Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: shelagh on July 08, 2012, 05:03:21 PM
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Does anyone know of a source for this plant in the UK? It's from down under and Google has failed me.
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Rulingia hermannifolia, Shelagh. Not one that Paul T. has shown in his ANBG threads.
Plant Finder lists two stockists in UK:
www.oldwalledgarden.com (http://www.oldwalledgarden.com)
www.countyparknursery.co.uk (http://www.countyparknursery.co.uk)
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Thanks for those links Maggi. The first doesn't list Rulingia at present. Unfortunately when I rang County Park Nursery his daughter told me that Graham Hutchins died last week. The good news is that her son will be taking over the nursery.
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Oh dear, sad news that Graham Hutchins has passed away but it is good to hear that this old nursery will continue.
Graham in his own words from February 2010: http://www.provarplants.co.uk/pdfs/webgrahamhutchins.pdf (http://www.provarplants.co.uk/pdfs/webgrahamhutchins.pdf)
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It is sad to hear about Graham; he was a complete one-off and County Park also a nursery absolutely like no other - no room to move and extraordinary plants wherever you looked! I must have first visited when a student in London and bought, amongst others, Chordospartium stevensonii, partly because Graham said it looked dead for the first few years of its life (!), and eventually made a weeping tree with purple pea- flowers. In his 1980 price-list it is £2.50 in a 4" pot - now it is 2.5metres in the garden! A very unusual and fascinating gentleman.