Physoplexis comosa

[McDonough]

Chris, I can't get the link to work; can you repost it.

[Chris Klapwijk]

Mark, for some unknown reason Hugh and I ran into the same problem, try updating to the latest version of Adobe Reader, it worked for us.

[Booker]

An additional image or two to illustrate the barren open aspect where they grow and a plant showing immature blooms ... on the expansive limestone cliffs and boulders at Falzerego in the Dolomites.

[Jeremy]

Gene's articles on starting Physoplexis and Gentianopsis from seed may also be found on the Wiki Encyclopedia in the Plants by Genus section under the appropriate genus names.

[Lori S.]

An additional image or two to illustrate the barren open aspect where they grow and a plant showing immature blooms ... on the expansive limestone cliffs and boulders at Falzerego in the Dolomites.

Hmm, that looks not totally unlike parts of my tufa garden... perhaps there is hope!

[Hoy]

An additional image or two to illustrate the barren open aspect where they grow and a plant showing immature blooms ... on the expansive limestone cliffs and boulders at Falzerego in the Dolomites.

Hmm, that looks not totally unlike parts of my tufa garden... perhaps there is hope!

I knew you had a great garden!

[Lori S.]

An additional image or two to illustrate the barren open aspect where they grow and a plant showing immature blooms ... on the expansive limestone cliffs and boulders at Falzerego in the Dolomites.

Hmm, that looks not totally unlike parts of my tufa garden... perhaps there is hope!

I knew you had a great garden!

I just meant the close-up, not the background!! 

[Hoy]

An additional image or two to illustrate the barren open aspect where they grow and a plant showing immature blooms ... on the expansive limestone cliffs and boulders at Falzerego in the Dolomites.

Hmm, that looks not totally unlike parts of my tufa garden... perhaps there is hope!

I knew you had a great garden!

I just meant the close-up, not the background!! 

Oh, don't be modest

[Gene Mirro]

I planted them out on a raised bed of sandy loam soil, late last summer.  Some I planted under the shelter of rocks, and some went directly into the raised bed.  Most are emerging now.  So far, they do not seem to be very picky.  But you do have to control the slugs and snails.  Photos to come if/when they bloom.

[David Sellars]

I took a couple of photos today of Physoplexis comosa.  The first one in a pot has elongated flower stems.  The second in a sand bed with lumps of tufa is growing much tighter and is altogether more satisfying.  Fortunately the slugs haven't found it yet.

[RickR]

I'm sure most of us are very jealous, David - about either form!  And what an interesting effect with the sun dancing on all the stigmas of the flowers in the first pic...  It's like each flower bunch is setting off their own fireworks display!!! 

[David Sellars]

Rick:
I like photographing flowers backlit by the sun as it often enhances the flower colour and creates interesting effects particularly as flowers are translucent.  But I have to admit the fireworks were quite a surprise. I didn't notice it when taking the photograph.

[Tim Ingram]

This is such a great plant - nothing quite like it, even all the weird and wonderful phyteumas. I would love to get this going in tufa - we were lucky enough to visit Robin and Sue White (Blackthorn Nursery) and Peter Erskine a week or two ago before these had started flowering, but both, particularly Peter, had specimens everywhere in tufa and narrow crevices. Once you find the spot to grow a plant...

[Gene Mirro]

Here is a sturdy little plant growing in the open ground, on a raised bed of sandy loam:



The bee is interested, but I doubt that it can pollinate the flowers.  The style is too far away.

I planted out roughly 20 plants last Fall, and only one has failed to appear this Spring.

[Lori S.]

Wow!  Fantastic, David and Gene!