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Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 06:30 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Orostachys iwarenge


Dianthus subacaulis


Unknown, probably a Saxifraga cv.?


What did you think I meant?

Mike_in_chicago - Chicago, IL, Zone "5b"
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Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 08:53 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Very nice! Your plants are taking off really well!! I love spring!

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Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 09:02 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Well I thought you meant plants with seedpods that explode, catapulting their seeds far and wide. Like impatiens.

But I'm not disappointed!

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Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 09:04 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Great title for you thread:) And cool plants Mike.

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Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 09:50 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

That Orostachys is a favorite of mine. It forms very large tight mats and has the most interesting bloom form in fall. A perfect rock garden specimen. Great shots too.

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Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 07:58 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Awesome! What a great series of photos.

Here's my contribution - a sempervivum that flowered last year. This one was amazing as the flower was fasciated.

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Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 10:11 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Great shots Mike. I like the saxifraga. Sorry I couldn't tell you what it is..It's cool the way the stems come up like that. what color are the flowers?

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Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 03:18 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

What great photos Mike and Sue - a fun description of what these plants naturally do.

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Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 09:51 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Abby wrote on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 05:11 am:

Sorry I couldn't tell you what it is..It's cool the way the stems come up like that. what color are the flowers?


It was a new addition last summer, so I don't know, but probably pink. I'll find out soon.

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Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 11:16 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Great plants.

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Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 01:16 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Interesting explosions - like fireworks!

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Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 06:10 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I love the Orostachys - I must create a situation for it, and get one! And it does look like it has exploded :)

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Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 10:09 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Now that they've exploded, I need to correct their nomenclature. This one is actually Dianthus arvernensis:


And this one is (found the tag) Saxifraga umbrosa-primuloides ‘Dwarf London Pride’:

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Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 04:55 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Great pics, Mike. The first one is a neat one.
:) Donna

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Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 09:21 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I love your rock garden plants, Mike. Rock gardening was my first gardening love--30+ years ago. But I never did it correctly so my results were always disappointing. What can I say--I was young and stupid!

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Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 11:18 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Thanks both for your comments. Rock gardens allow very small plants in my very small garden, forcing me to really slow down and notice things.

Mike_in_chicago - Chicago, IL, Zone "5b"
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Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 11:35 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Mike, are ants ever a problem for your plants? I've had just common ants almost completely cover my plants with their 'house' building. :(

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Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 12:11 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Sunnyday2day wrote on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 06:35 pm:

Mike, are ants ever a problem for your plants? I've had just common ants almost completely cover my plants with their 'house' building. :(



Oh, yes. I live less than a mile from Lake Michigan, and everything here is sand. But so far the layer of pebbles on the rock garden has stopped them, I think. They'd rather dig into the sand/limestone grit I laid the brick path on. I'm sure it will all cave in within a few years, entirely hollow from many the many ant condos underneath. And all those aphids they farm about!

Mike_in_chicago - Chicago, IL, Zone "5b"

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