Alpine Golden Nuggets from Wrightman Alpines
The Plant Gold Rush continues with the most precious of finds: the alpine golden nuggets. We found them at Wrightman Alpines during their open house last Sunday. It had been a while since I was lucky to admire their Saxifrages in flower, so we made another trip that turned out into a photography extravaganza. Many ‘golden nuggets’ were either in flower or at their best foliage; we took advantage of our most kind hosts, Irene and Harvey Wrightman, and poked around every corner of their wonderful rockery garden and nursery. Even for a plant connoisseur the richness of plant species they have can be a bit overwhelming to digest, so I’ll take it slow and there’ll be more to come…
At this time of the year, after admiring the most impressive clumps of Paeonia suffruticosa spp. rockii, the best would be to explore the rock gardens around the house before heading into the hoop houses (although being very detailed people we did the other way around).
Enjoy a few images from Wrightman Alpines Nursery rock gardens
Of course, we came home very grateful and with a few gifted golden nuggets; to show off just one of them:
The wonderful day spent among the plethora of alpine species (native and non-natives) brought to my mind a few places we traveled to and I wrote about – see the Botanical Trailblazers page. Gold mines full of ‘golden nuggets’ await to be discovered almost everywhere – start exploring!
Some beauties there, looks like a wonderful nursery. I’ll have the peony, the androsace, the scutelleria, the penstemon ……
Hey, slow down…but you do have quite a large garden, unlike myself :( A small size, mail-order alpine nursery,run by a plants-passionate, wonderful family. Full of treasures…
Love the way they’ve planted things here – the sedums and little cacti are pretty cute too – nice idea
Yes, they have a great rockery and scree garden, stuffed with most interesting species.
Very lovely!
Thanks – especially for rock gardens and alpine plants afficionados.