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Title: Alpine Meadow 2011
Post by: hadacekf on March 24, 2011, 07:38:23 PM
After a long hard snowless winter the bulbs flowers in my meadow.

Iris-hist.-Katharine Hodgkin
Cyclamen coum
Crocus-vernus-Flower-Record
Crocus-oliverii
Anemone-blanda-0
Title: Re: Alpine Meadow 2011
Post by: David Nicholson on March 24, 2011, 07:46:28 PM
Franz, I always like to see your meadow it is beautiful.
Title: Re: Alpine Meadow 2011
Post by: Maggi Young on March 24, 2011, 08:28:04 PM
Franz' wonderful bulb meadow was , of course, mentioned in IRG 14
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Feb241298591020IRG14_Feb_2011.pdf      .... and I hope that those who have only come to know Franz via IRG will find these photos of the arrival of Spring  in his meadow as inspriring as many Forumists have.

Franz, I always feel that it truly is spring when your meadow bursts into flower.

Interesting to see how well things are looking after, as you say, a long winter with not much snow cover. One would have thought there would have been more casualties but the meadow looks as good as ever. Do you think there have been many deaths or have you been lucky?
Title: Re: Alpine Meadow 2011
Post by: ranunculus on March 24, 2011, 08:43:18 PM
Magnificent Franz ... as always.  Kindest regards to you sir!
Title: Re: Alpine Meadow 2011
Post by: hadacekf on March 25, 2011, 07:41:52 PM
Thank you all together for the kind comments.
The bulbs in the meadow survived the frost to my astonishment well. I have larger damage with the cushion  plants in the rock garden and the troughs.
Title: Re: Alpine Meadow 2011
Post by: hadacekf on April 12, 2011, 06:09:21 PM
The first flower in the meadow is past, but still some interesting plants flower.

Garten\Ornithogalum-sibthorpii
Chionodoxa-luciliae
Chionodoxa-nana
Scilla_bifolia
Narcissus-Tete-à-Tete
Tulipa-praecox
Tulipa-tarda
Gagea-pratensis
Primula vulgaris hyp.
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