Saxifraga 2016

[astragalus]

Can anyone i.d. this saxifraga?  It's  in bloom now and the label has disappeared.

[astragalus]

Oops - here it is in bloom.

[Diane Clement]

maybe a form of Saxifraga burseriana?

[astragalus]

Thank you, I think so too, but I guess it's not possible to i.d. which one from the flowers.

[Philip Walker]

S. 'Dawn Frost'
S. 'Excellent'
S x poluniniana
S, 'Jenkinsiae'
Sax in tufa

[Maggi Young]

Sandy Leven's  report on the super Saxifraga which won the Forrest Medal at the Hexham Show for Mark Childerhouse  on Saturday 2nd April  -  download it  HERE   and see  lots of the other great plants at the show  here  http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14175.0 in the forum show thread for Hexham 2016.

[Tristan_He]

Saxifraga oppositifolia in the garden. One of my favourite saxifrages and my visit to see it in the wild recently inspired me to go to the very excellent Aberconwy Nursery and invest in a few more clones.



Saxifraga x apiculata 'Gregor Mendel'. Very easy, I've had this for quite a while and regularly pull bits off to establish elsewhere.



Saxifraga sancta. Unfortunately the wet winter killed some of the flower buds.

[Tristan_He]

Saxifraga oppositifolia.     No cultivational skill on my part, I buy 'em one year, they die the next.

Have you tried it in a shady crevice David? It's intolerant of summer heat (!) here in North Wales so it's definitely likely to hate full sun on the English Riviera....

[Gabriela]

What a great natural look you achieved in the garden with these Saxifraga Tristan. Especially the way S. 'Gregor Mendel' slides through the rocks - hard to say it is cultivated.

[Tristan_He]

Thanks Gabriela, it's the sort of look I try to aim for with my rockery in general. The Saxifrages tend to grow that way if you give them the right environment I find the whole effect much more pleasing that way and it's nice to see others do too! 

Although the rock is a bit recently quarried... hopefully in a few years it will weather a bit.

[ian mcdonald]

Some of the few saxifrage in the garden. Apart from S. oppositifolia in the scree I don,t know the names of the others. img. 1010192 growing in tufa in a tub. img. 1010193 is one from Mendle nursery in a sink. img. 1010194 is S. oppositifolia in the scree with a small Salix reticulata. img. 1010195 is another from Mendle in the scree.

[Tristan_He]

Saxifraga 'Helvellyn'. Just planted out in the rockery, a new acquisition from Aberconwy.



Label lost for this white one I'm afraid, from Aberconwy again. Possibly a Coolock or an Allendale (not that that narrows things down much!)



Sax. 'Alan Martin' - seems to have become very attached to this piece of tufa! I like the red stems on this one.



Anybody know what this is?

[Tristan_He]

I think this may be Sax ferdinandi-coburgi.

[Steve Garvie]

I have nothing to compete with the beautiful Saxifrages shown on these pages but here is a wee plant of Saxifraga dinnikii growing in a lump of tufa in a trough. The plant is barely 1cm in diameter and is dwarved by its flower.

[Gabriela]

Yours is a bit of a rarity though, Steve  Most beautiful with those translucent petals.