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Back after winter break, with updates on the succulent rockeries
As usual I lost interest in plants over winter and had even less interest in computers. Come spring my interest re-emerges as the plants start to wake up. So for the last few weeks I have been busy out...
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How amazing is this.
Visiting a friends garden, Crete Lodge exotic garden, at the end of last year, Mel pointed out these. It seems if you leave aloe striatula seed pods for a year this is what you end up with. I am going...
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Could it finally be here?
This weeks has finally started to feel like the winter is behind us and it is safe to start putting some of the pots outside. Our winters lately have been so strange I have lost track if this is early...
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No space is wasted.
One of the things I love about plants in the rockeries is the way they grow to fill any available space. Given space they just offset until they are overflowing.The echeveria elegans stream turned...
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So the front garden: part 1.
This has taken up most of my time whenever it has been dry this spring. I last posted about it back in August last year, the post can be found here. At that point the right hand side was all levelled...
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How can you hate cherry blossom?
Next doors cherry tree has been mentioned several time since we moved. My family do not understand why it is such a problem; it only blocks the sun for the first hour or two of the day and then it...
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Update on the Sedeveria letizia
I have posted about this little plants a few times before, mainly here. At this time of year is has not only turned a good red colour but is starting to flower. For the last couple of years there has...
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This should make a few people happy
Everyone has at last one plant that in the garden that always gets attention. You know the one that every visitor comments and lusts after. I keep meaning to suggest everyone do a post on their...
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A bit of colour
Just to keep posts going, the main rockery is starting to look more colourful.Maybe lucky I didn't paint that wall purple, would have clashed!
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Let's talk echeveria 'Compton Carousel'
One of those stop in your tracks plants, if you have seen one chances are it is on your wish list.My second plant in May 2013, the first suddenly decided to die.That is where the fun starts as it is...
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A break form the rain
My friends always laugh when I say that June in the UK is our monsoon month. They are not laughing this year, as it has been foul, with the last two days being full on thunder storms and flooding....
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Someone is loving the rain.
You need to look closely, but finally the large cycad is starting to flush. Lots of rain and extra feed seems to have done the trick.
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Sorting out more of the trouble areas
It's amazing that in mid July only now is there a break in the rain. For once the weekend was dry and getting warmer, so out in the garden and time to take on a couple of the projects.First up the...
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What happened to summer
Is it really September already? It has been busy here, but I have been been storing up posts so hopefully lots to follow.In the mean time, has anyone else noticed that every time you go out into the...
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Time to even things up.
This haworthia attenuata variegata was one of last plants I got from my friend Paul before he died. His pot was rammed full of plants, all variegated to some degree. It was quite a sight. I was...
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While we're on the subject of offsets
Time for a quick echeveria 'Compton Carousel' update. After the last post on the tricks I use, which can be found here, they have had the summer to grow and have filled the pots nicely.In the main pot...
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Time for an agave update
It has been a while since there has been a post on the agaves planted in the main rockery, especially after all the damage back in Spring 2015. It is obvious some have grown but not so in...
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Time for the tough choices.
You can relax, this is not another episode of "Live or Die" but instead an update on the last problem areas in the rockery. I have been looking at this yucca purpurea since spring. It has been leaning...
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British Cactus and Succulent Society national show
The good thing about having been busy over the summer is having a backlog of trips and other posts. First up the BCSS national show, which sadly is only once every four years. Apart from a good...
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Manfredas and mangaves
Like most people the preparations for winter have started to gather pace, and this weekend saw the pots put in the greenhouse to start drying them off.It was a lovely autumn weekend, lovely and warm in...
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