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The Seaward Side Garden |
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1 The double hedge of
Cotoneaster lucidus against the sea side lane |
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2 Beneath
the Rhododendron luteum I grow Trillium, Meconopsis and Podophyllum. |
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3 The
harebell poppy
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4 The
wake-robin
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5 Trillium
chloropetalum - has strong, sweet fragrance in early summer
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6 Trillium
chloropetalum - bought from Svante Andreasson in Kinna
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7 Trillium
sessile - the toadshade
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8 Trillium
erectum - birthroot
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9 Podophyllum
emodi – budding
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10 The
Himalayan Mayapple- flowering
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11 Podophyllum
emodi – fruiting
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12 The Mayapple is said to be eatable |
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In the year 1972 I visited the wellknown plantsman Aksel Olsen at Kolding in Denmark. He was renowned for his breeding of Rhododendron - among other things. (He was the first growing bamboos and the first to receive seeds of Metasequoia to propagate in Denmark). I asked him to choose a couple of good Rhods for a beginner, as I at that time had no experience at all of these. He gave me the yellow Rhod. ambiguum , Rhod. concinnum: purpur-red rounded bush up to 2 m., Rhod. impeditum: purple-blue and prostrate azalea, Rhod. luteum for the vivid sweet fragrance, Rhod. mucronatum azalea-hybrid - wonderful white and fragrant! Plus the Rhododendron repens-hybrid named 'Aksel Olsen' (1962) by Dietrich Hobbie, the famous breeder in Oldenburg, Germany. The mother was Rhod. Essex Scarlet and the father Rhod. Forrestii (var.repens). It is really blood-red! |
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13 Aksel Olsen demonstrating his drawings of Rhods surrounded by his
life-work the "Geographical Garden" at Kolding - now taken over in
trust by the local authority. |
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14 At the
age of 85 years A.O. just kept a square of land by his house to breed his new
Rhododendrons. - "as an insurance for his old age" as he put it. In
the middle of the plot stands one of the first of the Metasequoia in Denmark.
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15 Rhododendron-drawings by Aksel Olsen.
Number XI is the father and nr XII a |
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17 Rhododendron luteum and Rhod. mucronatum,
behind not in flower yet, Rhod. concinnum. |
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18 A young spec. of Rhododendron canadense |
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19 The granddaughter and her
topiary |
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Created : 2 Juni 2002 Last update : 18 March 2010 |
©Vera Gade, Norrkoping, Sweden 2001-2010 File: Vera_Garden_Seaward.htm |
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