Suggestions and ideas please !

I only plant 3 species of palms

Trachycarpus fortunei ...


Trachycarpus wagnerianus



and Chamaerops humilis



all 3 of these survived the last 2 winters in Cambridge with no protection whatsoever

 

Are those in your own garden, Dim, or gardens you work in ?
Beautiful specimens and the gardens look good too.

 

No .... I plant those .... however these pics are just google pics that I use to show what I am talking about

 

Yes, JWK, that is the company i'd buy from. As i mentioned i did a lot of research and they came up as the best each time i compared like for like.
I'm sorely tempted with the Trithrinax, i really am, because i've just the place for it (or even them :WINK1: )

The main problem i have is altering the rest of the garden, i am cottage garden style at the front and it would look too out of keeping to plant one there until the style's altered.

The back is more feasable though because i have an arrid sunbaked area that would suit it - there though it's the 'around-to-it' issue :o
It's just li'l ol' me here and doing large projects is getting less and less fun these days - partly due to lack of energy and partly lack of time co-inciding with the energy :( :o

 

try these guys aswell .... they have loads at good prices:

Amulree Exotics | Tropical Garden Plants, Exotic Plants and Wholesale Plants

 

Their Trithrinax is weeny though, surely you wouldn't buy plants that are that small, it doesn't seem very good value for money :(

 

I always phone and drive a hard bargain .... they sometimes have one or 2 larger items that are not on their website

however, they have loads of exotic plants that others don't stock, so it's always worthwhile checking their site

 

Louise - I've followed this thread with interest as I have a similar idea too. One tip that I have picked up from another forum is that it is important to ensure that what you buy is a mature division and not a fresh division. When I get back into my old email account (password on old lappy with failed hard-drive) I'll post a list of recommended suppliers for you, or maybe I'll ask the question again on t'other forum.

Dim - a wee word of warning.
"however these pics are just google pics that I use to show what I am talking about"
I sold the rights to a few photos to a plant label supplier who last week got a bit snotty with me when one of them popped up on the web on a blog. It involve me getting in touch with the blogger and insisting that they remove it (I sent them an alternative as there was no malicious intent), asking them to contact the now copyright holder to assure them that it was lifted without permission, and my removing it from the forum where I had posted it before I sold the rights! They're cool now and have just bought the rights to two more photos (in case people are wondering, you can earn pin money doing this but it's a nice feeling when you see your photo in a garden centre - call it vanity). Dim, whilst the odds of it happening are minimal, copyright holders can get heavy sometimes. My advice is that to eliminate this unlikely event you would be better off to a; use your own photos,
or b; embed photos from sites such as Flickr, P/bucket etc. Because a photo is on the web it does not mean that any permissions are given. However,by allowing embedding on such photo sharing sites, the owner has by default given permission to use the photo in this manner. These permissions do not extend to downloading the photo though, so embedding is the way to go technically speaking.

Sorry to hijack your thread a bit there Louise.

 

this debate has been discussed on several forums and the concensus is that if you link to a photo on the internet, you are not in breech of law as long as the photo has the original website link to it .... and as long as you do not use the photos for commercial gain

if the owner is worried about this, he /she should not place the photo on the internet in the 1st place .... some people watermark their photos

the same can be said for linking to articles on the internet .... you are not in breach of the law as long as you copy and paste up to 50% of the article unedited, and give the link to the original story/article

 

Correct - up to a point. Just because it is there on the web, it does not automatically give any permissions. Hence my point about embedding - it also provides the link, which is where you do fall down rather often.

Err, no. We all have the right to publish our photos yet maintain control over the usage. I personally don't care if people want to use my photos, and please feel free to do so if you want to. But I have just spent a large part of the weekend removing/changing permissions on the ones that I have surrendered copyright on.

Please don't think that I was having a dig, it was just friendly advice.

 

you are being petty IMHO ... and as I said, this has been debated to death on forums over the past years

every photo that I post has the original link to it .... right click on the photos and see the properties .... when I link to an article, I always include the original link (fair use policy)

bottom line .... don't post anything on the internet if you are not prepared to have it splashed on the front pages of newspapers

and if you are worried about your photos, watermark them with the C symbol (copyright) that is internationally understood, or register them with the copyright office

you can also disable the photo by being copied on the internet when people right click

and every single school going child does his homework by right clicking on photos and pasting it on their homework ... everyone here who uses a photo copied from the internet for their avatar would also be guilty

sounds like PIPA and SOPA?

 

Dim - I've started a new thread here.................

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/...using-internet-sourced-photos.html#post504904

Apologies LouiseD.............