Newly planted little trough

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Got this little trough planted up the other day - filled with gritty - limey compost and some tufa rock.

Here are the inhabitants :

back row from left to right :
Paraqualegia anemonoides - Primula marginata 'Drakes blue' - Androsace chamajasme

middle from left to right :
Douglasia laevigata ciliolata - Androsace pubescens - Dianthus 'Leuchtkugel'

Front from left to right :
Edraianthus pumillo - Gentiana clusii - Campanula rainerii


If my Paraqualegia grows to the size of the prize winning specimen at the latest AGS show I'll be in trouble...
I hope I didn't make bad mistakes except for overcrowding the little thing - which I always seem to do...

[David Nicholson]

Luc, that's given me some planting ideas.

[mark smyth]

make sure you show it again next year.

[Maggi Young]

After mention of Morisia monanthos as a good trough plant  in an earlier thread, when I said we had lost our plants, Brian Wilson contacted me to offer a cutting. Very knid of him! The other day I asked a favour of Brian and Maureen, on their way to Perth Show, but they were going by another route and so could not help me with a Rhodo. quest.....imagine my surprise today to have these pots delivered by Maureen......


The promised Morisia cutting.... showing its willingness to grow from root cuttings by having a strong root sticking out of the base ofthe pot! AND this rather fab pot.... not a Rhodo!
If this is my reward for asking impossible favours, I really must think up something else !!
I have another reason to show you this extraordinary pot of Asparagus deliciosus, however....
in the midst of the show season, it is a timely reminder that a little effort put into dressing one's plants can have a dramatic effect on their success .... look how beautifully the asparagus spears are presented, with their mossy collar. If a vegetable, albeit a luxury vegetable, can look this good with some care and attention, think how good a real plant could look.... and this is the sort of attention to detail that Folks likethe Wilsons put into their exhibits......I'm not saying you have to do it, but it is worth a try... and, going back to planting little troughs, pay as much attention to the layout of rocks as to the plants and take some effort to arrange the whole in an aesthetically pleasing manner, don't just bung everything in... think about it, it'll pay off in the end.
Oh, and Maureen and Brian, thanks for the Morisia... so glad you weren't able to help, because you know how much we LOVE asparagus!! Cheers, Chums!

[Paddy Tobin]

Maggi,

Asparagus with moss - Never. Far better with Bearnaise sauce.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

The Sauce Béarnaise is a scrummy thing  and no mistake, sadly, we are so greedy that when we are lucky enough to get asparagus are good and as fresh as this, we tend to just munch the lot, raw. It is delicious and, I am sure, very good for us. Save dirtying a pan, too!

[Joakim B]

Looks nice
I planed to take som cuttings from my mother-in-law but it was only one in cutting size the others where 1m tall
Must remember earlier next year then it supply a lot 

Good point about small things making a huge improvment. I am sloppy with these things so this gave me a good lesson. 
Hopfully I will remember it for a while.
Joakim

[ranunculus]

You are VERY, VERY brave Joakim......not many Scottish or English men would DARE to take cuttings from their mother-in-laws (one would SURELY be enough)!!!   

[Joakim B]

maybe a Freudian slip 
I meant cuttings from my mother-in-law´s (asparagus) and not my mother-in-law. it is so good I will not change it.
Joakim

[Paddy Tobin]

Maggi,

My wife regularly complains of how unproductive my asparagus bed is, despite the loads of manure lavished upon it, regular watering etc. The explanation is simple; I eat a lot of asparagus while passing through the veg patch. It's good stuff.

Paddy

[ian mcenery]

Luc I hope you succeed with your paraquelegia I have kept these in a trough for up to 2 years and got a few flowers. This time I have drilled a hole in the side of my hypertufa trough and will try to grow in vertically in the hope of avoiding winter wet. Will be interested to here how it works out for you

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I hope to bring positive reports next year Ian !  It's my first Paraquilegia, I keep my fingers crossed...