Alpines July 2012

[Michael J Campbell]

Trachelium asperuloides

[RickR]

 

Any scent?

[Michael J Campbell]

Don't know, I never smell plants, if the perfume is not obvious I never notice. Hospital appointment tomorrow so will check on Thursday.

[Hoy]

Michael, do you turn your plants around to get light from all sides? Your plants looks sp perfect!

[Michael J Campbell]

Yes, all plants are turned once a week.

[Lori S.]

WOW!  Spectacular!

[Todd Boland]

Impressive to say the least!

[McDonough]

Don't know, I never smell plants, if the perfume is not obvious I never notice. Hospital appointment tomorrow so will check on Thursday.

My first instinct with plants, is to smell the flowers (and the foliage); its a whole dimension of gardening.  Regardless, the plant is fantastic, an impressive specimen.

[Lori S.]

Well, nothing here to compare with the magnificence of that Trachelium!! 

Cancrinia tianshanica has tightened up nicely outdoors; I look forward to seeing if they winter over:
   

Delphinium beesianum:


And another dwarf Delphinium, blooming in the first year from seed; perhaps the same as above(?) but much more vividly-coloured; something of a surprise, as I had the pot labeled as something entirely different:


Silene saxifraga:

[Hoy]

Well, nothing here to compare with the magnificence of that Trachelium!! 

And another dwarf Delphinium, blooming in the first year from seed; perhaps the same as above(?) but much more vividly-coloured; something of a surprise, as I had the pot labeled as something entirely different:

Lori, I think you have much to compare - or rather you two are in different exercises!

I always get surprises like that! I mean, what pops up isn't what the label says. Although I am a bit absentminded, I am not to that degree. I think ants or other animals move the seeds around in the nighttime

[Michael J Campbell]

Any scent?

No noticeable scent.

[Tim Ingram]

A couple of wonderful alstroemerias originally grown from seed from Jim and Jenny Archibald:-

Alstroemeria garavantae - (Chile, V, Cerro Vizcacha. Ex. a J. Watson coll.). This has done well and self     
                                        seeded on a raised bed over many years, growing to around 30cm).

Alstroemeria pulchra      - (Chile, V, Valparaiso, Con Con. Ex. Beckett, Cheese and Watson 4762). A more 
                                        tenuous plant which by accident has seeded into a peat/bark raised bed!

In Jim & Jenny Archibald's seed list for August 2006 are 25 Alstroemeria of which I have grown 8 or 9, at least for several years, which shows what potentially good plants they can be for the garden once growing conditions have been mastered. (I speak from the relatively mild south-east of the UK! Jim grew these planted out in a glasshouse, from which to harvest seed, but they are hardy with us to -10°C or a little lower).

[McDonough]

Awesome Alstoemeria Tim, beautiful flower markings.

Lori, had to look up Cancrinia tianshanica, found the following Holubec photo link, it looks like a wonderful yellow buttopnhead alpine that looks like a tiny Tanacetum or NZ Craspedia.
http://holubec.wbs.cz/3Borohoro-Shan_-Xinjiang.html

Nice dwarf Delphiniums, I was going to show D. forrestii, but a rabbit ate all the leaves and buds leaving just nude stalks.



Moderator edit: Spelling of Cancrinia  

[Lori S.]

Echoing what Mark has said... amazing Alstroemeria, Tim!

Too bad your Delphinium forestii got munched; looks like a very interesting one:
http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=91153&flora_id=800

Jurinea cadmea:

[Lori S.]

Taking a minute to post a few shots...
Telesonix jamesii v. heucheriformis:
 

Monardella odoratissima v. odoratissima:


First flowers on Saxifraga cochlearis minor:


Stachys lavandulifolia, a rather spreading one that I will likely have to control or move (like the Monardella):


Repeat bloom on Dryas octopetala:


Flowers developing on Ajuga lupulina:


And a flower stalk on this teensy Saxifraga umbellulata v. pectinata... the basal rosette is slightly over a cm across: