I only have a few alpines still blooming. Still some gentians to bloom yet and several alliums are nearly open. Campanula are the mainstay but they are past their peak now. Still quite a few Semps open. Here's a few of what's still open. This is the alpine wall in front of my house. The silver plant is Alyssum argenteum...lovely foliage but the flower stems are a bit thin and the flowering sparse.
This is a small-flowered but very floriferous selection of Campanula carpatica.
Delphinium tatsiense..the slugs got at most of the flowers so I had to take a close-up of the only uneaten one. The plant is about 18" tall. The flowers are startling blue with a purple spot on each petal.
Dianthus haematocalyx..the last dianthus to open for me.
Gentiana dahurica.....small flowers overall but hey, it IS a gentian!
At our rock garden conference I won the silent auction for a stone trough. Here's the planted version. Should be a few blooms for next year but the foliage is cute enough for now.
Todd,
Congratulations on the trough!
I started a bunch of dianthus haematocalyx from seed this spring.
The description said they'd be red. Do you know if they very from
pinks to red?
Thanks for the gorgeous pictures. Everything looks so fresh!
Tam
Tam, D. haematocalyx should be pink as fae as I know, but the reverse of the petals is buffy..if not then you don't have the real McCoy.
Todd, the trough is lovely, can you tell me what the plants are? Especially those at 3:00, 5:00 and 6:00?
Opps! That is one of my alpine pots, not the trough I won at the conference. I'll have to post the pic I meant to post when I get back home. In the meantime, the plants in the alpine pot are: Primula allionii (12:00), Jovibarba sobolifera (2:00), Saxifraga iranica (3:00), Androsace carnea (5:00), Saxifraga 'Bridget' (6:00) and an unknown Semp. at 9:00.
This was the trough pic I was meant to post.
Its gorgeous!
