Impressions of our trip from Holland to the SRGC Discussion Weekend 2009

[Armin]

Luit,
excellent impressions from your travel. Thanks for showing.

[ashley]

Luit, thanks for these lovely pictures which bring back some very happy memories.  In the mid/late 80s we lived in Liverpool & used to visit Ness regularly.

[Lvandelft]

             
Fascicularia bicolor                                                       
Correa reflexa 2                       
Amicia zygomeris
Eucryphia lucida Pink Cloud                                   
Rhodochiton atrosanguineus 1                           
Rhodochiton atrosanguineus 2 

[Lvandelft]

   
Dianella longifolia                         
Colchicum - Crocus                             
Alpine House                       
Cyclamen africanum                         
Cyclamen graecum                   
Cyclamen mirabile                         

In the alpine house we saw a poster of the AGS Wirral Group
with the announcement that our Forum Dr. Rock gave a lecture
nearby that evening. So I could attend a AGS Group evening
for the first time in my life

lecture poster         
David Milward [AGS Burton]   

[Lvandelft]

The next day we went then at last to Wales, where we first made a visit to Bodnant Gardens.

At Bodnant I saw some very interesting plants and trees.
Here some pictures of garden and plants

Bodnant Garden  
Verbascum roripifolium 1  
Verbascum roripifolium 2  
Kniphofia rooperi    
Arbutus andrachnoides
Rosa Pretty Lady  

[Lvandelft]

             
Impatiens tinctoria
Prunus shirotae
Cornus kousa Chinensis                         
Cornus kousa China Girl       

[Lvandelft]

After Bodnant we went to Caernarfon for a visit to the enormous Castle

Wales
Wales Caernarfon - Castle                                       


later more

[Onion]

Luit,

thanks a lot for the pictures of Bodnant Garden. Hope to see this wonderful garden in this decade, one of my dreams.

[mark smyth]

Luit you have had such a good trip visiting all those places and taking a brilliant photo diary.

[Ragged Robin]

What a fantastic trip Luit, just amazing how much you did and saw.  I have long wanted to visit Bodnant, like Uli, and love this part of Wales.  Thanks to you and your wife for the wonderfully descriptive text and superb photos from GB - you're right it's a wonderful place and your guide shows the incredible variety of landscape  

[DaveM]

Just catching up with this thread that I seem to have missed. Luit, your photos of the Lake District bring back happy memories of many visits there exploring the geology - and watching how the tourists coped with the twisting steep bends of the single-track roads of Wrynose and Hard Knott passes. 

It was a huge surprise and great pleasure to meet you at the Wirral Group meeting. Hope you enjoyed your first AGS group talk......

[Lvandelft]

What a fantastic trip Luit, just amazing how much you did and saw.  I have long wanted to visit Bodnant, like Uli, and love this part of Wales.  Thanks to you and your wife for the wonderfully descriptive text and superb photos from GB - you're right it's a wonderful place and your guide shows the incredible variety of landscape  

Thank you for the compliments Robin, et all.
We really saw some beautiful gardens despite the (late) time of year on our trip and such different landscapes.
We hope to travel again to Britain and then enjoy some places with some more time.

[Lvandelft]

Just catching up with this thread that I seem to have missed. Luit, your photos of the Lake District bring back happy memories of many visits there exploring the geology - and watching how the tourists coped with the twisting steep bends of the single-track roads of Wrynose and Hard Knott passes. 

It was a huge surprise and great pleasure to meet you at the Wirral Group meeting. Hope you enjoyed your first AGS group talk......

David, those steep passes were really a special experience to drive.
There were too many "blind summits" and we had often the feeling of flying instead of driving
Picture:

[David Nicholson]

Luit, did you see the Lewisia cotyledon wall at Bodnant?

[Lvandelft]

Luit, did you see the Lewisia cotyledon wall at Bodnant?

David, we walked through the whole garden, but if it wasn't at a very prominent place then there was no wall with specifically Lewisia.
Maybe there were a few but of course not in flower.
I saw that the same question raised in late 2008 and there was no answer. So probably it's only history?