Alpine Gardening

whats your soil like? sandy? when did you plant them and when did they fade away?

What do you feed your Viburnum?

Thank you I will try that.

Thanks palustris

I'd probably agree with you about Waterperry's display (although I haven't gone there on Saxifrage day) but he does know his saxifrages.The best guy, I've found personally, for buying Saxifrages from is Dr. Steve Furness in the Alpine Plant Centre in Derbyshire. I still think the whole thing,...

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Rhana

Thanks. Did not look through the images. Sadly the Data allowance gets used up very quickly on images. Disappointingly that means the one I have labelled as it, is not, the flowers are pure white.

Thank you for your reply @Selleri, I can now see what I'm to aim for. This is a new interest, I know nothing of sempervivum. It's going to be interesting watching the seedlings grow. Thank you for all the pointers.

I agree about Lewisias, they are usually planted in a wall so that rain doesn't collect in the rosette. You could try a feed, but I would only do it once. Maybe there isn't enough soil for the Sedum sieboldii (that's the first one)

Great ground cover spreads like crazy. Also super easy to propagate.Just for fun:

OK so I've removed the large pot and put up a long hanging trough style basket on the railings which I'm going to fill at the weekend.It's now been a couple of months since we planted up our other baskets, which are now in full bloom, and I realise this is kind of late to be establishing a new...

I have always done it when they first appear above soil in late Spring. At least then you can find the resting buds from which they grow.

I've tried all sorts of different label systems over the years. (For one summer, I worked at a nursery for a well-known garden centre. The wind had blown through the clematis area, and this "newbie" was identifying different clematis, none of which were in flower, by their slightly different...

I think you are right that people will try and plant grapes on that side of the hills, if at all possible. Once a friend of my dad, who had a few hectares of vinyards, told me it influenced the taste, and therefore the wine quality. I remember he had not been able to place his plants exactly...

The only ones I have ever seen have been on the show bench and very definitely grown under cover.

I’m from Denmark!

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Seems quite an easy way to brighten up a tired little bed.. Have a go there are so many lovely plants...

There is one way to find out....

Found the one which I wanted yesterday in my flowers folder....shud a gone to specsavers...Here it is:I have some new colors dl from a grower which are beautiful, I meant to buy them.Lewisia brighteyes Oranges are nice too.