一对夫妻的岩石花园
网站「Raritäten im Steingarten」由 Jürgen 和 Susanne Lohr 夫妇在萨克森州的 Hohenstein-Ernstthal 打理。两人 1985 年起住在这个小镇，1991 年开始在公寓分到的一小块地上试种高山植物。最初只有一个花坛和一处坐下来的角落，后来石头、小水池、一间小温室和育苗台陆续添进来，能种的地方越铺越大。Susanne 在「关于我们」里写，丈夫是被一位邻居领进这道门的，她自己后来也感染了同样的毛病。
从旧院子到新家
2018 年 6 月搬家时，他们不得不忍痛放弃经营了二十多年的老花园。新院子几乎全是向阳面，连半阴都难找，对耐阴的小玉簪和杓兰并不友好，夫妻俩只好自己动手造出几片阴凉地。旧花园的照片仍留在站内的「Unser alter Garten」栏目，新家的花园则一边整理一边记录，搬过来六年后才第一次系统地放出照片。Jürgen 在一家苗圃上班，繁殖一直是他的活：用自家收的种子，也用从各地换来的种子，慢慢把苗养大。
栏目里的植物名单
植物栏目按类分组：兰花、龙胆、风铃草类、报春类各占一栏，另有「Hexenbesen」（枝梢丛生、形似扫帚的畸形枝）和「Die Tröge」（石槽种植）。站内关键词把常种的属列了一长串：Pulsatilla（白头翁）、Saxifraga（虎耳草）、Daphne（瑞香）、Lewisia、Dionysia、Leontopodium（火绒草）、Dianthus（石竹）、Crocus、Iris、Viola 和 Cyclamen。石槽是养高山植物最常用的容器，也是这个站里照片最集中的一块。站上的名单只是其中一部分，按 2022 年当地报纸的报道，这块园子里养着八百多个不同的种。
茨维考的岩石园协会
夫妻俩是茨维考岩石园协会（Zwickauer Steingartenverein e.V.）的会员。协会 1979 年 6 月 20 日以「Gebirgspflanzen」的名义成立，起初是东德文化联盟属下的一个工作组，只有十名成员；1980 年夏天选多洛米蒂岩钟花（Physoplexis comosa）作了会徽，1982 年办起第一届公开的植物交易会，1990 年正式登记为协会。到 2022 年有 32 名会员，每年十月到四月的第二个星期三晚上在茨维考的一家乡间旅馆聚会，夏天集体去看植物园和园艺展；协会的大型植物集市上，会员把自家繁殖的苗拿来出售或交换。协会的网站上也有 Lohr 家花园的相册，注明可以预约参观。
花园之外
站里另有一批旅行记录：2016 年英格兰、2015 年法尔尚、2014 年摩泽尔河谷、2013 年齐勒河谷，以及德累斯顿复活节、诺赫滕漂砾公园和捷克杰钦的苗圃。剩下的栏目是水彩、音乐、自己的摄影和书单。整站用 IONOS 的建站工具搭成，最后一次更新在 2025 年 7 月 29 日，版权署名是 Susanne Lohr。
A Couple’s Rock Garden
Raritäten im Steingarten (“Rarities in the Rock Garden”) is kept by Jürgen and Susanne Lohr in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, a small town in Saxony, Germany. They have lived there since 1985, and since 1991 they have been growing alpine plants on the strip of ground that came with their flat. It began with one perennial bed and a corner to sit in; rocks, a small pond, a little greenhouse and a propagation bench were added one at a time until the planted area kept growing. On the About page Susanne notes that a neighbour first introduced her husband to alpine plants, and that she later caught the same bug.
From the Old Plot to the New House
When they moved in June 2018 they had to give up, with a heavy heart, the garden they had worked for more than twenty years. The new plot turned out to be almost entirely in full sun, with hardly a spot of half shade, which suits neither the small hostas nor the cypripediums. So the couple built shade themselves, bed by bed. Photographs of the old garden remain in the section called “Unser alter Garten”, while the new one is being documented as it develops; it took six years before the first proper set of pictures went online. Jürgen works at a nursery, and propagation has always been his job, from his own seed as well as seed exchanged with growers elsewhere.
What Grows on the Site
The plant pages are grouped by plant group: orchids, gentians, campanulas and primulas each have their own section, alongside “Hexenbesen” (the congested broom-like shoots known in English as witches’ brooms) and “Die Tröge” (planting in stone troughs). The site’s keyword list names a good part of the genera grown: Pulsatilla, Saxifraga, Daphne, Lewisia, Dionysia, Leontopodium, Dianthus, Crocus, Iris, Viola and Cyclamen. Troughs are the classic container for alpine plants, and they are also the most heavily photographed part of the collection. The lists on the site cover only part of it: a local newspaper report in 2022 put the garden at more than eight hundred different species.
The Zwickau Rock Garden Society
Both of them belong to the Zwickauer Steingartenverein, the rock garden society in nearby Zwickau. The society was founded on 20 June 1979 under the name “Gebirgspflanzen” as a working group of the East German Cultural Association, with ten members at the start. In the summer of 1980 it adopted the tufted horned rampion (Physoplexis comosa) as its emblem, held its first public plant sale in 1982, and was formally registered as a society in 1990. By 2022 it counted 32 members. Meetings run from October to April on the second Wednesday of the month in a country inn in Zwickau, summer is reserved for visits to botanical gardens and garden shows, and the society’s large plant fair is where members sell or swap plants they have raised themselves. The society’s own website keeps a photo gallery of the Lohr garden and notes that it can be visited by arrangement.
Beyond the Garden
The site also carries a set of travel reports: England in 2016, Farchant in 2015, the Moselle valley in 2014 and the Zillertal in 2013, plus Easter in Dresden, the glacial boulder park at Nochten and a nursery in Děčín, Czechia. The remaining sections are watercolours, music, the couple’s own photography and a book list. The whole site runs on IONOS website builder, was last updated on 29 July 2025 and is copyrighted to Susanne Lohr.
Official Site: https://www.steingarten-raritaeten.de/
For the wider alpine-garden scene in Saxony, the Zwickauer Steingartenverein publishes seed lists, meeting dates and reports from its members’ gardens.
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