Thank you, rannveig and Leftwood! I don't think the plants are any "cooler" than yours, just maybe different from what you have... same reason your plants are cool to me, LOL!
I think your ramonda looks great, June! Mine is really horribly burnt, despite our unusual snow cover... no blooms this year, I think.
I still have a pulsatilla in bloom (well, there's the odd P. vulgaris too). I bought this as P. aurea but I've since been informed it's P. albana var. lutea:
Lychnis ajanencis, from seed last year:
I'm finally getting a hint of what Junellia wilzeckia might look like, if it ever decides to perform a little:
I hardly even think of these as alpines, since they grow so easily and are so commonly grown here.... Sempervivum 'Excalibur' - very large flowers:
I think I like Carduncellus pinnatus best before it blooms...
Funky plants Alta! And I agree with Rann that your Ramonda looks fine June!
I'm amazed that you get so much less precip than I do Rann...no wonder you do well with plants that I thought would rot in your area.
My Incarvillea mairie Grandiflora is also in bloom
Campanula pilosa
Lewisia Little Plum
Saxifraga paniculata 'Lutea'
and Saxifraga Southside Seedling
I'm pretty amazed by it too Todd ..... we've been led to believe that Iceland is pretty wet! lol
Love the Campanula pilosa ... is it hardy? And I like the Southside Seedling too, very pretty.
Alta - more cool platns! :-)
Rann
Rann, that campanula pilosa is native to Alaska so I would think it was quite hardy!
Wow, now that's an Incarvillea mairei v. grandiflora! (I was thinking last year I should move my incarvilleas into the rock garden, where they seem to do better... still haven't done it.)
Silene nigrescens:
Close-up:
The two-tone effect of Campanula pillosa is gorgeous. All your plants are so mature and well grown, Todd - it's wonderful to see them!
Acckk, five years from seed to bloom for escobaria?!? Gee, if I hadn't killed the first batch from the seed you sent me, Rick, it would only be 3 years more... dang!
I see you have tufa galore Alta...I'm so envious! Your Silene is quite cute. It's another I was not familiar with...you certainly grow some unique plants.
Happy Birthday for yesterday Todd...! Great plants everyone. Enjoying seeing these very much.
A Happy Beleated Birthday Todd! Hope you had a great day :-) Sorry I missed it!
Thanks for the info Todd - I need to keep an eye out for that C. pilosa ..... very pretty!
Alta - very cool looking Silene!
Here's my Incarvillea mairei ... .can anyone tell me what the difference is between the species and var. grandiflora?
Rann
I'm not sure the difference...grandiflora is suppose to be a larger plant overall but that's all I know.
Happy Birthday, Todd!
I like the C. pilosa especially, too.
If the name makes any sense at all ("grandiflora"), it should have larger flowers than the species... Does it? I don't know.
Lewisia 'George Henley'...
(By the way, I really only have a few pieces of tufa in a small area, but a tufa bed is in the works. Bought the tufa late in April, and have just been moving plants, waiting for bulbs to finish blooming, and thinking since then... I'll probably start construction this weekend.)
Alyssum tortuosum:
Oxytropis splendens is starting to bloom... not an alpine, but a gorgeous native plant!
That Oxytrope has always been one of my fav native AB plants....wish I could grow it here!
After 4 years my Ramonda myconi Alba has graced me with a single bloom. The seeds came from Harry Jans when he spoke to our chapter some years ago.
First bloom is opening on Edrianthus graminifolius
Penstemon cyananthus. (Just got done keying it out to check. Whew, exhausting!)
More power to you Alta! Keying out Penstemon is no easy task.
My columbines have been doing what they are famous for.....crossing with each other! My miniature species (barnebyi, laramiensis, burgeriana 'Calimero', scopulorum, bertolonii) have been naughty. Here are samples of miniature blue-foliaged columbines in my collection which are obvious hybrids....who the parents are I cannot swear!
another
Meanwhile growing in the crevice garden at work is A. desertorum, one of my fav species.
and this formosa
and triternata.....at least if these three hybridize the offspring should still be red and yellow!
Sedum hispanicum v. minus 'Aureum':
Saxifraga x longifolia... thank heavens the hybrids thereof are not monocarpic, unlike S. longifolia.
Saxifraga paniculata v. minutifolia 'Red-backed Spider'... or so it was labelled, though I have not been able to verify that such a cultivar name was registered.
Leptodactylon pungens ssp. pulchrifolium has been blooming sparsely... interesting foliage and structure. Maybe next year it will put on a show.
Silene falcata... the very long, red calyx is striking on this one.
Eritrichium canum v. canum continues to bloom.... nice plant, even if it is not one of the sought-after eritrichiums.
Silene saxifraga:
Furry, white seedpods on Astragalus purshii v. lectulus:
