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Although the Tuebingen alpine house may not be an exciting shape they are getting good results which is surely the most important thing. Brigitte Fiebig and her team visited Gill and I , Eric Jarrett, Nigel Fuller and Hans Kaupert last spring. They are building a collection of dionysias of known wild origin and came to collect some plants and take cuttings. They have had excellent rooting results and I know Michael Kammerlander was pleased with their progress when he visited them a few weeks ago. As an added bonus they have sent some seed collected from their plants as they are not interested in garden pollinated seed.
I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere on the Forum, but don't ( at least ) some of the so called publicly owned Botanic Gardens say that they are not allowed to disseminate plant material??
Our group were treated to a guided tour of the rock garden and the alpine houses on Thursday. Thought you might like to see how the new one is progressing. Also just a few shots I took on our tour....I was most impressed with the Narcissus cyclamineus which is seeding everywhere...Also, Hacquetia; Adonis and Pulsatilla... Very windy day so it was hard to take photos.