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Færdigbed 1.3 m2 - 1,5x2m Valget af planter er taget ud fra, at de hjemmehørende og rene arter som udgangspunkt er bedst, da de har flest insekter knyttet til sig. Det betyder ikke, at der ikke kan være forædlede arter i bedet, for mange af dem kan også være yderst tiltrækkende, men de skal ikke dominere bedet. Færdigbedet er lavet så der er sikret blomstring hele sæsonen, især i ydreperioderne, da det er her det er sværest for insekterne at finde føde. Desuden giver blomstringen gennem hele sæsonen at bedet hele tiden er levende og altid interessant at kigge på Et nyt globalt forskningsstudie, som er offentliggjort i februar 2019, viser, at insekter uddør verden over. 40% af alle insekter er truede, og det samlede antal insekter verden over falder med 2,5% om året. Blandt de mest truede er vigtige insekter som f.eks. vårfluer, sommerfugle, biller og bier. Grunden er hovedsageligt kombinationen af pesticidforbrug og dårlig naturforvaltning, som medfører tabet af insekternes levesteder. Se hvor mange du skal købe af hver slags i skemaet nedenunder. Færdigbedet koster ca. 1948,21 (inkl. rabat) hvis der købes det antal vejledningen angiver. Der tages forbehold for prisændringer.  OBS. Hvis det skulle ske at en plante er udsolgt, kan en tilsvarende erstatte den. fx.  Høstanemone (Anemone hupehensis 'Splendens')  erstatter 'Praecox' Skælhoved (Cephalaria gigantea) erstatter Blåhat (Knautia macedonica)

“Nature is beautiful, such beautiful must be based on beautiful facts and beautiful laws” ― Muhammad E. Osman Sorry, not much chat here, I just let nature do the talking All these images are reblogged or come from publicly available sources on the internet. All images should be accredited correctly but message me if they are not. If I have posted any of your copyrighted material or there is another reason you would like an image removed or edited, contact me with the image url and I will be happy to comply.

Italian studio Act_Romegialli was commissioned to redesign the garage of a weekend retreat nestled in the Rhaetian Alps into a space for relaxing and entertaining.

A rock garden can add visual interest to a vegetative landscape and provide a solution to a problem spot on your property

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The construction of the AGS alpine garden in Pershore was funded entirely by a generous legacy from Stirtevant Piggin, an alpine enthusiast from Nottingham.

Hen over sommeren vil mange haveejere over hele landet holde åben have. Der findes en oversigt over disse haver på Haveselskabets hjemmeside. Vi er én af disse haver, der holder åbent, og vi glæder os til at få besøg af rigtig mange mennesker. Folk tager ud og ser på haver i alt slags vejr. I alt slags vejr og i alle aldre vandrer man rundt på havens stier og får inspiration til fredfyldte haver. At holde åben have er vel en slags livsstil. Det at man ved, at der ligger en deadline, hvor haven bør være i orden, så man kan tage imod gæsterne, præger da havearbejdet hen over foråret. Vi går da i haven for vores egen skyld, men egentlig er det en tiltalende tanke, at man får besøg af ligesindede, der har glæde af at se, hvad vi går og foretager os i haven, og udviser interesse for, hvad de ser. Hvert år glæder vi os til al den hyggelige havesnak sådanne dage giver anledning til.

This is a little farewell blog to one of the loveliest men in Canadian horticulture: René Giguère, curator of the Alpinum at Montreal Botanical Garden. René is retiring in early March after a car…

   Acantholimon venustum    You may not be overly impressed with this on first glance--acantholimons (like cacti) you get "stuck" on over time. They start off innocently enough, like little tufts of dianthus...and grow and grow. Many people think they're just prickly dianthus until you point out the papery texture of the flower, and they see the resemblance to other thrifts. I have called them spikethrifts as a common name--which doesn't seem to have caught on. Or how about "prickly thrift". Of course, most people aren't aware that thrift is a common name for Armeria, ("sea thrift" which grows wild at 13,000' in Colorado!)--and these are very much like very prickly armeria. You may or may not have noticed that I adopted the generic name of spikethrifts as my avatar. That's how much I like them! Acantholimon araxanum I grew them exuberantly and well once at the Rock Alpine Garden (where Mike Kintgen has assembled a wonderful collection--and they continue to impress). The one above slipped through our net, however. I don't think we grow it any more, although it is very close to Acantholimon caryophyllaceum and also A. armenum, both of which are still around. This color and form I'd say is pretty much par for the course in the genus. Pink was the color of choice ten or twenty years ago--nowadays it's rather passé--which means I can revel in it (I find fashion annoying).  Acantholimon glumaceum This is the workhorse of the genus: I saw huge mats of this in various gardens throughout Scandinavia and Central Europe last spring--it tolerates lots of water. But we can grow it unwatered in Colorado. I have not one but TWO vast mats of this in my rock garden which refuse to bloom. How annoying is that?  Acantholimon litwinowii This may not impress you much, but it is much more loveable in person (or should I say "in leaf") I obtained seed of this through Index Seminum from a botanic garden in the former Soviet Union and have grown it ever since. Like glumaceum, this tolerates more water (those are alpine gentians and drabas it's growing with). This plant gets bigger and bigger with time, and the silvery lavender flowers are very fetching. It can also take it dry.  Acantholimon lycopodioides I remember as we crossed over Babusar Pass (over 4000 m.) in our jeeps a week or so after the fateful 9-11 (Babusar Pass is in the Pakistan Himalayas) I peered down a steep slope that plummeted thousands of feet, and it was humped with innumerable dark mounds that were undoubtedly this--some of them a meter across. It was snowing hard, and the driver refused to stop. I later got a closeup of it on an outcrop, the base of which was apparently the latrine of choice for the sizeable village nearby (need I say more?). I did not linger. This is not the closeup--this was in my garden. The closeup is still a transparency I must have scanned...  Acantholimon hohenakeri (back) Acantholimon gloumaceum (front) This is my old front yard on Eudora, where these persist and have persisted for decades (and shall probably persist for some time to come) since they thrive in Colorado with no care. I miss them terribly (my new garden doesn't grow them nearly as well). Acantholimon trojanum Here is one I CAN grow, that must presumably come from Western Turkey, near the ancient Illium. It must be very close to Acantholimon ulicinum. Which is a synonym of Acantholimon androsaceum, which grows on the crags around the village where my paternal grandfather was born (the ancestral homeland of those bearing my surname, as a matter of fact in the Sfakia). I have sadly never been there, although I hope to go there in fifteen months--when this should, in fact, be blooming. If you are a real rock gardener, click on this link and you will be wafted to the heights of Crete and see what I mean..and why I love these so. Acantholimon bracteatum var. capitatum Here is the wonderful capitate headed species that comes from northeastern Turkey--gracing my garden now. Acantholimon spp. at Dare Bohlander's house A friend of mine in Littleton grows acantholimons the way I wish I could: it is a stunning display when they are in bloom, believe me.  Acantholimon ulicinum at University of Wurzburg Botanic Garden I am just a tad annoyed that the most magnificent display of acantholimons in cultivation today is at a botanic garden in the heart of Germany. Frankly, it's just plain WRONG that they grow these so wonderfully well (not to mention acres and acres of other treasures--one more rare and wonderful than the rest.) Some day I shall have to do a series of blogs on my magical visit to Wurzburg last May: their alpine collections--like those at Gothenburg, Kew, Edinburgh (and a handful of Central European botanic gardens I shan't list now) are really to die for. Perhaps Larry Vickerman--who with the help of Lauren and Scott Ogden as designers, and with the magical touch of Emilee Vanderneut as gardener have created the most stunning Prairie gardens around the Chatfield Visitor's center...perhaps Larry, with a lot of help from Dan Johnson and the amazing team at York Street (and a few more gardeners to help Emilee as long as I'm dreaming), can design an awesome Steppe Garden to outshine Wurzburg at our gorgeous and wonderful site at Chatfield...these are the sort of daydreams that keep me chugging away.... Signed wistfully..."Acantholimon"

Since I was already on the topic of rock gardens in the last post, I thought I would continue the theme with the greatest rock garden I have ever visited: Le Jardin Botanique Alpin, in Champex, Switzerland. “Huh?”, you may ask. I would guess that not a lot of people have heard of this garden, which is a real pity. We accidentally stumbled upon it on a hiking trip to Switzerland a few years ago and I was completely blown away. So much so that on our trip to the Alps this year, we absolutely had to hike for a full day there and a full day back to see it again. A quick disclaimer before I begin: I don’t really like rock gardens. In most cases, rock gardens are created to grow alpine plants in places where alpine plants really don’t want to grow. More often than not, the result is a few microscopic plants, evenly spaced and completely lost in a sea of rock and gravel. Even worse, these “alpine” gardens are frequently found in flat suburban gardens or parks, hundreds of miles away from any hills or mountains. It’s not surprising then that results are usually artificial and tacky, and no matter how well done, they just don’t feel right. While the plants may be interesting and beautiful, visually one can’t get around the fact that the rock garden just doesn’t belong. Le Jardin Alpine doesn’t have any of these problems. Located in the heart of the Swiss Alps, it benefits from a naturally rocky, sloped site with a spectacular backdrop of snow-capped mountains and pine forests on one side, and Champex lake on the other side. There is even a natural spring at the top of the site, which is channeled through meandering streams and waterfalls to several small ponds below. Unfair advantage, I know. But in truth, this is the only place where a rock garden actually belongs. The garden grows an incredible 3000 species of plants. To put that into perspective, the Royal Botanical Garden in Hamilton, Ontario grows 1100 species of plants on an area about 50 times bigger (counting landscaped area only). However, in my opinion, the best part of the garden is how the planting is done. Plants at Le Jardin Alpin are not what one has come to expect from the standard, controlled rock garden. Instead, they come in billowing masses, spilling over each other in the beds, between cracks in the paths and on the side of streams. If you’re a plant enthusiast, you can probably spend a few hours just examining the incredibly diverse flora in a small corner of the garden. It’s so refreshing to see that rock garden plants can grow together, and don’t have some sort of aversion to neighbors which requires them to be kept a foot apart. I think it also better reflects the true nature of rock garden plants – in their natural environment, they are not as delicate as we think. In most cases, many plants will be found elbowing each other for room in a small crack with favorable growing conditions. Although the garden is quite small, it has a great feeling of discovery, even after walking around it several times. All the paths are relatively narrow, with many changes in level, which means you can’t rush through the garden (though I can't imagine anyone wanting to!). They are laid out informally, and meander between the lush plantings, along streams and over miniature stone bridges. One more neat thing about Le Jardin Alpin is that you can stay overnight in the small chalet in the garden, which we did this year. It’s not very fancy and could use some upkeep, but it’s well worth it for a chance to enjoy the garden all by yourself. Watching a sunset over glowing grasses with Champex lake as the backdrop was definitely something I won’t soon forget.

Due to their resilient nature, alpine plants make the ideal plants for new gardeners. Find out more in our introduction to growing alpine plants

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Take a journey through the marvellous pasque flower gems that add glorious colour to the garden in spring, with our expert John Good.

We love good garden inspiration.And we love flowers. Put ’em together, and you have fantastic flower beds, ready to make you run to the nursery or pull out those catalogs! So salivate over these photos, take some tips from design pros, and start designing that next flower bed. In this flower garden...

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Yunnan, Dechen, Bai Ma Shan, 4650m

Vette Feltrine (Belluno).Busa di Cavaren. Altitudine: 1900 m. ca. >>> NOTA: Bibbia. Abacuc.