Rare Alpine Weekend (MAY) in Holland

[Rob Potterton]

An announcement to let you know about the Rare Alpine Weekend (May) event that will take place next week at Ploegers in De Bilt, near Utrecht, Holland on Saturday & Sunday 8 / 9 May. Also attending with sales plants will be Ron & Susan McBeath of Lamberton Nursery, Scotland and Rob Potterton of Pottertons Nursery, England. Please contact the nurseries if you want to collect plant orders - we leave next Thursday. In total you will find on offer in excess of 5,000 plant varieties; free coffee offered to all visitors and for information, directions etc; visit Ploegers web site at www.ploegerdebilt.nl

[Rob Potterton]

Attached below are some images taken at Ploegers nursery during the event 8/9 May. The weather was cold, overcast and occasionally wet; the photo of Ron & Susan was taken just after Susan got drenched whilst trying to shed rain water from the market stall roof.

Ron & Susan McBeath
Ploeger raised bed
Additional sales plants
Perennial sales plants

[Rob Potterton]

And a few more photographs ......

Alpine sales area
Container skyscraper
Ploeger nursery at De Bilt near Utrecht

[Lesley Cox]

Poor Susan. I can hear her gasp as the cold water poured down her neck.

What a marvellous place this looks and what an amazing choice of plants. I wish we had the same available here. I imagine a few personal banks were broken.

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks for posting the photos Rob, it really looks like a great nursery for everything but for Alpines, superb - could spend many happy hours there but as lesley says the bank account might suffer    It is incredible to me that in Valais (Switzerland) nothing like this or specialist nurseries of any sort seem to exist (or at least I haven't found any).

[Rob Potterton]

In Switzerland you have one of the finest Alpine nurseries in Europe -
Jakob Eschmann, eidg. dipl. Gaertnermeister,
Waltwil,
6032 Emmen
SWITZERLAND

[Maggi Young]

Eschmann Jakob
Steingartenpflanzen
Stauden und Kleingehölze
Waltwil 51
6032 Emmen
   
Tel:    041 260 64 73
Fax:    041 260 49 79
     gaertnerei.eschmann@bluemail.ch
     www.eschmannpflanzen.ch

[Rob Potterton]

Thanks Maggi.

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Rob and Maggi for the suggestion and links - something to organize in the future as a special venture   

[Lvandelft]

Attached below are some images taken at Ploegers nursery during the event 8/9 May. The weather was cold, overcast and occasionally wet; the photo of Ron & Susan was taken just after Susan got drenched whilst trying to shed rain water from the market stall roof.

Ron & Susan McBeath
Ploeger raised bed
Additional sales plants
Perennial sales plants

And you spotted the only customer on this cold Sunday morning too Rob 
(I sent him a copy of it)