{"id":4808,"date":"2015-11-20T04:17:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2015-11-11T02:51:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T09:51:35","slug":"saxifrages-in-alpine-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/saxifrages-in-alpine-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Saxifrages in Alpine Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2593\/3916879970_67db819034.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a host of different Saxifraga or singular Saxifrage. They make for an interesting group to grow and collect both in the garden and in troughs or pots depending on the variety. Saxifrage kolenatiana has rosettes that throw up spikes of flower in summer similar to its better known Saxifrage relative &#8216;London Pride&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Groups of Saxifrages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the groupings of Saxifrage each contain many variants, varieties and species for which you need a more detailed document. See links below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saxifraga x arendsii or Mossy Saxifrage is useful for walls, troughs and shady rockeries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Saxifraga stolonifera\u00c2\u00a0 groundcover under flowering shrubs or small trees OK in shade or Saxifraga x urbium London Pride<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Saxifraga cotyledon or Pyramidal Saxifrage for troughs and pots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Saxifraga paniculata: Encrusted Saxifrage, group 4 for walls, edger; sun to part shade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Saxifraga primuloides: a miniature variety for shaded rockeries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLinks and Further Information<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxifraga.org\/default.asp\"> The Saxifrage Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alpigena-saxifrages.nl\/\">Saxifraga World<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/gardening\/plants\/plant_finder\/plant_pages\/11113.shtml\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RHS\u00c2\u00a0 Silver Saxifrage Trials<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881928801\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0881928801.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on book to buy from Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a host of different Saxifraga or singular Saxifrage. They make for an interesting group to grow and collect both in the garden and in troughs or pots depending on the variety. Saxifrage kolenatiana has rosettes that throw up spikes of flower in summer similar to its better known Saxifrage relative &#8216;London Pride&#8217;. Groups of Saxifrages These are just some of the groupings of Saxifrage each contain many variants, varieties and species for which you need a more detailed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/saxifrages-in-alpine-gardens\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,42,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-books","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}