User:Meneerke bloem



My name is Réginald Hulhoven. I am living in Veltem-Beisem (municipality Herent) near Louvain, Flemish Brabant, Belgium. I am both French- and Dutch-speaking. Because of my former occupation I am also practising the English language.

My professional career
I am taking advantage of my retirement to devote myself more intensely to botany.
 * Medical Doctor (Université catholique de Louvain) - 1970, summa cum laude
 * Specialist in Internal Medicine (Université catholique de Louvain) - 1975
 * Agrégation for University Teaching (Université catholique de Louvain) - 1983
 * Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom - 1997-2009
 * Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université catholique de Louvain - 1999-2010
 * Member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology - 2005-2008
 * Appointment as a Clinical Pharmacologist in the pharmaceutical industry - 1986-2008

My passion for botany
Since my adolescence I have a passion for botany. Botany has become in a way a second occupation. My passion for gardening began about twenty years ago.

I have a passion for above all rock plants and botanical bulbs - particularly hardy autumn-flowering bulbs, of which I have about thirty different species - and garden cyclamens. Within this framework I have special contacts with specialised nurseries of botanical bulbs as Verberghe Bloembollen, Rita van der Zalm and De Bolle-Jist, and of perennial plants as Jan Spruyt-Van der Jeugd, and experts as Mark Griffiths and Jan Bravenboer.

I am friend and botanical adviser of Ivo Pauwels - a green author well-known in Dutch-speaking Belgium - whom I have met about ten years ago during a memorable garden tour in Portugal. Shortly thereafter Ivo made an article on my hobby and we progressively became friends. Ivo has said once that my garden - although relatively small - was a living herbarium. I am reviewing and criticising his books and his articles in order to ensure their botanical accuracy.

I have participated with Ivo and other green journalists in garden tours. So, we have visited gardens and natural reserves in Portugal, Madeira, the Canary Islands, France, Wales, Ireland, and Belgium. I have also visited several times the garden fairs, among others that of Beervelde and of Hex. I have written some botanical articles in Les Jardins d'Eden – De Tuinen van Eden, among others about hardy autumn-flowering bulbs, Araceae, cyclamens, Actaea species and snowflakes, and about the flora of the Pyrenees. I have also been an advisor of botanical books edited by Ludion.

Another passion
I am also since more than 50 years a Bruckner fan. I am mainly interested in the first versions of his symphonic works, and the still little known works of the St. Florian period and the smaller religious and secular vocal works. For this topics I am in regular contact with John F. Berky (orchestral works) and Hans Roelofs (non-orchestral and vocal works), and more recently with William Carragan for the different versions and variants of the composer's works.

I have first updated the existing pages on the composer and his works. Thereafter, I have created descriptive pages for all the other Bruckner's works, except the (small) piano and organ works, for which I have created an overview page.

My contribution to Wikipedia
Since February 2007 I am contributing to the French site of Wikipedia, since January 2008 to the Dutch and English sites of Wikipedia, and since September 2009 to the German site of Wikipedia. I have uploaded about 6,000 pictures on Commons. See my uploads. I have also re-classified several categories as, e.g., Cyclamen and Crocus.

Meneerke bloem (English: Mister Flower) is my nickname, given by friends of my future spouse, when I was a student at the University.

Thank you
  flowering Bruckner

Thank you for, passionate lover of flowers shown in excellent pictures, for the quality of your continuous care (passio continuo) for articles on the works by Anton Bruckner, full of music, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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