Spring - West - Fritz Kummert
 Fritz Kummert, a well-known plantsman in European horticultural circles, was born on June 8th, 1943 in Vienna, Austria. After the WWII his father Alfred Edmund Kummert worked as an employed garden- and landscape-architect, his mother Paula Maria Kummert ran a perennial nursery.
He had his apprenticeship in horticulture at the municipality gardens of Vienna, studied at the Horticultural College at Schoenbrunn at Vienna, and got his degree in 1963 and his academic degree "Dipl.-Ing." (similar to M.Sc.) in 1968, after completing his studies at the Agricultural University at Vienna.
From March 1969 to August 1980 he lectured as professor for "Non-hardy ornamentals" at the Horticultural College at Schoenbrunn. From September 1980 until his retirement from the college in August 2008, he worked as a horticultural adviser for the Agricultural Chamber of Styria, the south-eastern province of Austria. His clienteles were 250 ornamental-growers.
From 1972 up to 1995 he lectured "Horticulture" at the Agricultural University in Vienna.
Now in his sixth year, Fritz grows alpines due to his very early contact with growers of these plants. “I remember clearly some of my first plants, a non-flowering clone of Primula × vochinensis and the wonderful Saxifraga 'Cranebourne'”, he quotes.
He is married, since 1972, to Josefa (Sefi). They have three children, and a granddaughter, aged 10 years.
Their garden at Wohngraben is situated in the south-eastern part of Austria in the province of Styria (Steiermark) at an elevation of approximately 480 m. He grows “a large collection of plants in a wide range, not really specializing in any particular genus”.
Many photographs of Baldassare Mineo's well-known book, Rock Garden Plants: A Color Encyclopedia, were supplemented by Fritz Kummert.
FRITZ KUMMERT’S LECTURE LIST
"Excursions for plants in Eastern Austria"
"Andalusia and its flowers"
"Searching for plants in Albania"
"Highlights of a 4 acre garden in south-eastern Austria"
"Bulbs and corms in our garden"
"Our new alpine-house and crevice garden"
Click here to see the Fritz Kummert tour schedule
Fall - East - Nick Turland
 Nick Turland is an Associate Curator in the Division of Science and Conservation at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri. He joined the staff there in 1997 to work on the Flora of China Project, moving from his native England where he had worked since 1993 in the Botany Department of the Natural History Museum, London. Nick is now Co-Director of the Flora of China Project, which is coordinated from St. Louis and involves 11 partner institutions in China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. This 50-volume flora is now more than two-thirds complete, with all the information freely available online. Nick has traveled to China seven times for field work, workshops, and Flora of China editorial meetings. Since 1984, Nick has also had a deep interest in the flora of the eastern Mediterranean region, especially Greece, where he has made over 30 visits, mainly for field work. He has published several books and articles on the region, including Flowers of Crete (with John Fielding, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2005). Nick is also a specialist in botanical nomenclature, and is an editor of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature-the rules for the formal scientific naming of plants.
NICK TURLAND'S LECTURE LIST
“Flowers of Crete”
“Plant hunting in the mountains of Crete”
“From the wine-dark sea to the Olympian heights: plant hunting in Greece”
“Bulbs and orchids of Greece”
“Plant hunting in south-western Turkey”
“Alpine plants of the Pyrenees”
“Alpine plants of the Austrian Alps”
“Back to my roots: British wild flowers”
“Wild flowers and animals of Missouri”
“Botanical field work in China”
Click here to see the Nick Turland's tour schedule, organized by Chuck Ulmann.
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