alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand

[Leucogenes]

Hi David,

Best thanks for correcting the names. If berries are present in the autumn we can determine this coprosma again. I got these plants from private individuals ... Now I buy almost only in UK ...

I also have Coprosma petriei ... she's also just blooming. In reply number 10 you see the fruits of last year. I hope this time everything is correct.

A question ... is it possible that the different types of Coprosma fertilize?

Thomas

[Leucogenes]

Today in my New Zealand bed ...

Epilobium crassum
Gaultheria parvula
Dracophyllum prostatum

[Leucogenes]

... and I am especially pleased ... after five years have waited my two specimens of Leucogenes grandiceps buds. I had almost no more hope ...

L. leontopodium blooms every year.  The other two species also develop very well. 

[Leucogenes]

Hebe buchananii var. minor
Hebe amstrongii
Geranium brevicaule
Luzula ulophylla

[Leucogenes]

Hello, David,

 I has once again a question to you.

I have an Acaena and am not sure whether it A. saccaticula is. The foliage looks thus. The plant would be found by my friends with an excursion in 2000... The Remarkables, to the east of a parking bay, 1650 metres about sea level. However, the plant has very long desires / branches... much longer than with A. saccaticupala and A. caesiiglauca. Is able to do it also a form from A. inermis HOOK.?

I would be glad very much about a correction or confirmation  of you.

Many thanks and the best greetings
Thomas

[David Lyttle]

Hello, David,

 I has once again a question to you.

I have an Acaena and am not sure whether it A. saccaticula is. The foliage looks thus. The plant would be found by my friends with an excursion in 2000... The Remarkables, to the east of a parking bay, 1650 metres about sea level. However, the plant has very long desires / branches... much longer than with A. saccaticupala and A. caesiiglauca. Is able to do it also a form from A. inermis HOOK.?

I would be glad very much about a correction or confirmation  of you.

Many thanks and the best greetings
Thomas

Hello Thomas,

Yes, your plant is Acaena saccaticupula. The fruiting heads have barbed spines and will stick to your clothing. It is common in the alpine zone and I would expect to find it on the Remarkables. A. inermis usually does not have spines. Here are two examples one from the Mavora Lakes and the other from the Old Man Range where it is growing with Wahlenbergia albomarginata.

[Philippe]

Hi Thomas

Beautiful plants as usual
How do you consider Luzula ulophylla? I'm still not sure if it is really frost-resistant, short lived or if I just don't give it the right conditions. I must always think about renewing the plants I have by sowing them constantly every year.
I'm trying different locations in the rockbed, but let's say that from 10 adult flowering plants during one summer, I probably only manage to keep one or two for the following season.

[Leucogenes]

Hello, David,

 many thanks for the confirmation. This picture of Wahlenbergia albomarginata is especially nice. I get to know always new plants by your photos.

 Thanks for it.

 Greeting Thomas

[Leucogenes]

Hello, Philippe,

 Luzulla ulophylla is absolutely sure about frost with me. I plant straight also between Raoulia and Scleranthus uniflorus... around an interesting natural structuralisation to achieve. I may grow into one another it if the mats. So nicely as on the photos of David it is not. But I leave some areas to himself. Picture 1. The nature is the best designer. The other photos show some examples of L. ulophylla... Maybe it may if it is a little more humid.

 I will collect anyway seed for you.

[Philippe]

Even grass-like plants are beautiful within cushions and other carpeting species in NZ
I have sown quite a lot of Luzula ulophylla last fall. It's sprouting very nicely right now. I can now go on with my dispatching task around the rockbed.

[t00lie]

 

I have an Acaena The plant would be found by my friends with an excursion in 2000... The Remarkables, to the east of a parking bay, 1650 metres about sea level.
Thomas

You certainly grew the NZ alpines well Thomas.

Thought you might be interested in this 'average ' picture I took a few years back of large patches of Acaena growing northeast below one of the parking bays on the Remarkables. I took the photo looking up as so to avoid including the numerous vehicles a few metres away on the flat area just above.

[Leucogenes]

Hello, Dave,

 it pleases me very much to see this nice photo. Maybe this is even the mothers plant of my copy. I am always enthusiastically from the great photos and am glad about other pictures. I hope I can experience this nice scenery once live... in five years I become 50 years old and would like to give myself a trip on the south island. This is my biggest wish. 

Thomas

[Leucogenes]

Today I was once again in the Arctic alpine garden in Chemnitz... has been worthwhile.

Celmisia spedenii
Helichrysum bellidioides

[David Lyttle]

Hello Thomas,

It is good to see NZ plants growing so well so far from home.

An update on a name Helichrysum bellidioides is now known as Anaphalioides bellidioides

[Leucogenes]

Hello, David,

we are to be set up anxiously these brilliant plants in the garden. But as nicely as on your photo they are not. The nature is always the number one. Maybe are fulfilled my dream and I can see this nice scenery once.

Many thanks for the new name. I will say it my friends of the Arctic alpine garden.

Thomas