Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Lvandelft on September 07, 2008, 10:19:40 PM
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Hello all,
after enjoying a 3 weeks holiday in Austria with very good weather and back with masses of pictures I hope you don't mind when I show some of them here.
In the first batch some of the little village where we stayed and had a good look at
the Niedere Tauern and some pictures I made in the village.
Austria
Austria Bauerngarten
Austria Bauerngarten 1
Euphrasia
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Then some of the many beautyful houses and a picture of a Phlox paniculata
which I saw in a garden.
The lady there told me, her grandmother did already have it in her garden.
So must be a variety from the time before the great development in Phlox culture,
in the early twentieth age.
Austria nice house
Austria old house
Phlox paniculata
More to come.
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Luit
More please :)
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Luit,
I agree with Arthur -please show us more ;)
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Welcome home Luit ! ;D
Very good start... but it will be clear now that we all want more.. ;D
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Super images Luit. Many thanks.
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Beautiful views, thank you.
That Phlox looks so healthy.
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O.k. here are some more pictures then.
Beautiful views, thank you.
That Phlox looks so healthy.
Kathrin, that's just what I thought. But above 1000 m. Phlox are not so
susceptible to mildew, or other typical Phlox-deseases.
Last year we were living for some weeks in the same little village. You'll understand that I,
as a gardener always am looking for some interesting plants or gardens.
I saw some small "rockgardens", like you might see many in mountain areas.
This year I made some pictures which I show here.
(The first one was in Filzmoos near the Dachstein)
Rockgarden 1
Rockgarden 2
Rockgarden 3
(later some more, have to fix some pictures to the right size!)
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So, when making a little walk in this small (some 500 people counting) village,
I looked at a man working in his garden. Nothing special, but my eyes were
attracted by a heap of collected rocks under an appletree.
The man told me that it was his rockgarden and asked me what I found of it.
I told him what my profession had been and where I lived.
Now he complained that his plants in this "rockery" were not doing well.
I asked him, taking care not offending him, if he ever saw a mountain under an
appletree.
Next day I came back to make a picture of the place, but the man had taken all
the stones away and cleaned the place....?
This year I made my round through the village again and had a look at the same
garden.
Under the appletree was now a lawn and edged by a narrow bed with some
big rocks standing between Sempervivum.
On the other side of the drive in full sun was made a new, and even bigger, "rockery".
I did not see the man, but I think he has made some tribute to a Dutchman,
gratefull for my advice, where to make a rockgarden.
I must admit that he did his work with great skill, as the pictures show.
Rockgarden 4
Rockgarden 5
Rockgarden 6
Rockgarden 7
Rockgarden 8
Rockgarden 9
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That Phlox looks so healthy.
Indeed phlox is susceptible to eelworm etc, if you want to rejuvenate your clump take tip cuttings early in the season and they will have no sign of eelworm when they grow on (unless of course it is in another area of the ground!).
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Luit,
Fantastic, the type of rockgarden no 4, respectively 5 is called 'Gespickter Rehrücken ' here in Germany.
This means it looks like a saddle of venison garnished with back bacon. There are so much variations to build a rockgarden ;D ;D ;D
Gerd
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A special experience for me was a trip to the Dachstein.
Before my heartproblems I used to walk always up and down and never considered this
until I saw the posts of our forumist Johannes Höller this year in the Austrian mountains!
Thanks for that, Johannes!
The weather was nice, but up the mountain the sight was not clear enough to see
as far as the Triglav in Slovenia. But many other mountains were visible, including
Grossglockner.
The Cablestation is on 1700 m and it takes some minutes up to 2700 m.
The snow on the glacier was very wet and very slippery to walk and this time of
year not many flowering plants were to see.
I have made so many pictures and hope I made the right choice.
Here is the first batch:
Dachstein 01
Dachstein up 1
Dachstein up 2
Dachstein up 3
Dachstein up 4
Dachstein Glacier
Dachstein Glacier 2
Dachstein Glacier 3
Dachstein Feeling small
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It's good to see our intrepid mountaineer back in the flatlands ;D Lovely pictures Luit, more please.
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On one of the terraces was a place where we could stand on a glass and look
at least 700 m. right down. A strange experience because you cannot see how thick
this glass is. Nothing for people with fear of height.
I made some pictures of plants (without flowers) too, because I found it interesting to see how
they managed to stay alive at these heights.
Dachstein Looking down
Dachstein Looking down 2
Dachstein Looking down 3
Dachstein Looking down 4
Dachstein Looking down 5
Dachstein plants
Dachstein plants 2
Dachstein plants 3
Dachstein plants 4
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It's good to see our intrepid mountaineer back in the flatlands ;D Lovely pictures Luit, more please.
I'm glad too David! Would like to stay longer there, but with all the rain here the weeds
were taking over our place. So have to work a lot now. ::) ::)
The last pics from Dachstein:
Dachstein descend 1
Dachstein descend 2
Dachstein descend 3
Dachstein descend 4
On our way back home we passed one of the oldest churches in the Upper Ennstal:
The catholic church in St. Rupert am Kulm dates back to Romanesque times.
Old Church Ramsau am Dachstein
more to come later...
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Another day we headed again into the Upper Ennstal to visit the mountain
Stoderzinken near Gröbming where we could drive up to a big parking place.
Along the roadside in shady places we saw many Gentiana asclepiadea.
From the parkingplace we could easy walk to a place where was build a little chapel
on the rocks, the so-called Friedenskirche, built in1902.
Gentiana asclepiadea
Stoderzinken Ennstal
Stoderzinken Friedenskirche
Stoderzinken towards Dachstein
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On our way to the chapel there were some flowers, but early in spring it must be
wonderful upthere, because I saw masses of Helleborus niger.
Scabiosa columbaria with alpine bee [Apis mellifera mellifera]
Rhaponticum ... ?
Stoderzinken Orchid
Senecio abrotanifolius
Gentianela campestris or austriaca ??
Linaria alpina
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Some interesting plants were on or near big plain rocks:
Rocks
Saxifraga on rocks
Campanula cochleariifolia in rocks (plant measuring not more than 2 cm.)
Campanula cochleariifolia
Potentilla caulescens 1
Potentilla caulescens 2
Potentilla caulescens 3
I never saw this Potentilla before and now hardly understand why it is not used more
in rockgardens, because it flowers when most flowers are over.
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Near the parking were built some nice houses. Must be important people which
are allowed to built a second house in the middle of beautyful nature.
The good thing (..) for these people is that they don't need a gardener when away...
Stoderzinken frontgarden
Stoderzinken frontgarden 2
Stoderzinken frontgarden 3
Driving down I suddenly noticed something red, which I believed to be:
Atropa bella-donna Edit: so probably Lonicera alpigena (L.)
I hope I am not wrong...
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Luit,
wonderful sights, interesting Potentilla!
Your Atropa bella-donna is a Lonicera species, probably L. alpigena.
Gerd
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Luit,
wonderful sights, interesting Potentilla!
Your Atropa bella-donna is a Lonicera species, probably L. alpigena.
Gerd
Thank you Gerd!
I googled a little and it must be a Lonicera.
Both are plants, I have never seen, but these red berries made me think wrong!
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Beautiful pics showing beautiful places. And I like that you took pics also of gardens. :)
Gentianella campestris has 4 petals, so this is probably austriaca...
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Thank you Kathrine, I hope to remember that.
In the last two batches I show first some plants.
We drove over the Radstädter Tauernpass where I had to stop for
a Delphinium.
Then we visited the valley of Grossarl where I saw fields with Gentiana
asclepiadea. This time in full sun but always on the mountains North-side.
Delphinium elatum 1
Delphinium elatum 2
Gentiana asclepiadea Grossarl 1
Gentiana asclepiadea Grossarl 2
Gentiana asclepiadea Grossarl 3
Carlina acaulis
Stoneman
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One of our last trips was to the Kölnbrein Sperre in the beautiful Maltatal in Carinthia.
Amazing to see the masses of Parnassia.
On most of our trips we were accompanied by some relatives of my wife.
The last picture shows some of them.
Maltatal 1
Maltatal 2
Maltatal moss
Parnassia palustris
Parnassia palustris 1
Saxifraga aizoides
Maltatal 3
Maltatal 4
Good Company
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One of our last trips was to the Kölnbrein Sperre in the beautiful Maltatal in Carinthia.
Wonderful photos Luit! My brother has been in Maltatal, too on Sunday 31st of August
and was also very impressed!
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Travelling back home to Holland we took the opportunity to make
a visit to Thomas Huber, as it was not far from our way.
We started off in the morning at Salzburg with 30° C. and when we arrived at Neustadt in the
afternoon it was raining and not more than 12° C. What a shock..!
We were very impressed by the way, how Thomas keeps his enormous Crocus
Collection on such a limited place.
His new rockgarden was just finished, but he wants first to wait with planting until
the weeds which for sure are coming up are removed.
Here some pictures.
Colchicum collection
Crocus meadow
Weeding
When we were at Thomas place, he got a phonecall from forumist Gerd.
So next morning we decided to make a short visit there too.
And Gerd had propagated a plant for me, which we could right take home then.
Gerd's wife surprised us with a delicious meal.
Gerd has many interesting plants in his garden, so we had a lot to see and talk about.
I left with more than the one plant that I came for.
My wife made some pictures there:
Gerd's garden 1
Gerd's garden 2
Sternbergia sicula Dodona Gold
Heavy nice pots
Taking plant
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I am so delighted to think of the forumists meeting up with each other and making these visits! 8)
(I have made a note of the fact that Frau Knoche is a good cook, also!! ;) )
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I am so delighted to think of the forumists meeting up with each other and making these visits! 8)
(I have made a note of the fact that Frau Knoche is a good cook, also!! ;) )
Maggi, unfortunately she's the BEST cook - please have a look at my waistline! :'( :'( :'(
Gerd
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Very nice of you to take us visiting both these prominent forumists Luit ! :D
Thanks very much... but you could have given Thomas a hand weeding... ::)
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Thanks very much... but you could have given Thomas a hand weeding... ::)
;D ;D ;D
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I am so delighted to think of the forumists meeting up with each other and making these visits! 8)
(I have made a note of the fact that Frau Knoche is a good cook, also!! ;) )
Maggi, unfortunately she's the BEST cook - please have a look at my waistline! :'( :'( :'(
Gerd
Gerd, you are a lucky man!
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Gerd, you have a lovely garden, and you too Thomas.
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Thanks for the compliments, also from the cook ;)
Gerd
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Lovely garden, Gerd. Beautiful!
Many thanks for the photographs, Luit, or should I say many thanks to your wife?
I have enjoyed the whole set of photographs above very much, really a great set. A beautiful place.
Paddy