Hardy to zone 4, drought tolerant, needs very good drainage
A dwarf for the rock garden, troughs or scree bed with dark pink flowers over a small carpet of evergreen rosettes. Well drained soil - drought tolerant.
Androsacea mucronifolia

Aww, isn't that cute - I wonder how it would like the Styrofoam trough?

I think I need to remove it from the raised bed, or maybe just dig it up and add more gravel to the soil so it will drain really well. I would think this baby would love a trough.

I LOVE that one!!!

Chris, if it makes it through our wet winter I will send you some.

Great!!! I'll trade ya for something....unless you already have everything I do.

I seriously doubt I have everything you have. Next spring is going to be so much fun.

I know!! Something to look forward to!!

Is everyone keeping track of their want list on the database?

I think each of us is just keeping our own want & have list and sharing it through cmail with those wanting to make trades. If you all come up with some ideas for a better way of doing it let me know.

For what its worth, I do an inventory each spring (and sometimes another one after the spring/summer trade rush). The inventory includes the complete name of the plant, the pot, the location, where and how I got it, the number of mature plants, the number of offsets (approximate). Some of this information comes from the pot tag. The inventory takes a week or longer to do, but it gets me doing an assessment of each container (I will also keep a comment in the inventory, if appropriate).

I type everything into an Excel spreadsheet for future reference and comparison to last year's inventory. If I'm going to do a trade, I'll extract the relevant columns from the spreadsheet, past into an email or document, then delete duplicates to create a list of what I have. This list is then sent to the trader. I find it helpful to let people know what is in my collection in addition to what I have available as trade, so they can tell what would be duplicates but are not in sufficient qty to trade.

That way, I have a central place to view the collection as a whole.

It's my goal to eventually set up an MS Access database to contain these inventories (the data formats are compatible), so that I can do reporting from each inventory, as well as more complex analysts between annual inventories.

Wow twit, and I thought I was really doing good with having a simple Excel Database. I think I need a nap after thinking about all of that.
I do have a column in the database to show which bed the plant is in. Also columns for how many mature rosettes and another for how many offsets. Also a column for the year I got a plant and where it came from.
I know there is much more that it is capable of doing, just have to apply myself to learning what and how to do it.

Are you okay Jacki? You look stunned.

Some people have waaay too much time on their hands...Sorry, Twit!

I'm afraid I am becoming as obsessed as twit about record keeping. Well, maybe just a little like twit, I have a long ways to travel down that documentation, and experimenting road.

I keep records, of course, but certainly not to the extent that Twit does. It's important to have an inventory (in case the labels go missing) and a count of what's available (in case things die) so I'm really just kidding you!

Besides, we love teasing our twit.
In all seriousness, I need to get out as soon as it's not raining and do an end of season inventory.

I think I'll wait until the spring as I have a sneaking suspicion I'm going to lose some - it's just been so wet!

By doing an inventory now it will let me know which of the varieties will do best here in PNW wet winter/spring seasons. Also which of them can't handle our conditions. It would make me happy if all of them make it.