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A very tiny species, flowers hang like tiny lampshades on 5cm stems. This is the first time it has flowered for me, and this was the entire display.
I got t from the AGS show in Exeter. Plants of the World online says: "The native range of this species is E. & S. Carpathians. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subalpine or subarctic biome." Writing in the Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society in 2007, Robert Rolfe says: "S. hungarica, the most widespread of the species and arguably the most obliging, benefits from a light, humus-rich compost that never dries out, even in winter, cultivation in a cold frame (which affords a cooler microclimate and allows for the removal of the frame lights in summer but glass protection in the winter months) and frequent searches to detect the presence of greenfly, which can devastate plants as surely above ground as vine weevils can at rot level. Happily, various specialist nurserymen continue to offer this and other species, while it was a pleasnt surprise, several years ago, to find extremely vigorous, well-budded plants for sale in a local garden centre." |
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| 3rd April 2006 | ||
