Flowering now April 2007

[mark smyth]

I forgot something that I thought was dead. When I planted Pulsatilla vernalis I thought it was dying especially the brown bud. I didnt realise the emerging bud has a dense covering of brown hairs. Here it is today

[Hans J]

Maggi ,

here are for you some new flowers from my garden :
P. "Zi Ban Bai" was a wrong named P. rockii - I have received it from a seller from England - later he send me a replacement for it .
P. ostii "Fen Dan Bai" is from a italian nursery -they work close with Prof. Osti - this plant has in some years until 60 flowers .
P. rockii ES is from a private source - it has a different growing form as my other Rockii -they grows like bushes -this plants has few branches but strong and high .

My compliment to the last pics of Ian ( Bulblog) -never seen before such beautiful Erythronium !!!

Greetings
Hans

[Hans J]

Here comes some rare greek species :

[Hans J]

and some more :

[Paul T]

Hans,

Great pics.  I love the P. parnassica in particular.  The purity of ostii is beautiful, as to me is rockii with it's lovely contrasting flares.  So veyr nice!!

[Hans J]

Not only peony flowers in this time :

[mark smyth]

Hans you must have a huge garden. What size is it? Can you show the garden by taking a photo from an upstairs window?

[Hans J]

Mark ,

My garden is not not so big .
Sometime I wish it was bigger - but if I must clean the weed it is big enough .
The size of my ground is around 680 m2 - but there is a house ,garage,way ,terasse,greenhouse,two bulbframe ....
A garden can never be big enough 
Hans

[Maggi Young]

Hans, Paeonia ostii "Fen Dan Bai" is SO beautiful! But all your plants, peonies and others , look very well and full of health. A joy to see them, thank you!

[Hans J]

Here are some pics from my greenhouse :

[Hans J]

Mark ,
and here some from my garden :

[mark smyth]

my garden is only 42 feet 13m across.

[David Nicholson]

Hans, yours is a lovely garden, big enough to try all kinds of planting-I am envious!! I like your greenhouse and your open extension to it also-is it glazed with polycarbonate?

[Hans J]

David ,

Thank you for your compliments !
To my greenhouse : this is plexiglass -thats better than polycarbonate .
Polycarbonate is not so clear -and after some years it's yellow - so a lot of light is away .
This is a special contruction from Austria ( Princess Glashaus) -and I'm totally satisfied with this extension . It is not a big work and every year after the frost nigth I opend it until autuum ( last year until December .On the other side I have 3 windows and they are also always open -and on the roof the same . In the wintermonth all this windows will opend automatic -so I have never really hot inside .
My cacti are all from the Andes of South America and they like a lot of ligth and always fresh air .
The last summers are very hot here ....sometimes more than 35° C ( in shade) -but I have not any lost !
From this seller I have also my bulbframe - it's also opend automaticly in the winter .

Greetings
Hans

[David Nicholson]

Now, if I had the room bulb frames would be top of my list, together with doubling the size of my greenhouse; building a few cold frames; a few poly tunnels; re-siting Mrs N's clothes dryer thingy that I bang my head on every time I pass it; and much much more!