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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Giles on September 27, 2008, 09:52:35 AM
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Dear Forumists,
I have a German friend who lives and works in the UK who is going back to Germany to visit family and friends. Please could you recommend some nurseries
which I might be able to get her to pick up some plants for me from.
The only one I've come across is Jurgen Peters but there must be plenty more.....
Thankyou for your help.
Giles
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A very good nursery for everything is Sarastro Stauden in Austria. Shipping by the the Austrian Post is much cheaper than the Royal Mail and so it shouldn't be too expensive at all.
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Germany is an awfully large country,which area are they going to?
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Bremen and Hamburg.(but she might be persuaded to go elsewhere[!])
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Giles :
maybe write PM our member Renate Brinkers - she has a nursery in the north ....but in any way she will know something ....
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Thanks Arne and Hans,
I think Austria is a bit too far, but I have emailed Renate to see what she can suggest.
Isn't there a nursery run by a Mr Stop/Stoppe ?? I googled it but didn't come up with anything.
Giles
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Thanks Arne and Hans,
I think Austria is a bit too far, but I have emailed Renate to see what she can suggest.
Isn't there a nursery run by a Mr Stop/Stoppe ?? I googled it but didn't come up with anything.
Giles
Giles Gerd Stopp is at Chemnitz.
Only a little more than 500 km. from Hamburg.
That's only about half so far as Sarastro in Austria.
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Gerd Stopp has a wonderful nursery full of rare alpines at very low prices.I visited him when it was still the GDR.We were both a lot younger then.
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Wim I have amended my post,thank you
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Please have a look at Staudengärtnerei Alpine Raritäten Jürgen Peters, Uetersen - not so far from Hamburg!
Gerd
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Giles, there are more adresses at the website of the Munich Rockgarden Club:
www.steingarten-alpine-pflanzen-muenchen.de. Just click the link: Wer liefert was?
Gerd Stopp and Eugen Schleipfer have no wesites,but plantlists are available.
Hop,you are succesfull
Rudi
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-lots of nice stuff from that last site, thankyou!
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While we're on the subject, does anyone have any experience with Friesland-Staudengarten?
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A bit of feedback.
Gerd Stopp: opened a parcel today to find everything I wanted plus alot of extra plants too!!!
(He speaks English, and I found it easiest just to 'phone him and let him know what I wanted)
Jurgen Peters: excellent plants
(Doesn't speak English, but German speaking friend said they were charming and very helpful)
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An illustration of the wonderful packaging employed by Gerd (posted on 15th December 2009 and arrived in perfect condition in Lancashire on 17th December) - superb plants, all different and only one Euro each (plus post, etc.) as part of his seasonal offer. Highly recommended.
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Pretty impressive all round, isn't it Cliff? From the speedy delivery to the super attention to details in packing the plants so that they will travel in safety .
It must take an age to do all that packing, but, by jove, it's worth it.... they'll all be in perfect condition inside their little pot houses.
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Bremen and Hamburg.(but she might be persuaded to go elsewhere[!])
Giles,
in the northern part of Germany we have a lot of gardeners, but only Jürgen Peters as special alpine gardener.
Friesland-Stauden you mentioned buy the plants he offered in England, Holland etc. and sell them. Not so cheap.
Your friend can send a mail to Mr. Gensch. He lives in Hamburg. Maybe he knew some of this little alpine gardeners around Hamburg.
http://www.gds-staudenfreunde.de/public/index/rubrik/Fachgruppe%20Sempervivum%20___%20Jovibarba
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Just being nosy Cliff - what kind of things did you get?
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Just being nosy Cliff - what kind of things did you get?
Hi Darren,
The list included four excellent Androsaces, two anemones (rupicola and polyanthes), three dwarf aquilegias (including A. jonesii), Arenaria ledebouriana, Asyneuma limonifolium, five campanulas (C. raineri, C. aucheri, etc.), two dianthus, Edraianthus pumilio; Gentiana occidentalis; Globularia stygia; three helichrysums; Jasione crispa; Myosotis 'Eyre M'tn'; Petrophytum cinerascens; Phlox nana; Physoplexis comosa; Phyteum confusum; Potentilla speciosa; two primulas; Rhamnus microcarpa; four saxifraga sp.; two silenes; Bolax gummifera and Vitaliana primuliflora ssp. assoana. Magnificent selection (of Gerd's) at only one Euro each plus p & p. All in perfect condition (one actually in flower) and packed superbly. (Included two totally unexpected free bonus plants).
As I say - highly recommended.
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Cor! Thats quite a list Cliff. Must investigate further. Thanks for replying in such detail. Can't believe those prices either - some of those are not easy to propagate in quantity.
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Hi Cliff,
Still waiting for mine - hope they look like yours,
J.
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We were very pleased with our Stopp parcel last year..... perfect little plants just the very thing for planting up troughs in Spring... :D
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I got a nice big box from Ger Stopp this morning, and it was SO cold in the potting shed I had to unpack it in the kitchen. You will not believe this,when I was finished I had to clean up the mess I caused by myself :) and then bring herself to a shopping center 12 miles away to calm her down. Women are not like they used to be when I was young. ;D
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Women are not like they used to be when I was young. ;D
They are not even like they were when they were young, Michael! ;D ;D ;D Ouch!
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For slightly larger plants: Klose Staudengärtnerei. Very near the motorway junctions at Kassel. http://www.staudengaertner-klose.de/
For real alpines: Sündermann Botanischer Alpengarten still exists in Lindau on the Bodensee - but that is as far as to Austria. www.alpengarten-suendermann.de/
There used to be the Simon family in Marktheidenfeldt. www.gaertnerei-simon.de/
Cheers
Göte
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Did someone get the new list in pdf or spreadsheet? Gerd send it by mail but i didn't receive it by email.
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I got my list as email 2012-08-12.
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I got my list as email 2012-08-12.
From Gerd Stopp, Ulla? If so, could you send it to me, please?
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I didn't think that Gerd used the internet at all?
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I have tried several time to get the plant list from Gerd Stopp ...it never works
I have sent him emails - a fax and I speak him on the answer maschine ....nothing :-X
Hans
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Ulla can you please post the list?
It really easier to copy/paste from the list, more than rewriting a complete order list.
I also try to send a fax but the machine behind doesn't work.
Gerd Stopp <gerd.stopp@t-online.de>
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Ulla was kind enough to send me the list - here it is :
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Many thanks Maggi! ;)