Alpines. Piccies of

I think this is Foster's Gold starting.

 

Planted last autumn and has survived the winter.

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Delightful...as always kindredspirit

 

Scilla siberica.

 

Nice, cute

 

@kindredspirit

Your last photo.....There is a curved, ribbed piece of stone. What is that?
I have recently started collecting fossils, and that looks interesting!

 

Hi @Sirius . It's a fossil Ammonite formed from Mudstone found by my sister on the Jurassic Coast in Lyme Regis. The Ammonites disappeared at the time of the Dinosaur Extinction, 65 million years ago. (Give or take a few years)

 

Yes, I thought so.

I have a few Ammonites, but they are not the main focus of my collection.
But I definately wouldn’t use them as plant pot decoration

 

I've 3 or 4 more and they're in pots too. One has just disintegrated so maybe I'll take them indoors to join my collection of rocks.

Lewisia cotyledon. Everyone, I meet, say that they have great difficulty growing these. Our wet climate gives them orange rot in the stem and then that's the end of them. So, knowing that they are succulents that grow on cold, North facing, steep slopes of mountains in the Rockies, I've tried to replicate those conditions to some degree. I've made cairns facing north under a big Blue Cedar and protected from prevailing winds, which makes the ground underneath fairly dry. I made one last year about 4 feet high and the Lewisias flowered nearly all year, so on Friday I assembled a second cairn. Fingers crossed for this year.

 

Yep. Lewisia cotyledons come under the heading of alpines even though they're not from the Alps but from the Rocky Mountains.

I don't know either of your two plants, @shiney The first one looks very interesting but I'm not familiar with it.

 

Hi @shiney , your pink flower is an Armeria ( common name Thrift ).

 

Ah, yes, Armeria "Bevan's Variety". I thought the pale pink flower was it but the foliage looks different. It's flowering profusely here at the moment.