Plantsman. Falling into shrubs for over five decades.🌱
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ALT Image of a pennywort plant with several younger plants growing around its base in a bed moss. Growing happily on a wall in the city. Umbilicus rupestris was traditionally used to treat bee stings.
ALT Shallow trays usually used for microgreens are planted up with the smallest species of thyme in a bed of soil based growing medium. Also added to the mix are two grades of horticulture grit. These plants will be allocated for a lawn project where I will replacing the grass completely.
ALT These new world plants adore the heat and sunshine of the glasshouse. Canna don't just grow, they perform! Although celebrated across this globe for their foliage and flowers. This delight isn't just a pretty face! They have many other uses from young shoots as food source for its sweet flavour, roots for noodles and the production of 'raski' an alcoholic drink. Highly regarded for it's medicinal value used for a variety of ailments including the treatment of gonorrhea! Canna rhizomes are widely used for soil detoxification!
ALT A tray of hardwood rose cuttings in cutest little pots, sourced from an Italian nursery. The deep pots are more suitable for rose root formation. The growing medium consists of soil- based John Innes No. 2 compost and copious amounts of grit.
ALT Cradling a bare root succulent in my hand called Haworthia truncata 'Horoshi Nakatani' (Clone 12) with grey fleshy leaves in a rosette arrangement.🌱
ALT Native to S Africa and neighbouring countries. Haworthia are grown as houseplants across the globe and are especially popular in Japan.🌵
ALT An elegant 15ft mature conifer happily growing in an old whiskey barrel positioned on a pathway. The barrel's steel rim holding the barrel in place is painted red matching the colour of a front door in the foreground.
ALT A cactus coated with modified spines resembling grey hair, hence the common name old man's cactus.
