Hello Everybody...i like alpines plants and i am french !

[Yann]

Gonna go to Arras in june....Cypripedium buds are spreading for a 2 weeks now in the garden, and flowers started to shine in the greenhouse since monday.

[Botanica]

Hello Yann

I planned to go to Arras (in june) for plant exposition and exchange of SAJA.
I hope i could meet you in Arras and we could exchange some plants ? .. i prepare my list for exchange.
Don't forget the Sarracenia  you promise to me !

Could you share some photos of cypri growing ?..I am CypriAddict 

Look the good grow of my cypripedium this year (again!) ..i hope to have good flowering

[Botanica]

New buds of cypripedium






Arisaema





Some news of project germination 2013 ....good news.





About 60 pots germinated well and i hope other come in some days !

Thanks for seed donator and exchange ..Remind me for the 2014 collected seed because i continue the projet next year.
I hope i have many seed for exchange and SRGC exchange ! 

Have a good day.

[Botanica]

New flowering of cypripediums this week 










Ramonda myconi



Aconitum napellus



Cardiocrinum giganteum



Camassia leichtlinii

[Maggi Young]

This is a wonderful time of year, with so much coming into flower.

[Botanica]

Thank for comment Maggi Young 

I have many plants who flowering but weather is hard and raining so much in my area 

Geranium phaeum


Allium ursinum


Centaurea montana (from seeding  )


Aquilegia hybrids



Germination Batch of the 2013 project...I hope i could continue the project next year so ..if you've some seed to recolted for me and the project ..that so cool !

Look that 

[Botanica]

Hello,

I start a new garden season with many new seeding.

I want to continue during the season and next year ...
So, i need you participation and exchange to increase the biodiversity of my Botanica(l) Garden and share with everybody (and everywhere) the pictures , seeds produced , and some plants with local members 



I recycle many fungi batch (blue one,  from Holland  ) and some plastic pots and i try too make my natural compost.

Have a great day in your garden

[Botanica]

Hello

June is coming and suneshine too !!

The temperature was 28°c but this day an Half !!

It's good for plant because too hot and no raining days .

Last cypripediums of this season

Cypripedium californicum





Cypripedium tibeticum 




Encore quelques Cypripediums pubescens..les derniers









New plants on the Botanica(l) Garden in Ardennes with new seedling .





Somes results


Primula alpicola


Polemonium pauciflorum Sulphur Trumpets






Iris setosa



The first germination adventure look good, i hope you could help me for the next year .

The chlidren have no flower to see in the first season, but other plants was in flowering in the garden.

The first step was discovering ..the seed...the potting...the germination "young" plant.. the growing .

They could discovering different type of seed, type of germination , type of leaf and growing.

[Botanica]

New germinations now ! The adventure continue







New plants before the SAJA exchange

[Yann]

Nice babies 

[Botanica]

Yes Yann, nice babies....and i hope so they could grow very much for the next year.

Your Sarracenia are very nice and return to my Garden near a water area...They grow well with new buds !


A very cool video to creating Rock Garden

8 minutes video !
http://www.gardeningdatafiles.com/preparing-a-rock-garden

And this one, with incorpored plants in the rock garden !....So cool !
http://www.wrightmanalpines.com/archive/5/201301


I have a project to build a rock like that !!..I organize that to make that in 2014..

[Botanica]

Next step of seeding in "Germination project 2013"....



Glaucium flavum


Dianthus 'La Bourboule '


Sauge sclarée 'alba'



Dodecatheon frigidum



Digitalis lanata



Diverses espèces de saliva (en provenance de chez Bella77)



Primula burmanica



Meconopsis grandis aff. purple


Codonopsis grandifolium




penstemon smallii





polemonium pauciflorum



Primunia iossea



What do you think about that ..not so bad for a first batch  of seeding for my  "Germination project 2013" ??

I would to thank's every donors of seed who help me to collected some alpines seeds everywhere in the world !!

Have fun in your Garden

[zvone]

 Vau!

Congratulations!

Still forward successfully.

Best Regadrs!  zvone

[Botanica]

Thank's Zvone

I've a rest of germination !





And others was in the Garden, it's difficult with the sunshine since two month and no more raining days !

Don't remember if you could collect seed for me in you garden or you're trip

[Botanica]

Hello everybody !

I come back from Holiday in Alpes with new pictures.

Look that view ..so nice !



In late August and start of September the Swertia perennis was growing, it's my first meet with this plant





Parnassia palustris


Astrancia major


A newest identification, Saxifraga caesia


Leontopodium alpinum


Ranunculus glacialis (red form! )





Gentiana punctuata


Some other pictures coming soon !

Notice : I have collected some seeds for the germination project  2014 from the Botanica Garden, some from wild collected or friends exchanges.
I conserved some species for SRGC seed collect , but some species could be available for exchange with SRGC Members .
So, if your have some seed for exchange and if you would participated to the 2014 Germination project , you could MP me .

Have a good day in the Garden !