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ALPINE FLOWERS 



Common Names 

 Mountain speedwell 

 Woolly yarrow 

 Alpine aster 

 Cheddar pink 

 Harebell 

 Maiden pink 

 Yellow gentian 

 Bird's foot trefoil 

 Wall pepper 

 Coat flower 

 Alpine soapwort 

 White stonecrop 

 Cobweb houseleek 



Scientific Names 

 Veronica montana 

 Achillea tomentosa 

 Aster alpinus 

 Dianthus ccesius 

 Campanula rotundifolia 

 Dianthus ddtoides 

 Gentiana lutea 

 Lotus corniculatus 

 Sedum acre 

 Tunica Saxifraga 

 Saponaria ocymoides 

 Sedum album 

 Sempervivum arachnoideum 



ALPINES THAT ARE HARD TO GROW 



The way to grow all the difficult alpines is to have a first-class 

 rockery, but I estimate that only 5 or 10 per cent, of the really 

 desirable rock-loving flowers require such treatment. Among 

 these are the edelweiss, the alpine poppy, the pasque flower, the 

 gentians, the saxifrages, the cyclamen, the evergreen daphne with 

 its divine odour, and the wonderful soldanella which is said to force 

 its way right up through a solid block of ice. These world-famous 

 flowers are so celebrated for their exquisite beauty that it is only 

 natural that we should bewail our inability to grow them in an 

 ordinary garden, whereas the big, cheerful fact is that any one can 

 grow 90 per cent, of the showiest rock plants without the expense 

 of a rockery. Even in England they do not expect to grow the 

 plants just named without rocks, and therefore we should rejoice 

 that we too can grow these treasures in a good rockery. 



GARDEN EFFECTS WE CAN'T HAVE 



As nearly as I can judge, the English get their great and 

 glorious mass effects from only six or seven groups of rock plants. 

 I think they depend chiefly on the saxifrages for white and for lace- 



