travels from Chengdu to Lhasa

[Cephalotus]

  O_O That was my first reaction to the photos I saw. I just couldn't beleive my eyes. Fabulous photos and those marvels species... Where can I get Caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora and Primula cawdoriana.  I got sick for those species. If they are in cultivation I have to get them for mu cousin, she would be so happy to have them. Life is to short to see all the great places and thanks to you I felt for a moment like I was there. Many thanks.

Cheers,
Chris

[John Mitchell]

O_O That was my first reaction to the photos I saw. I just couldn't beleive my eyes. Fabulous photos and those marvels species... Where can I get Caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora and Primula cawdoriana.  I got sick for those species. If they are in cultivation I have to get them for mu cousin, she would be so happy to have them. Life is to short to see all the great places and thanks to you I felt for a moment like I was there. Many thanks.

Cheers,
Chris

Hi Chris,

I think i am right in saying that the Caltha and the Primula are not in cultivation or i have never come across them for sale. Sorry to disappoint.

Cheers,
john

[John Mitchell]

An amazing display of incredible plants ... and, more importantly perhaps, so beautifully captured.  Many thanks for this wonderful record of a truly breathtaking journey.

Thanks cliff glad you enjoyed. I will try and post a few more if i get the chance. (Sorry maggie)

Cheers,
JOhn

[Maggi Young]

An amazing display of incredible plants ... and, more importantly perhaps, so beautifully captured.  Many thanks for this wonderful record of a truly breathtaking journey.

Thanks cliff glad you enjoyed. I will try and post a few more if i get the chance. (Sorry maggie)

Cheers,
JOhn

 Ha Ha! This is going to cost you so much chocolate, John!   

[John Mitchell]

as always Maggie i will endeavor to make them the right size !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and chocolate is in the post

[Maggi Young]

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I love it when a plan comes together!!

[fleurbleue]

Thanks  What a marvellous trip... on my chair 

[Miriam]

Wow
Thanks for sharing with us these AMAZING photos!

[Ragged Robin]

I have come in at the last post but want to say how much I have enjoyed your travels from Chengdu to Lhasa - what an amazing journey so tangibly captured in spirit in your photographs, John.  Thanks so much for showing so many new and unusual plants I have never seen before blending in with and picking up the colours of the rocks in an extraordinary way. It is a different world of colour and light which illuminates the flora.

Afterwards I looked at the Royal Botanical Gardens site and was very impressed - as Maggi rightly says a lot goes on behind the scenes!

[John Mitchell]

I have come in at the last post but want to say how much I have enjoyed your travels from Chengdu to Lhasa - what an amazing journey so tangibly captured in spirit in your photographs, John.  Thanks so much for showing so many new and unusual plants I have never seen before blending in with and picking up the colours of the rocks in an extraordinary way. It is a different world of colour and light which illuminates the flora.

Afterwards I looked at the Royal Botanical Gardens site and was very impressed - as Maggi rightly says a lot goes on behind the scenes!

Glad you enjoyed and thanks for your kind words.I am glad you have also looked at the wed site we tend not to blow our own trumpet compared to other institutes which to me is a shame.

[Maggi Young]

Glad you enjoyed and thanks for your kind words.I am glad you have also looked at the web site we tend not to blow our own trumpet compared to other institutes which to me is a shame.

I think you are probably right about that, John.... all the more reason for you to be flying the RBGE flag here, to a wider audience!

[John Mitchell]

Glad you enjoyed and thanks for your kind words.I am glad you have also looked at the web site we tend not to blow our own trumpet compared to other institutes which to me is a shame.

I think you are probably right about that, John.... all the more reason for you to be flying the RBGE flag here, to a wider audience!

Thanks Maggie (hope you got the Chocolate)

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Maggie (hope you got the Chocolate)

No, but the Postman is looking a little chubbier.......

[John Mitchell]

This is the last lot of pictures from Tibet. I have put one Lilium in which we think might be Lilium georgei it look very similar to the herbarium sheet but the colour description does not match but everything else seems right. It was found in upper Burma so again this could be a first for this area.  

 Androsace cf. zambalensis
 Androsace sp.
 Codonopsis sp.
 Diplarche multiflora.
 Incarvillea cf. younghusbandii
 Lilium cf georgei 1
 pilgrims.
 Pleurospermun
 potala.

Lilium cf georgei 2

[Ragged Robin]

Diplarche multiflora looks lovely nestled against the rocks.  Pleurospermun is very unusual looking and rather ghostly