My previous post dealt with the formation of the Alpine garden..  now I want to show you the troughs.  I discovered that some plants did better in troughs than in the ground.  I have a bunch of different ones.  Some are hypertufa which I made in a workshop with my garden club.  One is an old rusty tin pot I found in the woods.  I also have an old soapstone sink that was given to me.  The troughs allow me more flexibility since I can move them around (except for the sink- that’s very heavy).  I use a soil mixture of potting soil, perlite, turface and chicken grit.

 

This trough is an old iron pot with different Saxifraga

Starting to bloom

This one is Saxifraga ‘Esther

 

another saxifraga

more

full bloom

the soapstone sink makes a great trough – and a fairy lives there

Dianthus- Nyewood cream

Heuchera santarosa

Heuchera

Alpine daisy

Sedum and sempervivum

This is one of the hypertufa troughs with blooming Silene alpestris

more hypertufa

Saxifraga sancta and Saxifraga apiculata alba

Saponaria x oliviana

Androsace sempervivoides