Alpines in Armenia

[Maggi Young]

They do get around, don't they? Apart from the odd weedy one which makes a bit of a pest of itself in the garden, I have to say I do like them... they do exhibit so much variety. I rather suspect that even in the places where they may not be native, they are good  colonisers

[Lesley Cox]

We even have one in NZ Maggi, E. glauca and it is a VERY good coloniser!

The junos have to take first place for me in Peter's pics but I love that tight Rheum species, the leaves pressing hard down on the rock and such beautiful colour and texture.

Does anyone know what year old plants of R. nobile should look like? I'd love to think my 3 are true but way too early to tell.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great pictures Peter !!!
Stunning landscape and plants.

I love these long Swedish Winter evenings that give you the time to post this ... 

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

Yes, that is the only good thing with early dark evenings. Hopefully we gets a lot of snow for a few weeks (not more!!!) so I can update the website and finish the new house we built two years ago.
And there are a lot of seeds to clean and a lot of seeds to order. Now I have employed Fredrik to prickle all the seedlings so I can order even more this year.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

We keep our fingers crossed for you Peter !

[Susan Band]

Peter, Great to see the pictures.
Talking about ordering seed Josef Jurasek's list is now out. www.jurasekalpines.e2net.org/ A very large list with lots to choose from. By the way Peter how many pots of seed are you planing to sow this year 1000,3000,10,000?

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

I have just looked through Rocky Mountain Rare Plants seed list and will now start with Juraseks list. I try to keep under 2000 species/year but I think it will be more than 3000 this year. I still have some seeds from last year and then some from my collections in Armenia, my brothers collections, everything I buy (a lot), from my garden and from every other seed sourse. Maybe a little to much? I think I have to build a lot of new sand beds next year.

[stellan]

I come back to Armenia this week and I found snow everywhere... Maybe few months to early for planthunting but I think there will be som frozen Gagea and Crocus... I'll stay few more days in the capital and try to get some visas. After that I leave the city by my lovely bike and will play around in the snow.

I will do my best during next week to find the early sping flowers and show some nice pictures here...

/Stellan

[tonyg]

Looking forward to the pictures - great!  Keep safe and have a good trip.

[Paul T]

Great pics.  I particularly love the Corydalis nariniana.  Wonderful colour combination.  Interesting to see Colchicum flowering in April in the northern hemisphere..... obviously the spring types!  First are pushing up noses here at the moment (although they're the autumn ones of course).

[stellan]

I have start my bikingtrip in Armenia and here is some photos of flowers. There aren't many flower so i can only show three photos of Colchicum this time. Sorry...

I also send one pictures of some kids which selling flowers alone the main road in the country. Last pictures is of my bike...

/Stellan
http://www.sandstorm.se

[stellan]

Two pictures were missing...

/Stellan
http://www.sandstorm.se

[ChrisB]

What a cheery picture Stellan, those kids look just great.  Give them a hug from me please.

[stellan]

New pictures from last days... Most of the snow is gone but tomorrow i have to cross a mountains pass at 2500 m so I'll get more snow again...

This time are the pics 2 Colchicum, 2 Galathus and last one is of the mountains near Goris

/Stellan

[Maggi Young]

Stellan, I am obliged to you for these pix.... good to see the bees busy at their work.
I had no idea that Giraffe were found so far from the plains of Africa... this must be a highly nomadic species