Summer-time alpines...alpines of July

I can't compete with all the lovelies already posted, but I have a few humble July flowers to contribute. The first is (I think) Allium forrestii. I'm sure Todd will know if it's really something else!

This plant I got last year, and it is now flowering for the first time. It's Ebenus longipes, according to the supplier. I had been hoping for an orangey-red flower, but it's closer to magenta, unfortunately. My color scheme is now wrecked. Sigh!

This well-behaved little Sedum is labeled S. sichotense, but I have not been able to verify the name. It is non-spreading, but strong enough to survive being surrounded by various creeping thymes.

June, that allium is actually cyathophorum var. farreri..and it self-seeds like the dickens! Dead-head it immediately after the flowers finish!

I really like that little pink legume!

Your sedum reminds me of S. middendorfianum.

June, my goodness, I hope it doesn't seem like a competition! For me, believe me, it's an education! And you know what? I haven't even heard of any of your plants, so post on, please!

Ebenus... sheesh, I have to go look that up! The wonderful world of plants, hey?

Thanks for the ID on the Allium. I'd be happy if it would seed itself, but it's been flowering for three years now with nary a seedling in sight! There's no other Allium flowering near it, so could that be why it never sets seed?

June, here's a detailed description of A. forrestii, if you want to compare: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027479

Thanks for the link. I suspect that my plant is a hybrid, as the nurseryman I got it from grows his stock from seed.

Lots blloming now......common but showy Gypsophila repens

Silene maritima 'Ice Cups'

Diminutive Incarvillea forrestii

Campanula patula

A new one--Campanula tatrae...looks like a small version of rotundifolia to me!

Lewisia glandulosa

the real Lewisia longifolia...parent to the hybrids Little Plum, Pinkie and Little Peach

Campanula pilosa

Oxalis 'Ute'

and I'll end this session with Oxalis 'Ione Hocker'

Gorgeous everyone!

Gorgeous indeed!
A couple from here:
A hardy perennial snapdragon starting to bloom, Antirrhinum molle, I think. But I've changed my mind so many times over the years... A. molle?, A. sempervirens? I dunno. It was bought as what I assumed would be annual bedding plants- 'Gummy' variety - but they lived on.

Some form of Scutellaria alpina:

Phyteuma scheuchzeri:

Pretty tall for the rock garden, but here's Codonopsis mollis. (I get a kick out of the skunky odor of codonopsis. And I find this quite funny too... I have a vining codonopsis that I've had for years but have never seen bloom... as soon as it gets tall enough to vine, it dives into the adjacent viburnum. I've only seen it's dried skeleton in winter, LOL!)

Mildly interesting... a white-flowered form of Oxytropis splendens:

Dianthus pavonius:

I like that snapdragon for sure! and Dianthus usually make a great show. I am almost caught up to you as my Phyteuma, Codonopsis and Dianthus are about a week from blooming.

Here is my potted Lewisia columbiana var. rupicola.

A little Penstemon sown as P. paysonorum

and a bright blue one sown as P. rydbergii but I expect it's really P. virgatus.

helps to attach the pic!

Native to rocky slopes in the Caucasus, apparently... Stachys discolor:

Possibly Penstemon cyaneus... but possibly also just a nice blue variant of the penstemon (hybrid?) that seeds throughout my yard, usually in a wide range of pinks-purples. More keying-out to do...

Rich purple colour on Campanula collina - from the Caucasus, again, to Armenia and Turkey, in meadows and rocky soils at 1600-2300m elevation (Graham Nicholls, Dwarf Campanulas):

Campanula betulifolia, from Armenia, Turkey and, hey!, the Caucasus, in limestone and volcanic rock crevices at 250-2280m elevation. (As you can see, I'm really enjoying Nicholls' book - discovered that the Caucasus is incredibly rich in plant life, and is the "epicenter" for Campanula!)

Edelweiss, Leontopodium alpinum; quite a very tough, undemanding plant here - it occasionally wilts a bit in "hot" weather, but revives immediately with a little water:

Sempervivum arachnoides:

Not alpine, but rock garden-ish, at least... Helianthemum nummularium 'Ben Nevis':

Great stuff! I just got back from am alpine plant collecting trip in northern Newfoundland...got two iceboxes of new plants for our crevice garden at work. Among the plants were Salix reticulata, S. arctophila, S. calcicola, S. glauca, S. vestita, Dryas integrifolia, Silene acaulis, Erigeron hyssopifolius, Solidago multiradiata, Draba norvegica, Arenaria longipes, Arnica lonchophylla, Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. aizoides, S. paniculata, S. caespitosa, Primula laurentiana, Anemone parviflora, Alchemilla minor..and a few others I can't recall! I'll post some pics of the great alpines I saw there once I get them organized.

Wow!! Looking forward to it!

Just started sorting the pics...it was extremely windy during the trip and most pics are somewhat blurred...a real pain. Here is the clearest pic of Saxifraga paniculata...amazed that it was growing in a bed of moss!