Androsaces in a trough.

[hadacekf]

I cultivated Androsace 40 years in pots. In the last years I try to grow Androsaces of the Section Aretia in a trough outside. The trough is protected with a large glass plate from rains. The plant looks not as perfectly as in alpine house, but natural. They grow well and self seedlings appear.

Androsace cylindrica x hirtella
Androsace-carnea-ssp.-rosea
Androsace-wulfeniana
Androsace-mucronifolia

[Lvandelft]

Franz, this trough is looking fantastic!
Beautiful pictures. And seeing the Androsace wulfeniana which is a shy flowering plant
in culture (as far as I know).
You are a Master Grower of alpines!  Servus.

[David Nicholson]

Very nice indeed Franz.

[WimB]

WOW, just amazing Franz. How many species do you cultivate in that trough? Which soil mix do you use for those androsaces?

[hadacekf]

Wim,
I cultivate mainly A. cylindrica, hirtella, pyrenaica, mathildae, villosa, carnea sp.
globifera, mucronifolia, and lactea.

My soil mix consist of equal parts of composted mould, garden mould and coarse sand.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

What a marvelous trough Franz ! 
You do know how to please your Androsace !!
Stunning plants !
Thanks very much for posting !

[johanneshoeller]

Franz, excellent pics and culture! We could mean you live in the Alps and not in Vienna!

[Otto Fauser]

Hans , your crevice troughs planted with Aretian Androsaces look superb and so
healthy. I prefer it to the potgrown ones in the Alpine house -not a flower out of
place , great skill required which I admire - but too perfect .
 Would love to try A. mucronifolia from seed .
 

[Paddy Tobin]

Franz,

I planted this androsace in a sink not to test its hardiness outdoors but because I knew no better. It has thrived there for about ten years and I have regularly taken pieces of it off when refreshing the planting in the sink.

Paddy

[WimB]

Paddy,

if that is A. sarmentosa then I did the same 5 years ago and it still likes it outdoors.

[hadacekf]

Thank you all together for the kind comments.

Paddy and Wim,
A. sarmentosa is an excellent rock garden plant.

Otto,
If my plants produce a seed, I think of you.

[Lesley Cox]

Many thanks for these superb pictures Franz. Every time we see your plants we're given a lesson in fine culture.

[ruweiss]

Franz, what a lovely sight! It shows perfectly your life-long experience
with the cultivation of many rare and mostly not too easy plants.
Many thanks for showing them to us.

[Ragged Robin]

It's wonderful to see such floriferous androsaces in your trough, Franz, they look so happy nestling in the crevices.  You have inspired me to work on this idea on our alpine slope and I see that you place the rocks at different angles but I would like to know are they predominately across or down?

[Zdenek]

Franz,
Androsaces in your trough are really marvelous. I am not able to grow them so well. I attach here two of Androsace growing in my trough, not so marvelous. They are both Himalayan ones.
Androsace integra (biennial)
Androsace mariae, white form