I'm looking forward to looking at those links, alpine gardens in situ are very interesting! thanks, Peter! Cohan West Central Alberta, Canada, Zone 2-3 record temps from 10-20 miles away: min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Peter Daniel Schlorhaufer < [email protected]> wrote: > Jim McKenney schrieb: > > I can’t help wondering how it might have been grown back then. And that > > brings me to another puzzle: how long have Europeans been building rock > > gardens? Does anyone know? I would like to learn more about this > > The cultivation of mountain plants has a longstanding tradition in > Tyrol/Austria. In 1864 Professor Anton Kerner(at that time head of the > Institute of Botany) published a book entitled "Die Cultur der > Alpenpflanzen = The Cultivation of Alpine Plants", in which he provided > soil requirements and cultivation instructions for about 500 species. > The Rock Gardens in the Innsbruck Sillgasse are known to be some of the > first in the world (about 1860) and were well-known throughout Europe. > The first botanic alpine garden (in Tyrol)above the tree line was set up > by Anton Kerner 1875 on the (Mount)Blaser, but was dissolved after his > death.At that time (1860-1875)he exchanged more than 2000! living alpine > plants (collected wild) per year! with other Botanical Gardens in Europe > and we still have some plants he got in exchange- Cycas circinalis is > the most prominent. > In 1930 the University started to establish the Alpine Garden on > Mt.Patscherkofel near Innsbruck - of which I take care now. > The old Botanical Garden had to move to his present location in 1906. > > P. Daniel Schlorhaufer > > Alpine Garden Mt. Patscherkofel/Zone 3 > > Botanical Garden - Institute of Botany/Zone5 > > University Innsbruck > > Sternwartestraße 15 > > A- 6020 Innsbruck > > Austria > > Internet Homepage: http://botany.uibk.ac.at/bot-garden > > _______________________________________________ > --
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