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Title: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Harry Jans on December 21, 2008, 10:45:09 AM
Dear friends,

It took me a long time to get my new website on-line but here it is! (www.jansalpines.com)
There is still much to do but the main thing for most of you, you can choose Dutch or English!!!!
I have made two different Photo Albums: My Garden & My Travels in which you can view over 7000 images.
Most of them are all named and with location details in the wild. If you see that a plant name is wrong, please write a comment!
From most trips I have add also Google Maps, but will include special maps to download in the near future.
You can view also some samples from my DVD's.

Have fun visiting my website,
Cheers Harry
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: ichristie on December 21, 2008, 11:16:02 AM
Hello Harry, great to hear from you and I have just spent some time looking at your new web site, what treasures you show just magic and all your trips, the one planned from Chengdu to Lhasa sound great, keep us informed please,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: mark smyth on December 21, 2008, 01:09:36 PM
Hello Harry. I Love the web site.

It was because of you that the AGS Ulster Group went to the Czech Republic to see rock gardens. This was after you spoke at the AGS Dublin Group discussion weekend.

I have lifted these few lines from your web site because it affects us all. I should have asked first.

TIP: Problems with liverwort?

Do you have, like many gardeners, problems with liverwort? There are several ways to get rid of it:

First you can spray it with vinegar. Do this preferably on a sunny day. After some days you will see the liverwort turn black and die.

You can also scatter Magnesium Sulphate powder on the liverwort. It will not damage the plants, but the moss disappears.

Or use a chemical called “Mogeton” made by Bayer. (Active Ingredient 25% Quinoclamine) It is expensive, but works reliably
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on December 21, 2008, 03:31:30 PM
Very impressive site Harry !  :o
It will take more than one gloomy afternoon to wander through all that !
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: mark smyth on December 21, 2008, 03:37:38 PM
Here's the best Callianthemum I have ever seen. Harry what do you do it it?
http://www.jansalpines.com/garden/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=Alpine+House%2FPICT5628.JPG (http://www.jansalpines.com/garden/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=Alpine+House%2FPICT5628.JPG)
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Armin on December 21, 2008, 11:06:34 PM
Harry,
fascinating pictures! 8) 8) 8)
Enjoyed very much.
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Maggi Young on December 22, 2008, 10:48:28 AM
Here's the best Callianthemum I have ever seen. Harry what do you do it it?
http://www.jansalpines.com/garden/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=Alpine+House%2FPICT5628.JPG (http://www.jansalpines.com/garden/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=Alpine+House%2FPICT5628.JPG)


No disrespect to Harry, ( who knows I adore him!  :-* )  but that "best" comment got me remembering....... Forumist Ewelina from Poland has this plant in her garden.......
see  this forum page: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=267.msg8214;topicseen#msg8214

first, in bud.....
[attach=1]

then in flower........

[attach=2]


It's a beauty, isn't it?
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: mark smyth on December 22, 2008, 12:31:31 PM
This is my plant
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Carlo on December 22, 2008, 01:38:08 PM
Well done Harry...now no one has to go anywhere...

Happy holidays to you (all of the rest of you too) and the family.
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on December 22, 2008, 01:48:46 PM
Here's the best Callianthemum I have ever seen. Harry what do you do it it?
[It's a beauty, isn't it?

Both Ewalina's and Harry's specimen are quite exquisite if you ask me...   :o  I wouldn't like to judge them...  ???
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Maggi Young on December 22, 2008, 02:10:45 PM
Quote
I wouldn't like to judge them...
Then be glad that all we have to do is enjoy them!  8)
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: WimB on December 22, 2008, 07:25:04 PM
Harry,

very impressive photos on your site.

Welkom op het forum  :)
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: ranunculus on December 23, 2008, 08:04:27 AM
Two images of Callianthemum from AGS Shows in 2003.  (Probably exhibited by Ivor Betteridge).
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: mark smyth on December 23, 2008, 08:24:14 AM
So why would mine, two plants, be so poor? On is in a trough and the other is in a crevice. Are they bulbous or herbaceous?
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: ranunculus on December 23, 2008, 08:56:30 AM
There is nothing wrong with your plant, Mark ... in fact it shows great potential.  Ivor's plants are almost geriatric now and have been winning prizes for a number of years.  Callianthemum anemonoides is one of my favourite plants, inhabiting turf, stony places and light woodland to 2100 m. Low hairless perennials, blooming from March to May - we have seen them at their best in the Austrian Alps.
I have five or six pans containing quite large specimens, but they never seem to flower quite as well as those illustrated above - could it be a case of poor cultivation methods or simply an inferior form?
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: mark smyth on December 26, 2008, 01:29:58 PM
Harry I tried viegar on liverwort but it didnt work - so far. I put 250ml of vinegar in 5L of water and sprayed the back yard where liverwort and moss grow between the paving blocks. Do you use it straight from the bottle?
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: johnw on December 26, 2008, 03:01:19 PM
I presume you would have to be very careful not to spray the vinegar solution on plants.  See the MSDS sheet for Econsense Weed Killer here:

http://www.scotts.ca/media/media/_PDFs/MSDS/Canada/EcoSense_WeedControl_Spray.pdf (http://www.scotts.ca/media/media/_PDFs/MSDS/Canada/EcoSense_WeedControl_Spray.pdf)

It acts as a top killer much like paraquat.

johnw
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on January 31, 2009, 01:55:22 PM
No disrespect to Harry, ( who knows I adore him!  :-* )  but that "best" comment got me remembering....... Forumist Ewelina from Poland has this plant in her garden.......
see  this forum page: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=267.msg8214;topicseen#msg8214

It's a beauty, isn't it?

Last spring our Callianthemum was looked so:

Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on January 31, 2009, 02:01:13 PM
Harry,
Your new website is absolutely wonderful - new trips and the plants in the garden.



Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: annew on January 31, 2009, 07:09:51 PM
They need plenty of root room, Cliff!
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Gerdk on February 01, 2009, 09:45:58 AM
They need plenty of root room, Cliff!


That bites! These roots will fill the hole trough in which I planted a beautiful
coloured Callianthemum, acquired from Harry Jans!

Gerd
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Eric Locke on May 13, 2009, 11:34:24 PM

Harry

Very nice website.   8)

Eric
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: Lori S. on May 16, 2009, 02:25:12 AM
I am about to enjoy this new website, but first...
This must surely be a contender for best callianthemum... one of many from the garden of a superb local alpine gardener!  (Photos taken with permission on a recent garden visit.)
Title: Re: New Website Harry Jans
Post by: ranunculus on May 16, 2009, 06:56:54 AM
That really IS a beauty, Lori.
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