Troughs

[mark smyth]

http://users.actrix.co.nz/hokpines/catalogue.html
Looks like a really good place to poke around the pots

[Lesley Cox]

So pleased you found this site Mark. It is indeed a good place to poke around the pots and I do it twice every year, at great expense but greater pleasure. Their troughs are the best commercial ones I've ever seen and Louise's stone work in the garden is outstanding. She is skilled at growing the most difficult plants and it's always a great boost to my spirit to visit there. They do an excellent seed list too and send lots overseas.

When I visited lasted week, Louise greeted me with a gun in hand. She was after a bunny which has been eating the foliage of Irises, Crocuses and other bulbs.

[Maggi Young]

Folks, I thought I'd asked this before, in early September, but I cannot find the place and another person has contacted me asking the same question..... can anyone, particularly in Scotland, but a mail-order company might suffice, know of a supplier of lightweight polymer resin  or lightweight, glass-fibre troughs?

[mark smyth]

any big garden centre stocks them

[mark smyth]

http://www.elmdenepatiogardenart.co.uk/acatalog/Lightweight_Stone_Troughs.html

[mark smyth]

Maggi they are not cheap but I'm sure they would be on sale at this time of year

[angie]

Hi Lesley

I've decided I'm going to lash out on some troughs from Hokonui Alpines. They're by far the best in New Zealand and since I can't take it (anything financial) with me, I may as well enjoy it here and now. Pictures in due course, though I have yet to order them.

I like this attitude you have , I feel the same since I lost my sister, spend today, enjoy life and don't wait till tomorrow. we only have one life and its for enjoying. will look forward to see your troughs all planted up.
Angie

[Maggi Young]

Mark, excellent link, thank you.
I will, naturally , also suggest to the folk that they make some sculpted. painted SRGC fishbox troughs, instead!!
 

[Paddy Tobin]

Lesely, I look forward to photographs of your purchases. Enjoy it all. Have great fun. Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

Angie and Paddy, I'll certainly do pictures in due course. As yet I don't have my new troughs, they aren't even made yet but I'll take a trip south very soon and speak seriously with Peter and Louise Salmond and then we shall see what we shall see.

[Katherine J]

Hello all Dear Forumists,

Lost a little in my jobs and troubles but not forgetting the Forum, I would like to show You some of my troughs. Our spring is quite cold now (regarding the last years), so the alpines feel better 

Arabis blepharophylla looks good in the background with the Sempervivum


Gentiana clusii, bought in Prague, this year the first time with 3 flowers


A pot with Lewisia tweedyi and Lewisia pygmaea seedlings


Trough with some Androsace carnea brigantiaca in flower and Androsace pubescens in bud (all from seed)


A trough with Primulas and the Gentiana shown before


A Daphne maybe arbuscula purchased a few days ago


All these are on our balcony!

[Anthony Darby]

Mark, I have trough 'B'. They are excellent because they are so light, but be careful to check as I have seen some in garden centres with an almost invisible crack down one corner.

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Katherine,
A lovely selection of pots and troughs. All looking quite natural in their design. I particularly like the one with the Androsace carnea brigantiaca and Androsace pubescens.

Graham

[Katherine J]

Thanks Graham. That is my favourite too.

[Ragged Robin]

Mine too, but all are really artistic and beautifully planted Kata - congratulations on such a splendid use of your balcony 

Seeing your Gentiana clusii in flower for the first time is a real treat against the old/drift wood setting