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Specific Families and Genera => Rhododendron and other Ericaceae => Topic started by: johnw on November 16, 2013, 04:23:06 PM

Title: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: johnw on November 16, 2013, 04:23:06 PM
Jens Birck just sent me this link to a superb collection of photos of the Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 expedition to China - Flowers and Mountains.  A vast array of plants and there are 772 photos and I am glued to the screen.

Problem is this link starts at photo 502 and I cannot seem to get back to photo #1.  If someone can get a link to #1 perhaps you could pm Maggi and she can correct the link below.

https://picasaweb.google.com/102102020346806227405/ChinaSBBE2013FlowersAndMountains?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqUyLqxiYi_DA&feat=email#5944341776642285202 (https://picasaweb.google.com/102102020346806227405/ChinaSBBE2013FlowersAndMountains?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqUyLqxiYi_DA&feat=email#5944341776642285202)   (edit - see link to gallery thumbnails  in next post)

johnw - grey and +11c.  Balmy for mid-November.
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: Maggi Young on November 16, 2013, 04:40:00 PM
A stunning range of photos of this expedition.

 Starts here :  https://picasaweb.google.com/102102020346806227405/ChinaSBBE2013FlowersAndMountains?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqUyLqxiYi_DA&feat=email#  with thumbnails of all the photos. You  can select one, click on it and then use your back button to return to the thumbnail gallery or work your way through it at will -  some great pix!
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: TheOnionMan on November 17, 2013, 02:28:54 PM
Stunning is an understatement!  Maggi, you must be enjoying the focus on small rhodies, the area seems rich with tantalizing small rhododendron species.  I have bookmarked the link, in my "armchair botanizing" folder  :)
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: Maggi Young on November 17, 2013, 02:48:45 PM
Yes Mark, I am really enjoying the number of  dwarf species - wonderful little plants. Truth is, though, I love them all - and the landscape views  in Ernebjerg's gallery are  marvelous too -  and the elegance of the old pine trees is fascinating- like artwork!

Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: johnw on November 17, 2013, 02:54:09 PM
Maggi - I am intrigued with the wonderful little lepidote in photos 285 & 291.  Thoughts?  I'll consult JN too.

Head still spinning from that chamaeunum - that species gets me every time.  We got a marvellous one fom Cullen at RBGE way back.

johnw

Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: Maggi Young on November 17, 2013, 03:09:49 PM
Only lust, John.
More terrific foliage and how big is the flower in comparison?   My ignorance of the plants in the wild is a big drawback for ID - but a special thrill when seeing such a display of plants in habitat.

Just refueling  with a hot mocha-chocolate drink to keep myself calm  ::)
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: johnw on November 17, 2013, 05:48:28 PM
It is especially heartening to see that R. haematodes looks as bad in the wild as in the garden!  Only the possessed grow it to perfection..............

johnw
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: shelagh on November 19, 2013, 09:38:07 AM
Fabulous pink Primula I have just spotted, what a blissful site to while away a LOT of time.
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: ernebjerg on November 19, 2013, 11:05:02 AM
Hi Maggi
I arranged a Rhododendron expedition to the Mekong Valley Yunnan China in June 2013 named Scandinavian Beimashan &Biluoshan expedition 2013. I send you a link to my photoes from this expedition, please put it on the relevant forum.
(Somebody got a link from Jens Chr. Birck but it did not work properly.)
All the best
Bent Ernebjerg
Expedition leader
https://picasaweb.google.com/102102020346806227405/ChinaSBBE2013FlowersAndMountains?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqUyLqxiYi_DA
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: Maggi Young on November 19, 2013, 11:22:42 AM
Hello Bent,
 Thanks for your input - we are very excited to be able to share your photos of this  expedition.
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: ernebjerg on November 19, 2013, 11:26:41 AM
Dear Members of the Scottish Rock Garden society.
I am glad that you enjoy my photos, but I would appreciate that you address your questions to me. Doing so I get information about something I might have missed, and you get correct information from the source. See the information on the web album: Album properties.
Best regards
Bent Ernebjerg
PS I do not follow your forums
Title: Re: Ernebjerg SBBE 2013 China
Post by: Maggi Young on November 19, 2013, 11:59:09 AM
Bent, we have enjoyed following your expeditions since you first introduced them to us in this Forum  in 2011 - I hope members will make direct contact with you from your gallery pages, as detailed:
Scandinavian Beimashan & Biluoshan Expedition 2013 to the Cika pass in southern part of Beimashan, and the Paidi pass on Biluoshan above Fugong, 12th of June to 4th of July. Expedition leader: Bent Ernebjerg  © Bent Ernebjerg    Questions to - ernebjergATgmail.com  (replace AT with@)

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