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A favourite cultivar of mine and probably the reason that I keep banging my head against the hard wall of saxifrage intractability.
I grew it as a child in a garden that had reliably cold winters and it prospered delightfully. Now, I kill it as reliably in a garden
that is warm, grey and dank. I end up with dead pots and a sore head but it doesn't stop me. Nostalgia for childhood ruthless. Silvery rosettes sparkle with pale pink flowers, dark eyes that entice you in seductively. The utimate expression of love on the rocks. A seedling selected from the hybrid between S. burseriana and S. lilacina. The AGS online encyclopedia says: " 'Jenkinsiae'; vigorous hummock-former and very floriferous. Rosettes medium-sized composed of five to eight, shortly pointed, glaucous-green leaves from which arise 2-4cm high flowering stems bearing single large, very pale pink flowers, petals 9-12mm long. One of the best of the Porophyllum hybrids, produced by Mr Jenkins, a nurseryman." S. P. Cotton wrote in the Bulletin of the AGS in 1995: "'Jenkinsiae', like so many others, I planted in tufa having first washed most of the potting mixture off the roots so that I could get it into a smaller hole. It has steadily advanced along the tufa in all directions, hugging the contours like a lava flow and this year was a mass of flowers, a hundred or more." |
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| 26th March 2018 | ||
