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General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Zdenek on August 07, 2008, 08:14:09 AM
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Hello All,
I enclose here just several pictures taken in my garden in this spring. I haven't been able to send them sooner being too busy in the garden.
Zdenek Rehacek
Adonis brevistyla
Eriogonum thymoides
Haplocarpha rueppellii
Pulsatilla halleri var rhodopaea
Pulsatilla vernalis
Ranunculus glacialis
Rhododendron forrestii
Rhodothamnus chamaecistus
Townsendia nuttallii
(edited to show picfile names to allow for location by search engine. Maggi)
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Well worth the wait. I particularly like the Pulsatilla halleri var rhodopaea
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Thank you very much, Zdenek. We don't mind seeing spring flowers at this time of the year! ;)
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Very interested in your Ranunculus glacialis, Zdenek ... how old is your plant, is it grown from seed and is this your first flowering? Beautiful images. Many thanks for posting.
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My reply to Cliff's question:
The Ranunculus glacialis is 6 years old, it is planted on a scree slope facing north and in this spring it was its fourth flowering. I expect in every spring that it will not sprout after winter, but it surprises me again and again. I don' cover it for winter but our garden is in an elevation about 500 metres.
By the way, I am able to be at my computer about once a week as my garden is 52 kilometers from my home and my wife and me are spending most days there.
Zdenek
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By the way, I am able to be at my computer about once a week as my garden is 52 kilometers from my home and my wife and me are spending most days there.
Zdenek
Our best wishes to you and your wife for a very pleasant summer in your garden, Zdenek.......perhaps in the winter you will show has how the summer was for you there? 8)
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My reply to Cliff's question:
The Ranunculus glacialis is 6 years old, it is planted on a scree slope facing north and in this spring it was its fourth flowering. Zdenek
We had a visit to Zdenek's fantastic garden as part of the garden tours following the Prague conference. The Ranunculus glacialis has had previous coverage here (scroll down to message #48 and #49). Good to see it is not only surviving but actually doing very well
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=498.45
not tempted to liberate yours from its bucket Cliff ::)
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Makes me 'pail' at the very thought Di....!!! Pun intended. :)
Super plant Zdenek ... is it a lone survivor from a small germination?
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Thanks for remindingg me that we visited Zedeneks garden, it was delightful.
I wonder if you could tell me the name of this potentilla I saw in your garden and elsewhere on the tour.
Thanks
Susan
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Zdenek,
Thank you for the wonderful pictures---I look forward to more.
How did your "little Trilliums" do this year?
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not tempted to liberate yours from its bucket Cliff ::)
Makes me 'pail' at the very thought Di....!!! Pun intended. :)
Super plant Zdenek ... is it a lone survivor from a small germination?
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Yes, it is. Zdenek
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Thanks for remindingg me that we visited Zedeneks garden, it was delightful.
I wonder if you could tell me the name of this potentilla I saw in your garden and elsewhere on the tour.
Thanks
Susan
Susan, what Potentilla do you mean?
Zdenek
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Having more free time at last, I went through older messages on the Forum. I have found also reports from the Czech Conference Tours May 2007. There are some pictures from my garden among others (#12, 13, 14, 46, 47, 48 and 49) and they are mostly without more exact determination of plants.
I enclose here therefore several my images of those plants with their names. I am sorry that I discovered that report so late.
Most of this plants are well known, I think, only several notes to them: Androsace armeniaca macrantha is a biennial plant, albeit quite easy. It comes from mountains of Armenia and Iran. Haplocarpha rueppellii comes from Mt. Kilimandjaro in middle Africa, from high elevations and is well frost hardy and very easy to grow. Lesquerella arizonica is quite difficult outdoors as in nature it grows in dry areas of Arizona and Utah. Papaver degenii is a small Poppy endemitic in Pirin Mts. in Bulgaria.
Zdenek Rehacek
P.S.: I have changed the address of my web pages. It is http://zrehacek.8tt.org now.
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Hello, Zdenek, thank you for posting the pictures.
I am particulary interested in your picture of Papaver degenii from the Pirin. I also collected seed from a small poppy on Vichren that I have been calling by this name. mine is a soft yellow colour with no orange in it. Does this mean that the plant I saw was not P. degenii?
I have edited this post to include a picture of my Papaver pyrenaicum degenii in my garden. I note that I have put seed to the exchange under this name and it is numbered 2655 on the list.
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The AGS Ulster Group are heading to the Czech Republic again next year. I hope we visit your place again
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zdenek, good to hear from you again. Thank you for these notes.
I have changed the web address in your profile signature and also on the SRGC Link Pages so that we can find your new website. :D
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The AGS Ulster Group are heading to the Czech Republic again next year. I hope we visit your place again
I am very pleased, Mark. You will be welcome regardless how many you will be. I am looking forward to you.
Zdenek
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Hello David,
Papaver pyrenaicum var. degenii is synonym for P. degenii. I think your Papaver is not P. degenii, compare their leaves. Your Papaver looks as P. sancti-stephani, but I am not sure. Also I don't know if P. sancti-stephani grows in Pirin mountains, I am sorry. I know only surely that it grows in Romanian mountains.
Zdenek
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zdenek, good to hear from you again. Thank you for these notes.
I have changed the web address in your profile signature and also on the SRGC Link Pages so that we can find your new website. :D
O.K., thank you, Maggi. Zdenek
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Hi Zdenek, thanks for your comments.
The seed was collected in 2002 and at that time I could find little information on the plant and no pictures. The information that I had all referred to its bright yellow flowers and its location; this is why I have been happy with the name. Since the subject has arisen I have just been on the web again and found two sites illustrating the poppy. One is a Bulgarian flora and the other from a botanical tour company using its picture to advertise the Pirin region. Both show the yellow form of the flower. Reading the AGS Encyclopedia of Alpines I see that there can be colour forms that range from yellow to orange and salmon. It doesn't help that the Encyclopedia lumps a whole range of similar Papaver as 'alpina'. Regarding the leaves I think we should consider that the seed was collected at about 2,000m and this plant is growing at 20m. It is an older plant and somewhat raggedy. Overall, I think I will stick with 'degenii'.
Having said that, I have been in the garden today and am hoping that this whole conversation is not somewhat academic. I think the plant in my photo is probably dead. Just hope that it has seeded around a little and the seed I sowed in a pot germinates.
Still in the Pirin, I wonder if you can help me with the identification of a Caryophyllaceae that I collected. Sorry about the quality of the pictures but they are the best I have. The seed was collected just beyond the Vihren Hut on the plateau above the lakes. I am calling it Dianthus sp. but I am not even sure about the genus. The leaves form a low growing clump and then the flowers are on stems about twelve inches high.
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Hello David,
Yes, Papaver degenii can have also yellow flowers.
I am sorry that I cannot help with a name of your Dianthus.
Zdenek
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Thanks, Zdenek.
Anyone else like a try with the dianthus/silene or whatever?
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Hello all,
I am very sorry that I had to change address of my web page again, during a short time. I apologize particularly to you, Maggie. The address is now http://zrehacek.itriss.com/
I use this occasion and attach here several further photos from my garden. The Dionysia ZR 0502/1 is my own seedling from seed collected on my D. 'Emmely'.
Zdenek Rehacek
Corydalis buschii
Corydalis flexuosa
Cypripedium macranthum
Dionysia ZR0502_1
Draba paysonii treleasii
Primula villosa
Pulsatilla flavescens
Rhodopdendron forrestii
Thlaspi bellidifolium
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More good plants to cheer our days, Zdenek! I have made the necessary changes to your signature and to the Links pages. My pleasure to help you!
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Zdenku,
Is this Dionysia ZR0502_1 the same plant as named by you as 'Snehurka' (ang. 'Snow White')?
Best wishes
Michal
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Hi Michal,
Yes, Snehurka is the same plant. I did not write this name as I don't know how to translate it to English. I am not sure if Snow White is right. Snehurka (in Czech) is the name of the princess which her stepmather-queen expeled from her home and she then lived with those seven dwarfs (famous fairy-tale). Can somebody help me, please?
Zdenek Rehacek
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Yes, Zdenek, SnowWhite is that princess.
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"The AGS Ulster Group are heading to the Czech Republic again next year. I hope we visit your place again"
I am very pleased, Mark. You will be welcome regardless how many you will be. I am looking forward to you.
Zdenek
ZZ emailed me today. Our trip is to the opposite side of the country. It will be a Bohemia trip based in Beroun at the Island Hotel.
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My Papaver corona-sancti-stephani died after flowering. Can someone spare some seeds?
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Here I send several other pictures from this spring:
Gentiana angustifolia ´Iceberg´
Silene sachalinensis
Dianthus myrtinervius ssp. caespitosus
Centaurea achtarovii
Viola delphinantha
Phyteuma globulariifolium
Anaphalis triplinervis var. monocephala
Linnaea borealis
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Zdenek you might not remember but the little piece of Haplocarpus ruepellis you gave to me is growing very well, thanks.
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Zdenek you might not remember but the little piece of Haplocarpus ruepellis you gave to me is growing very well, thanks.
Mark,
I really don't remember but I am pleased, of course. By the way, ZZ have informed me that probably on 12th May your group will visit my garden.
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Excellent news. It will be good to see it again and Jaromir Grulich's garden
Can you translate this please
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Mark,
it must be a joke or a notice with a pritty sense of humour. My translation is as follows:
Attention
This property is guarded by dog.
In a case you will meet him
lie down on earth and wait for help.
If no help will come, good luck.
Have you also such notices in your country?
Zdenek
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Zdenek, this was on the front gate of Jiri Sladek's house. He has a big dog that is maybe also a guard dog. Our signs usually simply say "Beware of the Dog" or e.g "A Chihuahua Lives Here"
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;D That is one of the funniest signs I've seen in a long time, now we have the translation!
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If I will not bother, here I send several another pics from my garden:
Asyneuma limonifolium in a sand bed
Iberis taurica (Biennial)
Edraianthus horvatii (the only Edraianthus with ciliate leaves)
Hypsella longiflora (quite aggressive plant)
Silene argaea (from Turkey)
Helichrysum milfordiae
Felicia uliginosa (syn. Aster uliginosus)
Gentiana stipitata - those rossettes on left are G. georgiei (upper) and G. ornata (bottom)
Merry Christmas for you all!
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A Merry Christmas to you, too, Zdenek. I hope in 2009 your garden will be more beautiful than ever and you will bring us many photos to share!
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Hi Zdenek, thank you for the superb pictures the Gentian stipitata is a real stunner, cheers Ian the Christie kind,
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If the dog attaches itself to your leg; Please do not panic. Remain still and wait for help!!!!
I am not sure about the wording anymore. A Swedish artist and cartoonist used this in his summer house a hundred years ago or so. (Albert Engström)
Göte
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Hello All,
I enclose here just several pictures taken in my garden in this spring. I haven't been able to send them sooner being too busy in the garden.
Zdenek Rehacek
Adonis brevistyla
Eriogonum thymoides
Haplocarpha rueppellii
Pulsatilla halleri var rhodopaea
Pulsatilla vernalis
Ranunculus glacialis
Rhododendron forrestii
Rhodothamnus chamaecistus
Townsendia nuttallii
(edited to show picfile names to allow for location by search engine. Maggi)
I am sorry that my Ranunculus glacialis was mistakenly determined. In fact it is R. seguieri. I thank to Cliff Booker who brought my attention to this mistake. Here is my real R. glacialis, without flower however and another picture of my R. seguieri, both from this late april.