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kelaidis

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Re: dry trough ideas
« Reply #30 on: November 14, 2011, 03:23:22 AM »
Mark,
   Forgive me for not logging in lately: I've been traveling this fall and it's taken a while to get back into the groove...the yellow composites around the Echinocereus trough are Thelesperma filifolium an abundant native daisy from the high plains around Denver that blooms virtually the entire growing season. While each plant is short lived (two or three years average) they sow around and make quite a showing.

Thelesperma is a  small genus with three or four species in our area. It is closely allied to Coreopsis, but rather more delicate altogether.

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Re: dry trough ideas
« Reply #31 on: December 27, 2011, 09:24:06 PM »
Hope the subject is not yet too stale, but here are two pix of Eriogonums in troughs: the first is E. ursinum from n California and the second is either E. gracilipes (e California) or E. kingii (w Nevada), which are hard to tell apart.

They are in the wonderful garden of Bill Adams, current Treasurer of NARGS.
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Re: dry trough ideas
« Reply #32 on: December 28, 2011, 07:58:40 AM »
No PK, this subject will always be fresh and intersting - to me at least. That is a stunning species , the first of these two. Beautiful tight and compact habit with amazing colour. I like Eriogonums very much indeed and we have a few here. They like our hot, dry summers. E. thymoides is doing well for me in a trough at present, from Ratko seed.
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