A life with
plants
"I find it magnificent, to find people this way, with the same goals
of life".
This is
(in hard to translate German) what Bernhard wrote to me on the 28th of
December 1993. And in this way our friendship developed till today, 17th
October 2008.
All this
started, when I visited the nursery of the late Johann Wieting ( who died
1989) near Westerstede, and saw a number of evergreen azaleas, that I did
not know before. I liked them as fine plants, also without flowers. Johann
told me that these azaleas were the result of the hybridizing work of a
certain Mr. Knorr from the DDR.
Then
I wrote Mr. Knorr a long letter and 2 years later we met in northern
Germany. After that we visited him and his wife several times in Dresden,
where they also had a summer garden not far from the river Elbe. In their
lifes they had a lot of difficulties and problems, like the floods of 2002
and health problems.
Some years ago they
visited us in Nijensleek and we went to the famous "Orchideeënhoeve"
(Orchis-farm) in Luttelgeest. Here it struck me, that from a distance he
could tell the botanic (latin) names of many orchids, that were growing in
the large greenhouses. His enormous knowledge of plants was so impressive!!
Now he and Karin live in
Tharandt, south of Dresden. He worked here several years in the
"Sächsische Landesarboretum", "Forstbotanische Garten".
It was his duty here to present the Northamerican flora in the
new wooded park by growing up the young plants and trees. About this work
he writes:".These years were the most fine years of my
professional life". In this plant-environment he could work
out his creativity with other fine people. But - better than to summarize
his story, you can read his own story, so I hope you can read German to
read his following story:
Bernhard Knorr's "botanical
life story". (German)
List of Bernhard
Knorr's rhododendron hybrids
Album Bernhard Knorr
hybrids 1
Album Bernhard Knorr
hybrids 2
Album Bernhard Knorr
hybrids 3
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