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Graham Catlow

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #495 on: May 19, 2013, 08:45:51 PM »
More than worth the showing!
How do you keep the slugs and greenfly off it?

Thanks Maggie and Cliff.

I've never had a bother with either Maggie, but will now keep a careful eye on it just in case. The only thing I do is to cover the trough in the winter to keep it on the dry side.
Bo'ness. Scotland

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #496 on: May 19, 2013, 09:19:48 PM »
Graham, congratulations to this superb Calceolaria.
I also love these little beauties, but our local climate is
excellent for growing good wine but not too suitable
for these coolness and moisture loving plants.
Attached are pictures from my garden, some of
the troughs need replanting. Erigeron aureus "Canary Bird"
is my favourite yellow one in spite of the slow propagation rate.
The yellow plant in the foreground of picture 3 is E.aureus from
wild seed.
Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
climate zone 8a,elevation 250 m

astragalus

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #497 on: May 19, 2013, 10:39:57 PM »
Wonderful buns in your troughs.
Steep, rocky and cold in the
Hudson River Valley in New York State

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #498 on: May 21, 2013, 09:19:54 PM »
Astragalus, thank you for your kind comment.
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #499 on: May 21, 2013, 10:30:32 PM »
Ok after seeing all these lovely troughs I am going to empty all mine.

Graham thats a lovely display of Calceolaria, I think I need you up here for a few days  ;D

Angie  :)
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #500 on: June 01, 2013, 12:29:40 AM »
Another one of Grahams wonderful troughs and a couple of his garden.
Thanks for a nice day today Graham.

Angie  :)
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #501 on: June 01, 2013, 12:32:51 AM »
Oh and look what else I found just outside Grahams wonderful garden. I want to take these home  ;D
Female Panda was a bit camera shy.

Angie  :)
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #502 on: June 01, 2013, 09:10:56 AM »
Oh and look what else I found just outside Grahams wonderful garden. I want to take these home  ;D
Female Panda was a bit camera shy.

Angie  :)

That's a bloke in a suit, surely?! ;D
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #503 on: June 01, 2013, 09:15:11 AM »
Nice garden Graham. I liked Angie's last picture, makes your garden look part of a stately home, are you really Lord Catlow or something? ;)
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Graham Catlow

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #504 on: June 01, 2013, 10:34:23 AM »
Nice garden Graham. I liked Angie's last picture, makes your garden look part of a stately home, are you really Lord Catlow or something? ;)

No David not a Lord, just plain me living and working in the grounds of an extraordinarily special place. :)
Bo'ness. Scotland

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #505 on: June 01, 2013, 11:40:10 AM »
Graham with that surroundings and the gate entrance you could fool all of us  ;D ;)

Angie  :)
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #506 on: June 01, 2013, 12:52:22 PM »
In bloom now, and blooming reliably every year, Saxifraga cebennensis.  Unfortunately, it's planted in an old trough that is disintegrating.  It's planted at the sound end and is almost the only plant left.
Steep, rocky and cold in the
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #507 on: June 01, 2013, 01:04:39 PM »
Looks superb, Anne ... I think I might be tempted to break up the trough and bury the part containing the sax' in your lovely scree.
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #508 on: June 01, 2013, 11:29:02 PM »
Cliff, that's a great idea, thanks so much.  I'll do that this fall when things cool down a bit.  Right now we are in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave.  Just had 4 pallets of the most gorgeous stone delivered and it's killing me not to be doing something with it right away, but it's just too brutal out, 91F.  Maybe by Wednesday.
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #509 on: June 11, 2013, 10:48:51 PM »
An unidentified oxytropis in bloom in the largest trough.  I grew it from what was labeled as astragalus seed - once it bloomed I realized it had been mislabeled.
That does seem to happen now and then.   It's quite pretty and seeds true, so it can stay as long as it wants.
Steep, rocky and cold in the
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