Alpines - Section 3 (P-Z) page 1.

Trillium rivale in the greenhouse. This delightful minature is only about six inches tall. I grow it in a woodland soil mix (plenty of leafmould and bark chips) and never let it dry out. Most plants have some pink or purple spotting and this make the flower look pink overall in some extreme forms. Below, Raoulia hookerii from New Zealand. The Raoulias a group of cushion forming species, the "Vegetable Sheep" (this name is also applied to Haastia) which are some of the hardest alpines to grow. In the wild they may be several feet accross, I managed to grow one to about half an inch before it died! Luckily R. hookerii is quite accommodating.

Above left, one of the dwarf Elms, I think the new name for it is Ulmus x hollandica "Jacqueline Hillier". This is about a foot high after a few years. There is an even smaller Ulmus, I think it is a form of U. davidiana which has leaves only quarter of an inch long.

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