Troughs

[christian pfalz]

hi, orostachys and dianthus erinacea...


cheers
chris

[astragalus]

Trough in the garden taken during bloom time of Vitaliana and various western-american phlox.  The purple one is Phlox kelseyi "Lehmi Purple'.  Taken from below trying to be "arty".

[Lesley Cox]

Chris, I'm not sure that your Dianthus erinaceus IS  that species. There is another which is often sold as erinaceus but whose foliage is finer and softer. The true plant has really painful leaves, as sharp as a hedgehog's prickles. This is the true plant. This one is a seedling from my original and darker in colour, from the ACW expecition to Turkey in 1966. Most are a softer pink.

[Lesley Cox]

The picture quality is poor, being scanned from a colour print.

[christian pfalz]

lesley, thank you for showing, i was not sure yet, i had more varietys from dianthus "erinacea" i bought so  ...
do you have seed from yours, i´m very interested about...
cheers
chris

[Lesley Cox]

Chris I sometimes get seed and next time I do, you are welcome to some. Sometimes it doesn't and I think it is because it gets very dry. It flowers best if well watered in early spring. Mind you, harvesting the seed is a very painful process.

[olegKon]

Dianthus freiynii with a single flower.
A new trough is ready. Still another time - Ian's recepe was made use of.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very nice colour on your D. erinaceus Lesley !!   

Oleg, a very promising trough !  Don't forget to post a picture once it has been planted ! 

[christian pfalz]

lesley, fine...thank you....i´m happy 
cheers
chris

[olegKon]

My trough 3. The same rewcipe, but new experience of mixing concrete with water at +34C.

[Graham Catlow]

I have a trough that wasn't doing too well and decided it needed a complete overhaul.
So as a distraction from the weeds and tidying that needed doing elsewhere I gave it a go.

I thought I would combine trough and crevice and here is the result. I only have two plants for it at the moment; Teuchrium subspinosum and Dianthus arpadianus
I have wanted Saxifraga longifolia or 'Tumbling Waters' for many years so will probably give one of those a try. The rest will be either glaucus or silver leafed but I don't know what they will be yet.

Graham

[mark smyth]

Oleg, how did you make your troughs?

[Maggi Young]

A new trough is ready. Still another time - Ian's recipe was made use of.

I think Oleg may be on holiday, Mark......

This is Ian's trough recipe Mark.... seek and ye shall find........

Olegkon    
Re: Troughs
« Reply #35 on: July 05, 2009, 08:18:14 PM »
This is my first trough finished today following Ian's instructions in Bulblog 1, 2008.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/020108/log.html

[Maggi Young]

and this is Ian's latest method....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/170908/log.html

[mark smyth]

first place I looked http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/020108/log.html

and the second
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/170908/log.html

The last one is how I do it and will be making about 6 before I start my new job