alpine and subalpine Plants from New Zealand

[David Lyttle]

Have been out and about for the last week so need to catch up with this thread. However the buttercups are flowering like daisies on a lawn. More photos coming when I get a chance to  catalogue and edit them

[David Lyttle]

Thomas, Dave has never seen it in the wild (and nor have I} because it is the NORTH ISLAND edelweiss! so if you come to New Zealand some time, you will have to do a tour of the NORTH island. There is a large and varied volcanic plateau in the North Island and Leucogenes leontopoduim comes from Mt Holdsworth in the Tararua Ranges, which have many beautiful alpines.

Leucogenes leontopodium occurs in the South Island as well on the Richmond Range near Nelson City where I took this photo.

[Leucogenes]

Hello, David.

A wonderful Ranunculus. I suppose it is Ranunculus lyallii... or? I had the luck in this spring to buy two nice copies from it. Though it has not blossomed yet, however, I hope I can show during the next years also sometimes thus a nice photo. Then in late summer he has withdrawn. I hope this is normal...or? I have up to now still no experiences with this Species.

Over again... very imposing plant.

Thomas

[Leucogenes]

Leucogenes leontopodium occurs in the South Island as well on the Richmond Range near Nelson City where I took this photo.

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Thanks for the infos and the brilliant picture from the nature.

My information about the spreading of L. leontopodium is following...

North island:
☆ from the area of the Mt. Hikurangi (38 ° S) after the south.

South island:

☆ NW-Nelson (Richmond Range)
☆Marlborough
☆and an isolated occurence above the No Mans Creek, to the west of the spring of the Wairau River.

I hope this these coordinates are right. I got this information of my friends of the Arctic alpine garden. My admiration for this excellent photo.

Thomas

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you both Gentlemen. I didn't know this species also lived in the South Island, albeit near the top of it. It seems overall to be one of the easiest and most adaptable of all our alpines, flourishing on a long term basis in many rock gardens and pots, comforting for someone who has limited success with many of our natives.  You grow them better than I do Thomas.

[t00lie]

Hello, Dave.

The Leucogenes seems to feel with you very well. It looks fantastic. I suppose this of Hokonoi Alpine Nursery is?
Greetings Thomas

Hello Thomas the Leucogenes in question came from a native nursery in Canterbury.

In bloom today a nice short flowering form of Brachyglottis bellidioides. A young cutting from last season.


 

[Leucogenes]

Thank you both Gentlemen. I didn't know this species also lived in the South Island, albeit near the top of it. It seems overall to be one of the easiest and most adaptable of all our alpines, flourishing on a long term basis in many rock gardens and pots, comforting for someone who has limited success with many of our natives.  You grow them better than I do Thomas.

... on the contrary, Lesley. I must thank you. For the great tip of the flora in the area of the Tararua Range. I have taken down it immediately. 😊

[Leucogenes]

Hello Thomas the Leucogenes in question came from a native nursery in Canterbury.

In bloom today a nice short flowering form of Brachyglottis bellidioides. A young cutting from last season.

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Hello, Dave.

I am always inspired what gives to buy it for nice native alpine NZ in the market gardens with you. Why functions beamen only on the "Enterprise"? If the possibility existed, I would buy the whole assortment. 😊

The todays photo of the Brachyglottis bellidioides has impressed me retime very much. What charming small plant! The blossom is the hammer and the nice dark foliage with the great structure is a fantastic contrast.

Thank you for Sharing

Cheers Thomas

[Leucogenes]

Leucogenes leontopodium occurs in the South Island as well on the Richmond Range near Nelson City where I took this photo.

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Hello, David.

I have had a look at your photo from yesterday certainly already hundred times. 😊 It occupies me very much. Since on looking more carefully the form of the foliage has always struck me. I know this lanceolate  form only from Leucogenes neglecta. Maybe your photo shows Marlborough Edelweis. Maybe it fits with the site of the discovery together... you are the specialist. I show here sometimes some photos for comparison. The first one points L. leontopodium with the typical egg-shaped foliage. The second picture is from the Arctic Alpine Garden in Chemnitz and points L. neglecta with blossom. To the better comparison one more photo of L. neglecta from my garden. There one recognises the sharp form of the foliage even better. It resembles your admission very much. It can also be of course the variations different it of the growth form of L. leontopodium give. There you better know a lot than me. I would be glad, as usual, about a correction or confirmation of my thesis.

By the way, I am glad tremendously to her to you everybody so regularly in this thread involved. You give big pleasure with it to me. Thanks

Thomas

[t00lie]

I'll not get into the L .neglecta discussion ..... however here's is my plant unfortunately being swamped by the foliage of a Bulbinella .




So for something quite different here's Ranunculus crithmifolius  seen in the wild earlier in the month having finally managed ,after so many years, to capture a plant in flower. 

Saw some variation in the leaf colour as well.










Cheers Dave.

[Julia]

Yes I can confirm the Ranunculus lyalii is flowering really well this year, I saw thousands if not millions as we flew over to Doubtful Sound this week

[Leucogenes]

So for sometime quite different here's Ranunculus crithmifolius  seen in the wild earlier in the month having finally managed ,after so many years, to capture a plant in flower. 

Saw some variation in the leaf colour as well.

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Cheers Dave.

Dave... even more such pictures, and I need a doctor. Incredibly. I believe if I saw such a thing in the nature, you could come again after hours. I would stand at the same place. How a stone.

Nevertheless, you must get up in New Zealand every morning with a smile. Or?

Cheers Thomas

[David Lyttle]

Had the opportunity last week to visit the Clarence and Wairau Valleys. We did a bit of a tiki tour looking for all the specialised plants found there. We found and abundance of penwiper plants( Notothlaspi rosulatum). These are confined to screes and die once they have flowered and set seed.



The rosette before the flowers have opened


A form with green foliage rather than the dark grey.


Showing the scree habitat

[Leucogenes]

Hello, David.

Notothlaspi rosulatum is one of the nicest plants in the world for me. The first picture is like a painting. Fantastically. I have never seen these Species with green foliage. It looks as if this kind only in the stone grows. Very remarkably. Many thanks for these brilliant photos. It is not easy certainly to find these small beauties in mountain... or? 

The best wishes
Thomas

[David Lyttle]

Hello Thomas,

The screes on which the plants are found are very large and the plants occur in pockets. They are not always easy to spot especially from a distance but once you find one you usually find a few more.