Leonid Bondarenko

LITHUANIAN RARE BULB GARDEN

 
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MY NURSERY

My nursery was found 15 year ago. The main part of my collection was formed with bulbous plants collected in some trips in The North Caucasus and Central Asia. It had pre-determined priorities of my garden work for many years. The first had become plants from genus: Alliums, Fritillarias, Iris and other plants of the Mountains of Tian-Shan and Caucasus. Now I grow woodland plants and plants for full sun received from different sources from different regions of the world.

The principal rule of my work is the growing plants in outdoors only, even were from regions very distant from our land with specific weather condition different from our ones typical for many European countries. First introduction only is the first step on very long way of adaptation. I never sell plants found in nature and rarely do it with seedlings grown from import seeds. As rule I try to grow one or more seed generations. Sometimes at time of flowering come 5-10 % of seedlings, but this plants tested and choused by nature are much more adapted to our climate. The best bulbs I use as material for vegetative propagation. So I could formulate shortly my conception: "I do not create special condition for plants, but try to transform plants for our weather condition". If a plant has not a biological reserve for the transformation - I use a crossing trying to get hybrids with unique signs of the plant but grown and propagated well in our weather condition. Moreover sometimes the hybrids have new not prognosticated merits.