Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Peter Korn, Sweden on May 23, 2007, 09:03:16 PM
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I just have to show it to everybody. It´s my favourite for today, Lilium soulei.
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Wow Peter,
What an amazing colour in a lily, not a colour one would expect at all. I can understand how it is your favourite. Great plant.
Paddy
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Yep, I could cope with that. I'll take a dozen. ;D
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...Oh my...what a little beauty....
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Best of the best. Don't be greedy Anthony. I'll have 6 of yours. Pretty please?
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Today´s favourite is very beautiful but a little smelly, Dracunculus muscivorus. I had to take it out of the greenhouse to show it to all my visitors. I think the bluebottles liked it more than the pensioner group.
Peter Korn
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Cool 8)
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Ultra cool, Peter.
Lovely plant.
Paddy
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The nose of our Dracunculus went soft this year however the corm is still fine so hopefully next year...
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Hi Peter, I am very pleased that you have joined us on the forum it is great to see more of your fantastic plants.
What about a few general pictures of your beds so we can see how they are flowering this year.
Our Lilium souliei has no flowers this year. It is a single plant that we raised from a seed collection and although it has flowered a number of times it has never set seed, I hope you have better luck Peter.
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hello Peter! Good to 'see' you in here
Are you coming to Southern Ireland this November? There will also be a very well known European attending. I dont know if I can say yet
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Todays favourite is Delphinium triste. Not a very beautiful plant but I like it.
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Some pictures from the garden, taken the last week. Everything is 2-3 weeks earlier than normal.
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Some more pictures.
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some more
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Very beautiful, Peter.
It strikes me that you either have natural rock outcrops or are very good at putting rock together.
Paddy
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I have natural rock outcrops but not where I want them so I have to build some of them myself.
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Paddy- do you not see Peters profile picture, to create these effects you have to jump in to the muck and keep shovelling! (a lot)
Peter- is that the same small blue corydalis as mine? if so is that the final name for it?
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Thanks for the pictures Peter, it is good to keep up to date and see how your garden has evolved since I was there last year.
How is the alpine house project progressing?
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Susan,
I don't think that is Peter, at least not a contemporary photograph, looks too young, his son perhaps?
But, yes, I do realise there was lot of muck and sweat involved.
Paddy
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Nope, Paddy, that rather scrumptious young man IS Peter! I can vouch for this!
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wow that Delphinium is amazing in peters garden. i have never seen one like that , its very unusual!
I love Delphiniums but mine are different blues and white, where would i get me paws on one like that?
Lovely picture ;D
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I just have to say peter your garden is reALLY looking amazing!I am soo impressed it must have taken a lot of work i hope you have an open day sometime in the future?
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Maggi,
So it seems that gardening is the elixir of eternal youth! I'll keep at it and live in hope.
Lisa Marie,
I forgot to comment at the time - poor short-term memory - but, yes, that delphinium is absolutely delightful, though Peter seemed to think little of it. Familiarity breeding contempt?
Paddy
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My garden is open wednesday-sunday all summer, www.peterkornstradgard.se
Another beautiful Delphinium is glareosum. Flowers early and then goes dormant.
Todays favourite is a grotesque Iris hybrid, don´t know the name. Last year I thought I should throw it away but this year I can take the size of the flower. Maybe I will start collecting on Iris monsters?
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Peter, if you think this iris is grotesque, I'd refer you to the illustrated catalogues of sundry hybridisers, especially those within the USA. Modern tall bearded irises are a world apart - thank goodness - but believe me, this one you show is a very moderate example of what may be bought today. I wouldn't care to put into the public domain, my own opinion of most of them. As for collecting "monsters," I hope you will have a care for your mental health.
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HelloPeter,
I was very impressed by your web site. There are a lot of plants on it with excellent pictures.
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Having visited Peter's Garden on my "extensive European tour" I would urge all those who can travel to Sweden to make sure they visit; you have to see it to believe it!
Peter is a one man excavation team and he has wrought great changes to his land - a real example of craving out a garden from the wilderness, yet there is so much natural beauty which he is able to harness as well.
If I could I would do as he suggested and visit every couple of weeks between March and the winter! There is just so much to see!
cheers
fermi