtained it?
I'm interested to learn more about this, too.
From Kew Plantlist :
Leucheria diemii Cabrera is an unresolved name
The record derives from TICA (The Global Compositae Checklist)
which does not establish this name either as an accepted name or as a synonym and as an illegitimate name (record DF3375E3-8927-49F1-9485-A43CACC8838B) with original publication details: Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botanica 11(4): 288 1969.
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Maggi, Kris and Chris,
at first take my apologies for the wrong species name of the Leucheria, it was a writing mistake by me,
of course it must be Leucheria diemii!
I ordered some wild seed raised Argentinan plants from Gerd Stopp's Nursery and beside some nice Calceolarias
this was the first other plant which flowered for me. Gerd's name for this plant was L. leontopodioides, but in the
pictures of Martin Sheader's excellent book Flowers of the Patagonian Mountains it looks more like L. diemii.
As I am just a simple amateur gardener I accepted this name but can't guarantee for it.
Kris, your Nototriche is so beautiful,and I was so sad, when I lost mine after a cold winter, maybe it was also a
cultivation mistake by me.
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I bought a plant of Pinguicula grandiflora x vallisnerifolia on ebay 18 months ago. Grows fine, a little larger than the P. grandiflora I have and darker flower. Sets seed but also have both in flower so may be back cross. I also have from NARGS seed one named as P. grandiflora 'Burren form'. Doesn't seem to be any different from my other form. Anyone else have such a named plant?
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You built a fantastic Alpine house, and the plants look lovely .... I particularly like the clematis. What are your sunken beds filled with?
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Brian, here is again the photo of my Pinguicula grandiflora rosea x vallisnerifolia. I bought it from
the Carow Nursey, specialized in Carnivorous Plants.
Corradoerina, my clay pots are plunged in river sand.
Attached are some pictures of plants flowering now for me
Pinguicula grandiflora rosea x vallisnerifolia
Calceolaria pinifolia
Calceolaria pinifolia 1
Viola kosaninii
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Rudi, your plant of Calceolaria pinifolia is superb!
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Thank you Maggi.
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Tarasa humilis
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My, great colour on the Tarasa, Michael.
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Michael, what a beautiful plant! Did you raise it from seed
and how old is it?
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A cracker Michael (good to hear from you)
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I got it as a seedling from Gerd Stopp last year.
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Campanula fragilis from the Italian Abruzzi Mts. is in full flower.
The first flower of Loasa nana on a 2 year old seedling.