Re: [SG] Welcome Astri

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Hi Gene!

Thanks for the welcome, I really enjoy this mailgroup. It's very useful, and nice
and friendly, too. I suppose it goes with gardening.
You asked about plant nurseries in the Oslo area. Well, there really are quite a
lot, and a few good specialist nurseries as well. I believe most people around
here do their garden shopping at the huge garden centers. I used to do so. too:
but they're kind of dispiriting to me now. So many mass produced, ordinary,
partly mistreated plants! And no one to ask.
So I've managed to find at least one well-stocked perennial nursery in Asker,
about 30 km west of Oslo, where I live. It's called Asker staudegartneri
(staude = perennial), and is run by an elderly couple on land that is threatened
by road development. They stock about 600 different perennials, and supply
other nurseries both here and abroad (they grow seed for several of the major
European seed retailers).  Their hosta list includes

h. undulata "medio-variegata"
h. undulata albomarginata
h. sieboldiana "elegans"
h. fortunei "hyacinthina"
h. "blue cadet"
h. "wide brim"
h. latifolia

- which I now realize is just your ordinary, standard hostas; but it's the largest
number of varieties I've come across here in Norway.
There's also a rose nursery in Asker which specializes in old roses - they stock
several hundred varieties. I look forward to exploring the old albas, which I hear
do relatively well in partial shade.
I have yet to find out more about Norwegian custom practices as regards living
plant material. I'm not very optimistic, though; so far we've been spared a lot of
the fungal and viral plant diseases that are such a problem elsewhere. I should
think there are strong restrictions in place on importing anything that might pose
a danger of infection.
If you have any specific questions on nurseries, I'd be happy to do my best to
answer them.


Astri Tverst|l

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