Jane, Very nice and thorough site.
Will you be sharing the list of the "short" plants that work in your experimental Zone 4 garden? --Henry Fieldseth Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, zone 4 -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 1/9/15, k-jhend...@juno.com <k-jhend...@juno.com> wrote: Subject: [Alpine-l] New Plant I.D. Website To: alpine-l@science.uu.nl Date: Friday, January 9, 2015, 7:49 PM This may not be of interest to most of Alpine-L as the species depicted at my new identification website are growing wild between 9,400 and 10,200 feet in Colorado, which is the Upper Montane to Lower Subalpine Zones. The link is: http://www.picturetrail.com/snowtrekker7 I named the site "Wildflowers of Peak 7, Breckenridge, Colorado". So far, there are 260 species arranged by color and (I'm sorry) identified first by common name. I created the site for the locals who are not especially plant savvy but who have a "budding" interest in knowing the names and details of the plants they see while walking their dog, biking or hiking on neighborhood trails (which are within the wooded White River National Forest). That's why I chose to arrange them by color and use the local names. However, within each color album, the plants are arranged alphabetically by botanical family and then alphabetically within the respective family by genus and then by species. I'm limited by PictureTrail to a certain size image and a certain number of individual photos so I have created composite photos of each species showing the important structural parts. Many of the short species are in my experimental gardens. Even though they aren't true alpines from above treeline, their small stature and reliable, showy blooms work well for me in rocky crevices I have created in my rock walls. I hope you will find the site interesting and possibly helpful. If you see any errors, please let me know right away. If you're interested in growing some of the species depicted, please contact me as I collect seeds of many species every year and may have some of the species you might be interested in growing. Jane HendrixMountain View Experimental GardensPeak 7 Area - Breckenridge, Colorado USAElevation: 10,000 feetUSDA Zone: 4Websites: http://www.picturetrail.com/snowtrekker7 http://www.picturetrail.com/hendrix ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Cohan Fulford <cactuscac...@gmail.com> To: "Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society, postings copyright by authors." <alpine-l@science.uu.nl> Subject: Re: [Alpine-l] ? Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 17:01:27 -0700 Nothing happened to Alpine-L as you can see, it is still here if someone posts :) -- no one has been posting, that's all! If you want a site to be active, you need to originate posts-photos and topics for people to discuss... However, the photo posting system is awkward compared to many other venues, so that is likely a reason why many people have moved on..Cohan Fulford On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Kishori Hutchings <cusheoncr...@shaw.ca> wrote: Yes Bob, what did happen??I have visited the newer sites and still would prefer Alpine-L.Brian HutchingsSalt Spring Is. BC Canada From: penstemonSent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:12 AMTo: Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society;postings copyright by authors.Subject: Re: [Alpine-l] International Rock Gardener e-magazine - issue 60 Featured plants are Saxifraga dinnikii forma alba and some quite amazingly large Cyclamen from Greece. Excellent, as usual.Two (possibly rhetorical) questions.Why is there a city in Germany named Wet Cheeks? (Feuchtwangen.)Whatever happened to Alpine-L, anyway? Bob _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l -- West Central Alberta, Canada, Zone 2-3 record temps from 10-20 miles away: min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
