Plants from my garden

[Maggi Young]

zdenek, good to hear from you again. Thank you for these notes.

I have changed the web address in your profile signature and also on the SRGC Link Pages so that we can find your new website. 

[Zdenek]

The AGS Ulster Group are heading to the Czech Republic again next year. I hope we visit your place again

I am very pleased, Mark. You will be welcome regardless how many you will be. I am looking forward to you.
Zdenek

[Zdenek]

Hello David,
Papaver pyrenaicum var. degenii is synonym for P. degenii. I think your Papaver is not P. degenii, compare their leaves. Your Papaver looks as P. sancti-stephani, but I am not sure. Also I don't know if P. sancti-stephani grows in Pirin mountains, I am sorry. I know only surely that it grows in Romanian mountains.
Zdenek

[Zdenek]

zdenek, good to hear from you again. Thank you for these notes.

I have changed the web address in your profile signature and also on the SRGC Link Pages so that we can find your new website. 

O.K., thank you, Maggi. Zdenek

[David Shaw]

Hi Zdenek, thanks for your comments.
The seed was collected in 2002 and at that time I could find little information on the plant and no pictures. The information that I had all referred to its bright yellow flowers and its location; this is why I have been happy with the name. Since the subject has arisen I have just been on the web again and found two sites illustrating the poppy. One is a Bulgarian flora and the other from a botanical tour company using its picture to advertise the Pirin region. Both show the yellow form of the flower. Reading the AGS Encyclopedia of Alpines I see that there can be colour forms that range from yellow to orange and salmon. It doesn't help that the Encyclopedia lumps a whole range of similar Papaver as 'alpina'. Regarding the leaves I think we should consider that the seed was collected at about 2,000m and this plant is growing at 20m. It is an older plant and somewhat raggedy. Overall, I think I will stick with 'degenii'.
Having said that, I have been in the garden today and am hoping that this whole conversation is not somewhat academic. I think the plant in my photo is probably dead. Just hope that it has seeded around a little and the seed I sowed in a pot germinates.
Still in the Pirin, I wonder if you can help me with the identification of a Caryophyllaceae that I collected. Sorry about the quality of the pictures but they are the best I have. The seed was collected just beyond the Vihren Hut on the plateau above the lakes. I am calling it Dianthus sp. but I am not even sure about the genus. The leaves form a low growing clump and then the flowers are on stems about twelve inches high.

[Zdenek]

Hello David,
Yes, Papaver degenii can have also yellow flowers.
I am sorry that I cannot help with a name of your Dianthus.
Zdenek

[David Shaw]

Thanks, Zdenek.
Anyone else like a try with the dianthus/silene or whatever?

[Zdenek]

Hello all,
I am very sorry that I had to change address of my web page again, during a short time. I apologize particularly to you, Maggie. The address is now http://zrehacek.itriss.com/
I use this occasion and attach here several further photos from my garden. The Dionysia ZR 0502/1 is my own seedling from seed collected on my D. 'Emmely'.
Zdenek Rehacek

Corydalis buschii
 Corydalis flexuosa
 Cypripedium macranthum
 Dionysia ZR0502_1
 Draba paysonii treleasii
 Primula villosa
 Pulsatilla flavescens
 Rhodopdendron forrestii
 Thlaspi bellidifolium

[Maggi Young]

More good plants to cheer our days, Zdenek! I have made the necessary changes to your signature and to the Links pages. My pleasure to help you!

[Michal Hoppel]

Zdenku,
Is this  Dionysia ZR0502_1 the same plant as named by you as 'Snehurka' (ang. 'Snow White')?

Best wishes
Michal

[Zdenek]

Hi Michal,
Yes, Snehurka is the same plant. I did not write this name as I don't know how to translate it to English. I am not sure if Snow White is right. Snehurka (in Czech) is the name of the princess which her stepmather-queen expeled from her home and she then lived with those seven dwarfs (famous fairy-tale). Can somebody help me, please?
Zdenek Rehacek

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Zdenek, SnowWhite is that princess.

[mark smyth]

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"The AGS Ulster Group are heading to the Czech Republic again next year. I hope we visit your place again"

I am very pleased, Mark. You will be welcome regardless how many you will be. I am looking forward to you.
Zdenek

ZZ emailed me today. Our trip is to the opposite side of the country. It will be a Bohemia trip based in Beroun at the Island Hotel.

[mark smyth]

My Papaver corona-sancti-stephani died after flowering. Can someone spare some seeds?

[Zdenek]

Here I send several other pictures from this spring:

Gentiana angustifolia ´Iceberg´
Silene sachalinensis
Dianthus myrtinervius ssp. caespitosus
Centaurea achtarovii
Viola delphinantha
Phyteuma globulariifolium
Anaphalis triplinervis var. monocephala
Linnaea borealis