Plants flowering in the open rock garden.June '09

[Magnar]

If you get seeds this year Magnar, perhaps our friend Cliff would like a few?

Sure I will keep Cliff in mind when the seeds are ready 

[Magnar]

This is a very interesting thread to follow.. so many nice and interesting plants to see.. known and unknown.. Thanks everybody.

Saxifraga vandellii is flowering now,, after 4 years. The plant's actual size is about 1/4 of what is shown in the pic.

[ranunculus]

If you get seeds this year Magnar, perhaps our friend Cliff would like a few?

Sure I will keep Cliff in mind when the seeds are ready 

I am not worthy ... many thanks, Magnar (and Lesley)!

[akoen]

Not Sedum (Rhodiola) roseum?

And I don't think it is neither Sedum (Rhodiola) roseum or S. oreganum. I have them both.

Anne Karin,
if it's not S. oreganum it might be Sedum spathulifolium Purpureum. This has the same bad behaviour of flowering to death.

Yes it is Sedum spathulifolium. I found the label. I gees it will die as it got flowers on every stem.

Very nice Magnar. A typical Magnar-plant.

[Lesley Cox]

I was talking about a different plant which I'm SURE IS Sedum roseum. Can't find it above now.

[Lori S.]

Lesley, are you perhaps thinking of the Rhodiola rosea/Sedum roseum that I posted in the "Troughs" thread?  Thank you very much for the info on pulsatillas, by the way!  

1) Nice colour on Campanula saxifraga, from seed last year.
2) Oxalis 'Ute' - I love the pleated foliage on this!
3) Oxalis enneaphylla 'Minutifolia Rosea' - even lovelier with the pink-edged foliage!  
4, 5) Potentilla porphyrantha

[Sinchets]

Nice to see another Potentilla porphyrantha, Lori. Such a lovely colour.
Flowering now
Dianthus ferrugineus- eye-achingly red on a sunny day
Dianthus oschtenicus + the buff reverse of the petals- this time from AGS seed

[wolfgang vorig]

some pictures from alpinum

 Leontopodium alpinum
 Saxifraga Karin
 Saxifraga longifolia
 Dianthus Joan Blood
 Oxalis enneaphylla
 Oxalis enneaphylla 1
 Oxalis Ute

[Rodger Whitlock]

Wolfgang: your oxalis photos are mixed up. 'Ute' has exceptionally large, near-white flowers, as shown in Simon's photo in the previous posting.

[ruweiss]

Hallo Wolfgang, Your Saxifraga Karin is probably S. Southside Seedling.
'Karin' is a white flowered Kabschia, raised by a friend. Otherways I always
enjoy the beautiful pictures of your garden and plants.

[Lori S.]

1) Delosperma aff. congestum in almost full bloom - one can still see a bit of the plant!  Grown from seed in 2003, and evidently hardy here... or so I have concluded, anyway!
2) Lewisia longipetala

[Paul T]

I've said it before, and I'll likely say it again.... SO many things in this topic that I have never seen or heard of before.

Lori,

That little Iris timofejewii is so elegant.  Beautiful.

Thanks everyone.

[Lori S.]

Simon, I was reviewing photos and thinking about your comment, "what I have been growing as Penstemon whippleanus for a long time". 
I agree with the sense of disbelief your comment conveys.. the plant doesn't seem to be P. whippleanus, from what I can see.  This reminds me that I got seeds for what keyed out to be Penstemon hirsutus, a few years ago, under the guise of P. whippleanus!   

[Sinchets]

Thanks Lori, I'll google some pics of P.hirsutus for comparison.
Some more Penstemon flowering now:
Penstemon ambiguus- starting to put up suckers and spread now
Penstemon PCHA148 (F1 of the original plant grown from Chilterns Seeds- it is mentioned online as being P.leonensis from Mexico)
Lastly a view from upper xeric to upper rock garden

[Lori S.]

Simon, the number of species of plants you have is simply astounding!  Thank you for showing (some of) them!  

1) Silene nigrescens
2) Sisyrinchium montanum - a native plant
3) Sisyrinchium septentrionalis - our other native blue-eyed grass
4, 5) Castilleja lutescens miniata - yet another native plant!
6) Aethionema grandiflora