Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Pauli on March 06, 2016, 06:42:16 AM
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Yesterday we made a short (100 miles) trip east. Does anybody recognize the region?
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It is Dürnstein in the Wachau, in the valley of the Danube. Dürnstein is famous for its "Grüner Veltliner" a delicious white wine
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The Pulsatilla grandis comes in a variety of shades: whitish, bluish, reddish and rarely white forms can be seen.
Pulsatilla pratensis ssp. nigricans flowers in the same meadows, although a little later. Here is the most advanced flower. Usually hybrids can be found, but they are rather rare!
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It is Dürnstein in the Wachau, in the valley of the Danube. Dürnstein is famous for its "Grüner Veltliner" a delicious white wine
Now it is also famous for the Pulsatilla blooming ;)
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Herbert,
great pleasure to see the pulsatillas and their variability. Spring is my season! :)
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Such a wonderful sight! :)
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Thank you for sharing your beautiful images. It really cheered up a day of snowstorm. I am strongly considering paying a quick visit to these wonderful meadows. Could you please contact me, Pauli?
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Thank you Pauli!
But you did not tell me I was also to see 15 miljons of Galanthus!
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Although the weather was quite bad there were many Pulsatillas just waiting for a tiny sunray. Some of them being more brave than others and actually being open.
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Here is one picture of a double flowered Pulsatilla grandis from a place in Burgenland (Austria).
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Servus Franz,
interesting mutation - somehow similar to the "Papagenos" of trade!
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Here is one picture of a double flowered Pulsatilla grandis from a place in Burgenland (Austria).
This large double Pulsatilla is quite something! More like a double Clematis cultivar (that I don't remember the name of course).
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Sorry I am replying after such a long time. The monstrosa forms of Pulsatilla are fascinating. It is such a plastic genus; you can expect to find anything, just like Anemone nemorosa for example.