Re: search
At 9:17 PM +0200 1/19/01, egpeyzaj wrote:
>I wonder if anyone reading this list might be able to help me find
>sources for the following items for a remaking of an historic
>garden, and for which I have so far drawn a complete blank:
>(internet sites to try, someone you know... etc) I am thinking that
>transport would be air freight.
>
>For this specialist garden in Istanbul I am in need of the following items:
>100 Damask roses (bush) (I will accept a substitute but it should be
>one of the original varieties which might have been grown here in
>Constantinople during the Ottoman period - & it must be scented)
>1000 Tulipa turkestanica
>30 Enkianthus (not essential, simply on the wish list!)
>
>The intention of this garden is that it should be planted in the
>spirit of the Ottoman garden. The house has been built completely
>of oak in the original style and the garden will reflect the
>character by containing both native and imported plants which would
>have been available at that time (15th century onwards).
>
>In anticipation, thank you. Chevrel.
I believe McClure and Zimmermann <http://www.mzbulb.com> and John
Scheeper's/Van Engelen
<http://www.johnscheepers.com>/<http://www.vanengelen.com> offer
Tulipa turkestanica in their Fall catalogs (not out yet).
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--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
wlp@radar-sci.jpl.nasa.gov
