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suitable alpines for humid summers?
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Posted by Cassiope 03/WI (My Page) on Mon, Jan 3, 05 at 17:30
Hello all,
I've been busy thinking about what new plants to try this year, but I've never started alpines from seed. I got on Beavercreek's website and would like to try several species. Many of the species are from the West - where summers are drier than where I am (western Wisconsin), and I know a lot of western plants don't do well in our more humid summers. (humidity rarely gets up to 90%, but is usually 50-70% in summer). So the following are what I'm thinking about - can anyone tell me if I'd be wasting precious garden time on these?
Androsace sp. aff. kochii
Allium splendens vikuiitense
Erigeron elegantulus
Lewisia tweedyi
L. pygmaea
Lupinus argenteus
Mertensia ciliata
Pedicularis sp.
Primula capitata v. mooreana
Ranunculus parnassifolius
townsendia incana
Xerophyllum tenax
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RE: suitable alpines for humid summers?
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| I'm just across the border in Minnesota. As you know, anything with extremely wooly leaves are suspect to grow here, but that doesn't stop us from trying. Even Cerastium alpinum lanatum survives here, although it looks a bit bedraggled by the end of the summer. I think it is the heat just as much or more that plays the major part in summer alpine death. Of course, soil type being even more intetral than that. I can think of 8 members right of the bat in our NARGS Chapter that know tons more than me, even though I am the present Chair, but of the ones you listed these I know are grown:
several Androsace spp. (not familiar with yours)
All alliums except those not cold hardy
some Erigeron (not familiar with yours)
All Lewisia except those not cold hardy
All Mertensia except those not cold hardy
All Primula except those not cold hardy
Townsendia incana If you interested, one of our members published a lengthy article in our most recent newsletter about the saxifrages she grows. I can't send attachments through the GW, but if you would like to email me, I'll email you a copy of the newsletter. Rick |
RE: suitable alpines for humid summers?
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And if anyone else would like a copy of the Minnesota newsletter, please email me too.
Rick |
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