Alpine House 2015

[ruweiss]

The Alpine House is a good place to get shelter from the nasty
weather we have now - weather forecast promises spring temperatures
at Thursday.
The Drabas start flowering, while the dionysias, androsaces and primulas
are in full flower.
Androsace dasyphlla from Kyrgistan wild collected seed flowers for the first time.

[ranunculus]

Excellent.

[Yann]

wonderful collection

[David Nicholson]

Lovely display Rudi. Can you tell us more about your alpine house please. How big it is etc?

[astragalus]

What wonderful plants!

[kindredspiritkevin]

Fabulous.

[Graeme]

wonderful - please please post more pictures

I am particularly intrigued by the frosted glass in the alpine house? - can we have an inside and outside shot?

[ruweiss]

Dear friends, please excuse the delay in replying your friendly comments - many thanks for all.
Now to your questions:
I bought this house 25 years ago at a gardencentre, it measures approximately 370 x 250 cm
with 2 extra louvre windows for more, ventilation.
1999 we moved to our actual place, but noted very soon, that the new place  was not so ideal
for the plants which prefered more cooler conditions like Calceolarias, Jankaea, most asiatic
primulas, Meconopsis etc.
The place at our former flat between 2 houses was simply more shadier and cooler.
The sun from the West side heats this small house very quick, so shading and ventilation are
quite essential, during the warm season I remove the upper row of glass panes and replace
them with mesh wire to keep away blackbirds and companions. The same is with the panes of
the doors.
Additional ventilators maintain air movement all the year, controlled by a time switch.
The house is unheated all the year, but a thermostat controlled fan heater keeps the
temperatures from falling to more than - 7°C.

[ruweiss]

Flowering now in the Alpine House:
Anchusa caespitosa
Androsace hausmannii
Calceolaria uniflora
Clematis tenuiloba
Draba longisiliqua

[Graeme]

thanks Rudi - much appreciated - never considered frosted glass before but will now

You have some wonderful plants - everything I would grow if I had the time.........

the Anchusa caespitosa is quite interesting - the last one I had rooted into about half the plunge bench

please keep posting pictures

[ruweiss]

Thank you Graeme.

[ruweiss]

More pictures:

    Calceolaria penelli 1
    Calceolaria penellii.
    Campanula rupicola
    Leucheria deimii
    Pinguicula grandiflora rosea x vallisnerifolia

[krisderaeymaeker]

Fantastic Rudy !!!

Here Nototriche macleanii from seed ....

[Chris Johnson]

More pictures:

    Calceolaria penelli 1
    Calceolaria penellii.
    Campanula rupicola
    Leucheria deimii
    Pinguicula grandiflora rosea x vallisnerifolia

Lovely plants Rudi.

I was particularly taken with Leucheria deimii but when I researched it, I couldn't find it. Could you tell me where you obtained it?

[Maggi Young]

Lovely plants Rudi.

I was particularly taken with Leucheria deimii but when I researched it, I couldn't find it. Could you tell me where you obtained it?

I'm interested  to learn more about this, too.

From Kew Plantlist :
Leucheria diemii Cabrera is an unresolved name
The record derives from TICA (The Global Compositae Checklist)
which does not establish this name either as an accepted name or as a synonym and as an illegitimate name (record DF3375E3-8927-49F1-9485-A43CACC8838B) with original publication details: Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botanica 11(4): 288 1969.