Alpine House 2019

[ruweiss]

A look into the Alpine House:

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More pictures
The stones with the holes were the waste of a stonemason and the plants enjoy the situation. I place them
from late autumn to early spring in the house to protect them from excess rain.

[Leucogenes]

Hello Rudi

Great plants... congratulations.
I see that T. sapathulata shows flowering beginnings. For that I envy you.
Also Paraquilegia looks very good.

I am looking forward to more pictures of you

Thomas

[David Nicholson]

Lovely plants Rudi, and very artfully placed.

[ruweiss]

Thomas and David, thank you.

[ruweiss]

Now flowering:

[Leucogenes]

Great plants... Rudi.
My admiration.

By chance I have rediscovered Androsace for myself recently. Today I had the opportunity to buy some on the stock exchange of the Zwickauer association. I find Androsace albana particularly attractive (thanks Mike 😊).

To your T.condensata only one word occurs to me...unique. 👍

[Yann]

vandelii is not easy to maintain underglass, do you grow it outside?

[Lawrence]

That Townsendia is just gorgeous 😋

[Gabriela]

Super nice plants Rudi!
Those holed stones looked great for growing more difficult alpines.

[Gabriela]

Great plants... Rudi.
My admiration.
By chance I have rediscovered Androsace for myself recently. Today I had the opportunity to buy some on the stock exchange of the Zwickauer association. I find Androsace albana particularly attractive (thanks Mike 😊).

To your T.condensata only one word occurs to me...unique. 👍

Thanks for posting the Androsace Thomas! Just the other day I was looking at an Androsace rosette in my mini-rockery and couldn't remember which one it was (label planted deep in the ground, don't like to see them). The rosette is attractive in itself.
Androsace albana

[Leucogenes]

How right you are... Gabriela. Already the rosette is very worth seeing. That is exactly my philosophy...many plants of the high mountains have a beautiful shape and structure of the foliage. Sometimes one recognizes this only with closer consideration...see appendix.

Your copy of A. albana looks fantastic in the chippings. I hope I can look forward to more such beautiful pictures.

[ruweiss]

Dear friends, thank you all for the friendly comments. Yann, I cultivate most of my Androsaces in the Alpine House,
they don`t like the conditions in my hot garden and it is also too much work to cover them against too much moisture
in winter. I also like Androsace albana. Many rockgardeners don`t like it so much because it is mostly monocarpic,
but easy to raise from sed.

[Gabriela]

How right you are... Gabriela. Already the rosette is very worth seeing. That is exactly my philosophy...many plants of the high mountains have a beautiful shape and structure of the foliage. Sometimes one recognizes this only with closer consideration...see appendix.
Your copy of A. albana looks fantastic in the chippings. I hope I can look forward to more such beautiful pictures.

Precisely Thomas, the foliage is the one that lasts after all, flowers are temporary Your new Androsace pictures also show exquisite foliage texture.
I like Androsace and tried to cultivate other species but they usually 'melt' away in a couple of years because of the humid summers. Plus, I am not committed enough to growing alpines, as you may know I 'butterfly' over many other species.

Two others that are easy and probably anyone could grow were looking nice under the late afternoon crisp sun:
Androsace villosa ssp. taurica (grown from seeds from a Crimean accession)

Androsace studiosorum

[Gabriela]

Dear friends, thank you all for the friendly comments. Yann, I cultivate most of my Androsaces in the Alpine House,
they don`t like the conditions in my hot garden and it is also too much work to cover them against too much moisture
in winter. I also like Androsace albana. Many rockgardeners don`t like it so much because it is mostly monocarpic,
but easy to raise from sed.

I am looking fwd to see mine in flower Rudi.
I grew it from seeds on purpose knowing that it is monocarpic. I figured that I'll enjoy the rosette for a couple of years, some flowers and then I won't regret losing it, the same it happened with other Androsace I tried.