Description
This charming group of alpines are essentially hardy perennials that are used to tough love, living naturally in harsh, often dry, cold conditions, but absolutely flourish in our spring and summer with delightful foliage and often bright flowers. Alpines are usually evergreen, but some, such as Sedum will die back over winter, reserving their energy to revitalise the following spring. They are cold hardy when grown on and ‘mature’ and generally like free draining situations such as rockeries, stone walls, beds, borders and containers.
Habit – Spreading
Resilience – Hardy
Flowering Time – April – August
Height and spread – 20 x 20 cm
Ideal Conditions – Prefers full sun, or partial shade with free-draining soil
Possibile situation – A wonderful addition to any rockery, paving or gravel bed or at the front of a border.
Features –
Typical season – Spring
Flower Colour –
Foliage Colour –
Flowering time – April – August
Planting recommendation – Bed/Border Prefers – Full Sun
Temperature tolerance – A hardy plant which should survive normal winter conditions outside, especially if protected from the hardest frosts.
Plant care – The plants are well rooted and maintained whilst on our nursery. You should simply give them a little water on arrival. Allow them to settle for a day or more, especially if they have been roughly treated on their journey to you!
Family – Genus – Mixed Cultivar – Amazing Alpines
Pot Sizes – Pot Spacing –
Growing Media and irrigation – The compost (rooting medium) we use in our plugs and pots is “peat reduced” and more commonly in the past season “peat free” medium, which is predominantly composed of coir fibres. We created the peat free media to try and replicate the qualities of traditional substrate, so it is very difficult to tell the different media apart by eye. All of our plants have a little slow release fertiliser in the plug already, to provide an initial boost for you when planting on, but they will love to be potted into a medium which has fertiliser incorporated, or added to it. The compost/media root ball itself for our plug plants is usually wrapped in biodegradable paper. The paper allows increased rooting at our stage of production and easier transplant of the plugs into your pots. You do not need to remove the paper from the plug. Our plug paper is fully biodegradable and will degrade over the course of the season once planted. The speed of the paper biodegrading depends on moisture and soil temperatures.
Feeding fertiliser – NPK balanced feeding Feeding frequency – Requires infrequent feeding (Low EC)
PH Recommendation – Standard 5.0 to 5.5 Common pests – Common disease –
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