Harry Jans: many new Images from Tibet and Switzerland now online

[Harry Jans]

Dear friends,

It took me quite a while, but finally you can take a virtual tour to Tibet (and Switzerland as well)
In June/July this year I organized a botanical jeep tour from Chengdu to Lhasa. We crossed 13 high mountain passes up to 5008m.
The highlight was the Galung La (4400m) with plants like Caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora (purple!!!) and many other super plants.
Next to that we saw further on 200+ Rheum nobile.

I am sure you will see some very special plants, you never seen before.

Go and have a look at  http://www.jansalpines.com/index.php?page_id=0&lang=en

Go to IMAGES --> GALLERY

I hope you will enjoy it.
Cheers Harry

[Carlo]

Harry,

EXCELLENT!! Glad that you've joined the forum. You have friends and fans here already and many more will discover you. Hope all is well...(and warm wishes to the family!).

[mark smyth]

It's take a while to find the pages so here are the links for everyone else

Travel photos http://www.jansalpines.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=826

Tibet http://www.jansalpines.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1187
Switzerland http://www.jansalpines.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1218

[daveyp1970]

WOW i have just looked at the Tibet photo's they are incredible,now to look at the rest.

[tonyg]

A marvellous collection of images.  Thank you for posting the link.
I have been revisiting the Valais.  Many familiar places and plants.  I saw a great variation in Saxifraga x kochii in the same area as your pics.  What dates were you there?  I was in first half of July each time but the weather was not always as good as in your images.  Above Hohsaas was deep snow which had arrived the previous night.  I must return for a walk to Weismeisshute.

[cohan]

just starting on these, looks like it will take a while worth noting if you are looking at these: when you click on an individual photo you will get details of name, location etc; just looking at the galleries, there is no indication that information exists

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Amazing pictures Harry !! 
Your site is slowly turning into a Mecca for alpine plant lovers !

[Ragged Robin]

Harry, I'm thrilled to learn and enjoy through your fabulous gallery of Swiss Alpines closely associated with the area where I am in Valais....thanks so much for the link and I am also much looking forward to your other galleries - great photos all round.

[Harry Jans]

Dear all,

These are some of the best plants I saw in Tibet.

-Caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora
-Primula agleniana
-Omphalogramma tibeticum
-Lilium saccatum

[ranunculus]

INCREDIBLE Caltha, Harry ... many thanks for posting!

[cohan]

Dear all,

These are some of the best plants I saw in Tibet.

-Caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora
-Primula agleniana
-Omphalogramma tibeticum
-Lilium saccatum

like cliff, i am very impressed with the caltha! somewhere (probably on or through this forum, i think it was someone's travel pictures) there was a picture of a full slope of red/pink caltha, in china, maybe this same one...
hope to see it turning up on seed lists 

[Maggi Young]

Cohan, maybe you are thinking of these threads......
...... these coloured Calthas of various species have been mentioned a couple of times in the Forum .....see these pages.....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3658.msg96275#msg96275   Caltha palustris var. barthei
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=542.msg13852;topicseen#msg13852   but these are in cultivation...   ?

EDIT: Ha! No, it was here..... http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3911.msg103200#msg103200
there are a couple of Caltha in this thread from John Mitchell.    

[Lesley Cox]

I like the delicious pink primula best, but the little lily is a gem too.

[cohan]

Cohan, maybe you are thinking of these threads......
...... these coloured Calthas of various species have been mentioned a couple of times in the Forum .....see these pages.....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3658.msg96275#msg96275   Caltha palustris var. barthei
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=542.msg13852;topicseen#msg13852   but these are in cultivation...   ?

EDIT: Ha! No, it was here..... http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3911.msg103200#msg103200
there are a couple of Caltha in this thread from John Mitchell.    

that's it exactly, maggi--as soon as i saw the thread back up high on the list in travel, i knew that was the one...that view of the caltha on the mountainside is amazing!  perhaps i find them so exciting because we have bazillions of C palustris growing wild here, and they are lovely, but of course all regular deep yellow..
thanks for the other links on other coloured C palustris--had not seen those..

any seedlists anyone can think of that are not already in the links that carry flora of these areas? i remember at least one of the czech lists with some chinese plants...(not that i am assuming they are hardy here, but with enough altitude..)

[Harry Jans]

Hi Cohan,

If you like special Caltha, here a few more.

-Caltha palustris var. barthei (3x)
-Caltha palustris var. chinensis (black leaf form)
All seen during my Sichuan trip in 2007

Hope you like these.
Harry