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marko
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 142 Location: LLWYNGWRIL UK
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Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
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Wed Apr 12, 2017 3:42 pm |
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junglejason
Joined: Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:49 pm Posts: 206 Location: arthog, gwynedd, wales
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Thanks for sharing, what sort of Bromeliads are on the trunk of the Tracky? How did you fix them to the trunk. Howdy neighbour.
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Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:42 pm |
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marko
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 142 Location: LLWYNGWRIL UK
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Hi the bromeliads on the truck are aechmea recurvata ,fascicularia bicolour and tillandsia bergeri, i was up arthog falls today , love it up there , there was a giant beech tree half way up which had lost most of the top probably wind damage ,so i took a few branches to mount a few bromeliads on you can see in the picture
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Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:16 pm |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Nice- every year people are getting more creative on the tropical look. Nice to see a Trachycarpus used for epiphytes in England. Also- as Carlos has pointed out- hardy sedums could be used also and who know's what else? I thought for a second you had mounted a Sago on that tree trunk. It might work.
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Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:37 pm |
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Paul Spracklin
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:55 pm Posts: 2564 Location: North Thames delta UK
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Intriguing pictures! What species are you growing? Have many been out since before the 'bad winters'? If so, which and how bad did it get for you there?
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Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:34 pm |
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marko
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 142 Location: LLWYNGWRIL UK
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Thanks Paul all the bromeliads are the ones you suggest in your writeup on hardy bromeliads ,i do have a few dyckia from seed Which were selected by a collector from Brazil for there cold hard which do well against the rain shelter of the house , I'm on a stretch of coast which face's north so the cold evil winter wind gets the edge nocked of it, we do get a few days of frost but never more than -5
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Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:08 pm |
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ArtV
Joined: Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:46 pm Posts: 151 Location: Middlesex, UK
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Very nice Looks fantastic
Photo 2 - are those the Dyckias? Do the colour up a bit more in the summer?
Photo 4 - The big fern at the bottom What is that? And the smaller ones on the left. What are those ?
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Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:52 pm |
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marko
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 142 Location: LLWYNGWRIL UK
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Yes there the dyckia ,look better in the summer ,the big fern is Blechnum cycadifolium and the small are the squirrel foot fern which was doing great until a mouse started eating it.
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Thu Apr 13, 2017 3:29 pm |
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Tom Velardi
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:20 pm Posts: 4337 Location: Kyushu, Southern Japan (33.607N latitude)
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Fantastic looking collection - for some reason Postimage is not letting me see larger images right now. I'll check again later.
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Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:02 pm |
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Paul Spracklin
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:55 pm Posts: 2564 Location: North Thames delta UK
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
That Blechnum isn't too shabby either!...
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Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:10 am |
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junglejason
Joined: Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:49 pm Posts: 206 Location: arthog, gwynedd, wales
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Marko, I tried to grow some on a Tracky Trunk some 4 or 5 years ago and failed miserably. I wouldn't mind seeing how the experts do it if you can spare me 5 minuets some time.
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Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:22 pm |
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marko
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 142 Location: LLWYNGWRIL UK
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Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:18 am |
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junglejason
Joined: Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:49 pm Posts: 206 Location: arthog, gwynedd, wales
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
_________________ Change the face of the UK, plant at least one palm a year. Jason
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Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:00 pm |
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marko
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 142 Location: LLWYNGWRIL UK
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Re: Bromeliads doing well in North Wales
Video of my greenhouse, ferns and bromeliads https://youtu.be/_l6TNVbg-0E
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