My own tiny rock garden.

[Cephalotus]

Heheh, really nice mistake I made there. No wonder my Word didn't found it, because there is such as word. I had fun of it too.

Thomas, I would really be glad to help you build your new rock garden, but I have only 8 days of freedom left. If you will be building it in the next summer I will be glad to visit you and help as much as I can. I already helped with carrying over 100kg rocks for my aunts garden and making the right soil. So I see no problems here.

[Michal Hoppel]

Krzysztof,

Very nice rock garden, I send you invitation to my garden in Poznań in Spring.
For me alpines from Tatra Mountains are rather more difficult to grow than these from Alps, Caucasus, Rila/Pirin etc.
maybe climat in Poznan is too hot.

I hope to see you next year on meeting od Rock Garden Enthusiasts in Poznan (usually >15.IV)

Michal

[Cephalotus]

It is time to show few effects of my last year hard work.

Viola alpina - I think I planted it quite well. Now it will be time to propagate it for others.


Gentiana verna - I just forgot to make photo of that 14 flowers... I thought I had it, but I was mistaken. Next year it should be a blue carpet.


Androsace chamejasme




Primula halleri - one have died, because it flowered in the winter and it must had weakened it... :/ That awful weather.


Precious stones of Polish nature:
Pulsatilla pratensis ssp. nigcricans




Pulsatilla slavica - it flowered just after one year in soil. That was very unexpected. I really do not know why it has that weird colour on the photo. In reality it was beautiful pink.


Pulsatilla vernalis - that one I also missed the bigger one when it was opened. That was a great view.




A fragment of my rock garden flowering now.


Ending I will show my new creation. It costed about 100 Euro, 5 days of enormous work, 1,5-2 tons of stones, 1 ton of sand, 6 bags of flowers soil, 2 bags of worse garden soil, 25 L of LECA, 20 L of perlite, 90 kg of small granite and that will be all.   I called it Orchidarium and the central part will be reserved mainly for orchids. But the surrounding part will be planted with some nice species I already have and some new ones that I will just get, or were too big to have them.







I hope to have some news after I come back home in summer.

[Gerdk]

It is time to show few effects of my last year hard work.
Viola alpina - I think I planted it quite well. Now it will be time to propagate it for others.

Well done Krzystof - especially the violet seems to enjoy your conditions.
Does it occur in the Tatra mountains of Poland?

Gerd

[annew]

Your rock garden and plants look great, Chris! A plant that likes lime is a calcicole.

[Cephalotus]

Well done Krzystof - especially the violet seems to enjoy your conditions.
Does it occur in the Tatra mountains of Poland?

Gerd

Thank you Gerd, and I am answering your question with a photo if you agree.

Your rock garden and plants look great, Chris! A plant that likes lime is a calcicole.

Thank you Anne. I am still learning new words, and some are a bit harder to remember, since I do not have them in my dictionary. About my plants, I always try to do my best for them. My last visit to Tatra Moutains taught me much about requirements of my species. Sometimes I mix special soil for each species, so that it will compensate my climate and provide suitable conditions for them. Not so long ago I heard, that Viola alpina is very hard species to grow. But maybe I have found the solution. Let me grow it for few years more and I will be able to say that for sure. Also this year I intend finally to get Gentiana frigida, which I heard just impossible to grow. Still my friend, who has that species, made it flower. Maybe I will do the same, we shall see. For now, all species I have are growing well or very well. Now I have to propagate them and pay my huge debt to this forum. If all of you haven't helped me, where would I were today...

Chris

[Eric Locke]

Chris - Nice rock garden.

I love that Androsace.

Eric

[Maggi Young]

Chris - Nice rock garden.

I love that Androsace.

Eric

I agree!
 


There was a pretty example of Androsace chamaejasme in the Perth Show last Saturday....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3412.15   (page two)

here: Reply #24 on: Today at 05:15:52 PM »

and other Andros in Reply #16 on: April 20, 2009, 09:36:49 PM
and Reply #27 on: Today at 05:22:15 PM »

[Lesley Cox]

Well done Chris, you have grown some lovely plants, very well. The Viola alpina is especially beautiful.

[Cephalotus]

I have planted some Soldanellas on the east side. They are hidden by the rocks. They have very much light, but not even one gleam of sun. I hope that next year there will be very nice effect of that. I finally got Betula nana, and I will keep it small, so that it will look like a real tree in the mountains. Because it is tiny species from its nature, I will have not much work to keep it like that.

I also keep my Soldanellas out of my rock garden where they flowered nicely this year.

Soldanella montabna


Soldanella carpatica - it finally started growing after soil change


Soldanella hungarica

[Paul T]

Chris,

Isn't it wonderful to see the garden mature after all that effort.  I feel a bit the same way about my crocus garden I built last year, but mine are all bulbs so it only becomes noticeable when they're above ground each year.  Yours are all looking brilliant.  That beautiful deep and dark red Pulsatilla pratensis ssp. nigricans is just so striking.  Wow, what a colour.    So many other wonderful things you've posted as well.  Thank you!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great work Chris !
It looks very nice after just one year !
Great prospect to have a new bed to fill !! 

I've never succeeded to grow Androsace chamaejasme for more than 2 years in the garden... 

[WimB]

That Viola alpina is a real stunner. The Pulsatilla's are very nice also.
Did you ever find the difference between Soldanella montana and Soldanella hungarica?

[Cephalotus]

Paul, if you are interested in P. pratensis ssp. nigricans, I should have loads of seeds this year. Last year I lost them, because the wind took them. Some have germinated on my rock garden, but I cannot send you any plants. So if you will like the seeds, there will be no problem.

Luc, I will see how long I will be able to keep alive my Androsace chamejasme, but after this year it looks like there should be no problem. I will try to produce some plants, because I have this species in two places, just in case. I will be able to write you what that species needs and you might try once again.

Wim, from the books, I really must say, that I could not really understand the difference they described, but after I saw all three species in the nature I knew which one is which. I will have to take a leaf of each and make a photo to show the difference. S. hungarica has leaves like S. carpatica, but much bigger, S. montana has a bit irregular shape of leaf edge. I also have found a person who had S. ghungarica, so I took it.

I will try to propagate everything that is flowering, so that I will be able to share with those beauties with other growers. Now I am waiting for that 10 flowers of Gentiana clusii to open. I hope my cousin will make a photo of them for me.

[maggiepie]

Chris, congratulations on your garden, all your hard work has really paid off.
Your plants look so healthy and happy.
I especially like your viola and the pulsatillas, you've done a great job.