I sold and planted one hundred and twenty five of my hedging last Autumn.
I decided to replace them with about two hundred cuttings that I placed in secondhand plant pots filled with home-made compost and soil.
Yesterday I decided to place the newly rooted plants outside in one of my plant nurseries on the veg plot:
I will let them grow a bit and try to sell them off at carboot sales during the spring and summer. I often find places to plant new hedges around the gardens here.
The best thing about growing them in pots means that you can plant them unlike bare rooted hedging which can only be planted when they are dormant until the end of March.
Anyone else grow hedging or perennials and shrubs for an hobby? I also grow vegetables but being a plantaholic I seem to always be making plants.
I wish I could get a job in a plant nursery or at a big house. It's rare to see such gardener jobs these days.
I would love to have worked in the walled kitchen gardens at Heligan in Cornwall. It's 26 years since I last visited them. I am also hoping to visit them again and The Eden Project in late summer. I have never visited there, have you?
Update:
I have just come inside after weeding my potted shrub cuttings. My fingers were dropping off with the cold. The Spanish weather people have declared our next storm Su to hit the Emerald Isle on Sunday is called Storm Herminia. At least it's not a red warning this time.
Years ago we visited Eden and loved it, so many plants outside, it was a riot of colour, I loved the huge dome, the plants were very different, the smaller European dome was not so great, it had more plants we knew. I prefer Kew gardens, but then I do love tree's.
ReplyDeleteI have never visited Eden Marlene. I loved The Lost Gardens Of Heligan. Especially the walled kitchen gardens. I always wanted to live in the West country of England but I ended up living in Ireland. I would love to visit Kew Gardens. England is a great country with its National Trust houses and gardens. We use to visit Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire when we lived near it. Diana got engaged there. It's got an Italian sunken garden and a wonderful tea rooms. Roll on Summer.
ReplyDeleteHeligan is on my list, luckily hubby enjoys gardens as well as me.
DeleteI have a lovely memory of visiting Heligan with my parents my wife and my son then about two. My parents were in their mid sixties and my dad and J and me went to explore the Jungle. We came back to find Grandma and my son eating ice cream. He looked like he was having a shave with melting ice cream all over his face. It was a wonderful day. You will love Heligan Marlene. Especially the walled kitchen garden.
DeleteOh yes, I have been to The Eden Project Dave. It was much better than I thought it would be. Quite inspirational and I hope you love it too. With your passion for plants and gardening, it should be just up your street.
ReplyDeleteGood to read YP. I believe they have held music festivals there and I think the Levellers played there? 🤔 Have you been to Heligan? The gardeners graffiti in the bothy was very poignant. The same gardeners went to fight in the great war and never returned and the gardens went wild and then were rescued and restored to their former glory. I have a book about The Lost Gardens of Heligan somewhere. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteNo. I have never been to The Lost Gardens of Heligan though it is somewhere I would like to go. I could get lost there. In fact, you might even shout, "Get lost!"
DeleteThere are some good videos of the gardens on You Tube YP. I visited Chatsworth House. That's not too far from you.
ReplyDeleteThere was such a job advertised in our local paper yesterday at a private country estate in Norfolk. It says the ideal candidate will have an excellent plant knowledge. I thought of you when I read it. It's a 26 acre garden and "the successful person must be happy working in all weathers and understand what the seasons mean to a garden". Well you certainly understand that.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great job Rachel. I would loved to have worked in a big estate garden like you describe Rachel. I bet they were psychically fit, full of plant knowledge and grew and ate the best of their produce. Some
ReplyDeletewhere like one of those big houses in Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex Rachel. You live in a beautiful part of England.
I last went to The Eden Project many years ago now, in the summertime. I loved it, so i must surely be ready for a return visit, now that the you've mentioned it.
ReplyDeleteIt would be wonderful to work in a kitchen garden. Better still, it would be amazing to have one myself.
I definitely am going to see the Eden Project in September when I go to a Cornish prog Rock festival Jules. Marillion are headlining the Friday night. I have seen them twice before with Fish and with Steve Hogarth. I have seen them both separately too at A New Day festival and Cropredy. I visited the walled kitchen garden at Glin Castle in Limerick when they had a rare plant fair. I could build walls around my gardens but I won't. I would love an old one. You can see them for sale online. We will have to win the Lottery. Have you been to Heligan Jules?
DeleteI haven't. It's somewhere else I need to add to my list :)
DeleteNot forgetting Dorset and Thomas Hardy country Jules. That's one weeks holiday planned for you!😊
DeleteWe have visited both The Lost Gardens of Heligan and The Eden Project but that was many, many years ago. I loved both of them.
ReplyDeleteIt's 26 years since I last visited Heligan when my parents were in their mid sixties and just retired. It was one of the happiest days of my life JayCee.
ReplyDeleteThose plants will be needed now
ReplyDeleteYes GZ. There are a lot of old trees that are no more after the storms. From acorns to oak trees I guess.
ReplyDeleteThe Eden project was almost overwhelming - I felt like I needed several days (or a job) there. Heligan is special isn't it?
ReplyDeleteHeligan's such a special place. It's got a feeling all of It's own. Can't wait to see The Eden Project TM.
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