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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #60 on: August 15, 2008, 09:48:18 PM »
Many thanks Ruweiss, it really does help.  And I should have said earlier, what beautiful specimens you have in your alpine house.  Love the calceolarias!
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #61 on: August 19, 2008, 01:02:55 PM »
Lovely pics everyone.  Got to love those Calceolarias..... rarely ever see anything here in Canberra other than the occasional annual types for "potted colour" in the nurseries.  Some of them shown in these pages are breathtaking!!!!!
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #62 on: March 07, 2009, 09:26:16 PM »
Feel free to add new posts here in you like...... :D
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #63 on: March 10, 2009, 08:52:02 PM »
Ypsilandra thibetica. Nice scent & flowers eventually turn pinkish, ? when pollinated.
Propagation tip - grows easily from leaf cuttings. Place each end into comost & easily get a plantlet at either end. Much easier & quicker than from seed.
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #64 on: April 07, 2009, 08:30:06 PM »
Chorispora bungeana. Flowering for the first time from AGS seed. Nicely scented & produces a nice central clump of flowers. unlke elegans which has straggly flowering stems.
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #65 on: May 28, 2009, 09:09:32 PM »
A short look into the Alpine house, Calc.uniflora and Boykinia jamesii are already out of flower.
Talinum "Zoe" is a Hybrid of T.okanoganense with T.spinescens, I got this plant more than
20 years ago from a Czech friend and it grows and flowers profusely as ever.
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #66 on: May 28, 2009, 09:47:29 PM »
Another fine and lovely selection Rudi. each is so well grown too. I love the Calceolaria pinifolia.
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #67 on: May 28, 2009, 09:52:32 PM »
I don't think I've seen Calceolaria pinifolia.... makes a neat shape, doesn't it?
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #68 on: May 29, 2009, 09:04:07 AM »
Great stuff Rudi !
Beautiful Calceolaria's !
My C. Joe Elliot isn't flowering yet (out in the garden) - I love it as a wonderful Campanula but I even more appreciate it for being a little late - gives me some colour when most of the Rock Garden has gone over.  :D
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #69 on: May 30, 2009, 09:06:07 AM »
One picture only from my A.H. - pink form of himalayan Androsace mariae.

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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #70 on: June 11, 2009, 08:54:12 PM »
Also conifers enjoy the stay in the Alpine house, especially if they are of doubtful hardiness
in colder areas. This small bun is about 15 years old.
Calceolaria umbellata was raised from AGS seed last year and now present itself as a valuable
rockgarden plant,also in the open garden.
Camp.choruhensis from the Choruh Gorge in North Eastern Turkey, does also well in a crevice
in the open garden. When I raised this plant from seed, no free space was available and a transplanting now
to  the open garden would surely kill it.
Campanula coriacea is a living souvenir of a trip to South Eastern Turkey, where we found it 1989 at the
Castle Rock of Van and collected some seeds.
Nassauvia clavata is of Southern American origin (Via Saxonian Nursery)
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #71 on: June 11, 2009, 10:08:38 PM »
Rudi, I love the campanulas but, as always, everything you grow looks so wonderful it's hard to choose a favourite  :)
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #72 on: June 12, 2009, 07:51:35 AM »
Great Plants Rudi !
I love the C. choruhensis !  Very nice with it's somewhat upright flowers !  :)
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #73 on: June 13, 2009, 08:08:57 PM »
Robin and Luc, many thanks for your kind comments.
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Re: Plants in the Alpine House
« Reply #74 on: June 23, 2009, 12:31:36 PM »
One of my favourite Lewisias-Lewisia cotyledon 'Snowstorm'

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