Saxifraga 2012

[WimB]

Some Saxifrages which are starting to flower here now:

Saxifraga 'George Gershwin'
Saxifraga 'Kampa'
Saxifraga marginata f. milica
Saxifraga marginata
Saxifraga 'Marilyn Monroe'
Saxifraga scardica f. olymp
Saxifraga sempervivum f. stenophylla

[Tim Ingram]

I've always struggled to grow these well but am getting hooked on them again after buying Malcolm McGregor's book last year. So I am trying some in tufa and some in the coolest but still reasonably light parts of my sand bed. They really are wonderfully cheerful plants at this time of year.

[Graham Catlow]

A first for me with this one.
Bought as a single tiny rosette in August 2010.
The photo is more red than the actual colour which is very pink.

Saxifraga frederici-augusti subsp. grisebachii 'Wisley Variety' The longest plant name I have, and have ever come across.

[Jlynx]

Very nice looking Sax.  I ordered one from a nursery.  Is it outside in a trough or is it in an alpine house?

[Graham Catlow]

Hi!
It's in a trough. I cover the trough through the winter to keep out some of the winter wet. I don't know if I need to though.

[Tim Ingram]

Some really nice examples from Wisley on Sunday. The two troughs were beautifully planted, and I would be more than happy to grow saxifrages as well as this! Does anyone recognise the salmon cultivar shown in the first trough? Although it doesn't come out in the photo the most striking plant in the second trough (to my eyes) was S. ferdinandi-coburgi (middle top). This had small but vivid yellow flowers on the tightest of cushions.

These two troughs are on the north side of the glasshouse, giving good light but cooler conditions. Elsewhere a few saxes. were growing in tufa walls - S. 'Penelope' and 'Tumbling Waters'. This has to be the ideal way of growing them if one has access to tufa.

[Lesley Cox]

Surely the whole concept of trough-growing was invented for Porophyllum saxifrages.

[Jlynx]

Outstanding troughs!  Tumbling Waters looks great. Impressive

[ruweiss]

Most of the Saxifrages of the Porophyllum section start to show their beautiful
flowers, some of them are already almost out of flower.
The S.frederici-augustii seedlings are 3 years old and could be maybe hybrids.

[Lesley Cox]

They are very nice Rudi.

[ruweiss]

Thank you Lesley

[Leiomerus]

Hi,
Here are some nice pictures of some even nicer Saxifragas, rewarding plants if you give them the little attention they deserve.
1/ Saxifraga 'Cumulus' next to a big marble rock in the rock garden
2/ Saxifraga 'Kathleen', a plant of 14 years old and still happy
3/ Saxifaga 'Lismore Carmine' in the rock garden
4/ Saxifraga 'Your Song', growing on a moonrock and my alltime favorite
5/ Saxifraga 'Red Poll', growing in a hole in sandstone
6/ Saxifraga 'Laka', growing in my concrete gutter
7/ Saxifraga 'Peach Melba' (left) next to Saxifraga 'Allendale Charm' and charming indeed, also with a miserable life in the gutter ...

[Maggi Young]

I have 'Your Song' too, and I like it VERY much.
Your close-up photos really show the charm of these flowers. The cushions are so good too, of course.

That last peachy apricot is pretty, too.  Hard to beat the large white flowers, though, isn't it?

   

[Leiomerus]

Thanks Maggi, but 'Peach Melba' still has to open some flowers and some buds have been frozen during the long, cold spell we and the plants experienced. But we could hide in our warm bed and the Saxifragas had to whitstand temperatures of minus 15 degrees.
But nevertheless 'Peach Melba' still has enough good buds to show a fine display.

[Maggi Young]

Oh yes, I take nothing away from Peach Melba..... the colour is pretty and the flower shape good.
There is just so much of the "film star" about large white flowers.