Saxifraga 2011

[Maggi Young]

That's kind, Adrian... Will send pix when I find them.... think the flowers are too far gone now to be properly representative.
 Ian thinks we  may have got Jaromir from Gerd Stopp but I can't find this lists to check 
Ian thinks he can lay his hands on label pix as well later when he returns. 

[adrian young]

Maggi Young link=topic=6559.msg203910#msg203910 date=1307365281]
That's kind, Adrian... Will send pix when I find them.... think the flowers are too far gone now to be properly representative.
 Ian thinks we  may have got Jaromir from Gerd Stopp but I can't find this lists to check  
Ian thinks he can lay his hands on label pix as well later when he returns.  

Gerd Stopp was the main/first supplier of this cultivar, he has listed it for the last 3 years.

[Maggi Young]

Aha! Then I think we're getting closer to our answer! It is a super plant... though the flowering stems are quite  surprisingly tall... 15cms maybe.

[adrian young]

Maggi Young link=topic=6559.msg203917#msg203917 date=1307372021]
Aha! Then I think we're getting closer to our answer! It is a super plant... though the flowering stems are quite  surprisingly tall... 15cms maybe.

15cm is possible, but no taller (are you generous with the Osmocote?)
BTW the mail to Henrik did not bounce back (but no answer yet, probably in the hill

[Maggi Young]

Very mean with feeding, Adrian. Certainly no Osmocote.  They're in a lean trough with high crevices filled with very little!

[Maggi Young]

Been out to grab some shots myself. Colour isn't very true, I have a flower in front of me here and it is a dark maroon type red, though it's showing pink in the pix and the older flowers get paler.  Flowers are approx. 8 to 10 mm across. Some stems are taller than I thought... up to 22cms ! 
 click the pix to enlarge them....

[ruweiss]

Maggi, I think you also have the true plant, the shape of the rosettes is the same like with my plants.
The height of the flowers depends on the amount of sunshine which the plants receive, my plants get
quite a lot. I also have Hareknoll Beauty to compare; this Saxifraga is also a real gem ,but the colour
of the Jaromir flowers is much darker. My first plant was also from Gerd Stopp who distributed it widely.   

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Rudi.  We like this plant very much, the very dark flowers are so pretty and there are lots of flowers, dancing over the plant. It is in a sunny place in the garden.... but sunny in Aberdeen is not the same as sunny in other places! 

[adrian young]

That is definitely Jaromir, can't mistake those flowers and rosettes.
I have 3 plants at Waterperry with flower stems half that height,
must be the light levels, I guess. They finished flowering about 3 weeks ago.

[Maggi Young]

I think it must be the low light levels indeed. There are a lot of flowers though, so the taller stems don't look bad, just "airy". Not to say they wouldn't be nicer at half the height. 
They've been in flower for several weeks now- folks were admiring them in their glory after the Aberdeen show on the 21st May.... and will keep looking pretty nice for at least another week, I reckon.... hail and gale force winds notwithstanding.

[adrian young]

I am looking forward to Spring 2012 already, sad really.
I thought a small reflection on Prague April 2011 may be in order.
Karel Lang and Jan Burgel had new cultivars on show.
S.'Cancan'  Ss.marginata Edwards x dinnikii     - Jan Burgel
S.'Bohemian Paradise'  Ss.cinerea x columnaris – Karel Lang
S.'Electra'  Ss. x dinninaris x  kotschyi – Oldrich Maixner
S.'Stan Laural'  TBA
S.'Samba'  Ss.'Tvuj Uspech' x kotschyi – Jan Burgel

[Lesley Cox]

Oh God. Thank goodness I have plenty of head hair because I'm tearing it out in handfuls in frustration that we can never see let alone grow any of these. The orangey ones are outstanding.

[adrian young]

Oh God. Thank goodness I have plenty of head hair because I'm tearing it out in handfuls in frustration that we can never see let alone grow any of these. The orangey ones are outstanding.

Do you grow any Kabschia sax in your part of the world, excuse my ignorance I have
never been to NZ

[Lesley Cox]

We do indeed Adrian, and many years ago there were probably 20 varieties with (semi) reliable names available. Most have been lost due to years of east coast droughts (most of our alpine growers live on the east coast of the South Island) and I would say we now have perhaps only half a dozen, all very old varieties. We are unable to import plants, and seed only if we can identify the parents of hybrids, newer species not at all.

[David Nicholson]

This may be perfectly normal but I can't say I have noticed it in previous years but my Saxifraga collosa var australis is in flower again after flowering like mad for most of May. This time the stems are very short. Is this normal?