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Title: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 30, 2012, 06:22:35 PM
Hello Everyone please take a look at my troughs and let me what you think ,I have posted a direct link to them i hope it works.


Edit to give new link :
https://plus.google.com/photos/116318229778526767555/albums/5805154199113617633?banner=pwa
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Botanica on October 30, 2012, 07:48:59 PM
Hello

Very beautiful garden ! ;D ;)

And good photos.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: johnw on October 30, 2012, 08:55:06 PM
Wonderful job on the troughs Garry.  A lot of hard work as well.

Can you tell me which bamboos you grow in Whitby?  Specifically the one behing the blue ceramic pot.

johnw
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 30, 2012, 09:11:06 PM


John the bamboo is Phyllostachys aureosulcata (Yellow grove bamboo) planted in the ground it should be able to take -15 My back yard is very protected from the wind so they should keep its foliage all winter.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: ashley on October 30, 2012, 10:21:47 PM
Beautiful troughs and photos Garry 8)
Did you make the troughs from concrete?  If so, the thin walls look good and keep the weight down but do you reinforce them in some way?
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 30, 2012, 11:26:20 PM
Yes they are made of my own mix of,,sand,peat,cement and gravel.All of my troughs have 14 gauge 1inch square weld mesh as a reinforcement.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: ashley on October 30, 2012, 11:42:21 PM
Thanks Garry,  I must try this.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: johnw on October 30, 2012, 11:56:29 PM

John the bamboo is Phyllostachys aureosulcata (Yellow grove bamboo) planted in the ground it should be able to take -15 My back yard is very protected from the wind so they should keep its foliage all winter.

Thanks Garry.  That one seems to be good here too.  Sometimes in colder winters  - circa -18c - it will drop its leaves in late March but quickly releafs.   It's quite the aggressive runner in NS, even on the coast!   The yellow form of it, Aureocaulis,  has shot up in the middle of a newly paved driveway close to work, culpit was growing next door and 5m away in a raised planter.

johnw
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 31, 2012, 12:25:58 AM
Thanks Garry.  That one seems to be good here too.  Sometimes in colder winters  - circa -18c - it will drop its leaves in late March but quickly releafs.   It's quite the aggressive runner in NS, even on the coast!   The yellow form of it, Aureocaulis,  has shot up in the middle of a newly paved driveway close to work, culpit was growing next door and 5m away in a raised planter.

johnw

Yes it is a strong runner,I have potted them into 30 gallon heavy duty tree pots and then planted them into the garden.This seems to have stopped them from migrating to the garden next door.

Garry
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Tim Ingram on October 31, 2012, 08:47:17 AM
Garry - I think I like the large shallow trough with home made rocks best of all. Do you use the same mix for these? In the absence of getting hold of any tufa this looks very good.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Maggi Young on October 31, 2012, 11:27:31 AM
Ian and I are great fans of troughs , Garry, so we really appreciate your collection.

Can you remind us what the likely minimum temperatures are for your area of Ontario?

 
 
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 31, 2012, 11:36:27 AM
Garry - I think I like the large shallow trough with home made rocks best of all. Do you use the same mix for these? In the absence of getting hold of any tufa this looks very good.

Tim I use I different mix for the rocks,I add course perlite and a larger percentage of peat.When hardened of it is very easy to drill with a wood bit.I will have to see how they hold up in our extreme freeze thaw that we get.

The rocks that I made early in the spring have started to green up a little and have weatherd nicely
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 31, 2012, 11:38:45 AM
Ian and I are great fans of troughs , Garry, so we really appreciate your collection.

Can you remind us what the likely minimum temperatures are for your area of Ontario?

We hit -20 last winter and + 42 this summer.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Maggi Young on October 31, 2012, 11:47:27 AM
 Plus 42 ? Good grief, that could cook the gardener, never mind the garden! ;D

Glad we don't get that hot here   ::)

P.S. I also like your  Jack Russell!, which I see working in a supervisory capacity in the photos!
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 31, 2012, 12:02:58 PM
It's was one of the hottest summers on record,realy difficult growing conditions this summer.

Ps Buster the Jack just turned 16 and still going strong.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Maggi Young on October 31, 2012, 12:08:06 PM
It's was one of the hottest summers on record,realy difficult growing conditions this summer.

Ps Buster the Jack just turned 16 and still going strong.
We could never contemplate coping with such temperatures, Garry. The loss rate must be as great with  very high temps. as with very low ones.


Kind regards to dear Buster, please!

Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 31, 2012, 12:13:57 PM
We could never contemplate coping with such temperatures, Garry. The loss rate must be as great with  very high temps. as with very low ones.


Kind regards to dear Buster, please!

The high temps are the worst with many plants suffering stress due to the high temps and very high humidity,even the annuals have sufferd this year especially the imps,many dying from fungus attack bought on by the high humidity.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Maggi Young on October 31, 2012, 12:17:31 PM
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especially the imps,many dying from fungus attack bought on by the high humidity

Even without such extremely high temperatures here in the UK, many suppliers this year did not stock Impatiens because of the prevalence of fungal infections in recent years. I believe some new cultivars are hoped to be more resistant to these moulds.

Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: johnw on October 31, 2012, 12:48:07 PM
We hit -20 last winter and + 42 this summer.

Ouch!   :o

Did the bamboo stay green at -20c?

johnw
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 31, 2012, 03:40:38 PM
Ouch!   :o

Did the bamboo stay green at -20c?

johnw

This will be its first winter will keep you informed
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: David Nicholson on October 31, 2012, 06:32:06 PM
Excellent trough work there Garry.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: Garry Edwards on October 31, 2012, 09:06:28 PM
Excellent trough work there Garry.

Thank you David

I see you are from Devon,I was born in Honiton and had a Nursery for close to 17 years in the Ottery st Mary and Sidmouth area before we moved to Canada 10 years ago.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: johnw on November 01, 2012, 12:28:54 AM
Garry - Three weeks of high humidity but temps in the low 20's and humidex readingss in the 30's was hard on things like Meconopsis seedlings this year. They managed to pull through and look good now that it has cooled off.

Same temp here today as Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.   Bands of heavy rain from Sandy coming in and accompanied by strong thunder and lightning.

The bananas have sent out new leaves in the past week.

johnw  - +16c at 21.24
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: David Nicholson on November 01, 2012, 01:21:42 PM
Thank you David

I see you are from Devon,I was born in Honiton and had a Nursery for close to 17 years in the Ottery st Mary and Sidmouth area before we moved to Canada 10 years ago.

Hello Garry,

We live in Ivybridge, between Totnes and Plymouth. We spend a lot of time in East Devon though in Honiton, Ottery St Mary and Sidmouth indeed we were in Sidmouth yesterday. Much drier in East Devon than in our neck of the woods.
Title: Re: My Troughs
Post by: johnw on November 01, 2012, 01:38:27 PM
Small world, a friend lives in Honiton and Maggi knows her too!  What I had always imagined as the scariest job in the world was looking after the Stones' plants when they went away.  Turned out this acquaintance did exactly that.  Can't remember if she told me or Maggi did.  She survived.

johnw
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