New Website Harry Jans

[Harry Jans]

Dear friends,

It took me a long time to get my new website on-line but here it is! (www.jansalpines.com)
There is still much to do but the main thing for most of you, you can choose Dutch or English!!!!
I have made two different Photo Albums: My Garden & My Travels in which you can view over 7000 images.
Most of them are all named and with location details in the wild. If you see that a plant name is wrong, please write a comment!
From most trips I have add also Google Maps, but will include special maps to download in the near future.
You can view also some samples from my DVD's.

Have fun visiting my website,
Cheers Harry

[ichristie]

Hello Harry, great to hear from you and I have just spent some time looking at your new web site, what treasures you show just magic and all your trips, the one planned from Chengdu to Lhasa sound great, keep us informed please,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[mark smyth]

Hello Harry. I Love the web site.

It was because of you that the AGS Ulster Group went to the Czech Republic to see rock gardens. This was after you spoke at the AGS Dublin Group discussion weekend.

I have lifted these few lines from your web site because it affects us all. I should have asked first.

TIP: Problems with liverwort?

Do you have, like many gardeners, problems with liverwort? There are several ways to get rid of it:

First you can spray it with vinegar. Do this preferably on a sunny day. After some days you will see the liverwort turn black and die.

You can also scatter Magnesium Sulphate powder on the liverwort. It will not damage the plants, but the moss disappears.

Or use a chemical called “Mogeton” made by Bayer. (Active Ingredient 25% Quinoclamine) It is expensive, but works reliably

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very impressive site Harry ! 
It will take more than one gloomy afternoon to wander through all that !

[mark smyth]

Here's the best Callianthemum I have ever seen. Harry what do you do it it?
http://www.jansalpines.com/garden/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=Alpine+House%2FPICT5628.JPG

[Armin]

Harry,
fascinating pictures!
Enjoyed very much.

[Maggi Young]

Here's the best Callianthemum I have ever seen. Harry what do you do it it?
http://www.jansalpines.com/garden/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=Alpine+House%2FPICT5628.JPG

No disrespect to Harry, ( who knows I adore him!  )  but that "best" comment got me remembering....... Forumist Ewelina from Poland has this plant in her garden.......
see  this forum page: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=267.msg8214;topicseen#msg8214

first, in bud.....


then in flower........




It's a beauty, isn't it?

[mark smyth]

This is my plant

[Carlo]

Well done Harry...now no one has to go anywhere...

Happy holidays to you (all of the rest of you too) and the family.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Here's the best Callianthemum I have ever seen. Harry what do you do it it?
[It's a beauty, isn't it?

Both Ewalina's and Harry's specimen are quite exquisite if you ask me...     I wouldn't like to judge them... 

[Maggi Young]

I wouldn't like to judge them...

Then be glad that all we have to do is enjoy them! 

[WimB]

Harry,

very impressive photos on your site.

Welkom op het forum 

[ranunculus]

Two images of Callianthemum from AGS Shows in 2003.  (Probably exhibited by Ivor Betteridge).

[mark smyth]

So why would mine, two plants, be so poor? On is in a trough and the other is in a crevice. Are they bulbous or herbaceous?

[ranunculus]

There is nothing wrong with your plant, Mark ... in fact it shows great potential.  Ivor's plants are almost geriatric now and have been winning prizes for a number of years.  Callianthemum anemonoides is one of my favourite plants, inhabiting turf, stony places and light woodland to 2100 m. Low hairless perennials, blooming from March to May - we have seen them at their best in the Austrian Alps.
I have five or six pans containing quite large specimens, but they never seem to flower quite as well as those illustrated above - could it be a case of poor cultivation methods or simply an inferior form?