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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #60 on: May 22, 2015, 05:33:34 PM »
Ops .... bought from RHS Harlow Carr as Saxifraga paradoxa quite a while ago!!!! You can still see the RHS label in the pot. How is that possible?

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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #61 on: August 09, 2015, 06:59:57 PM »
Saxifraga nivalis, grown from seed from the exchange. Elongated stem due to greenhouse culture. It will be planted in the "scree" after the summer weather.

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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #62 on: August 09, 2015, 07:18:49 PM »
Not one that is seen a lot Ian. I looked it up in Malcolm McGregor's book and it seems it is Micranthes nivalis now. The flower stem is shown as 5-20cm.
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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #63 on: August 10, 2015, 05:09:03 PM »
Hello David, I,m not one for changing names of plants. We have enough to do trying to find wild flowers without the desk top botanists making it harder. :D

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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #64 on: September 27, 2015, 03:16:44 PM »
New saxifraga's today , before Saint Jean de Beauregard.

 



 
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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #65 on: October 07, 2015, 07:40:38 PM »
Earlier this year I bought a small collection (six plants, 3 pink and 3 white) of Saxifraga fortunei cultivars from Edrom to add to my existing two white flowered plants. Here's the first two to flower and both are pink.

Saxifraga fortunei 'Cheap Confections'
S. fortunei 'Pink Haze'

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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #66 on: October 07, 2015, 08:30:47 PM »
Saxifraga nivalis, grown from seed from the exchange. Elongated stem due to greenhouse culture. It will be planted in the "scree" after the summer weather.

A bit late, but here you can see the natural companion plants for Saxifraga nivalis. (Sorry - it is a very bad picture ::) ). The rosettes are often solitary. Do you recognize the other ones?

Trond Hoy, gardening on the rainy west coast of Norway.

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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #67 on: November 02, 2015, 03:31:56 PM »
Earlier this year I bought a small collection (six plants, 3 pink and 3 white) of Saxifraga fortunei cultivars from Edrom to add to my existing two white flowered plants. Here's the first two to flower and both are pink.

Saxifraga fortunei 'Cheap Confections'
S. fortunei 'Pink Haze'

It was a very dark day when I photographed the first two (a bit lighter today, although not a lot) so here's the whole caboodle.

Saxifraga fortunei 'Pink Mist'
S. f. 'Blackberry and Apple Pie'
S. f. 'Pink Haze'
S' f. Cheap Confections'

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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #68 on: November 02, 2015, 03:34:30 PM »
The final one from Edrom, followed by one from Aberconwy

Saxifraga fortunei 'Pink Cloud'
S. f. 'Conwy Snow'
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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #69 on: November 03, 2015, 08:24:24 AM »
Good show David !
I guess they'll do well in your wettish climate...  ;D
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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #70 on: November 03, 2015, 09:16:58 AM »
Thanks Luc, hope you are feeling a lot better now. Yes, I've had 'Conwy Snow for a couple of years but it didn't do well where I had it and I moved it to a shady North facing bed where it has been joined by the later additions. First class plants from Edrom and they have  long flowering period. Very good value for money(all a Yorkshireman can ask, apart from not spending money at all of course ;D  )
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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #71 on: November 09, 2015, 12:27:18 PM »
Trond, I,ve only just seen your picture of S. nivalis. Could the "companion" plants be either moss campion or yellow sax (aizoides)? I can,t ID the others from the photo.

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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #72 on: November 17, 2015, 03:48:33 PM »
I think this is 'Maria Luisa'. I think Joe Elliott advertised this as flowering at Christmas. Well I guess Christmas came early this year?

 
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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #73 on: November 17, 2015, 04:20:08 PM »
 Whiter than white- Mark - very nice with the contrast of the acid centre.
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Re: Saxifraga 2015.
« Reply #74 on: November 17, 2015, 06:37:48 PM »
Very pretty Mark. According to Malcolm McGregor's tome it's classed as Saxifraga x salmonica (S. burseriana x S. marginata)
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