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Some colour and some planting.
It has been stresfull in the garden with the issues with the succulents, but work hasn't stopped. I'll come back to the agaves in a later post, but today it's time to focus on what else is going in...
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A bit of work on the shade garden
It is fun at the moment, every evening working on a different part of the garden. Clearing the front, filling gaps in the succulent rockery or getting started on the shade garden. The area to the...
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Back to the succulents
Today was more like summer than spring, and getting back to the garden there was only one place to spend time. For all the work in the other parts of the garden, the succulents are still the stars....
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The echeveria agavoides bowls
It is one of the more variable echervias, with the usual normal, variegates and cristates all being avaiable. Perhaps what sets it apart more is the number of different forms of e. agavoides and it is...
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First proper work in the greenhouse.
The plants overwintered in greenhouse are the ones that have the toughest time. They are left to get on with it and not watered from about the end of October until March. They are watered a little bit...
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Cleaning up the aloe viper.
This is one of my favourite aloes, it has such good colour and texture to the leaves. One of Kelly Griffin's hybrids and he was going for bumpy with this one. Originally I thought it was one of the...
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Spring Alpines: part 1.
This is a great time of year for the alpines; lots of flowers and the sempervivums are waking up. Over the last few years I have been adding named forms to my collection and have been keeping track of...
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Another slippery slope.
I have mentioned my search for hand made plant pots before, here and here. With nothing turning up in garden centres and shows, the search moved to the internet in the hope of finally finding something...
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Time for some flowers
It is that time of year and the succulents are starting to put on a show. This year is is a real variety of acts.There's the mass flowers: Delosperma garnet The mini flowers: mammillaria snowcapThe...
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Finally plucked up the courage
Back in August aloe purple flush was my favourite plant of the week. (Post can be found here). I mentioned at the time that the only problem with the plant was that it doesn't produce many offsets....
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A mixed bag
Last weekend it was the first plant fair of the year, this one at Savil Gardens. I try and go every year, meeting up with friends who normally laugh at my complaints that the only plants to buy are...
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Yucca and cordyline get in on the act
It is great at this time of the year, everything seems to be sending out new offsets or splitting. So it great that even the larger plants are at it.One of the yuccas that seems to be getting more...
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The succulent flower part 2.
Both in and out of the greenhouse the succulents are flowering away. The crassula budhas temple is fully open nowClose-up you can see all the individual little flowersThe echeverias are in good form as...
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Why wont you sprial ............
Aloe polyphylla is one of the ore cold tolerant aloes and also one of nicest. They are really sort after in the UK mainly as pot specimen, although they look amazing as part of a rockery. So when no...
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Tracking change
Many garden bloggers seem to track the progress of their garden if not individual plants, often posting photos of plants in previous years. It is definitely a simple way to record the growth of...
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If only.
The two aloes that are more commonly found in UK gardens are a. aristata and a. striatula. You would think a hybrid between them would be interesting. I have only ever found one and sadly is doesn't...
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Are pots the new obsession
The problem with finding something you have searched for, is rarely does it seem to end the search. So having finally found the first pot, you can see the post here, it was already starting to look...
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Time for some drastic action
I have had agave bracteosa 'monterrey frost' for a few years now. Given how hardy the normal form is, I though I would try it outside over winter. Given it was in a pot, it was easy to move it if real...
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It is almost colourful in the succulent rockery.
We actually had an alost sunny weekend at last. The winter may have been mild, the spring dry, but so far there has not been uch heat. As soon as the sun comes out my mind and camera turn to the...
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What's in the box?
Whenever a parcel turns up it is always fun, the un-wrapping and first view of the item. Normally I am not too bothered by the wrapping but this one was different. What was in the box? Two more...
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