Plants from my garden

[Zdenek]

Hello All,
I enclose here just several pictures taken in my garden in this spring. I haven't been able to send them sooner being too busy in the garden.
Zdenek Rehacek


Adonis brevistyla
 Eriogonum thymoides
 Haplocarpha rueppellii
 Pulsatilla halleri var rhodopaea
 Pulsatilla vernalis
 Ranunculus glacialis
Rhododendron forrestii
 Rhodothamnus chamaecistus
 Townsendia nuttallii

(edited to show picfile names to allow for location by search engine. Maggi)

[art600]

Well worth the wait.  I particularly like the Pulsatilla halleri var rhodopaea

[Katherine J]

Thank you very much, Zdenek. We don't mind seeing spring flowers at this time of the year! 

[ranunculus]

Very interested in your Ranunculus glacialis, Zdenek ... how old is your plant, is it grown from seed and is this your first flowering?  Beautiful images. Many thanks for posting.

[Zdenek]

My reply to Cliff's question:
The Ranunculus glacialis is 6 years old, it is planted on a scree slope facing north and in this spring it was its fourth flowering. I expect in every spring that it will not sprout after winter, but it surprises me again and again. I don' cover it for winter but our garden is in an elevation about 500 metres.
By the way, I am able to be at my computer about once a week as my garden is 52 kilometers from my home and my wife and me are spending most days there.
Zdenek

[Maggi Young]

By the way, I am able to be at my computer about once a week as my garden is 52 kilometers from my home and my wife and me are spending most days there.
Zdenek

Our best wishes to you and your wife for a very pleasant summer in your garden, Zdenek.......perhaps in the winter you will show has how the summer was for you there? 

[Diane Clement]

My reply to Cliff's question:
The Ranunculus glacialis is 6 years old, it is planted on a scree slope facing north and in this spring it was its fourth flowering. Zdenek

We had a visit to Zdenek's fantastic garden as part of the garden tours following the Prague conference.  The Ranunculus glacialis has had previous coverage here (scroll down to message #48 and #49).  Good to see it is not only surviving but actually doing very well
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=498.45

not tempted to liberate yours from its bucket Cliff   

[ranunculus]

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not tempted to liberate yours from its bucket Cliff   
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Makes me 'pail' at the very thought Di....!!!   Pun intended.   

Super plant Zdenek ... is it a lone survivor from a small germination?

[Susan Band]

Thanks for remindingg me that we visited Zedeneks garden, it was delightful.
I wonder if you could tell me the name of this potentilla I saw in your garden and elsewhere on the tour.
Thanks
Susan

[Kristl Walek]

Zdenek,

Thank you for the wonderful pictures---I look forward to more.

How did your "little Trilliums" do this year?

[Zdenek]

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not tempted to liberate yours from its bucket Cliff   

Makes me 'pail' at the very thought Di....!!!   Pun intended.   

Super plant Zdenek ... is it a lone survivor from a small germination?
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Yes, it is. Zdenek

[Zdenek]

Thanks for remindingg me that we visited Zedeneks garden, it was delightful.
I wonder if you could tell me the name of this potentilla I saw in your garden and elsewhere on the tour.
Thanks
Susan

Susan, what Potentilla do you mean?
Zdenek

[Zdenek]

Having more free time at last, I went through older messages on the Forum. I have found also reports from the Czech Conference Tours May 2007. There are some pictures from my garden among others (#12, 13, 14, 46, 47, 48 and 49) and they are mostly without more exact determination of plants.
I enclose here therefore several my images of those plants with their names. I am sorry that I discovered that report so late. 
Most of this plants are well known, I think, only several notes to them: Androsace armeniaca macrantha is a biennial plant, albeit quite easy. It comes from mountains of Armenia and Iran. Haplocarpha rueppellii comes from Mt. Kilimandjaro in middle Africa, from high elevations and is well frost hardy and very easy to grow. Lesquerella arizonica is quite difficult outdoors as in nature it grows in dry areas of Arizona and Utah. Papaver degenii is a small Poppy endemitic in Pirin Mts. in Bulgaria.
Zdenek Rehacek

P.S.: I have changed the address of my web pages. It is http://zrehacek.8tt.org now. 

[David Shaw]

Hello, Zdenek, thank you for posting the pictures.
I am particulary interested in your picture of Papaver degenii from the Pirin. I also collected seed from a small poppy on Vichren that I have been calling by this name. mine is a soft yellow colour with no orange in it. Does this mean that the plant I saw was not P. degenii?
I have edited this post to include a picture of my Papaver pyrenaicum degenii in my garden. I note that I have put seed to the exchange under this name and it is numbered 2655 on the list.

[mark smyth]

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