Saxifraga 2020

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks for that David, most interesting.

[Maggi Young]

Interesting  and  useful! Thanks David  S. !!

[Leucogenes]

I discovered this strange color combination on one of the saxifrageas yesterday...  all the flowers are salmon pink...  ...and a yellow one in the center...  odd...  ...but beautiful.

[David Sellars]

First flower on Saxifraga dinnikii planted a couple of years ago in tufa.

[ruweiss]

Looks like a good place for this beauty, it can grow for a long time in that hole.
The big flowers on these tiny rosettes are simply amazing.

[ruweiss]

Saxifraga pubescens, always very free floering.

[David Nicholson]

Mukdenia rossii 'Karasuba' .  Moved from a spot in the garden where it never flowered, it seems to like it now.

[David Sellars]

Rudi:

Very nice S. pubescens.  I have had difficulty keeping it going here.  What are you using for potting mix? Any special treatment you are using?

Thanks

David

[ruweiss]

David,
Sax.pubescens grows at high elevations on granite in the Pyrenees, so my plants are cultivated
in a lime-free mineralic soil with just a little amount of humus. During autumn and winter they
get protected from overhead moisture, the plant at the photo is in the alpine house.
Good luck with these fine plants!

[Leucogenes]

Saxifraga "Cassini"  (aretioides x dinnikii)

[Tristan_He]

Saxifraga andersonii. For a Himalayan species this is pretty easy, it gets a bit bigger every year and is now something of an old friend. It flowers a bit later than most of the other saxes and can be a bit shy flowering some years. Then out it pops... or not! 

Here is the main patch - half of it has decided not to flower.



A secondary patch is a bit more floriferous.



Close up. The flowers open pink, then fade to white.

[David Sellars]

Found a very good red form of Saxifraga media in 2015 above the Port de la Bonaigua east of the Val d'Aran in the Pyrenees.



Collected some of the previous year's seed heads and grew them on. Planted out three on tufa and this is the second to flower.

[Maggi Young]

Found a very good red form of Saxifraga media in 2015 above the Port de la Bonaigua east of the Val d'Aran in the Pyrenees.

Collected some of the previous year's seed heads and grew them on. Planted out three on tufa and this is the second to flower.

Lovely  to see David. I wonder  how  long  it  will be  before  the  mountains  will be  visited again? A  long time , I reckon.

[David Sellars]

Thanks Maggie.  We are hoping to get into our local mountains in June as soon as the snow melts.  Our Provincial health officer says "Please, go outside" for our mental health given that coronavirus is much less likely to spread outdoors.

[kris]

Two of my Saxifraga along the stream in the garden. As usual I lost the labels!!!