Ernst Pagels

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernst Pagels (2004) in his nursery

Ernst Johann Friedrich Pagels (born October 9, 1913 in Stockelsdorf ; † January 16, 2007 in Leer (East Friesland) ) was a German gardener and plant breeder.

Ernst Pagels ran a perennial nursery in Leer (East Friesland) from 1949 to 2000. After Karl Foerster , his role model, and Georg Arends , Pagels became the most important German perennial grower of the 20th century. His special merit lay in the diversification of the Chinese silver grass ( Miscanthus ). It was only through this that the diverse range of large ornamental grasses could be developed, which has given essential design impulses in garden architecture, especially in Great Britain and the United States.

Life

Ernst Pagels was the second child of Johanne Pagels, b. van Zwoll (1886 – ca. 1965) and the gardener Ernst Martin Pagels (1885–1915) were born on October 9, 1913 in Stockelsdorf near Lübeck . After his father fell at the beginning of World War I and his brother died just two weeks later, the family decided that Ernst, aged one and a half, should grow up with his paternal grandparents in Mecklenburg . He stayed there until his grandmother's death in 1923 and then moved to live with his mother and sister Frieda in Leer (East Friesland). There he attended the Osterstegschule and the Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium.

From 1928 to 1932 Ernst Pagels was trained as a gardener at the Van Scharrel nursery in Leer. He walked through the various production areas of the mixed company with great pleasure. By chance he discovered booklets of the specialist magazine “ Gartenschönheit ” in the attic of the company , which was published by Karl Foerster, Oskar Kühl and Camillo Schneider . He was fascinated by the possible uses of the perennials and then spent a lot of time reading them in secret. When he was allowed to supervise the execution of a garden plan by Karl Foerster in his apprenticeship company, the desire matured in him to work in the Bornim nursery one day . Since then, Karl Foerster has become a key figure in Pagels' life.

Pagel stayed on as a journeyman in his apprenticeship company for six months before he qualified as a horticultural technician at the Oranienburg gardening college for two years. He then worked in three different nurseries. Finally he was able to realize his wish and work for Karl Foerster. After six months in the Bornim plant dispatch department, he switched to gardening and later to horticultural management, where he stayed until he was called up in 1939. During the evenings the young man found opportunities to go through the nursery with the perennial grower Karl Foerster. The conversations related to the breeding work, but were more and more private.

After the Second World War and a time in English captivity, Pagels founded his own nursery in 1949 in Leer (East Friesland) on the two hectare inherited piece of land on the outskirts of the city. At the beginning he mainly grew vegetables to feed his own family and for sale. Later the gardener only sold perennials that he had been organically growing since the early 1950s.

Parallel to the establishment of his nursery, Pagels was active from the beginning in the garden planning and execution, especially in the Leeran area, among others for the architect Carl Börner (1898–1987). From the mid-1960s, his nephew Enno Winenga participated in the planning. A few years later, Winenga took over the design so that Pagels could concentrate on perennial production and breeding. He planned about 300 public and private facilities. In the urban area of ​​Leer, unusual for the time, he used perennials in parks or on traffic islands. In Leer he planned, among other things, the outdoor areas of almost all schools built between 1945 and 1970 as well as the Julianenpark, the island garden and the open spaces of the nautical school.

Pagels was active in his nursery until 2000. It was then operated for several years until it was made accessible to the general public as a park by the anthroposophical mercurial foundation.

Services

Like his role model Karl Foerster, Ernst Pagels also grew perennials. This work has played an important role for him since the nursery was founded in 1949. In the course of his nearly 50 years of breeding work, he found more than 130 varieties. After Karl Foerster (161 varieties) and Georg Arends (109 varieties), he is the third largest perennial grower of the 20th century.

The first grade he read from as early as 1949, a Larkspur ( Delphinium elatum hybrids `Bully'). Only six years later he achieved his breeding breakthrough with the steppe sage variety `Ostfriesland´ ( Salvia nemorosa` Ostfriesland´ ), which is still rated as "excellent" by the Association of German Perennial Gardeners (BdS ).

Ernst Pagels achieved the breakthrough in breeding with the sage variety `Ostfriesland´, which is still widely used today

In the course of his work he found a total of 14 types of sage ( Salvia nemorosa ), including the excellent `Blauhügel´ (***) variety. He also selected in addition to various other perennials eight Yarrow varieties ( Achillea spp.), Seven record sheet places ( Rodgersia spec.) And eight fat varieties Henn ( Sedum spp.). Plants from all over the world were sent to him for inspection. When they were garden-worthy, he named them and put them on the market. In his breeding work, it was particularly important to him to find long-lasting and stable plants that look attractive in the bed for a long time.

In total, Pagels developed ten varieties awarded by the BdS or brought them onto the market (***):

  • Prachtspiere `Purpurlanze´ - Astilbe chinensis var. Taquetii` Purpurlanze´ , which also received the certificate of value of the German Horticultural Society (DGG). It was named by Pagels and put on the market.
  • Magnificent spar `Aphrodite´ - Astilbe Simlicifolia-Hybrid` Aphrodite´
  • Elfenblume `Frohnleiten´ - Epimedium x perralchium` Frohnleiten´ , which he brought into the trade.
  • Miscanthus `Small Fontäne' - Miscanthus sinsensis` Small Fontäne'
  • Chinese reed `Malepartus´ - Miscanthus sinensis` Malepartus´
  • Record sheet `The Graceful '- Rodgersia henrici` The Graceful'
  • Record sheet `Die Schöne´ - Rodgersia henrici` Die Schöne´
  • Record sheet Die Stolze´ - Rodgersia henrici `Die Stolze´
  • Steppe sage `Ostfriesland´ - Salvia nemerosa` Ostfriesland´
  • Steppe sage `Blauhügel´ - Salvia nemorosa` Blauhügel´ .

He also bred 15 very good varieties (**) and ten good varieties (*).

He experienced the high point of his breeding work in the 1980s with his Chinese reed harvesting. He was the first to get the Chinese silver grass variety `Gracilimus´ ( Miscanthus sinensis` Gracilimus´ ) to bloom in the greenhouse. In the following years he developed more than 50 Miscanthus sinensis varieties. In Europe and the United States in particular, a new design tradition was established, "Ornamental Grass Gardening".

Honors

Perennial varieties named after Pagels

His Dutch friend Hans Kramer named a variety after him, Amsonia hubrichtii x ciliata `Ernst Pagels´ . In 2003 Dori and Henk Jacobs found a strong, compact spherical miscanthus, which they named after their friend, Miscanthus sinensis `Pagels´ . In 2005 a Silphium was named `Ernst Pagels´ by the Dutch.

Pagels Gardens

Ernst Pagels assortment garden

As part of the 2001 Federal Horticultural Show , the Perenne e. V. in the Volkspark Potsdam in honor of Ernst Pagels a garden with grasses and perennials . Here, among other things, sage , golden sheaves and elephant are shown together. The garden can be seen today as No. 13 in the Volkspark Potsdam.

Ernst Pagels Garden in Bad Zwischenahn

The Ernst Pagels Garden in the Park of the Gardens in Bad Zwischenahn was opened on July 8, 2005. The garden designer Anke Mattern (born 1960) from Steyerberg , Nienburg district , created it in consultation with Pagels. For this purpose, she divided the area into six color groups, in which she used many of his varieties. She also paid attention to his preferences when using the trees. In the design, she integrated a garden house built in the Ammerland half-timbered style into the garden and vice versa through the viewpoints from the seat, a further guiding principle of Pagel's garden design in the small show garden.

Ernst Pagels Garden in Leer

Ernst Pagels ran his nursery in Leer from 1949 to 2000 . He bequeathed it to the anthroposophical mercurial foundation, which opened it as a garden to the general public and built a Waldorf kindergarten on the site according to Pagel's plans . The basic structures of the nursery are still preserved today. The facility is designed as a multi-generation garden. Here you can find his cultivars in a show garden as well as in perennial beds designed by the internationally known garden artist Piet Oudolf , the Dutch Helenium specialist Henk Jacob , Peter Janke and the Society of Perennial Friends. There is also a pond, a wildflower meadow, neighborhood beds and artistically designed children's play equipment, which should make the garden attractive for every generation in every season.

literature

  • Hanne Kloever: The one who talks to the grass. In: Ostfriesland Magazin , issue 4/2002, pp. 15-19.
  • Wolfgang Müller: Gardening as a cultural activity - the life and work of the perennial gardener Ernst Pagels. Diploma thesis at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Development at the University of Hanover, 2003.
  • Christian Meyer: Valuable perennial varieties from Ernst Pagels. In: Gartenpraxis , H. 5/2002, pp. 16–21.

Web links

  • Website of Ernst Pagels
  • Jan Renneberg: Perennials in the garden. (PDF) In: Perennials in the garden. Society of Perennial Friends V., 2005, pp. 40-41 , archived from the original on April 7, 2013 ; accessed on April 7, 2013 (download of the excerpt from the book by Bettina Rehm-Wolters, Markus Zeiler: Perennials in the garden - design ideas for ever-blooming beds. Callwey, Munich 2011, pp. 40–41: "Karl Foerster and Ernst Pagels") .
  • 35. Ernst Pagels Garden. Gartenkulturzentrum Niedersachsen - Park der Gärten gGmbH, accessed on May 9, 2013 (An overview of the Ernst-Pagels-Garten in Bad Zwischenahn can be found on the website of the Park of the Gardens with a leaflet to download that contains the map and the complete list of varieties. ).
  • Ernst Pagels Garten in Leer, Deichstrasse 4. Stiftung mercurial, accessed on May 9, 2013 (information on Pagels and the Pagels Garten in Leer).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 21ff
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 32 ff.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 33 f.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 36ff
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 48 ff.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 59f
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 37
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 61ff
  9. ↑ Thomas Schumacher: Green business card for empty. Ostfriesland Magazin 7/2011, pp. 112–113
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 93ff
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Müller 2003: 84ff
  12. ↑ Hans Götz, Martin Häussermann, Josef Sieber: Die Stauden DVD. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2011
  13. ↑ Anke Mattern (1993): 14
  14. ↑ Perennial gardeners mourn Ernst Pagels. (No longer available online.) Association of German Perennial Gardeners, 2007, archived from the original on June 22, 2009 ; Retrieved February 19, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stauden.de
  15. ↑ Nursery Jacobs. Henk en Dori Jacobs, accessed May 9, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Silphium `Ernst Pagels´. (No longer available online.) Kwekerej Kabbes, 2008, archived from the original on September 7, 2010 ; Retrieved September 16, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kabbes.nl
  17. ↑ Volkspark Nature Oasis. (No longer available online.) BgA Potsdam's New Gardens represented by the development agency Bornstedter Feld GmbH, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volkspark-potsdam.de
  18. ↑ Park of the Gardens - 35th Ernst Pagels Garden. Garden Culture Center Lower Saxony, accessed on May 9, 2013 .
  19. ↑ Thomas Schumacher: Green business card for empty. Ostfriesland Magazin 7/2011, pp. 112–113.
personal data
SURNAME Pagels, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pagels, Ernst Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener and plant breeder
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2007
Place of death Leer (East Frisia)