Hi all,
With respect to kelseya, I once got a seedling established in a big, ca 30 cm, chunk of pumice [not tufa!] which itself was sunk in a wooden pan of sand/scoria. The pumice was also planted with petrophytum and kept outside year-round, with occasional trips to be displayed. The kelseya survived -- and grew a bit-- for 3-4 years, but finally succumbed when I let the rock dry out too much one hot summer. I have a year-old vertical tufa garden with a special place reserved for kelseya, if I can acquire it again. I tried direct seeding last winter with wild seed from Roger Bar low, but no issue. The vertical tufa is north-facing, mortared between cinder-block piers, with a sand/scoria fill behind it for irrigation. I hope to write up the wall and a new alpine house over this winter. loren russell corvallis oregon ----- Original Message ----- From: "John and Pam Good" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 7:11:30 AM Subject: [Alpine-l] Re. Kelsey's cultivation Kelseya is usually grown in pots under cover (at least in the winter) in the UK and quite often appears on the show bench. I have grown it outside in a crevice garden in a trough with some success, but not up to show standard, and it eventually succumbed to our wet Welsh climate. John Good, N. Wales min 28F (-5) Sent from my iPhone On 19 Sep 2012, at 11:00, [email protected] wrote: > > 1. Re Rock garden > > Shirley, > > Do you have /Kelseya uniflora/ on your list for the arboretum garden? > > Does anyone else out there have experience growing it? > > --Henry > > --- On Tue, 7/17/12, Shirley Friberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Shirley Friberg <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Alpine-l] Rock Garden Designer > To: "Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society; postings copyright by > authors." <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 4:24 PM > > Henry,?Have you seen any vertical gardens? ?They are fantastic. ? Especially > if you are wanting to grow difficult alpines.?? Zdenck Zvolanek made one at > Wisley, Kew and the Alpine Society Headquarters.? You are probably right in > thinking that the general public wouldn't be impressed or understand the > significance in that method of planting. ?I would love to have one at our > arboretum, but I don't think it should be the major rock garden as it limits > how a garden can be designed. ?We now have been officially zoned 5- got it > from the Hort Society.?Shirley FribergSt. Paul, MN.?Zone _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
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