Saxifrages like being sat on; they are even grateful if you stamp upon them with strong boots, so you need feel no scruples.
I'm afraid I did some damage to the bulbs as well as myself, but you had told me that the saxifrages were partial to boots.
In the rock garden the mossy Saxifrages that have bald places in the middle should be taken up, divided, and firmly replanted.
Many Saxifrages and Sempervivums (Rockfoils and Stonecrops) will do well in shady places.
For instance, if you have a stone edging to your border, you will be able to have clumps of the mossy Saxifrages and of various Stonecrops.
Though it belongs to a very extensive genus, it is a distinct species; many of the Saxifrages are not so, neither are they sufficiently decorative to merit a place in any but large or scientific gardens.
These comb-leaved Saxifrages belong to the more neat and effective rock plants; the type, at least, is of alpine origin, and under cultivation it seems most happy amongst the stones.
So readily do the various Saxifrages become crossed, that it is hard to distinguish them; and when a distinct form is evolved the question occurs, What constitutes or entitles it to specific honours?
In shady marshes we may often meet with one or other of the two pretty little Golden Saxifrages (order Saxifragaceae), and sometimes the both growing together.
Several of the Saxifrages grow in rocky and stony places, and four or five species are sufficiently common to demand a notice here.
The primulas, however, had many of them already gone to seed, but the saxifrages still covered the rocks, and it was a delight to wander along and note the different varieties.
Even at these heights I found both yellow and white saxifrages and a blue gentian.
Next comes the common London Pride, which I think quite the most beautiful of the Saxifrages of this section.
I have looked into the face of many hundreds of star-saxifrages on the hills of Wales and Cumberland, but have never yet set eyes upon its rare sister, the snow or "clustered" saxifrage.
With these grows the graceful vernal sandwort, another flower of the hills, and so often the companion of saxifrages that it is naturally associated with them in the mind.
I gathered them for you," said Minna, offering the bunch of saxifrages to the being she adored.
Minna had left them for a moment to gather the blue saxifrages growing on a rock above.
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