Tregrehan Rare Plant fair
A week or so ago we attended the most wonderful plant fair at Tregrehan Gardens here are a few shots of the day.
The plant fair opened at 10.00 a.m so bang on 9.30 a.m we were in there trawling the stalls Jimi Blake and Derek Halpin, who had flew in from Ireland, just beating us into the fair......nice to meet you guys!
The first port of call was Tom Hudson's Tregrehan stall to grab me a Polygonatum vietnamensis
The above picture is Jimi's......have you ever seen anything so nice?
I did recommend it to one or two other friends on the day resulting in the small amount for sale being sold quite quickly.
This is and his very fine stall of rarities
Andy Pearson from
Chad stripey and John had some lovely plants for sale here talking with Clive Shilton (centre) owner of Hardy Exotics Sonchus Palmensis winged its way back to Loughborugh as well as a few other plants.
I bought a Grass Tree and a few Jovellana from
and his wonderful aroid stall, below, nice to meet you Ben
Jimi Blake just scoots out of shot
This is below I snapped up a nice 5ft high Pseudopanax crassifolius "Trifoliata" here
Paul Spracklin with Andy
These guys probably own the best two "gardens" in the UK Tom Hudson left (Tregrehan) and Neil Armstrong (Tremenheeere) it looks like some under counter dealing going on here.
Magnolia macrophylla
Its always a pleasure to walk round Tregrehan with our friends Lucien, Laura, Alice and Lucien parents Carol and Cliff a great day!
Also a mention to Mike Clifford and Springy from the other forums nice to meet you too.
This is Remko (brown shirt) and his friends from The Netherlands and Belgium packing in as much as possible nice to meet you guys.
This is what it looks like after hours after everyone had packed up and gone just Crugs stall remaining and they were actually stopping at Tregrehan so no rush back to North Wales
After our tour round the gardens , anther thread needed, we left with Derek and Jimi first in last out...
gardens to be continued