Re: search
- To: e*@domi.net.tr, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: search
- From: r* c*
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:32:32
The Peter Beales Rose Catalog, Norfolk, England lists several ancient
damasks. Blush Damask, Gloire de Guilan, Ispahan, Kazanlik (Rosa damascena
trigintipetala), and of course Quatre Saisons (Rosa damascena bifera).
Would any of these do? His website is <www.classicroses.co.uk>
Robin Corwin
Studio City, Ca. USA
Zone 9/10, Sunset Zone 21
>From: "egpeyzaj" <egpeyzaj@domi.net.tr>
>Reply-To: egpeyzaj@domi.net.tr
>To: "medit-plants" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: search
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:17:44 +0200
>
>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.
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