Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: ruweiss on April 04, 2019, 09:42:04 PM
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A look into the Alpine House:
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More pictures
The stones with the holes were the waste of a stonemason and the plants enjoy the situation. I place them
from late autumn to early spring in the house to protect them from excess rain.
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Hello Rudi
Great plants... congratulations.
I see that T. sapathulata shows flowering beginnings. For that I envy you.
Also Paraquilegia looks very good.
I am looking forward to more pictures of you
Thomas
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Lovely plants Rudi, and very artfully placed.
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Thomas and David, thank you.
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Now flowering:
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Great plants... Rudi.
My admiration.
By chance I have rediscovered Androsace for myself recently. Today I had the opportunity to buy some on the stock exchange of the Zwickauer association. I find Androsace albana particularly attractive (thanks Mike 😊).
To your T.condensata only one word occurs to me...unique. 👍
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vandelii is not easy to maintain underglass, do you grow it outside?
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That Townsendia is just gorgeous 😋
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Super nice plants Rudi!
Those holed stones looked great for growing more difficult alpines.
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Great plants... Rudi.
My admiration.
By chance I have rediscovered Androsace for myself recently. Today I had the opportunity to buy some on the stock exchange of the Zwickauer association. I find Androsace albana particularly attractive (thanks Mike 😊).
To your T.condensata only one word occurs to me...unique. 👍
Thanks for posting the Androsace Thomas! Just the other day I was looking at an Androsace rosette in my mini-rockery and couldn't remember which one it was (label planted deep in the ground, don't like to see them). The rosette is attractive in itself.
Androsace albana
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How right you are... Gabriela. Already the rosette is very worth seeing. That is exactly my philosophy...many plants of the high mountains have a beautiful shape and structure of the foliage. Sometimes one recognizes this only with closer consideration...see appendix.
Your copy of A. albana looks fantastic in the chippings. I hope I can look forward to more such beautiful pictures.
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Dear friends, thank you all for the friendly comments. Yann, I cultivate most of my Androsaces in the Alpine House,
they don`t like the conditions in my hot garden and it is also too much work to cover them against too much moisture
in winter. I also like Androsace albana. Many rockgardeners don`t like it so much because it is mostly monocarpic,
but easy to raise from sed.
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How right you are... Gabriela. Already the rosette is very worth seeing. That is exactly my philosophy...many plants of the high mountains have a beautiful shape and structure of the foliage. Sometimes one recognizes this only with closer consideration...see appendix.
Your copy of A. albana looks fantastic in the chippings. I hope I can look forward to more such beautiful pictures.
Precisely Thomas, the foliage is the one that lasts after all, flowers are temporary :) Your new Androsace pictures also show exquisite foliage texture.
I like Androsace and tried to cultivate other species but they usually 'melt' away in a couple of years because of the humid summers. Plus, I am not committed enough to growing alpines, as you may know I 'butterfly' over many other species.
Two others that are easy and probably anyone could grow were looking nice under the late afternoon crisp sun:
Androsace villosa ssp. taurica (grown from seeds from a Crimean accession)
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Androsace studiosorum
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Dear friends, thank you all for the friendly comments. Yann, I cultivate most of my Androsaces in the Alpine House,
they don`t like the conditions in my hot garden and it is also too much work to cover them against too much moisture
in winter. I also like Androsace albana. Many rockgardeners don`t like it so much because it is mostly monocarpic,
but easy to raise from sed.
I am looking fwd to see mine in flower Rudi.
I grew it from seeds on purpose knowing that it is monocarpic. I figured that I'll enjoy the rosette for a couple of years, some flowers and then I won't regret losing it, the same it happened with other Androsace I tried.
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Another monocarpic Androsace that is very worthwhile growing is Androsace bulleyana.
Each plant produces a single rather Succulent-looking basal rosette resembling a small Sempervivum (sorry, I don’t have a photograph of the foliage), whilst the flowers are bright red on an umbel.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7379/27192008295_3e01df76bf_o_d.jpg)
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Show Star Sue Simpson Watt has the good fortune to have a tufa wall in her alpine house - here are a couple of pictures of how it looks at the moment ... (Pinched the pix from Facebook! :-[ )
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Lovely.
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Incredibly majestic...
I see Paraquilegia in full bloom?
I like to repeat myself... forget F...book. Here the music plays! 😄😄
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Another monocarpic Androsace that is very worthwhile growing is Androsace bulleyana.
Steve - I left some plants grown from seed under the bench and grew them on very slowly for 3 years - no feed, nothing - they then flowered but some of the plants did make it a couple of years after that - did not fair that well once they were on the bench - the rosettes filled a 11*11*12
So it would appear to be stop them flowering and they may survive first flowering
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Steve - I left some plants grown from seed under the bench and grew them on very slowly for 3 years - no feed, nothing - they then flowered but some of the plants did make it a couple of years after that - did not fair that well once they were on the bench - the rosettes filled a 11*11*12
So it would appear to be stop them flowering and they may survive first flowering
Thanks Graeme. It’s well worth a try.
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Another monocarpic Androsace that is very worthwhile growing is Androsace bulleyana.
Each plant produces a single rather Succulent-looking basal rosette resembling a small Sempervivum (sorry, I don’t have a photograph of the foliage), whilst the flowers are bright red on an umbel.
Yes, that's another beauty :) I asked for seeds one year from a seedex but don't remember growing it so probably I lost it in the seedling stage.
I must ask for it again!
SHow Str Sue Simpson Watt has the good fortune to have a tufa wall in her alpine house - here are a couple of pictures of how it looks at the moment ... (Pinched the pix from Facebook! :-[ )
Stunning!
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Since I don't own an alpine house, I am forced to experiment. This Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardagensis has survived outside for three years. Only a permanent cover was sufficient so far. ;D
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That is really very nice Thomas.
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That is really very nice Thomas.
Thank you, David. I am fascinated by the drought-loving alpine plants. I have never watered this plant before. I suppose that this diva lives only from air and love...both she gets enough of. 😁
Beautiful Easter...
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lovely Veronica Thomas. I have the same plant and hope to get some flowers soon.
I don't have an alpine house also. All my plants are outside in the rock garden. The soil is mostly sandy loam with good drainage .
Here are some pictures taken this week.
1.Draba polytricha
2. Townsendia colony
3. Townsendia leptotess
4.Townsendia sp
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next ones
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Fantastic...Krish.👍
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:) :) :) :) :)
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Well grown Kris