Lovely! You have obviously found the right spot for them. Unfortunatly, I don't have the right kind of spot to grow these beauties.

Great examples of L. Cotleydon. I suspect with your temperate location you don't have to worry about winter damage. I have to protect mine in a coldframe to overwinter, but have great results to. Such a beautiful plant when you find the right conditon.
Donna

Pretty. Did you blow seeds into the crevices or planted seedlings in? How did you get them into the little spaces? RJ

These lewisias were divisions from various 4' pot purchases. There are many openings between the rocks which allow plants and some soil to be "jamed" in. Being the cheapy that I am, I always looked for pots that had offshoots next to the parent plant and divided them up and set up little trays of 50/50 potting soil/sand to get the divisions rooted before putting them into the wall. Like sedums & hens & chicks, the divisions root easily (as long as there is a bit of stem attached to the leaves). The lewisias don't really need much soil. I have a lot of Allen Block walls and have lewisias growing in the little tiny cracks (along with sedums and semps) to soften and dress up the walls.

Janet

Hey that's cool - it almost gives the same effect as tender Aeonium spp.

I wonder if anyone is growing Claytonia megarhiza var. nivalis (pic). I thought it was a Lewisia at first.

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Hi Ian! What type of conditions do Claytonia megarhiza require? Do they have a tap root and require deep soil or can they take thin soil? I have found a Cdn source of this plant and would like to explore if these might fit in my rock/block walls.

Janet

Hi Janet, well I have never seen one in cultivation. In habitat near Mt. Stuart (where I took that pic) they grew in cracks in rocks and on drier scree slopes. I think they have a taproot but I don't know how big; I imagine they would require much the same conditions as Lewisia spp. so I would try one. If you do not get var. nivalis it will probably have white or very pale pink fls; I think I like nivalis better though.

Janet-
Nice photos... what is that little green plant growing with your Lewisia's in the block wall? It looks like some kind of sedum. Do you know the cultivar?

The green sedum that generally surrounds the lewisia is Sedum oreganum. A vigorous variety, but not as overwhelming as Sedum acre! The grey sedum in the wall is Sedum Cape Blanco and the long stringy ones on the right hand side are Sedum spurium "Dragon's Blood". The Cape Blanco and the Oreganum, along with Sedum divergens are constantly battling it out for space on the walls and I find that I have to break them up and let everyone have a bit of space (a breather, more like it) every so often!

Wow! I'm impressed! I saw your other red Semper. I.D. post first, then I got to this one...very, very pretty. What's that orangeish one?

Wendy

I believe that it is also a L. Cotleydon as are the "usual" pink and white ones.

I have reposted my earlier pics onto webshots.com under 'Garden 2002-2003' for this thread.

Here is a link that might be useful: Lewisia

Thank you. I am doing a Semp and Sedum wall. Your wall is realy pretty.