French Gardening history
Mark BROWN (Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:29:07 PST)
A fashion is just that! A passing fad.
Plants and gardens are on a MUCH bigger time scale.
The french have not enough patience!LOL
Some exceptional souls, like the breeders of roses and fruit variétés, are still around but they are doing it best as amateurs.
It is never really mainstream.
How many garden here are just box balls and Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' with just a few white or pink impatiens for summer.
Those that aren't are all red. Roses, pelargoniums and fuchsias, with red impatiens!
It is dispairing sometimes.
Mark
Message du 25/01/12 12:15
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Dear Mark
yes, it seems extraordinary to me - culture with a capital C seems
completely disassociated from anything plant or garden related in france !!
But, with the blinkers of optimism, maybe a fashion can be created?
Michelle
2012/1/25 Mark BROWN
Dear Michelle,
the french work by fashion and not passion so everything goes to the side
and is swept away in the tide of the latest fad.
They are not big on heritage!
No garden restorations have ever been done here with french
money.Versailles and Giverny were all done through heavy american
funding.Even then the expertise is just not there as no one is interested!
The plant collections network is a private joke! I don't mean that those
that hold them lack commitment! But we get zero support!!
I am trying to interest people here in rarer galanthus but is is such hard
work!
And I just can't see them keeping cultivars going for over a hundred years
as in Britain.
All the old french roses were refound abroad!
Hydrangea cultivars are the same story.
I have a great friend who works for the town of Nacy which was the
horticultural hub about a hundred years ago.
He is trying to find some of the old Primula sinensis cultivars of Lemoine.
I think that he is dreaming!
Old Gladiolus cultivars are surely the same story.
I have old gardening magazines from the heyday of horticulture here and
they are fantastic!
kind regards,
Mark
Message du 25/01/12 11:42
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Hello
I naively made a new year's resolution to educate myself about french
gardening history. What a can of worms, since it seems very difficult to
find anything out easily.!!!! Disheartening to feel that so much has been
let go of, and lost - at least to the mildly interested amateur.
Does anyone know about past bulb growers or nurseries in france? I'd be
especially interested in the history of gladioli, but anything concerning
french garden history would be interesting.
Thanks
Michelle Pierce
2012/1/23 Randall P. Linke
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Gastil wrote:
Not all my bulbs are special. In fact, most of my bulb garden is
legacy
bulbs.
I for one, and I am sure there are many here, love the old favorites.
They are special, to us. Thank you for sharing your pictures.
Randy
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