Alpine Plants Archives - Growing With Plants

Hearty Rock Gardeners Journey to a Wet and Wild Madison Wisconsin for a Fling

May 23, 2017

Ed Glover,(center) a volunteer caretaker of the University of Wisconsin Allen Centennial Garden points out how photogenic Joseph Tychonievich is (but we already knew…

THREE ROCK GARDEN TOURS AT THE NARGS ANNUAL MEETING IN ANN ARBOR

May 13, 2015

PULSATILLA BLOSSOMS TRY TO STEAL THE SHOW IN THE AMAZING ROCK GARDEN OF JACQUES AND ANDREA URDA THOMPSON IN YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN – PART OF THE…

ROCK GARDENING SOCIETIES – BEYOND ROCKS – A SPECIAL GIVEAWAY

April 23, 2015

NATIVE PLANTS SHINE IN THIS WATER-WISE ROCK GARDEN IN SANTE FE ON A TOUR WITH THE NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY – A SOCIETY…

THE NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING IN SANTA FE

August 30, 2014

This weekend I am attending the Annual Meeting of the North American Rock Garden Society being held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Having never…

WHAT SNOWBOARDING, RUMEX AND AN ENDANGERED SNOWDROP SHARE

February 9, 2014

Krasnaya Polyana? Yes, it’s where Snowboarding in Sochi currently rules…..but in the summer, these hills are alive with the sound of plant people botanizing….

The Alpine Rock Garden at the Denver Botanic Gardens

August 16, 2012

The Alpine Rock Garden at the Denver Botanic Gardens is world-renowned for its diversity and collections of high-elevation alpine plants, and western US native…

Up-Cycling A Vintage Cooler into an Alpine Trough

April 22, 2012

A VINTAGE METAL COOLER IS PLANTED WITH HIGH-ELEVATION MOUNTAIN TOP PLANTS Here is a fun way to both recycle a vintage mid-century insulated metal…

A visit with NARGS member Peter George and his amazing rock garden

May 4, 2011

Adonis vernalis in bloom in a tufa bed in the rock garden of Peter George, a collector of rare alpine plants who gardens in…

Sax in the City part 2

March 29, 2011

Saxifrages, the high alpine encrusted ones found on the worlds highest mountain peaks are addictive, and I love to grow many that are planted…

Rhodohypoxis- the Lemming of the Plant World

February 28, 2011

What this on your deck or terrace? Follow these directions on how to grow one of the least known and most showy of South…