Consider Drimys winterii. Not tooo big. All year around interest between its white flowers, pink berries, black berries in different seasons....
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There might be some in North Wales; I don't know really. There's plenty in the Czech Republic, I believe.
They shouldn't die really: maybe they haven't enough sharp drainage and winter wet does them in then. Sharp drainage is the key to most alpines.
[ATTACH]Erinus alpinus growing in Derbyshire tufa.(40" round concrete trough).
[ATTACH]Oxalis adenophylla "Silver Shamrock", which grows in the Southern Andes at altitudes from 3,000 to 8,000 feet.
About 3 inches high when in flower.
[ATTACH]Linum "Gemmell's hybrid".
I grow it but it won't take frost. :(
Ramonda from the Pyrenees.[ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Darmera peltata (Indian rhubarb) flowering before the leaves emerge.[ATTACH] Showing the supermarket vegetable trays, that the water...
I grow them. Some in cattle drinking bowls, others in troughs and one in the Alpine house. I buy ph6 soil locally from a gravel/topsoil/sand...
They'll enjoy their holiday. Some cactus are hardier than others. Opuntia for example.
All my cactus either live outdoors (under a glazed pergola) or in the Alpine House. They've never had the luxury of being indoors. Frost gets some...
[ATTACH]Got a Griffin and when I said we're a very windy garden, they sent extra bracing with the construction crew.
I would never put it in a greenhouse. It's an outside plant. It'd also probably need to be repotted into a larger one.
I put a piece of weed membrane over the hole instead of using crocks.
Hebes.December 2022 killed all 20 of mine.Second time of losing them, so no more.
[ATTACH] This little Oxalis comes from just one place in South Africa. Very vibrant colour in the flesh.
Tiny, though.
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