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Tag: Alpines

Ornithogalum convallarioides

July 17, 2006

This small bulbous Ornithogalum species is native to Madagascar Of all of the Ornithogalum species which I grow, this precious tiny specimen has been…

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May Day Alpine Wall

May 3, 2006

This May is the anniversary of the raised stone alpine wall along the west foundation of the greenhouse. Alpine walls are basically, rock retaining…

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Gentian-izing and Bitterroots

April 23, 2006

Last June, while botanizing in the Italian Alps, the mountain range known as the Dolomites in Northern Italy, within the Italian Alps, I became…

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High Alpine Primula marginata

April 19, 2006

Primula marginata are primroses that you will not find at a garden center. They must by ordered from an alpine plant catalog, or grown…

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Primula auricula season

April 12, 2006

Primroses come in many shapes and forms, with hundreds of species with alpine primula that generally bloom at the first hint of snow-melt to…

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Corydalis wilsonii

April 8, 2006

Corydalis wilsonii, makes a fine cultivated potted plant for the cold alpine house, or mild garden. The story of Corydalis, is similar to that…

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Sax in the city- The Alpine House in Bloom

April 6, 2006

Silver saxifrage growing in tufa rock, an alpine jewel from the highest peaks. In the tiny, greenhouse which I call the Alpine house the…

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March Alpine House

March 20, 2006

e In the Alpine House, a number of the last bulbocodium type Narcissus are blooming (above). Narcissus tenuifolius, with foliage low to the ground,…

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