Saxifraga callosa 'Lissadell'
Saxifragaceae
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Habitat:
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sunny places
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Flowering:
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early summer
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Size:
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15
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30
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Soil:
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griity, preferably with lime
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Saxifraga callosa `Lissadell`
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Price
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£3.50
(9 cm pot)
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Order code:
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SLQ-9
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This excellent group of rock garden plants is known as the section Ligulatae, or more commonly as the silver or encrusted saxifrages, in recognition of the deposits of lime that line the leaves. They all have rosettes, large or small depending on the variety, and have relatively large panicles of flowers, usually white. They come from rocky places in the mountains, some on limestone and some on acid rocks.
Saxifraga callosa 'Lissadell' has compact rosettes of lime-edged leaves, from which the stems of pure white flowers arise in early summer. It is a fine form riginally selected in Ireland.
Other related plants:
Narrow, lime-encrusted leaves and long, arching stems with many white flowers.
Compact form of London Pride. Mist of small, pale pink flowers.
Silvery cushion and sprays of white flowers with red markings on red stems.
Intensely silver-grey rosettes with white starry flowers.
Lime-encrusted leaves red at the base; large white flowers.
Grey-green rosettes with lime-marked leaves.
Rosette-forming alpine with silver leaves and bright red flowering stems.
Rosettes of grey-green leaves and white flowers speckled with dark red spots.
Extremely vigorous; lots of large rosettes with long leaves, white flowers..
Rosettes with long, recurving leaves; lots of creamy white flowers.
Rosette of lime-encrusted leaves and arching stems with white flowers.
A silver saxifrage with bright red flowers.
Rosette with long, slender leaves, then spectacular long flowering stem.
Selection with rounded, lime-edged leaves; red stems with white flowers.
Rosette of spoon-shaped lime-encrusted leaves, plume of white flowers.
Broad lime-encrusted leaves and plume of white flowers with red spots.
Tight cushions of grey-green rosettes with tall heads of white flowers.