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Tidbits

Today’s office. Sketching out initial shapes on location at a new project in Austria

We passed another of our front gardens on our way to work yesterday. These plants sailed through last year’s winter.
#agavesalmiana
#yuccafilifera
#yuccarostrata
#loropetalum
#dasylirion
#corokia

Dark corner of the garden? Choose the right plants and they’ll thrive. Today we planted up this pot in a north-facing lower ground floor front garden underneath some stairs, with Sarcococca ruscifolia, Aspidistra ‘Taiwan Stars’, and a couple of Saxifraga hirsuta. I’m pretty sure they’ll be happy there. All plants from #crugfarmplants

Sourcing conifers for an exciting new project at #limecrossnursery today. I’ve fallen in love with this #nootkacypress and now have 3 in the van to go in my own garden.. #coniferlove #drseuss #youcantakethecypressoutofalaska

Me and the boy seeking the highest Echium wildprettii we can find, for the hardiest plants. At 2,550m on Tenerife’s highest mountain, El Teide

Well this is a mystery. Found this ivy growing 1,200m up a mountain in Tenerife but it doesn’t look like the native Hedera canariensis to me. Looks more like the Japanese H. rhombea to my untrained eye.
Anyway, it grew in a forest of honey-scented flowering tree heathers and native Pine, the whole scene draped in Spanish moss.

Sometimes it’s best when you don’t do any research. Along with Villa D’Este in Tivoli, Italy, this Botanic Garden in Puerto De La Cruz, Tenerife, must be one of my favourite stumbled-upon gardens. The term Botanic Garden is used pretty loosely around the world I’ve often found, but this one created in 1793 hidden in this rather unprepossessing town is truly magnificent.

Minuscule front ‘garden’ we planted up a few years ago. Was a bit concerned that the beastly winter last year would’ve finished some of these off but it’s looking wonderful. Even the true Plumbago, taken as a cutting from Kenya in the 80s, is thriving.
#desertplanting #lowmaintenance #plantsmakepeoplehappy #dasylirion #agave #aloe

Nursery visit to Aberconwy Alpines today, to populate a raised sloping bed we’ve made with free draining soil and a thick mulch of limestone chippings. We snagged the last Hedgehog Brooms they had, one of my favourite alpine plants that looks like a tightly clipped Gorse with purple flowers. Oh and the planting is at my Ma and Pa’s house hence the shot with my Mum.
#alpines #hedgehog #pushing #a #broom #erinaceaanthyllis

Visit today to Ian Sturrock’s ramshackle nursery. He is an apple wizard and has discovered or saved many local apple, pear and plum varieties. Most famous is his Bardsey Apple, a chance seedling that clung against a wind-blasted wall on Bardsey island aka Ynys Enlli, and produces wonderfully citrus-flavoured dessert apples in the harshest conditions.
#bardsey #bardseyapple #grafter #likealioninscion

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