Saxifrage-March 2009

[Diane Clement]

Thank you "Clement", you do have a tendency to spend a lot of time chatting at the back of the class, I think.    

I seem to remember the same comment 40 + years ago 

[ranunculus]

Was that at Uni' ?   

[wolfgang vorig]

hallo all,
some more Saxifragas outsides.

Regard     wolfgang

 Satchmo
 Excellent
 Cumulus

[WimB]

Another one in flower in my garden:

Saxifraga burseriana var. crenata

[WimB]

And another one that is flowering despite the lousy weather:

Saxifraga poluniana var. poluniana

[mark smyth]

I saw this lovely Sax in a friend's green house plunge today. S. 'Nanceye'

[Lori S.]

What a lovely thread!  Would the last one be Winton Harding's hybrid 'Nancye'?  I was browsing my books and it is described favourably in both the new McGregor book and in Winton Harding's own publication (though he very modestly did not not mention there that it was his own product! 

[mark smyth]

probably. The nursery label had an extra e

[gervandenbeuken]

Some of the exploding Saxes in our tufa garden

S. alpigena
S. marginata var. minor
S. marginata var. boryi
S. marginata var. minor
S. matta-florida
S. sp. McB 1379 aff. alpigena
S. sancta
S. vandellii
S. oppositifolia 'Le Bourg d'Oisans'
S. sp. aff pulvinaria coll. Kasjmir
 

[gervandenbeuken]

correction:
2 images are the same. Image 2 and 4 are both S. marginata var. minor

[maggiepie]

What a delightful thread, I have really enjoyed looking at all these beautiful little plants.

[ruweiss]

Hello, dear friends,
here are some more Kabschias from the frame:

 Kabschias
 Sax.Beatles
 Sax dinnikii White
 Sax.Jan Neruda
 Sax.Joy Bishop
 Sax.Radvan Horny
 Sax.Rembrandt van Rijn
 Sax.wendelboi.jpg
 Sax.x dinninaris Stopp's best clone
 Sax.J.W.von Goethe

[Maggi Young]

A very smart selection, Rudi!

[ian mcenery]

Just caught up with this thread.  Wonderful plants everyone

Here are a couple of mine both tiny. The first Allendale Bonny growing in Tufa and the second S. madrifaria  in a small crevice outcrop I put together last year. This plant 18 months old is one of 3 in various spots but is flowering the best of all.

[Mark Griffiths]

Does anyone know the name of a Saxifrage I got many many years ago (sorry no photo). It is supposed to flower around Christmas time, pure white, the rosettes are quite large and spikey. I got it from Joe Eliiott, it was Sax Marie XXXXX I can't remember what XXXX was and I've never seen it mentioned since.