Re: [Alpine-l] Rock Garden Designer

Hi, Shirley. Among the usual suspects I would pick Zdenek Zvolanek ro supervise a local team. A watercourse might interest him strangely. Paige Woodward - Original Message - From: Shirley Friberg lovnpuf...@comcast.net To: alpine-l@science.uu.nl Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 6:52 PM

Re: [Alpine-l] not necessarily the last word on astragalus, but ....

If any species produced allelopathic substances inhibiting others of its own species, would it not inhibit itself too? No. But I sense that this conversation has backed up from knowledge to suppositions. I do that, too. Paige Woodward pa...@hillkeep.ca www.hillkeep.ca

Re: [Alpine-l] tufa comes to Oregon [2] -- erratum

Hi, Loren. Anthropogenic travertonics is a marbellous invention; I'll bet that quite a few members of this list speed-conflated anthropogenic with anthrogenic first time out. Please do send images of what you're doing with your tufa to Alpenpix. Paige Woodward pa...@hillkeep.ca Manager

Re: [Alpine-l] Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3238) 5-places Dolomitescene in HDR

Hello, all. Cliff asked whether we think HDR images are OK in our gallery. HDR -- high dynamic range -- images are created during editing (I looked this up). They combine many shots of the same frame, taken across a range of light settings. Sometimes they achieve a hyper-realism that looks

Re: [Alpine-l] Alpine-L Gallery Image Upload (3146) Narcissus triandrus

Cliff, your Narcissus triandrus makes me glad to be alive. It is glorious, just different enough from triandrus in various collections, and of course from mass-grown bulbs, to trigger the Helpless Joy hormone. Paige - Original Message - From: Cliff Booker bookcli...@aol.com To:

[Alpine-l] Fritillaria maximowiczii

Fritillaria maximowiczii is blooming in my greenhouse. With its green and maroon chequers, is this frit from NE China and Siberia rare in cultivation, or do people just not think it's worth photographing? To supplement the few images available on Google, I have posted three here:

Re: [Alpine-l] Juno Iris pix -- more signs of spring

Yikes, that photo arrived fast. It's not a very good one, but I hope it will encourage more of you to try growing Junos. Some can be drowned with an eyedropper, but others will tolerate lots of water, as Jane confirmed: I also found bucharica, magnifica, and vicaria good on the rock garden

Re: [Alpine-l] Juno Iris pix -- more signs of spring

Wow, Paige! What a stunner. Very different from the nicolai and rosenbachiana we grow out here... We find them very sensitive to moisture, so growing them in the Pacific Northwest is a tour de force Panayoti, you are such a diplomat. I don't care if it rains or freezes Long as I've got

Re: [Alpine-l] Sagebrush Buttercup

Hi, Joy. It's R. glaberrimus. I put the botanical name on the version in the gallery. http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=alpenpixgenus=id=2970 By the way, I was delighted to receive seeds of your Scilla vicentina (Hyacinthoides mauritanica) from the RHS Lily Group list. I also got

Re: [Alpine-l] Plants in Turkey

Hello, Shirley. No one has answered you on the list, so I will have a go. Turkey has wonderful plants; when to visit depends on the plants that interest you. Crocuses are already blooming at lower elevations. By May most bulbs will be over but there will be roses, poppies and myriad other

Re: [Alpine-l] Rosulate Violets -- IDs -- new Gardens category

This *is* about rosulate violets. Stephanie Ferguson herself probably knows the IDs of her plants very well, but she has not replied to email; perhaps she is away. Impatient, I asked two skilled viola wranglers for help in identifying the mystery rosulates in Alpenpix. Both said they'd need

Re: [Alpine-l] Rosulate Violets

I haven't *heard* of anyone growing them in the open garden (doesn't mean they aren't) In Calgary last fall I photographed some in Stephanie Ferguson's garden. Pix coming up. Paige ___ Alpine-l mailing list Alpine-l@science.uu.nl

[Alpine-l] Rosulate Violets -- IDs -- new Gardens category

Dear all: OK, I've posted some images of rosulate violas in Stephanie Ferguson's new rock garden as it looked under construction back on Sept. 10. http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=alpenpix Rosulate experts, please help with the violas' names. Stephanie's rock garden reflects such

[Alpine-l] Snowdrop photos

Nancy Robinson has given me permission to post her photograph of the beautiful little snowdrop she mentioned. You'll find it and photos of variations in Galanthus nivalis in my garden here: http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=alpenpix Can anyone put a name to Nancy's snowdrop? Paige

Re: [Alpine-l] snowdrops 1

Bob, you don't say what kinds of snowdrop are blooming in your garden in Denver. As with Colchicum, Crocus, Calochortus and many plants that don't begin with C, you can grow things the rest of us must struggle to cosset by faking a near-desert dry season. Paige The snowdrops are in bloom here.

Re: [Alpine-l] Penstemon Hybrid?

Hi, Dave. Please post pix of your mystery Penstemon in Alpine-L's photo gallery, Alpenpix. It's here http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=alpenpix and at top left on the screen you'll see the Upload button. I'd love to see your other penstemons, too, and the castillejas you grow with them.