Troughs

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely to have you back with us Kata. I'm so sorry to hear about your work troubles. We have several Forumists who have been hit hard by the economic recession and I am amazed and very admiring of how positive they all seem when it must be very difficult to live cheerfully sometimes. I hope things improve for you soon. In the meantime you have beautiful and very healthy plants to help keep life on an even keel. Thanks for sharing them with us.

[hadacekf]

Some plants from my troughs.

Gentiana-verna
Draba-imbricata
Douglasia-chinotricha
Saxifraga-strybrni
Androsace-muscoidea
\Draba-polytricha

[Paddy Tobin]

Franz,

The gentian is doing fabulously well for you in your trough as is the saxifrage, particularly beautiful.

Paddy

[Lvandelft]

Fantastic plants in your troughs Franz!

[Lesley Cox]

I've never come across Douglasia chinotricha as such. Is it close to or even the same as Vitaliana praetutiana? Or maybe a bigeneric hybrid of it?

[Katherine J]

Thank You Robin and Lesley for Your kind words!

Franz,
Your plants are lovely, as usual. I also have Draba imbricata and Draba polytricha, but they don't want to flower for me.
D. polytricha are one year old seedlings, but D. imbricata is already "old" (4 years) and has a nice big cushion, but no flowers.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Glorious looking plants Franz !!!  Fabulous ! 

[hadacekf]

Thank you all together for the kind comments on my pictures.
Katherine
The Draba are propagate with seeds. Therefore there are rich-flowering and poor-flowering plants.

[wolfgang vorig]

Alpine troughs - collection of my wife

[Katherine J]

How nice! Especially that with tufa rocks.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful troughs Wolfgang !! 

[Lesley Cox]

Weren't saxifrages just MADE to live in troughs? Is that Olsynium douglasii at the top right of the second picture Wolfgang? It looks very happy?

[wolfgang vorig]

Hello Lesley and Luc;
Thank you for kind answer.
Lesley;
  About the Sax longifolia is a small group of non-flowering daffodils. About this Dicentra  cucullaria and right Primula hirsuta.

Regards, Wolfgang

[astragalus]

This is a picture of my favorite trough - favorite mostly because of its extra size and depth.  Nothing has ever winter-killed in this one.  It's not protected in any way during the winter. It's anchored by Daphne x hendersonii 'Ernst Hauser' in one corner.  The rest of the plants are mostly from the Rocky Mountains.

[Maggi Young]

It's not surprising that that deep one is a favourite trough, Anne, it is looking very good indeed.  I like the round set, too.... we have some containers like that, rather deeper... I have pines in them. That "middling" depth of your trio makes a neat display in itself.