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General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Magnar on June 02, 2008, 07:50:29 PM
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Some alpines from my garden this weekend:
Callianthemum kernerianum
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Callianthemum%20kernerianum%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Callianthemum%20kernerianum%2008.jpg
Oxygraphis glacialis
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Oxygraphis%20glacialis%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Oxygraphis%20glacialis%2008.jpg
Ranunculus alpestris v traunfellneri
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Ranunculus%20alpestrs%20var%20traunfellneri%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Ranunculus%20alpestrs%20var%20traunfellneri%2008.jpg
Saxifraga diapensioides
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Saxifraga%20diapensioides%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Saxifraga%20diapensioides%2008.jpg
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What a lovely selection of plants Magnar.
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Lovely indeed, especially the R. alpestris var. I bet Mr R will also like the Oxygraphis.
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I was DROOLING Lesley ... ABSOLUTELY DROOLING!!! :D
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Lovely, Magnar. Thank you.
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Magnar, that Callianthemum kernerianum is a wonderful plant
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So good to see some rarities among the alpines here Magnar,
like the Sax. and the Oxygraphis, which I never saw before.
Thank you!
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Truly wonderful pictures Magnar !
Stunning plants looking very happy where you grow them :D
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Summer has arrived even up here :)
Androsace mathildae
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Androsace%20mathildae%2008.jpg
Gentiana oschtenica
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Gentiana%20oschtenica%2008.jpg
Ranunculus parnassifolius favargeri
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Ranunculus%20parnassifolius%20favargeri%2008.jpg
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I have already seeds harvested from A. mathildae. Wonderful plants!
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Yes and they self seed very easily here.
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Magnar,
Your Ranunculaceae just keep on getting better and better! Many thanks for posting these tremendous forms.
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Some more this week:
Anemone obtusiloba f patula
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Anemone%20obtusiloba%20f%20patula%2008.jpg
Saxifraga melanocentra
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Saxifraga%20melanocentra%2008.jpg
Gentiana angustifolia
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Gentiana%20angustifolia%2008.jpg
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Magnar,
That Anemone obtusiloba f patula is a real gem.
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Magnar,
That Anemone obtusiloba f patula is a real gem.
There will be seeds in my list in the autumn :)
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Magnar, you continually impress us with the range and quality of your plants ... many thanks.
May I just comment that they all appear to grow in their own allotted space and don't seem (from the photographs) to encroach on their immediate neighbours ... is this by design or are you simply fortunate enough to have ample space to spread them out? The plants look so happy in this kind of situation.
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Magnar, you continually impress us with the range and quality of your plants ... many thanks.
May I just comment that they all appear to grow in their own allotted space and don't seem (from the photographs) to encroach on their immediate neighbours ... is this by design or are you simply fortunate enough to have ample space to spread them out? The plants look so happy in this kind of situation.
I have a fairly big property.. about 2000 square meters, and I try to keep the plants apart, but its not always possible. Some of them grow too well :) But when they get too big, I move them to another place.
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It will be a very difficult task to choose from your list Magnar !
What a series of gems once again !
Thanks so much for sharing them with us :D
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Magnar,
That Anemone obtusiloba f patula is a real gem.
There will be seeds in my list in the autumn :)
Magnar
I would hate to miss the opportunity to get seeds of this especially, but many others you have shown in this thread - can you please clarify when your list is available.
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I collect seeds of my plants all through the season and keep them cool until the harvest season is over and I have cleaned the seeds. Some time during October the seed list will be up at my web site. Depending a little on how busy I am in the autumn. This autumn I will be tavelling to do some plant talks around Sweden and Norway, so may be the list will not be there till November. But I will announce it here on the forum. The seeds are for exchange, but I also give away for the cost of postage and packing. Last year's list is still on my web site under TRADE, if yuo would like to have a look to see what seeds I usually have. But there's not much seeds left now,, I havent had time to update it.
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Some more alpines:
Caltha sagittata
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Caltha%20sagittata%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Caltha%20sagittata%2008.jpg
Oxalis enneaphylla Lady Elizabeth
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Oxalis%20enneaphylla%20Lady%20Elizabeth%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Oxalis%20enneaphylla%20Lady%20Elizabeth%2008.jpg
Phlox pulvinata
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Phlox%20pulvinata%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Phlox%20pulvinata%2008.jpg
Saxifraga stribrnyi
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Sax%20stribyrnyi%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Sax%20stribyrnyi%2008.jpg
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More alpines:
Salix reticulata
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Salix%20reticulata%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Salix%20reticulata%2008.jpg
Phlox multiflora
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Phlox%20multiflora%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Phlox%20multiflora%2008.jpg
Oxalis enneaphylla wild collected in Chile
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Oxalis%20enneaphylla%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Oxalis%20enneaphylla%2008.jpg
Saxifraga cherlioides
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Saxifraga%20cherlioides%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Saxifraga%20cherlioides%2008.jpg
Centaurea pindicola
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Centaurea%20pindicola%20%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Centaurea%20pindicola%20%2008.jpg
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Centaurea%20pindicola%20108.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Centaurea%20pindicola%20108.jpg
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Thank you again Magnar for all these gems.
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"Gems" is the right word Kristl - I agree on that point !
Wonderful selection Magnar - love thet Ploxes !
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Magnar
Please keep them coming. Your pictures and Kristl's are my daily fix. To see plants that I would love to grow in such perfect condition (Magnar) and plants that I will, in the main, never be able to grow (Kristl) is uplifting not demoralising.
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Some more .. alpines ? I think ;)
Coronilla minima
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Coronilla%20minima%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Coronilla%20minima%2008.jpg
Iris suaveolens
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Iris%20suaveolens%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Iris%20suaveolens%2008.jpg
Eriophyton wallichi after a night of rain
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Eriophyton%20wallichi%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Eriophyton%20wallichi%2008.jpg
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Magnar, thank you for this picture of Eriophyton wallichii looking so natural ! It is one of our favourite plants, such a cute furry little chap, who would not love it? 8)
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Magnar
Please keep them coming. Your pictures and Kristl's are my daily fix. To see plants that I would love to grow in such perfect condition (Magnar) and plants that I will, in the main, never be able to grow (Kristl) is uplifting not demoralising.
Art, I'm sure you grow a lot of plants that I would love to have but can't grow up here.
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From today:
Geranium nanum
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Geranium%20nanum%2008.jpg
Silene kanzeensis
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Silene%20kanzeensis%2008.jpg
Lewisia nevadensis rosea
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Lewisia%20nevadensis%20rosea%2008.jpg
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More lovlies Magnar. Your garden must be very exciting and beautiful at present. :D
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Magnar,
Glorious pics! You create such wonderfully clear pics, despite them being relatively small. I can never achieve that clarity, even with my larger pics. Maybe it is just the better plants where you live! ;D I'll join in the chorus of oohs and aaahs over your wonderful plants. Many (as is so often the case here on teh SRGC) that I've never seen before, while others are familiar. I particularly love the fuzzy one in the rain, and that delicate colouration to the Iris suavoleons, and the......... (too big a list to mention them all). Well done!!
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Ourisia poeppigi flowering for the first time in my garden :)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Ourisia%20poeppigi%20108.jpg
Calandrinia skotsbergi
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Calandrinia%20skotsbergi%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Calandrinia%20skotsbergi%2008.jpg
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2 more wonderful gems Magnar !!! :o
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I particularly liked the Calandrinia Magnar, is it likely to figure on your seed list please?
By the way having now done a bit of research on the plant I have found it as Calandrinia caespitosa var. skottsbergii (note the double 't') at http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/C/Calandrinia_caespitosa_var._skottsbergii/default.asp
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I particularly liked the Calandrinia Magnar, is it likely to figure on your seed list please?
By the way having now done a bit of research on the plant I have found it as Calandrinia caespitosa var. skottsbergii (note the double 't') at http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/C/Calandrinia_caespitosa_var._skottsbergii/default.asp
Well, I am more thrilled about the Ourisia. ;) Caladrinias are fairly easy to get hold of here.
Thank you for the correct name.. btw,, I have seen skottsbergii written in so many different ways. I thought there was only one i in the end. Carl Skottberg led the work on the Botanical Garden in Gothenburg from 1915, and was appointed professor and director of the garden.
I sure will try to collect seeds of the Calandrinia.. I do of as many species as possible.
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More pics:
Arenaria purpurascens
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Arenaria%20purpurascens%20%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Arenaria%20purpurascens%20%2008.jpg
Calceolaria uniflora
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Calceolaria%20uniflora%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Calceolaria%20uniflora%2008.jpg
Dicentra peregrina
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Dicentra%20peregrina%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Dicentra%20peregrina%2008.jpg
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I particularly liked the Calandrinia Magnar, is it likely to figure on your seed list please?
By the way having now done a bit of research on the plant I have found it as Calandrinia caespitosa var. skottsbergii (note the double 't') at http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/C/Calandrinia_caespitosa_var._skottsbergii/default.asp
..........Caladrinias are fairly easy to get hold of here.................
Rare as hen's teeth here. I've just checked the RHS Plantfinder and find listed:-
1 supplier of Calandrinia caespitosa.
1 supplier of C. grandiflora
5 suppliers of C. umbellata
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David, when I say fairly easy to find here, I mean in this part of Norway, not in the country as a whole.. We here up north are the best ;)
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You do have such tempting plants Magnar. I think the only other pic I've seen of that Ourisia was in an old AGS Bulleting and photographed in the wild. Yet another example - with the Calandrinia and so many others - of how well you Norwegians can grow the South American alpines.
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Lovely healthy Dicentra peregrina, who wouldn't love that little charmer?
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Lovely healthy Dicentra peregrina, who wouldn't love that little charmer?
It is like a jewel isn't it.
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More alpines :
Eriophyton wallichii blooming for the first time here
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Eriophyton%20wallichii%20P08.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Eriophyton%20wallichii%20P08.jpg
Sedum dumulosum
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Sedum%20dumulosum%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Sedum%20dumulosum%2008.jpg
Aethionema pulchellum
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Aethionema%20grandiflora%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Aethionema%20grandiflora%2008.jpg
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Eriophyton wallichii is exquisite, isn't it? Especially that really furry silver form. Lovely!
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It's an amazing plant, for some reason it reminds me of Bud Flanagan ;D
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Congratulations to the Eriophyton wallichii,I also tried to raise it from seed,but it quickly grew out of character and died.I fear,that my lowland climate is simply too warm for this alpine gem!
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It's an amazing plant, for some reason it reminds me of Bud Flanagan ;D
First thought.... Bless 'im, he's crazy....
second thought, on looking with Bud in mind.... Yes, it does rather.... I think it's the furry coat look, isn't it?!!! :D
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Or perhaps an abominable snowman. :) Though FAR from abominable of course.
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Perezia recurvata
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Perezia%20recurata%20108.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Perezia%20recurata%20108.jpg
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Perezia%20recurata%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Perezia%20recurata%2008.jpg
Saussurea leontodotoides, flowering for the first time in my garden. May be not spectacular, but I find it very interesting.
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Saussurea%20leotodontoides%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Saussurea%20leotodontoides%2008.jpg
Delphinium cuaucasicum, very compact form, 30cm
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Delphinium%20caucasicum%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Delphinium%20caucasicum%2008.jpg
Helichrysum sp,, can anybody please name it?
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Helichrysum%20sp%2008.jpg)
http://magnar.aspaker.no/Helichrysum%20sp%2008.jpg
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Oh, that Perezia. You are such a good grower Magnar. I don't have this now but when I did, though it grew to a good mat, I never had more than 2 or 3 flowers at any one time. It must be that Norwegian thing again. :)
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Lesley, I'm sure you are just as good a grower as I am. But I think my North-Norwegian climate suits the Perezia very well. I have two plants and they are both full of flowers now.
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Magnar I would really like to see your beautiful pictures, but after trying several times I just get one and a half picture of the Perezia.
Maybe you should load them the same way like we all do.
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I cannot see any of Magnar's latest batch of plants.
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It's an amazing plant, for some reason it reminds me of Bud Flanagan ;D
And the Calceolaria bears an uncanny resemblance to our former Prime Minister Brian Mulrooney.
johnw
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Many years ago, '63 or '64 maybe, Roy Elliott send me a delightful Christmas card, a black and white photo of 3 flowers of Calc. darwinii, with a scratched 4 point star above them and the words, cut from a page somewhere, " and behold there came from the east, 3 wise men." The flowers looked exactly like 3 nomadic arabs in traditional clothing. I still have it somewhere. Must look for it.
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Now it takes some time but at least I can see them.
Helichrysum sp,, can anybody please name it?
It looks like Helichrysum thianschanicum, which I grew long ago.
There seem to exist nice compact forms now of this plant.
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Magnar I would really like to see your beautiful pictures, but after trying several times I just get one and a half picture of the Perezia.
Maybe you should load them the same way like we all do.
I am sorry, there is again problems with the connection to the server where my web site is. I hope they will do something about it very soon.
When you say I should load them the way you all do Im not sure what you mean. I use the Insert Image Icon and then I add the link to my web site. If there is a better way, please let me know.
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Magnar what we do is uploading the pictures on this site and hence the pictures are here already. One need to make the pictures to a size of around 640 pixels wide at maximum 300kb. When the pictures are done in a rezizing program. (often the photoprogram can be used) You upload them under "additional options" "attach" and then "choose file". To have more pictures use "more attachments". Maximum of 10 pictures this way. Then all the pictures come in the end. To put them in the text like You and Lesley do check instructions.
Generally there is NOT a problem using Your way and there is no need for storing in the SRGC computers.
I were 15 minutes after Art and the pictures were slow 60 seconds but where there.
Kind regards
Joakim
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Magnar what we do is uploading the pictures on this site and hence the pictures are here already. One need to make the pictures to a size of around 640 pixels wide at maximum 300kb. When the pictures are done in a rezizing program. (often the photoprogram can be used) You upload them under "additional options" "attach" and then "choose file". To have more pictures use "more attachments". Maximum of 10 pictures this way. Then all the pictures come in the end. To put them in the text like You and Lesley do check instructions.
Generally there is NOT a problem using Your way and there is no need for storing in the SRGC computers.
I were 15 minutes after Art and the pictures were slow 60 seconds but where there.
Kind regards
Joakim
Takk, Joakim.. I never noticed "Additional options". Will give it a try later today. :) Going out now to watch the Solar eclipse.
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By coincidence I was at a talk by Martin Sheader last night on his travels amongst Argentinian volcanoes. He showed Perezia recurvata, but nowhere as good as the wonderful flowering mat shown by Magnar.
Most South American plants seem difficult to grow - is this difficult Magnar? Does it set seed for you?
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Var så god Magnar.
The "standard way! involves a bit of extra work if one have the pictures elsewhere on website already but not that much extra if one does not have the pictures elsewhere.
Magnar Your picture and what is in them might make us a bit restless to see them. They are so good that the wait is hard.
But we have the saying (in Sweden at least) "the one waiting for something good never waits too long." I am not sure if not the "never" should be changed to"always"?
Nice to see plants growing well
Kind regards
Joakim
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By coincidence I was at a talk by Martin Sheader last night on his travels amongst Argentinian volcanoes. He showed Perezia recurvata, but nowhere as good as the wonderful flowering mat shown by Magnar.
Most South American plants seem difficult to grow - is this difficult Magnar? Does it set seed for you?
Perezia recurvata is not difficult here at all. I have been growing it for sevral years. It has survived all sorts of winters,, wet, dry, cold , mild, much snow, little snow. I grow my plant is a raised gravel bed with good drainage. The plants set seeds, but they seem to germintae very poorly. A local nurseryman propagates Perezia from cuttings, and I bought my plants from him. His plants also flower very well, while another gardener here told me he had brought home cuttings from another place in South America, and the plants grown from those cuttings didn't by far flower as richly as those from the nursery. So I guess there must be individual variations.
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P. recurvata again
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Please stop, I am feeling green with envy and becoming greedy ;D ;D ;D
Gerd
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While I'm sure Magnar and other Norwegians have some special growing talents :) it may be partly the location thing. Plants from the very bottom of the world (Argentina, Patagonia) doing exceptionally at the top of the world (north Norway.) All the pics I've seen from the Tromso area in particular, of South American plants, and the relatively difficult primulas, meconopsis etc, are of outstanding specimens, superbly grown. I wish I could get to north Norway, seed of our megaherbs from the southern ocean. I'm sure they would be successfully grown there.
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Saussurea sp coll Shalui Shan, Sichuan.
Gentiana hexaphylla
Delphinium sp, grows to about 25 cm in my scree bed. Any idea which one it might be?
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Magnar
How tall is the Delphinium sp. The finely cut leaves are so much nicer than the ordinary delphinium - are you likely to have seed of this?
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Arthur,
It is about 25 cm tall, growing in the scree bed. It's flowering for the first time now, so I don't know if it will set seeds. But I will look for that later on. I got it from another alpine enthusiast and he had no name to it.
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Hi Magnar all, we also grow Perezia recurvata here in North East Scotland very well and it flowers in a trough no winter cover, we root cuttings and have several plants in the frame at the moment. I have also Perezia lanigerii which forms a very tight cushion and this can also grow outside but is not so easy to flower, I have taken some cuttings and intend to grow in a pot under cover for the winter, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Wow Magnar, that Saussurea is different.
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I lost my Perezia recurvata some time ago but do hope to replace it from seed if at all possible. I had sed of P. lanigera from SRGC or AGS 2 or 3 years ago but nothing germinated.
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I will be most happy to send you seeds, Lesley, but as I say, they do not germinate well.
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Centaurea pestalozzae,
and the Delphinium sp has opened more.
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That really is a very fine Delphinium, good colour, foliage, habit.
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It only had one flower last year. I hope it will set seeds now.
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It only had one flower last year. I hope it will set seeds now.
well, I do hope you are pretendingto be a bumblebee, then Magnar ;)
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I will be most happy to send you seeds, Lesley, but as I say, they do not germinate well.
That is very kind of you Magnar. Well worth a try, even for just one or two seedlings. It is on our "permitted" list too. :)