General Alpines

Not sure if this one has been posted, I didn't see it, if so, someone can delete :)

http://www.zahradnictvi-praha.cz/data/semena2011.html

With permission to post it, here is Mojmir Pavelka's 2011-2012 seed list:

Such wonders!!

And here is his website with photo galleries:
http://www.pavelkaalpines.cz/Photos/index.html

As I work my way through Vojtech Holubec's seed list of exotic wonders, how can I resist when I see these amazing photos?

http://holubec.wbs.cz/

Feast your eyes!

Hi, this is my first post, so hope it doesn't sound too naff.
I have just 'finished' construction of my first rock garden. I've been growing plants for years with only moderate success, but now I have come to live in central-western France (Poitou-Charentes) from wet and cold Belfast. Here I have a large but fairly flat garden. It is atop a limestone hill and my rock garden is about 20ft by 6 ft with a drop of about 18".

Asphodelus acaulis. not sure if this is in the right place. :)

I visited the Anchorage Botanical Garden about 10 years ago. They had some really nice gardens. I am hoping some of the people who live in Anchorage might post some pictures of this garden with a narrative. There were some really neat bun plants, but they were unmarked and I never learned their identity.

James

Does anyone know anything about the current status of Ron Ratko and his seed company, Northwest Native Seed? Any information would be VERY helpful. Thanks in advance.

NARGS is considering having its 2013 Study Weekend in northern New Mexico, probably in Sante Fe, and I'm curious what kinds of plants we would be likely to see in late March through Early April in the Sangre de Christo Mountains and the Jemez Mountains.

This is a plant that I am very fond of but, so far, haven't grown in my garden. In Victoria, BC, there used to be a swath of it at our back door and I often wish, when we moved east, that I had brought a piece of it. However, at that time, unfortunately, I wasn't much into gardening. Can anyone tell me if it is a weedy plant? Reason is that about 10 seed pots planted last spring are presently sporting healthy looking leaves of, what to me, with those opposite leaves, look like those of H. olympicum.

I have a couple of dinky little Ramonda serbica plants that I grew from seed. About the slowest growing things I've ever seen. I have also acquired a small chunk of tufa and my Dad drilled holes in it. So would one of my precious serbicas like tufa? Or is this a bad idea?

Jan Jeddeloh