| Item |
Name / Source |
Description, Height x Width |
# of Seeds |
Cost |
| 2959 |
Salvia dorrii
cult. |
Glowing purple flowers with bright silver foliage are stunning in the strong light of Xeriscape. Don't be without this purple sage. 12" x 12" |
10 |
- |
| 1166 |
Saxifraga chrysantha
Park Co. CO, elev. 12,500' |
Diminutive apple-green mats produce sizable round-petaled bright yellow flowers. A challenge! 2” x 3” Picture |
25 |
- |
| 1168 |
Saxifraga flagellaris
Park Co. CO, elev. 12,850' |
Succulent rosettes spread by little red runners. One to a few yellow chalice flowers top stems with scale-like leaves. The entire plant is covered with sticky purple glandular hairs. 4" x 2" |
25 |
- |
| 3098 |
Saxifraga longifolia
cult. |
Amazing long arching sprays of multitudes of white flowers from large encrusted rosettes. A must for the crevice or wall garden, limestone or tufa preferred, but perfectly happy in my rhyolite fern wall. Dies after blooming, but worth replacing. 3" x 18" Picture |
25 |
- |
| 3115 |
Saxifraga oppositifolia
Swiss Alps, elev. 9,050' |
A classic alpine, one of the easier Porphyrion types to grow. Rosy purple flowers over mats of imbricate leaves. Worthy of a spot in every alpine garden. 2" x 8" Picture |
25 |
- |
| 3076 |
Sedum rhodanthum
Chaffee Co. CO, elev. 12,300' |
Stems of succulent blue-green leaves crowned with beautiful warm-pink, rounded, multi-flowered heads. Entire plant turns glowing red in the fall. 12" x 10" Picture |
25 |
- |
| 3057 |
Sidalcea glaucescens
Plumas, Co. CA, elev. 3,600' |
Plum to pink blooms along slender stems from mounds of glaucous palmately cut leaves. 15" x 15" |
25 |
- |
| 524 |
Silene acaulis
Custer Co. CO, elev. 12,750' |
High alpine mountain pink. Grows to become a robust mat of tiny succulent leaves with bright pink stars in summer. A familiar friend above treeline. 1" x 5" Picture |
25 |
- |
| 2279 |
Silene bolanthoides
|
Fantastic new introduction: green pulvinate buns with many deeply bilobed white or rose sessile flowers. A true gem. 2" x 6" Picture |
15 |
- |
| 3046 |
Silene californica
Plumas Co. CA, elev. 2,000' |
Vivid vermilion slashed-petal velvet flowers contrast sharply with lax stems of soft gray leaves. 12" x 10" |
25 |
- |
| 2275 |
Sisyrinchium macrocarpum
cult. |
Large, rich yellow flowers with brown centers and leaves like a small iris. An ideal diminutive vertical element in the rock garden. 6" x 5" Picture |
25 |
- |
| 555 |
Smelowskia calycina
Park Co. CO, elev. 12,300' |
Silver fern-like foliage complements loose umbels of snowy flowers and tiny upright burgundy pea pods. 5" x 4" Picture |
25 |
- |
| 3116 |
Soldanella alpina
Swiss Alps, elev. 8,075' |
Short stems of fringed rosy purple pendant bells over pads of little round leathery leaves. Very desirable classic alpine for a limestone crevice. 5" x 14" Picture |
25 |
- |
| 883 |
Sphaeromeria capitata
Fremont Co. WY, elev. 6,700' |
Dense silver mats like divided-leaf pussytoes are dotted with golden lollipop flowers. 5" x 12" |
25 |
- |
