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Lesley Cox

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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #105 on: August 23, 2009, 09:49:37 PM »
Paul, the Conandron is another of the many very choice plants which come from Japan. I have had it here both imported years ago and more recently from a local source but it is extremely dry sensitive and I lost it both times. Unlike Ramonda, it dies down in winter to a resting bud and I couldn't bring it out of that dorman state. would love to try again.
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #106 on: May 16, 2010, 08:08:27 PM »
Flowering under glass today:

Calceolaria pinifolia
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Calceolaria darwinii
Erigeron compactus v. consimilis
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Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
climate zone 8a,elevation 250 m

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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #107 on: May 16, 2010, 10:02:37 PM »
Brilliant plants everyone.

I have Clematis tenuifolia in a trough but it has only flowered once. How can I get it to flower?
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #108 on: August 30, 2010, 09:39:32 PM »
The rest of my Conandron ramondoides plants is now in full flowers. I say the rest, because some of
them did not survive the last winter in the unheated alpine house. Try to do everything to keep these
fascinating plants in my collection. Many years ago I had plants from another clone which survived
even in the open garden.
Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
climate zone 8a,elevation 250 m

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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #109 on: August 31, 2010, 08:21:09 AM »
Rudi, your Conandron ramondoidesa is such a special plant - I love the way it is flowering profusely high over the large leaves - what is its natural habitat in Japan - is it stream margins?
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #110 on: August 31, 2010, 08:37:37 PM »
Robin, my literature says, that C.ramondioides grows in Japan on moist and moss
covered rocks which get dryer during winter.
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #111 on: August 31, 2010, 09:35:50 PM »
Thanks Rudi, Primula hirsuta grows like that in Switzerland too  :)
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #112 on: October 18, 2010, 05:42:06 PM »
Just to give you a view in my alpine house.
Floweringtime: March 2010

Daphne
Tecophilaea
Dionysia Judth Bramley
Dionysia bazoftica
Dionysia aretioides Bevere
Dionysia bryoides JLMS 4 vormen
Dionysia hausknechtii
Dionysia viscidula x freitagii EGW 94-1
Dionysia 'Annielle'
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #113 on: October 18, 2010, 08:42:51 PM »
I am so so jealous, Really like Dionysia Judith Bramley. If I had a alpine house like that I would never come out of it. What a display.

Angie :)
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