THE CULTIVATION OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN ALPINES

 

How do you propagate Campanula piperi? What happens when Penstemons die back? How do you grow Eritrichium nanum or E. howardii? What Eriogonums are best for a trough? These questions and many more are answered as you are taken on a trip out west, State by State from Colorado to Montana and Arizona, from California to Oregon and Washington, sampling the flora and learning how to cultivate many of the choice and beautiful plants of the western USA.

 

 

Look at Hymenoxys grandiflora, a sunflower that grows in alpine conditions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out the fantastic Townsendia spathulata from the Pryor Mountains of Montana, pictured on the right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And what about Lewisia kelloggii, do you grow it? Where does it does it come from?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silene californica is a beautiful brick red silene from the state of California and deserves to be grown more widely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

See how they grow in nature and how you can adapt many of them to cultivation in a rock garden, trough or pot. Even if you don't want to grow these plants you cannot but admire them as they grow in habitats from high alpine levels to drylands and desert situations.