{"id":7275,"date":"2012-08-10T03:28:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2012-10-05T03:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T10:13:35","slug":"good-value-alpine-garden-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/good-value-alpine-garden-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Value Alpine Garden Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4533952159\/\" title=\"Euphorbia milii \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4014\/4533952159_4c021dc620_o.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"396\" alt=\"Euphorbia milii\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regular visitors will remember that I recently received a gift of membership too the <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/alpine-growers-club\/\">AGS<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I continue to get good value for money via the magazines, free seeds and the local West Yorkshire Group meetings. A recent talk by Tony Gartwaite with photographs by Mike Ireland was called <strong>&#8216;show stoppers.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an excuse to show some more of my pictures. Hover over pictures for  info<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4534586362\/\" title=\"Agave paryi ay Kew Gardens\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4016\/4534586362_19d6d3a02b.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Agave paryi\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the alpine house at Kew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4459704076\/\" title=\"Primula allianii Joan Hughes \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4003\/4459704076_6b5fd64495.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Primula allianii Joan Hughes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have started a collection of various primulas after spotting this alpine variety Primula allianii Joan Hughes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4583081205\/\" title=\"Primula aureata nepal \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4003\/4583081205_c26275a9a3.jpg\" width=\"471\" height=\"470\" alt=\"Primula aureata nepal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Primula aureata nepal is a bit harder to grow in my greenhouse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4459675518\/\" title=\"Hepatica nobilis Cobalt \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4029\/4459675518_65450f6c62.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hepatica nobilis Cobalt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n See more about <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/hepatica-the-old-new-kid-on-the-block\/\">Hepaticas <\/a>and how the <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-hepatica\/\">Japanese grow<\/a> these fascinating plants<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4459703880\/\" title=\"Saxifraga kellever suendermannii \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2472\/4459703880_2490fd68df.jpg\" width=\"423\" height=\"422\" alt=\"Saxifraga kellever suendermannii\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regular local alpine shows are a good way to pick up tips.<br \/>\nThe national shows move around the country so keep your eyes open or check with the AGS<br \/>\nSpecialist nurseries also turn out at these shows and it is a chance to get some new stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular local alpine shows are a good way to pick up tips.  The national shows move around the country so keep your eyes open or check with the AGS<br \/>\nSpecialist nurseries also turn out at these shows and it is a chance to get some new stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","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=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}