It's nice to have a "natural" garden to relax in. (Although, all gardens manipulate nature to varying degrees, so are not totally natural.)
[ATTACH]More Western Marsh Orchids popping up around the pond..
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There is nothing to beat an SDS drill going into brick, stone, concrete, etc. The first time you use one, your eyes will open wide and your jaw...
[ATTACH] Edraianthus from the Balkans.[ATTACH] Freesia "Joan Evans" from South Africa.[ATTACH] Dodecatheon from North America.
I put a 4 feet length of plastic pipe upright in our Alpine House and planted a Baby Sun Rose at the top. It's almost reached the bottom already....
It's a dianthus. Can't think of the name off the top of my head.
Alpines on limestone boulders. Boulder gardening! :) [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]
Also Acacia baileyana purpurea. Beautiful tree and would love Hampshire soil.
Consider Drimys winterii. Not tooo big. All year around interest between its white flowers, pink berries, black berries in different seasons....
[ATTACH]Androsace himalaica. [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]
There might be some in North Wales; I don't know really. There's plenty in the Czech Republic, I believe.
They shouldn't die really: maybe they haven't enough sharp drainage and winter wet does them in then. Sharp drainage is the key to most alpines.
[ATTACH]Erinus alpinus growing in Derbyshire tufa.(40" round concrete trough).
[ATTACH]Oxalis adenophylla "Silver Shamrock", which grows in the Southern Andes at altitudes from 3,000 to 8,000 feet.
About 3 inches high when in flower.
[ATTACH]Linum "Gemmell's hybrid".
I grow it but it won't take frost. :(
Ramonda from the Pyrenees.[ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Darmera peltata (Indian rhubarb) flowering before the leaves emerge.[ATTACH] Showing the supermarket vegetable trays, that the water...
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