Pulsatilla vulgaris ´Papageno´

[Lesley Cox]

Those are the best kinds of friends. You can talk with them about anything at all. Surprising to some, life contains other things than plants. Chocolate for instance.

[Lvandelft]

Maggi, you are right, it is the same person. An outstanding nurseryman, unconventional,disliking emails and internet
but an enormous knowledge of all aspects of gardening.

You may say so, he once killed more than 10.000 Daphne cneorum with his rather "unconventional" methods.
I visited him many times when I was still in trade, however he always was complaining about the Dutch.
Luckily I could talk in Austrian dialect to him, so he forgot I was Dutch....


By the way, just found this thread so could not react before.
Eugen told me about 25 years ago that Papageno were his findings. Glad  to know now, how it really is! 

[Gerdk]

I visited him many times when I was still in trade, however he always was complaining about the Dutch.
Luckily I could talk in Austrian dialect to him, so he forgot I was Dutch....

I met him too twice. Unfortunately I was not able to change my Rhenish accent -
so I noticed the Dutch were in good company with the ' Preussen ' (Prussians). 

Gerd

[Martijn]

Rudi,

Thank you very much! This is why I like the history of plantsnames! I looked in many books, but couldn´t find anything!

Best wishes!

Martijn

[ruweiss]

Martijn,

Glad, that I could help you

Rudi

[Olga Bondareva]

Rudi
Thank you very much again! Real story is much better then books!

[Stone Rider]

Of course, I have different story about Pulsatilla vulgaris ´Papageno´:

Josef Holzbecher  (at present  famous  Moravian  nurseryman)  got  the
first hybrides  into  Arboretum of Brno University (when he worked
there) and improoved it into strain with quite similar qualities. His
Austrian partner nurseryman suggested to sell them under name of the
Strain ´Papageno´.  My personal opinion is that the dear Papagenos look
strange in a natural rock garden. I have only a few and do not plan to
plant more. We have better Pulsatillas for planting. See one picture
from my stable.  With  permanent pleasure ZZ

[Stone Rider]

Here is 'Papageno'  in the garden