Pulsatilla 2020

[Pauli]

Yesterday I had my pilgrimage to Wachau-Dürnstein, both for Pulsatillas and excellent wine!
I found quite a lot of flowers, but a week later would have been better, especially for the P. nigricans.
Frist pictures are P. grandis with the famous church and castle of Dürnstein in the background.

[Pauli]

Part 2

[Gerdk]

Stimulating pics! Spring arrived

Gerd

[ashley]

Beautiful.  How are these meadows managed Herbert?  Are they used mainly for cutting hay or just grazing animals in summer, and not too intensively?

[Pauli]

These are protected areas.
They go around with sheep in early summer, when the seed of the Pulsatillas has been dispersed.

[Gabriela]

Yesterday I had my pilgrimage to Wachau-Dürnstein, both for Pulsatillas and excellent wine!
I found quite a lot of flowers, but a week later would have been better, especially for the P. nigricans.
Frist pictures are P. grandis with the famous church and castle of Dürnstein in the background.

I don't know about the wine but the Pulsatillas were worth the trip!

[ruweiss]

Herbert, the Pulsatillas are great, are there also Iris pumila
in this region?

[Pauli]

Rudi, there are no pumilas in the Wachau.
They start to the east and south of Vienna. Thenauriegel is a very famous location, as is Lange Lacke and the area around Hainburg. Usually they start blooming at the beginning of April - but after that "winter"?

[ruweiss]

Herbert, thank you for your reply

[Philip Walker]

Pulsatilla albana violaceae

[Pauli]

Pulsatilla "Pink Dream", bred bei Fritz Kummert - mostly grandis with a little styriaca. Comes rather true from seed!

[David Nicholson]

These Pulsatilla have been in my garden for a few years now and I can't, for the life of me, remember what they are? Can anyone help me please?

[Gerdk]

Beautiful pictures here!

I add a red cultivar of Pulsatilla vulgaris and Pulsatilla patens.

Gerd

[Pauli]

Pulsatilla rubra

[Leucogenes]

Pulsatilla grandis...