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Title: Suitable for troughs?
Post by: mark smyth on April 16, 2011, 11:44:13 AM: I have alpines sitting around in their original pots for 5 months to a year :o Are any of these suitable for troughs either limestone or gritty soil or on the rockery? Original labels replaced ::)

Hypericum cerastioides
Geum pentapetalum
Helianthemum canum ssp balcanicum
Helianthemum lunulatum
veronica caespitosa ssp caespitosa
Spiea japnica Bullata
Achillea clavennae
Forsythia viridissima Webers Bronx
Allium senescens ssp montanum
Title: Re: Suitable for troughs?
Post by: JohnnyD on April 16, 2011, 02:18:22 PM: I have to say Mark that we too leave plants in pots for protracted periods when it is absolutely certain they be better in a trough.
For small plants - such as we order from Gerd Stopp - I find Tesco mushroom boxes ideal as a first step.
I haven't looked at each of the plants you list but I would say they could live happily together in a reasonable size trough.
Plants generally like company, and with a fairly gritty general compost they would certainly thrive together.
You do realise I hope that, as soon as you have despatched them to a trough, you will immediately stock up on more pots and generate the same problem all over again! ;D
Best of Luck,
JohnnyD
Title: Re: Suitable for troughs?
Post by: mark smyth on April 16, 2011, 03:25:36 PM: I sent an order to Gerd Stopp and had no reply
Title: Re: Suitable for troughs?
Post by: Ulla Hansson on April 16, 2011, 04:29:16 PM: Mark, I have sent after plants from Gerd Stop several times. He has never responded to the order, but he sends the plants directly His plants are small, but in good health. He is amazing at packing plants. It must take a lot of time.
Title: Re: Suitable for troughs?
Post by: mark smyth on April 16, 2011, 06:18:29 PM: Maybe someone can say again how to get plants from him
Title: Re: Suitable for troughs?
Post by: David Nicholson on April 16, 2011, 06:58:09 PM: Quote from: mark smyth on April 16, 2011, 06:18:29 PM
Maybe someone can say again how to get plants from him

Mark, I have Gerd Stopp's spring list and I'm not ordering this year. If you PM me your address I'll pop it in the post for you. My scanner is not very good.
Title: Re: Suitable for troughs?
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 17, 2011, 12:20:34 AM: Hypericum cerastioides is flat and lovely but will get way too wide. Yes, for the Veronica. The Spiraea, Achillea and Forsythia, no, no, no. Don't know the others. Maybe the fist Helianthemum would be OK. Depends on the size of the trough.
Title: Re: Suitable for troughs?
Post by: John85 on April 18, 2011, 09:29:46 AM: Hi Mark
My allium senescens ssp montanum is in my raised bed but it is small enough to be grown in a trough.(foliage:h4'' w8'')
Have you seen the parent plant of forsythia W.Bronx.Did it flower well?I had such a poor flowering plant that I didn't keep it.But perhaps it was a bad form.