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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Julia on May 04, 2012, 09:57:39 PM
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Hi we (Ron and Susan McBeath, Rob Potteron, Julia Corden) are over at Peter Korn's getting ready for our lectures tomorrow at Peter's Nerd Day. We visited the Goteborg Botanic's today and had a great welcome by Henrick and Johan ( Maggi's your toy boy)
The Botanic's is looking fantastic. Rob and Ron are keeping me off the motorways!
More to follow tomorrow.
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Hi Julia, I hope you gave Johan my best wishes? :-*
Peter's Nerd's Days are always a bit hit and this one is fully booked, as usual :
http://www.peterkornstradgard.se/nordlordag.html (http://www.peterkornstradgard.se/nordlordag.html)
Ian says, who is help to chop the sausages for the soup?
Have a great day!
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Yes of course we sent your best wishes and a big hug ;)
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Peter very organised and all the sausages are chopped. We are sitting having wine and beer :-\
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Just want to say thanks to Julia,Ron and Rob for a really nice day and excelent talks :)....//Jonny
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I had intended to post some photos sooner from Peter Korn's "Nerd Day" event on 5 May, so to start with we have the excellent audience that attended the talks - i wish all audiences were so enthusiastic:
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Rick and i travelled from Immingham to Gothenburg on a Roll on / Roll off ferry, with limited passenger space, the crossing took 27 hours, was both expensive and boring but thankfully a smooth crossing. Ron McBeath and Julia Corden flew from Edinburgh to Gothenburg in less than 90 minutes.
From the Gothenburg ferry port to Peter's is a distance of about 20 miles, we stopped briefly to admire the Anemone nemorosa along the roadside WOW .... we later saw that nearly all the countryside road verges and woodland edges were covered with Anemone ..... always white but we did see some older flowers fading to pink.
With the help of our sat nav we easily found Peters nursery and the roadsign is very clear.
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Peter's garden is truly stunning, looking back through my photos they really do not do it justice, they dont show the scale or size correctly; nevertheless here goes ...
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..... and more:
including Ron and Peter
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.... and more
including Julia, Ron and Susan
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And then the plants ..... more to follow
Pulsatilla serotina.jpg
Soldanella rhodopaea.jpg
Oxalis.jpg
Mertensia alpina.jpg
Gentiana oschtenica.jpg
Corydalis buschii.jpg
Arenaria alfacarensis.jpg
Lewisia cotyledon.jpg
Tulipa montana.jpg
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.... should have stated previously that all these plants are growing in sand beds .... next batch follows:
Polemonium carneum.jpg
Helichrysum milfordiae.jpg
Phlox diffusa.jpg
Phacelia sericea.jpg
Primula pubescens Christine.jpg
Primula marginata White Lady.jpg
Iris attica.jpg
Iris magnifica Agalik.jpg
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.... almost finished ......
Pulsatilla x heckelii.jpg
Daphne limprichtii.jpg
Douglasia laevigata and Arenaria kansuensis.jpg
Gentiana hexaphylla.jpg
Phlox colvillei.jpg
Erythronium White Beauty.jpg
Primula bella.jpg
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.... and finally, Peter Korn has recently published his first book "Peter Korns Tradgard", it is written in Swedish with an abundance of beatifull photographs. Peter is hoping to print and publish an English written version next year.
This was an enjoyable, enlightening adventure to Sweden, meeting many, many friendly folk. My thanks to Peter and Mirjam and hope to see to you both again soon.