SHOW US YOUR PURCHASES 2020

Hi @Nikolaos - they are based in Langar in Notts, so not far from you I assume! I went there many years ago when I lived nearby and they had some nice plants (got a martagon lily I recall), but not bought recently.

 

Ah, excellent! Will be nice having a source for wild plants so close to me if the plants that arrive are in good shape. Thanks @CarolineL, I saw some favourable mentions of them on the forum, but they were many years ago so I just wondered if standards were still high.

Nick

 

Toolstation order just arrived, ordered 5pm last night delivered 12.45pm today, free delivery to boot, take my hat off to them.

 

Not exactly brand new but the last plant I bought, just days before lockdown. Phormium Black Velvet. I love the colour Still undecided wether to go with this pot or not, hense it being plonked

 

10 Cardamine pratensis (which is both a caterpillar foodplant and an adult nectar plant of Orange-tip and Green-veined White butterflies) and 5 Lythrum salicaria (which Brimstone butterflies apparently love) from Naturescape. Plants look in pretty good shape!

Nick

 

Wish you wouldn't do this, that's some more plants I need to buy funny enough I was talking to my neighbour yesterday and she asked if I'd seen the butterflies with yellow tips on their wings (after looking it up orange tip) and I told her I'd seen them too, but neither of us have seen them before, pardon the pun but thanks for the tip of what they eat.

 

The Orange-tips also seem to love Aubrieta deltoidea.

I have never had them in my garden before even tho there were quite a few Cardamine pratensis in my neighbours garden a few years ago. Now I typically get 1-3 visiting. I can only imagine that they are doing much better as a species recently.

That Green Alkanet thread has made me warier now, I checked the two I recently bought but they sound fine and non-invasive.

Nick

 

I wouldn't worry too much about it, with the wealth of knowledge on the forum we're always going to learn more.

 

I've just ordered two bare-root trees - an IXL almond and a dwarf Doyenne du Comice pear. No photos as I need to wait until July to receive them

I also have my eye on this Huonville Crab Apple:Huonville Crab Semi-dwarfing - Woodbridge Fruit Trees

However, the space I have in mind for it isn't quite ready yet so trying to hold off for next year.

 

I thought "Wow ... there is a specialist Fruit Trees nursery in Woodbridge, that's not far from me ..."

They are in TASMANIA !!

 

The colonists were not very inventive with their place names.

It's a fantastic nursery, but probably a bit far to ship for you!

 

Not unheard of though but definitely outside even my maddest "i'll go and collect them" range

 

I big delivery from Iceland ...........does this not count

 

It's annoying that the Tasmanian nursery doesn't ship to WA - I thought that red fruited crab apple would make a lovely gift for my brother in Perth.

 

Today's arrivals,
Petchoa 'Caramel Yellow' (with the best plug plant guide I've seen) and
Cardamine parthensis.