Tim's saxifraga photo,s

[Tim R]

I hope to post pictures of saxifraga I see in the wild, growing in my garden, or saxifraga I see elsewhere.

A good clone of S. alpigena, growing on a tufa piece of tufa on my pond edge. This was one of my collections made in the Sabche Khola, off the Marsyandi valley, Central Nepal at an altitude of 3650m.
S. alpigena TJR 857-05

[Tim R]

A photo of several pieces of tufa on the top of my pond wall, a section of tufa was removed on the underside so the pieces sat on the wall top.
The water in the pond just touches the bottom of the overhanging tufa, it is a very successful way of growing alpines.

[Tim R]

Another saxifraga growing on the pond side tufa.
Also collected in the Sabche Khola, Nepal, 3650m.
A natural hybrid between S. alpigena x S. lowndesii, TJR 876-05

[Tim R]

Another natural hybrid this one is between S. lowndesii x S. andersonii. Once again collected in the Sabche Khola, 3650m.
On pondside tufa.
S. lowndesii x S. andersonii TJR 856-O5

[johnw]

Tim - These Nepalese are extraordinary.  S. alpiigena is particularly exsquisite.

johnw

[Yann]

Tim your tufa blocks retain humidity of your pond?

[Tim R]

Yann
The tufa blocks actually touch the water maybe 20-30mm immersed in the water, I will take a photo to show this and post it later.
Tim

[Tim R]

A shot of Saxifraga hypostoma taken on my 2001 trek to the Marsyandi valley, Nepal.
The cushion was 200mm x 150mm, growing in stablised scree at 5150m.
This is the true species which Brian Burrow, myself and a few others managed to grow for several years, it was easy from cuttings, grew well to 50mm across then died in the summer heat or in  the winter its rosettes would die a few at a time.
It was also collected in the same area by Pete Boardman and is being distributed by the Lever's.
I was talking to David Walkey at the weekend, he visited the same area in March many years ago, he said at that time of the year it was covered by more than 600mm of snow.
It has refused to flower in cultivation.
It could actually be one large plant or many smaller ones, I wasn't going to pull it to pieces to see.

Saxifraga hypostoma, below Thorung La, Nepal.

[Tim R]

Two pictures of Saxifraga longifolia taken in the Val d'Ossoue, Central Pyrenees, France, July 2010.

[Tim R]

A couple of pic's of Saxifraga cotyledon taken in 2010. Typical S. coyledon on acid cliffs and a large multi headed plant resembling S. cotyledon 'Pyramidalis', both growing in the Heas valley, near Gavarnie, Central Pyrenees, France.

[ranunculus]

Welcome Tim, superb images and sensational plants ... especially the incredible S. hypostoma.

[Tim R]

Thanks Cliff.
Saxifraga lowndesii, the picture was taken in early June 2005, growing in a wet stable scree, near water and a waterfall. The site is in the Sabche Khola a side valley off the Marsyandi valley, Central Nepal at an altitude of 3650m. The primula is probably P. tenuiloba.

Saxifraga lowndesii.

[Tim R]

Saxifraga andersonii is wide spread throughout most of Nepal, once again a picture taken by me in the Sabche Khola, Central Nepal.

[ranunculus]

You're spoiling us now,Tim.   

[Tim R]

Final pic for today.
A beautiful natural hybrid between S. andersonii and S. lowndesii. Again taken at an altitude of 3650m, in the Sabche Khola.
This is another new wild combination, it will be named Saxifraga x hongdensis and described by Jan Burgel and Tim Roberts.
Hongde is the village at the bottom of the valley.
Tim

Saxifraga x hongdensis (S. andersonii x S. lowndesii) TJR 856-05