Bulbs: Lets honour all our other spring treasures..., 0 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Thank you!

As the nursery is located in a very small village, it's not so easy to get there by public transport and these are the moments I wish I had a car. But it is a long story to tell why I lost my confidence in driving a car..

I first had to take the tram to get to the station from where I had to take the train to the closest town to the village of the nursery and there I had great difficulty to find out what bus to take (frustration here because the information on Internet proved to be incorrect, grrr..), the bus drivers I asked didn't know or also gave wrong information, a bad-humoured employee at the train station said she had nothing to do with busses, only with trains, fair enough but there are more courteous ways to say it. So finally I had to phone the company of the bus-service to find out what bus to take; two thirds of that information was correct, the time and number of the bus) except the perron where the bus would arrive. It was in fact a citizen who helped me out and who had to take the same bus on another perron. I hope I'm not boring anyone with this lengthy report, But Tabasco and Wallaby you asked for it, lol!

The bus driver was very friendly though, phoned to a colleague to find out where exactly the nursery was and kindly offered to drop me beyond her fixed stop so I would have to walk less far to the place.

And then I arrived at the VERY huge nursery.
I had made a list on forehand of what I really wanted from their catalogue and found most, except two they didn't have yet as it is still early in the season.

Of course when you walk in a nursery one meets plants you never saw before and that call your attention, so I was drawn to a particular plant because of its foliage. I fell for it and it is a paeonia, I had never seen one with such a foliage, but I have little knowledge or experience with them; it's Paeonia tenuifolia. I had no idea of its flowers. I only bought it for its foliage, but now I discovered that the flowers are gorgeous too. I'll have to find out what will makes it happy as I definitely don't want to loose it!

Here is the list of what I bought;
Paeonia tenuifolia
Anemonella thalictroides (still in a dormant stage)
Trillium recurvatum
Ipheion uniflorum 'Wisley Blue', (because of wallaby's pict.!)
Anemone nemerosa 'Blue Beauty' (it's really gorgeous!)
Dicentra eximia 'Stuart Bootman'
Sanguisorba tenuifolia ( It's happy in shady conditions)
Aquilegia alpina
Aquilegia nevadensis
Linaria purpurea
Pulmonaria saccharata 'leopard'
Pulmonaria 'Raspberry splash'
Pulmonaria 'Ocupol'
Pulmonaria longifolia subsp. cevennensis
Helleborus foetidus 'Wester flisk' (a very young plant)

I will spare you the report of the way back, but the result was a very tired but happy me!

Here's a pict. of all the new babies together (I'll make some more detailed tomorrow);