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News from the Alpine Garden
23rd August 2012
The mild to warm weather we’ve had this summer has brought a profusion of flowers in the Lesotho plant area. Diascia barberae, Athrixia fontana, Helichrysum basalticum and Kniphofia caulescens are just a few of the plants in full bloom. All of them originate from the cooperation project with Katse Botanic Garden in Lesotho. It’s been exciting to see all these new plants, selected for the Schachen from the high mountains in eastern Lesotho which enjoy a wet climate, doing so well in the Alpine Garden. They reach their flowering peak after the Himalayan plants are over and extend our flowering season right up until we close in September.
Campanula collina
Campanula raineri
Cyananthus lobatus
Delphinium confusum
Diascia barberae u.a. Lesotho-Pflanzen
Senecio macrospermus
7th August 2012
Aster alpinus
Athrixia fontana
Cremanthodium arnicoides
Delphinium beesianum
Dimorphotheca jucunda
Hieracium villosum
Lilium bulbiferum
Primula reptans
Primula wollastonii
Lesotho plants
28th July 2012
After a cool start to the week with temperatures below 10°C last Monday,
by Friday Summer was back with the temperature soaring to 24°C.
As I’m writing this I can see the mist sinking and the rain won’t be far
behind. The blue poppy (Meconopsis betonicifolia) is in
full flower. The indigenous flora is past peak flowering while the
Himalayan plants are in full flower. The southern hemisphere plant
areas are still a few weeks away from their peak flowering period.
As always, there are many interesting plants in flower.
Calceolaria biflora
Campanula scheuchzeri
Celmisia spec.
Cremanthodium arnicoides × delavayi
Dianthus pavonius
Erodium manescavii
Hebe hectori
Lilium monadelphum
Meconopsis betonicifolia
Meconopsis napaulensis
Ruschia spec.
Silene elisabethae
Himalayan plants
19th July 2012
Campanula pulla
Campanula thyrsoides
Felicia rosulata
Globularia cordifolia
Gymnadenia conopsea
Haplocarpha rueppellii
Lilium bulbiferum
Lilium jankae
Lilium kesselringianum
Lotus corniculatus
Meconopsis quintuplinervia
Meconopsis racemosa
Meconopsis × cookei
Mertensia ciliata
Nomocharis saluenensis
Primula reidii var. williamsii
Primula secundiflora
Primula sikkimensis
Primula sikkimensis subsp. hoppeana
Trollius ranunculoides
Zaluzianskya oreophila
After the warm days of the past weeks and rainstorms most nights, the Alpine Garden is shortly before peak flowering. The first flowers of Meconopsis × sheldonii are open and the mass of buds promise a good season of flowers. Meanwhile the smaller plants of Meconopsis quintuplinervia and M. henrici are in full bloom. The latter has been covered with a fine mesh as pure seed are needed for the next generation of this seldom seen Meconopsis. The meadows in close vicinity to the garden are in full flower with Primula farinosa forming carpets of flowers in Schachengrund dotted with flowering plants of Gentiana clusii and the occasional Pinguicula alpina.
29th June 2012
Arnebia pulchra
Corydalis cashmeriana
Gentiana angustifolia 'Alba'
Gentiana punctata
Meconopsis grandis
Ourisia caespitosa
Phyllodoce empetriformis
Primula farinosa
Primula minkwitziae
Ranunculus amplexicaulis
Rhodothamnus chamaecistus
20th June 2012
Adonis pyrenaica
Anemone obtusiloba
Cortusa matthiola
Fritillaria pallidiflora
Gentiana angustifolia hybrid
Polemonium viscosum
Primula amoena
Primula pedemontana
Primula szechuanica
Primula warshenewskiana subsp. rhodantha
Schachen alpine garden
6th June 2012
Crocus albiflorus
Primula clusiana
Primula denticulata
Rhododendron thompsonii subsp. chamaedendoron
Alpine garden
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