Visits to Gardens February 2008

[Gerdk]

David,
I am neither the larger gentleman nor the smaller one. I don't know them - only asked the larger one if he agree for making a pic of both.
Gerd

[David Nicholson]

Sorry Gerd, I meant the larger gentleman. I saw the beard and I saw the glasses, I added 2 and 2 and the answer was 5!

[ashley]

[I'll tack this on here rather than starting a new thread.]

Can anyone recommend gardens etc. to visit in/near Amsterdam over Easter?

[David Nicholson]

[I'll tack this on here rather than starting a new thread.]

Can anyone recommend gardens etc. to visit in/near Amsterdam over Easter?

I'm sure Luit will have some ideas for you Ashley, but one to start you off here

http://www.keukenhof.nl/nm/english.html

[ashley]

Thanks David - very tempting.  I'll have to negotiate though ... 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Ashley,
You will find a real and quite big, interesting rock garden at the "Uithof", the botanic gardens of the Utrecht university. 
(more negotiating to do....  )

[Lvandelft]

I'm sure Luit will have some ideas for you Ashley, but one to start you off here

http://www.keukenhof.nl/nm/english.html

It depends much in which area you are, but Keukenhof is just opened then and will be interesting to see but I think a month later would be much better.
De Uithof, Utrecht is a must for rockgardeners.
What would you like to see and how much time do you have?

[ashley]

What would you like to see and how much time do you have?

Thanks Luc and Luit for your suggestions.  Unfortunately we have only three days so realistically I can't expect more than a few hours for green things!  My main interest would be bulbs, and as close to Amsterdam as possible.  Hortus Botanica?

[Lvandelft]

What would you like to see and how much time do you have?

Thanks Luc and Luit for your suggestions.  Unfortunately we have only three days so realistically I can't expect more than a few hours for green things!  My main interest would be bulbs, and as close to Amsterdam as possible.  Hortus Botanica?

Ashley, that is rather short. Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam has not many bulbs, I think.
The other H. Bot. of the Free University is closed in weekends.
You could consider to visit the Connoisseur Collection with me.
It's about half an hour driving from Amsterdam and on Sunday afternoon I could spare some time.
You even could consider dropping your companied people at the beach of Noordwijk nereby..    
Send me a PM if you might consider this as a possibility.

[Paul T]

David and Gerd,

Thanks to both of you for the lovely pics.  I'm blown away as always by those mass planted lawns.  Would love to view something like that in person as the scale is just amazing.  You guys are seeeing Camellias in flower up there as my first sasanqua camellia is opening it's first flowers for this autumn down here.  A bit early, but nice none-the-less.

Great pics, and thanks again for sharing your visits with us.