Saxifraga 2016

[Hoy]

Saxifraga fusca

[David Nicholson]

Some from my burgeoning collection of Saxifraga fortunei cultivars. Apart from one white shown below nearly all of the pink ones are in flower whilst the other white forms need another week or so.

Saxfraga fortunei 'Pink Cloud'
S. f. 'Pink Haze'
S. f. 'Cheap Confections'
S. f. 'Pink Mist'
S.f. 'Shiranami'

[Hoy]

Very nice, David!
Unfortunately they are hard to find for sale here.

[Maggi Young]

Very nice, David!
Unfortunately they are hard to find for sale here.

If it's any comfort, Trond, they're the devil to keep alive here so perhaps even if you  could get them they'd all perish anyway! 

[Hoy]

If it's any comfort, Trond, they're the devil to keep alive here so perhaps even if you  could get them they'd all perish anyway! 

This explains why they are hard to get! Maybe it is a good thing I can't get them - then I can't lose them!

[David Nicholson]

A couple more:-

Saxifraga fortunei 'Conwy Snow'
S. f. 'Rokujo'

[Hans Meulenbelt]

My first entry on the SRGC-forum simply has to be about Saxifrages, my favorit genus.

The picture is a collage of flowering Porophyllum Saxifrages in my rockgarden, taken in the last couple of years. (some of you might have seen it before somewhere else).

[Hans Meulenbelt]

Hi David,

a very nice collection of Saxifrages from section Irregularis you have. I have a few myself and have some trouble keeping them happy. You seem to do well with them. What kind of compost do you grow them in?

[ChrisB]

Here is a close up of Sax. fortunei Beni Tsukasa

[David Nicholson]

Hi David,

a very nice collection of Saxifrages from section Irregularis you have. I have a few myself and have some trouble keeping them happy. You seem to do well with them. What kind of compost do you grow them in?

Hello Hans, I used to keep them in a dark North-facing bed (actually in front of a 2m fence) with a peaty compost mix but felt they were too shady. I recently renovated a sunnier raised bed that contained Rhododendrons and Azaleas way past their sell-by-date; took them all out; topped-up the ericaceous soil with a loam based ericaceous soil mixed with composted bark and replanted smaller growing Rhododendrons. I inter-spaced these with my Saxifrages and they do seem to like it. Our Forum mentor Maggi made the suggestion.

[David Nicholson]

Here is a close up of Sax. fortunei Beni Tsukasa

WOW, I'm on the case

[ChrisB]

And here is another, Gokka

[ChrisB]

Got Beni from Edrom, Gokka from Hartside.....

[Maggi Young]

Got Beni from Edrom, Gokka from Hartside.....

These stronger colours and fuller flowers are really lovely.

[ChrisB]

Seems to be the way breeding is going in Japan, Maggi, they are becoming very popular over there I understand. Wish I could figure out how to bloom them earlier though, they would look good on autumn show benches in flower. I do show them as foliage plants but these latest ones are fast becoming my favourites!