背景与协会
Harry 于 1957 年出生于荷兰,自 1986 年起定居在海牙以东、阿培尔顿 (Apeldoorn) 附近的卢嫩 (Loenen, 海拔 27 米)。他受过正式园艺设计与维护训练, 1982–2024 年长期在荷兰基础设施与水利部担任冬季养护专员,目前已退休。
1981 年的一次瑞士假期让 Harry 完全迷上了高山植物,并由此 “感染” 上业内所谓的 alpine virus。80 年代初,荷兰真正投身岩生植物栽培的爱好者屈指可数;为了系统学习,他加入了总部位于英国的 Alpine Garden Society (AGS, 英国高山花园协会);并于 1985 年 9 月 21 日与约 20 位核心成员共同创立了 Nederlandse Rotsplanten Vereniging (N.R.V., 荷兰岩生园协会, 现约 550 名会员, 含比利时、丹麦、德国等成员),并在 2000–2006 年期间担任该协会主席。
花园与栽培
Harry 在自家花园构建了一座层次丰富的岩生植物展示体系:一座大型高山温室 (部分半埋入地) 与一座小型铝合金育苗工作间 (用于播种、扦插、上盆、储存基质与砾石)。大型温室设有 plunge (沉床) 与 tufa wall (石灰华墙);后院另有一座可滚动 16 mm 波形板覆盖、配百叶通风的冷床,双设施均装备自动遮阳。
岩石园主体由产自国外矿场的 tufa (石灰华) 砌成,前院于 2003 年重建,镶嵌若干每块约 1.5 吨的大型石灰华块,钻孔后植入原本生长在高海拔的物种;一条小溪蜿蜒其间,岸边栽培多种兰花;另有泥炭块垒成的 peat bed,用以承载对酸性与水分有特殊需求的物种。
另一侧独立 tufa wall 由直立花岗岩路缘石夹层堆叠空隙填入石灰华块构成,正是难种岩生植物的归宿,主角之一为可自播繁衍的 Jancaea heldreichii。前院还立有一座由 3 块花岗岩路缘石呈三角排列 (间距约 40 cm) 形成的 tufa-column, 同样栽种高难度物种。
摄影图集与野外考察
Harry 在 Smugmug 维护着总数逾 36,000 张的高山植物原生地图片库,可按国家、属种、地图等查询;图集按大洲分区, 并在数字地图上标注拍摄地点、海拔与物种名称。
他已多次亲赴欧洲、亚洲、非洲、中东、北美与南美、新西兰、澳大利亚与塔斯马尼亚拍摄原生地植物;作为考察队领队, 他曾 17 次组织中国大陆植物 / 花园远征, 并策划带队前往捷克、瑞典、德国、意大利、希腊、秘鲁、厄瓜多尔、阿根廷、莱索托、南非、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、伊朗、尼泊尔与锡金 (印度) 等地的植物 / 花园主题旅行。归档作品还收录了三部高山纪录片 (西藏康雄谷、云南、四川–青海) 的拍摄花絮。
荣誉与著作
2014 年 11 月 8 日, 在 AGS 年会与大会上, Harry 获颁 AGS Lyttel Trophy (AGS 最高荣誉奖之一), 表彰他在岩生植物栽培、考察与协会推广方面的长期贡献。其朋友、原种郁金香专家 Sjaak de Groot 曾将一种来自哈萨克斯坦、此前未命名的郁金香以 Harry Jans 命名, 以致敬其多年野外考察贡献。Harry 也是《Pasque-Flowers: The Genus Pulsatilla》(白头翁属) 等专业书籍的合作者之一。
联系与网址
如需交流、引种合作或图像授权,可通过 Harry Jans 的官方网站联系:
网址: https://www.jansalpines.com
Jans Alpines — A Dutch Alpine Plant Collector’s Garden in the Netherlands
Background & Societies
Harry was born in 1957 and has lived in Loenen (27 m above sea level), near Apeldoorn in the Netherlands, since 1986. Trained in garden design and maintenance, he served as a winter-maintenance specialist at the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment from 1982 to 2024, and is now retired.
A 1981 holiday in Switzerland first drew Harry to alpine plants, and he has remained wholly “infected” by the alpine virus ever since. In the early 1980s, only a handful of growers in the Netherlands were cultivating rock garden plants at any depth. To build a more systematic learning path, he joined the Alpine Garden Society (AGS), based in the United Kingdom. On 21 September 1985 he was one of roughly twenty founding members of the Nederlandse Rotsplanten Vereniging (N.R.V., the Dutch Rock Garden Society), which now has around 550 members from the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and beyond, and he served as the society’s president from 2000 to 2006.
Garden & Cultivation
Harry’s garden is built as a layered display of alpine cultivation: a large alpine house sunk partly into the ground, paired with a small aluminium-frame workshop for sowing, cuttings, potting-on, and storage of substrates and gravel. The large alpine house accommodates a plunge bed and a tufa wall; in the back, a cold frame under 16 mm corrugated panels on rollers, with louvered ventilation, supports the propagation cycle. Both structures run automatic shading.
The rock garden itself is built from tufa selected by Harry in a quarry abroad and imported. The front yard, rebuilt in 2003, incorporates several enormous tufa blocks of roughly 1.5 tonnes each, drilled and planted with species that normally grow at high elevations; a small stream runs through the garden, with a variety of orchids along its banks; peat-block walls create dedicated peat beds for acid-loving and moisture-demanding taxa.
A free-standing tufa wall was constructed from vertically placed granite curb stones with stacked tufa chunks between them, providing a home for very unusual and difficult species — among them the self-sowing Jancaea heldreichii, a true eye-catcher. The front yard also features a tufa-column built from three granite curb stones arranged in a triangle around 40 cm apart, planted in the same tradition.
Photo Gallery & Fieldwork
Harry maintains a Smugmug photo gallery of more than 36,000 alpine plant images, searchable by country, genus/species, and locality map; the gallery is organised by continent and exposes the location, altitude, and plant name under each image.
He has photographed alpine plants in their natural habitats in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North and South America, New Zealand, Australia, and Tasmania; as a tour leader he has travelled to mainland China over 17 times and has organised and guided plant and garden trips to the Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Greece, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Lesotho, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Nepal, and Sikkim (India). The archive also includes behind-the-scenes stills from three alpine documentaries (Tibet — The Kangshung Valley, China — Yunnan Part 1, and China — Sichuan-Qinghai).
Honours & Publications
On 8 November 2014, during the AGS AGM and Conference, Harry was presented with the AGS Lyttel Trophy, one of the society’s highest honours, recognising his long contribution to alpine cultivation, plant exploration, and society development. His friend Sjaak de Groot, an expert on wild tulips, named an unknown tulip from Kazakhstan after Harry Jans in tribute to his fieldwork. Harry is also a contributor to specialist volumes such as Pasque-Flowers: The Genus Pulsatilla.
Contact & Website
For correspondence, plant-hunting collaboration, or image licensing, please reach Harry Jans through his official website:
Website: https://www.jansalpines.com
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