Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Plants Wanted Or For Exchange => Topic started by: Ian Minty on April 11, 2007, 02:37:54 PM
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Hello folks, I have just moved to a new house and I am looking for some new plants.
The garden is over 150 feet long and over 40 feet wide and is going to take quite a bit of filling.
So I was looking to buy some young plants from other members in the Aberdeenshire area to help in the filling.
I am particularly interested in all types of meconopsis, corydalis, all bulbs, cardinocrinum, hostas, grasses, bamboos, acers, rhododendrons and woodland plants.
I would like to grow from seed, but I work away from home a lot and I wouldn't have the time to care for these.
But the time that I do have at home I like to spend in the garden.
I'll post some photos of the garden when I get home again. There is a beautiful tree paeony that should be about flowering by the time I get home and I was able to take some plants from my last garden so I'll take some photos of them too.
Any offers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Ian.
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Hello, Ian, I was beginning to think you'd run off to sea! Glad to have you back with us... is this a new new house... meaning, have I got the proper address to send your newsletter to? Sounds like it will keep you busy with a new garden that size, but it will have plenty space for the little Mintys to play in, too.
Wishing you long life and happiness in your new home!
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Well actually Maggie, I'm actually sitting in the middle of the North Sea at the moment and I'm not joking. I had to laugh when I saw your response.
My apologies for not keeping in touch over the last year or so, the last 12 -18 months have been an absolute nightmare.
Diagnosed with a form of cancer, sold the house, moved the family in with the mother in law, not good being in a house with 5 women - I was totally outnumbered, had my op, bought a new house, got the all clear from the docs - tumour was non malignant, got a new job and now working in the north sea, but with plenty of shore leave to spend in the garden with the little minty's - happy days now.
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Oh, well, I suppose it might have been the circus!! Mercy, what a time you've had, I am so pleased to hear that things are doing fine now. Very scary when health issues go to pot, I know.
I already said, Wishing you long life and happiness in your new home! But you know I really mean that, even more so now I hear what you've gone through. And love to all the female Minty's too !!
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Is there nobody out there with some plants that I can buy to help fill my garden?
Are there any nurseries that I could do a wholesale deal with?
I am looking to do mass plantings of varieties of meconopsis and corydalis and I am especially looking for woodland plants erythtoniums, trilliums , candelabra and sikkemensis primulas etc
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where do u live? generally?
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I live in a small town called Huntly.
It is around 40 miles from Aberdeen in the middle of the north east of scotland.
I am heading up to a small nursery near Forres at a village called Dyke on sunday to see what he has
Last time I was there he had some nice meconopsis and trilliums.
Normally I would have popped across to see Fred Carrie at Tough, but that nursery is now closed.
There is not much choise in the garden centres here and some places charge a small fortune for nice plants.
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Ian, ask Ian Lock to tell you where Carol & David live and I am sure that we can send you on your way with a few iris and such like. Not before breakfast, mind, as we will have been up at 5 o'clock on Saturday to go to Perth Show.
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Thanks for your offer David, I'll pop in past on sunday (not too early though).
I hope you don't mind kids as I'll have 2 of my young daughters in tow.
We're going to Dyke and then up to Fort George to take advantage of the freebie weekend with Historic Scotland.
I would have been going to Perth as well, but the other half is away for the weekend and I'm left babysitting.
You can show me all the firsts that you have won.
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Hi folks, here are some pics from my garden.
I am having a bit of a job resizing them.
I still have a lot of work to do in the garden, it was infested with weeds and wild strawberries when I moved in.
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Some more.
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And again, I'm getting the hang of this.
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And now some flowers and foliage.
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And some more.
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And again
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The garden is coming along really well, Ian. I see the little Minty's lack for nothing in the way of nifty toys! Our neighbours two doors down have got a super trampoline for their children and, in return for minding their pet rabbits now and then, we have carte blanche to use it whenever we like! Great fun... and amazing how sturdy it is !! ::) :o
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Had a good day's "plant hunting", then, Ian ? I know Mrs Minty is Irene,,, what about the little Mintys? I am hopeless remembering names! Now, of course, you'll tell me that Irene is actually Susan! :-\
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Hi Maggie, yes I had a really good weekend plant hunting.
Thanks again to the Shaws for their generosity, it shows how friendly a club the SRGC is.
I was feeling a bit guilty about all the plants that I went away with, but Carol told me that that was how they got their garden to where it is now, with the generosity of other club members.
I also got a nice crab apple, Rhodo Bow Bells and some nice trilliums and some meconopsis from the nursery at Dyke.
I also bought some nice hostas from B&Q and I got some candelabra primulas from another garden centre.
The only problem is I have only filled 2 of the bottom corners. I'll see if I can post some more pics tomorrow.
Maggie, you are right with the name it is Irene. The other 3 are Sarah, Emma and Morgan.
Sarah is only 8 and she will soon be the same height as you Maggie. You are right the trampoline is great fun, but I can't wait until about 10 years time and I can get rid of it and dig a pond.
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Ian is quite right, we have a lot of our SRGC friends dotted about the garden ( in plant form, of course). It feels good to be able to return the favour.
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You use a trampoline Maggi? Yes? No-one else could ask this question ::)
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You use a trampoline Maggi? Yes?
Indeed I do, Lesley, though not often enough for it to improve my rotundity! By the way, I do hope I did not detect a snigger in your phrasing?
I hope folks aren't getting the wrong impression about me?
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Snigger? Moi? Jamais de la vie!
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Hi folks here are some new pics from my garden. It is coming on, but I still have a long way to go.
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Here also are some of the hostas that I got from B&Q, they have some lovely variations in the leaf markings.
While I was weeding, I think that I found a seedling of a lovely red tree paeony. I'll post a pic in the next day or two.
Anyone can have it if they want to pop round and dig it up, the seedling that is the tree paeony is a fine mature specimen and is going nowhere.
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Here is the tree paeony flower and seedling.
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To get a better idea of the garden here are some different views of it.
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And a few more pics including a large rhodo and some acers.
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Wow what a huge garden you have!
I might have a few large cordyline you could have!
I am having a huge garage built in a few months and i have to move alot of plants so i will let you know nearer the time.
I will ask my Mum too she has a truly enormous garden and is a member but she isnt on the net ever so she wont have seen your postings.
good luck
Lisa
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Ian, your unkown shrub looks like Fatsia japonica, unless you are talking about the one behind it?
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Thanks Anthony, for the ID.
I think the one behind it is an Osomanthus of some kind.
It was covered in small white flowers and had a beautiful (almost overpowering) scent.
The flowers didn't last for long though.
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Thanks for your comments Lisa.
You'll have to give me a shout when you are starting the work on your garage.
I'm not sure if cordylines would survive in Huntly though.
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I will!
:)
I love gardening but i dont know all the latin names for things but it seems i should be forced to by my growing love for gardening, now i no longer stay in a Tennement with someone posessed with HACKING everything down to stumps including a fantastic Apple tree and burning well established old fenrns etc, etc it was beyond reason!
I am learning!
I assumed one of the plants you mentioned was the latin name for a cordyline! sorry I did think you were brave growing them up there as i know im lucky to be able to grow them here as i protect them with a special fleece bag in winter, and my 8ft tree fern and other smaller non hardy plants and it works a treat.
Anything i have to offer i will find out the proper name or ask my mum she is a Latin Expert.(she should have forseen my interest in gardening and taught me from a young age! ha ha)
I am off to the Gardening Scotland show tomorrow!
Have a lovely weekend
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Hi Lisa and all the rest who have made such nice comments about my gareden
And Carol and David. I'll give you a shout and pop up soon to pay for my arisaemas. Let me know how much I am due you so that I know how much money to take up to Dyke.
I am finally home after almost a month at sea, so here are some pics from my garden today.
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And here are some more.
Does anyone know what type of shrub this is in pic 99?
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I just spotted the geenfly on the stem of the pink candelabra primula, on my last post. I'll have to go out and squash them before I go to bed.
Here are some more pics.
Does anyone know what type of shrub this is in pic 106?
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Nothing like a digital photo to show up the beasties! I'm a bit worried that some of your dactylorhiza plants are looking a bit blotchy in the leaves... keep an eye on them, it may be this fungal disease... see "The Rock Garden" journal of a wee while back to see the Wilson's article on that. I'll check which volume tomorrow, if you can't find it.
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It's in Journal number 107, June 2001. The fungus is cladosporium orchidis. The article by Brian and Maureen Wilson is on pages 168-170.
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And a few more, the strange looking pink one is a dwarf Japanese chrysanthemum - the flowers are very large, I can't make my mind up if I like it or not.
I'm glad that I was home in time for the meconopsis, although I've been hunting round all the local garden centres for mec. nepaulensis as I really like it and it used to be readily available quite cheaply, but I haven't seen it anywhere this year.
The first anemones are trullifolia and the last ones are obtusiloba I think.
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Cheers Maggie, I'll go out and have a look at them.
Will this kill them off?
I just bought them from Dyke earler this year.
Maggie, are these also ready for division and when is the best time to go about this?
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Here, some more pics.
The first is a bulb that I picked up yesterday, could anyone help me out with a name.
Second and third are 2 views of the small bed, it is starting to get there.
A small rock rose.
A cape daisy.
Could someone help me out with the ID of this large shrub, in the second pic you can see the buds of the daisy like flowere, it is also evergreen. It is getting a bit too big and Irene wants to prune it back.
The next 2 are of an annual that Irene liked.
And finally a pic of a new bamboo stem.
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Hi, I think pic 106 may be a Philadelphus, I have one similar, but less pink than that, P. x lemoinei