Hello dear plant people. I hope the growing season has treated you well. Since we’ve last spoke we’ve sailed through winter, frenzied through spring and here we find ourselves in the midst of summer (The crocosmia are now in bloom). My life has been a true fury of activity. With our new baby and a predominately sunny spring I have been one busy boy. My garden is lush, a million echium seedlings are popping up everywhere. I’ve really been enjoying how established everything is. The progress from spring to summer is like slow motion fireworks. With all the new changes going on in life one could say I’m a bit distracted.
The greenhouses at work are looking incredible, I’m constantly humbled by the beauty I’m surrounded by daily. I’ve felt very dedicated this year, it’s been satisfying to find homes for so many great plants. Fields of bacopa. Basket lines of fuchsias. Thousands of succulent planters and sedums galore. Petunias, nemesia, liatris and lavendula. Erysimum, dianthus and marigolds and more. It’s an odd thing working at a plant factory day in and day out. To have touched seemingly millions of plants over the years I sometimes look at local gardens and think, have we met before?
A brief montage and highlights of the season thus far.
A field of fuchsia baskets January 2014
February Polyanthus.
February freshly planted spring bedding.
March Armeria juniperifolia flowering.
March Lavendula fields.
Hardy Violas.
Springtime salad greens
The cactus collection persists.
First cactus bloom of the season; gymnocalycium.
Still cactus crazy.
Haworthia heaven!
Gazinea galore.
An army of sunflowers.
Tetrapanax selfie.
Ok. One more.
My finest propagation yet.
Man of the woods.
Will try to not be so absent. Rest assured the botany continues. Just put in a new order to mesa gardens. Fresh succulents here we go.
Until next time. Wishing you lush gardens and sublime evenings.
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Beautiful succulent collection. Love how full your bear paws are
Congrat’s!!! What a cute little guy. Good to see you are back to the blog…a highlight whenever there is a new post.
Cheers from Calgary,
Jake
Cheers Nat,That one Fungus at the base of the tree looks like HomoSapienensis”{horrorbillis nana}.
Hi! I contacted you through your facebook page, I’m having a lot of trouble with finding houseplants that will survive my northfacing window so I sent you a facebook message. I think it went into your “other box”, as facebook calls it. Really looking for your wisdom!
Just discovered your blog. Absolutely wonderful! Interested to see in an earlier post that you grow Matthiola Arborescens. We have grown & sold it for some years now but it remains a real rarity, certainly here in the UK. Also noted your post on Isoplexis Canariensis – we have a lovely crop of it just now but no idea if anyone will wish to buy any!
Good to hear from you, and wow, could your little guy be any cuter? Adorable. Glad the plant life is being good to you.
I guess a baby is an acceptable excuse. They change your life, did anyone tell you that? You wouldn’t have any more echium pictures at all, would you?
Glad to hear that all is well! Welcome back to the blogosphere! Your newest propagation is adorable! The first picture of him makes it look like you were out hiking and found him in the moss – a new twist on the cabbage patch story. Congratulations on your find; you never know what you’ll see in the woods!