Saxifraga 2014

[ChrisB]

This is my S. Claude Monet.  Got it direct from Karel Lang last yr.  flowers don't seem to open wide.  Not sure I like it much.  A candidate for a trough I'm afraid...

[Michael J Campbell]

Saxifraqga Jenkinsae.

[David Nicholson]

What a lovely potfull Michael.

[ChrisB]

A sight for sore eyes Michael

[Lesley Cox]

Going back a couple of pages, Chris, is S. oppositifolia a lime lover? For some reason and inspite of the little encrusted dots on the foliage, it always looks to me NOT to be lime loving and so I've played safe and refrained from letting it have any, going for a peaty compost instead. I have lost every one I've had!. I have another now, of 'Ruth Draper' doing well in a trough, still without lime, but much grittier. Should I give it some lime?  Love the 'Tromso.' It's doing nicely here too.

As well as Michael, I happen to know that those moderators have a nice selection of Lang saxes. Perhaps they'll be blooming now or soon?

[Maggi Young]

Indeed, the BD and I do have a very nice collection of Lang saxes - direct from the man himself in the Czech Rebublic, thanks to a  kind gift.     Ian is photographing them as they come into flower - I expect they will appear in the Bulb Log in due course.

[ChrisB]

I'm no expert Lesley but I gave up on S oppositifolia in the garden after I'd killed several good ones and decided to keep any more I acquired in troughs where I could offer them more lime.   Those ones so far have survived.  Funnily, that was the first I ever had and I had no idea at the time that it could be difficult to grow.  I once got a lovely clear white form but having put it in the garden it withered away.  I was upset about losing it but learned my lesson....

Maggi - mine are all coming out nicely now too.  Some of them were tossed about in my box when they got here so I had to keep them separate with upside down labels until they flower so I can I'd them but now there's just one more to go.... I lost just one of them... Not bad.  Tromso may be headed for the show bench next year if it continues to flourish like it is doing now...

[Matt T]

Did you mean Cliff's link to this video (and others just as good) ?

Only just found time to watch this. A lovely and inspirational film - inspiring foreign plant hunting travels and a desire for a similar spotlight on the Scottish mountain flora.

[David Nicholson]

Some Saxifraga from the garden today:-

Saxifraga oppositifolia 'Theoden' (going brown in the middle of the clump too-help?)
S. 'Allendale Bamby'
S. kellerii 'Suendermanii Major'

[Maggi Young]

Saxifraga oppositifolia 'Theoden' (going brown in the middle of the clump too-help?)

A problem that we were speaking about  re Sax. oppositifolia and its forms, with Stan da Prato in the garden yesterday, David. He didn't have an answer either.......

[David Nicholson]

 

[Roma]

Saxifraga 'Quarry Wood'
Saxifraga cinerea
An unnamed Sax from Lismore.  This is the best I have seen it flower.  It usually starts off brick red then fades quickly to a biscuit colour but this year the flowers are staying a nice peachy colour for longer.

[David Nicholson]

Nice ones Roma.

[ChrisB]

A problem that we were speaking about  re Sax. oppositifolia and its forms, with Stan da Prato in the garden yesterday, David. He didn't have an answer either.......

Been reading the AGS bulletin article about its requirements.  By pure accident my one in the Belfast sink is kept in the shade from my birch tree all summer when it might get scorched...

[Matt T]

Whenever I've seen Sax.opp. in the wild it's always tucked away in shady crevices, north facing rocks and the like, anywhere it doesn't get too much direct sun.