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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016

Silver-Gilt Medal Winner

Tidbits

No need for a big plot to make a garden. Here we installed a ‘dry’ garden in the tiniest front plot for some clients in London. We used reclaimed Victorian pitch pine to make the planter and filled it with xerophytic (desert-plant) delights. A Plumbago is being trained over the front door.
#gardendesign
#plantingdesign
#tinygarden
#xerophyte
#succulents

Plant-hunting in BC with some of my favourite people.
3) Aster with glaucous Blueberry
5) Skunk Cabbage
6) Oplopanax horridus at the base of a Cypress

Boletus luridiformis colour changing in real time. As well as a few good edibles we found the Peppery Bolete, a good mushroom to add a chilli/pepper taste to dishes.

Today’s gatherings. Despite being in horticulture for half my life I’d never grown a good crop of tomatoes. In the UK it’s not always as easy as it’s made out to be. We have a greenhouse for the first time and it’s made a huge difference. Also planting them in the ground instead of pots, actually getting round to feeding regularly and pinching out all the side shoots. We’ve got a few kilo’s worth ripening in our little greenhouse.

Our shed roof: the first part of the garden to look like, well, a garden. River-worn gravel as a mulch around various Sedum, Ephedra, Sea Buckthorn, Muehlenbergia grasses etc. With seed-grown Agaves, Silene armeria and Pennisetum sp (?) collected from Texas, Turkey and Colombia respectively. The gnarled ‘tree’ at the end is a foot-high hardy Crassula, C. Sarcococaulis.

Collected seed of this climbing Thalictrum in Nepal in 2016, have been growing it on and it’s started to bloom- very exciting as I hadn’t seen a flower on it, just the dried seeds. #planthunting #thalictrum #climbingplant

“Some people are picking their marrows early and using the French word Courgette to describe the younger fruits”. I love this (paraphrased) quote I saw in a plant book from the 70s(?) a while back. Nice to realise how our everyday was quite recently exotic

Maritime Horsetail on the Llŷn

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