Some alpines

[Magnar]

By coincidence I was at a talk by Martin Sheader last night on his travels amongst Argentinian volcanoes.  He showed Perezia recurvata, but nowhere as good as the wonderful flowering mat shown by Magnar. 

Most South American plants seem difficult to grow - is this difficult Magnar?  Does it set seed for you?

Perezia recurvata is not difficult here at all. I have been growing it for sevral years. It has survived all sorts of winters,, wet, dry, cold , mild, much snow, little snow. I grow my plant is a raised gravel bed with good drainage. The plants set seeds, but they seem to germintae very poorly. A local nurseryman propagates Perezia from cuttings, and I bought my plants from him. His plants also flower very well, while another gardener here told me he had brought home cuttings from another place in South America, and the plants grown from those cuttings didn't by far flower  as richly as those from the nursery. So I guess there must be individual variations.

[Magnar]

P. recurvata again

[Gerdk]

Please stop, I am feeling green with envy and becoming greedy

Gerd

[Lesley Cox]

While I'm sure Magnar and other Norwegians have some special growing talents  it may be partly the location thing. Plants from the very bottom of the world (Argentina, Patagonia) doing exceptionally at the top of the world (north Norway.) All the pics I've seen from the Tromso area in particular, of South American plants, and the relatively difficult primulas, meconopsis etc, are of outstanding specimens, superbly grown. I wish I could get to north Norway, seed of our megaherbs from the southern ocean. I'm sure they would be successfully grown there.

[Magnar]

Saussurea sp coll Shalui Shan, Sichuan.
Gentiana hexaphylla
Delphinium sp, grows to about 25 cm in my scree bed. Any idea which one it might be?

[art600]

Magnar

How tall is the Delphinium sp.  The finely cut leaves are so much nicer than the ordinary delphinium - are you likely to have seed of this?

[Magnar]

Arthur,

It is about 25 cm tall, growing in the scree bed. It's flowering for the first time now, so I don't know if it will set seeds. But I will look for that later on. I got it from another alpine enthusiast and he had no name to it.

[ichristie]

Hi Magnar all, we also grow Perezia recurvata here in North East Scotland very well and it flowers in a trough no winter cover, we root cuttings and have several plants in the frame at the moment. I have also Perezia lanigerii which forms a very tight cushion and this can also grow outside but is not so easy to flower, I have taken some cuttings and intend to grow in a pot under cover for the winter, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Paul T]

Wow Magnar, that Saussurea is different.

[Lesley Cox]

I lost my Perezia recurvata some time ago but do hope to replace it from seed if at all possible. I had sed of P. lanigera from SRGC or AGS 2 or 3 years ago but nothing germinated.

[Magnar]

I will be most happy to send you seeds, Lesley, but as I say, they do not germinate well.

[Magnar]

Centaurea pestalozzae,
and the Delphinium sp has opened more.

[Maggi Young]

That really is a very fine Delphinium, good colour, foliage, habit.

[Magnar]

It only had one flower last year. I hope it will set seeds now.

[Maggi Young]

It only had one flower last year. I hope it will set seeds now.

well, I do hope you are pretendingto be a bumblebee, then Magnar