Conrad McCormick
@thatbotanicguy
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Designer | Writer | Environmentalist | Radio & TV contributer | Speaker | Exotic plant nerd | | Gym | Consumer of much food | Views are my own |
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Joined February 2009
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That thing I was working on with the cow parsley?
Just something for my little sister's wedding.
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I prefer window boxes that don't need much watering, as it's pretty much guaranteed that I'll forget to, and I also hate watering pots.
So I fill mine with succulents that'll take almost no care and will keep looking good all summer.
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If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
#WorldNakedGardeningDay
#WorldNakedGardeningDay2022
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Weeds? In my garden?!
I don't have weeds!!
How dare you.
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You'll be glad to hear I'm celebrating
#worldnakedgardeningday
by staying fully clothed as I collect mulch from the council depot!
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Pseudopanax almost always end up coming home with me!
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My favourite plant I the garden today, do I hear you ask?
Lilium 'Purple Marble'
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Persicaria 'PurpleFantasy'....just before the Hampton Court Hack
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Monstera deliciosa, it's the must have for every geriatric millennial.
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You should always make sure to match gardening attire with your weeds.
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34 pots stuffed full of succulents for less than a quid each??
Thank you ebay!
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Before trimming some treefern fronds in my Jurassic Jungle garden. 🦖
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I've finally found my dream greenhouse.
Granted, it's a bit of a fixer-upper, as is the rambling little 18th century Cottage Orné it's attached to.
Now, I've just that small matter of winning the lottery to sort out and I'm all set.
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The simple joys in life, feeding our little feathered friends in the garden. 🐦
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Sadly, I made a sartorial error at the weekend when I forgot to wear my orange beanie while foraging for rustily hued bracken frondage.
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Happy
#worldnakedgardeningday
!!
Today is not a day for pruning roses and don't forget the factor 50! ☀️
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Permanent planting of Pseudopanax 'Dark Star' & Astelia 'Silver Shadow' underplanted with tender annuals for a blast of colour:
Petunia 'Easy Wave Red Velour' & 'Surfinia Lime', Verbena 'Showboat Dark Red' and Pelargonium 'Moonflair Brugundy'
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Ever the bargain hunter, I spotted a few of these wire cloches at half price in
@DunelmUK
I'll use them to protect my seedlings and emerging plants from this beast.
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Yea or nay? I'm firmly for it.
However Eryngium 'Neptune's Gold' seems to divide opinion.
Where do you stand?
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Freshly picked, I even included some Gladioli, possums!
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The pack is growing.
Robin the lab was rehomed last January and now Maisie, saved from a puppy farm, where she'd an awful time.
They were 'helping' me plant up some forgotten bulbs I'd found in the shed.
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Two ginger gingers.
A hardy Hedychium that should also flower here before winter hits?
Yes, please!
Hedychium deceptum (syn. rubrum) has the look of H. greenii, with reddish-orange blooms and maroon backed leaves, but is supposedly much tougher.
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Never impulse buy plants.
Reduced to either £1.00 or £1.50 how could I not splash the cash?
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My able assistant, helping me weed Aeonium seedlings from the paving.
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Two new Agaves, the one I'm holding is mislabelled.
I've an inkling what it is, but I am interested in alternative views as I'm far from an expert!
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I planted this Laburnum x watereri about 25 years ago as an unpromising little twig.
Despite being butchered and hacked back a few times it's still looking pretty spectacular and is currently humming with bumble bees.
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Hi, it's just me, your friendly neighbourhood wreath delivery guy.
So, which one would you like?
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The things us gardeners discover under our car seats.
😂😂😂🌱🌱🌱
Others may find loose change, food wrappers, maybe an errant pen. I find sprouting Echeveria leaves.
This is entirely normal.
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Showing solidarity with our friends, everywhere.
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Last minute lifting of tender plants with frost imminent, who, me??
Never!
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It has been a long slog, but I've finally finished the steps to the upper gardens.
Is the moss too much? I don't think it's too much.
😉
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This is Ireland.
On a dull and cloudy day.
With a cast of plants from South Africa, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Southern Europe, Uruguay, Himalayas, China and Taiwan and Eastetn North America.
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When buying tender plants early in the summer, I don't allow myself to worry about overwintering.
That's a problem for my future self to deal with.
We're at crunch time now.
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That's me, doing a spot of guerrilla gardening yesterday.
200 Camassia quamash and 200 Narcissus, I can't wait to see the results in a couple of months.
I still have a few Narcissus pseudonarcissus that I want to stick in elsewhere and some dwarfs to plant on a nice sunny bank.
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Nothing to see here, just a completely normal Irish garden, move along.
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Allow me to indulge in some intense smugness, after a 10 year wait I'm finally surrounded by the powerful and intensely fragrant blooms on my Rhododendron (Loderi Group) 'Loderi King George'.
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As a reformed succulent hater I'm insufferable, I can't get enough of *them.
*Except Cacti, I'm guaranteed to impale myself on their spines.
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Meeting another ginger in the wild.
It's as big as my noggin, and I've a very big noggin.
(Hedychium gardnerianum)
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Despite the crapshow that's currently swirling around us in the UK, the USA and elsewhere, some things can be relied upon, year after year.
They're not considered native but they enrich us and we welcome them with open arms and hearts.
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I'm opening my christmas wreath order book (which is already filling up!). 🎄
Priced at £30 (UK) or €35 (Ireland) each.
Local delivery in North Antrim.
Postage at cost to UK and Ireland.
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The time has arrived to remove the 3.5m flowering stems on my Beschoneria yuccoides.
I'm bored of having to climb over them to access the path behind and we're sick of them catching on the clothes line.
Order has been restored.
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When they said leave means leave, is this what they meant?
Honda, Nissan, Ford, JLR, Schaeffler, Airbus, P&O, AXA, Bupa, Prudential, Barclays, Bank of America, UBS, Credit Suisse, Hitachi, Toshiba, Dyson, Panasonic, Sony, Philips - and that's just in the LAST MONTH.
#Brexit
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All the best coffee shops have their own disco chicken.
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Back in a moment, I'm just doing some light pruning.
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I suppose we're sliding towards winter, but the garden doesn't know it yet.
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What's the collective noun for a massive plant haul?
An embarrassment of plants? 🤔
(There's more still, just out of shot 😬)
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Next step, vertical cladding.
I'm 90% sure this was a good idea.
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The all enveloping tsunami of silvery Senecio candidans 'Angel Wings' continues on its quest for world domination.
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The glowing blooms of Echium candicans at Mount Stewart, N. Ireland.
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Narcissus W.P. Milner is a favourite, creamy buttermilk trumpets and only a few inches tall.
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I can't believe it's time to get a foragin' again.
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'Work outside' they said.
'It'll be fun' they said.
🌧🌧🌧
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I'm a little disappointed in myself, having been seduced by these wacky Primula 'Sirocco'.
They're not a bit of me at all, yet here we are.
I spent some time selecting out those with divergent colours and extreme flower shape to grow on.
Not classy at all but fun little things.
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Orange and pink, a winning combination in my book.
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The uniquely coloured blooms of Strongylodon macrobotrys cascade in 90cm long racemes from a twining vine. Pollinated by bats it's deadly endangered in its native Philippines due to habitat destruction. Known more commonly to us as the jade vine it's known locally as Tayabak.
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Thought I'd be finished planting up pots of daffodils by now, did you?
Catch yourself on!
Dave the Robin's helping of course.
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I still miss my Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi' that I managed to kill over winter a few years back.
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Agave lust 100%.
Newly discovery: A. Argenteum.
Huge rosettes of platinum/silvered floppy leaves, edged with a micro serrated margin & topped by a small terminal spine.
Habitat photo credit (with permission) by discovery team member Jeremy Spath.
📷:
@hiddenagave
(Instagram)
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How many plants can a plantsman plant when a plantsman has no more room to plant plants?
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After yanking out 10000000 dead leaves and removing about 30k snails from their hiding spots, Astelia 'Red Devil' looks 100% better
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It took a looooooog time to get going this year but peach, raspberry and pink Dahlia 'Labyrinth' is finally getting into her stride.
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Remembering my August garden. Though it looks surprisingly similar right now, just minus the herbaceous leafage.
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We're reaching peak Dahlia season!
Plant: Dahlia 'Tamburo'
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Me: What are you up to this weekend?
Coworker: Ah nothing much, theatre tonight, boating on the lakes on Saturday, a 40k cycle on Sunday. You?
Me:
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Derreen treeferns, with naturalised sporelings unfurling from the undergrowth in their thousands.
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6.30am view.
One day we'll have nice paving, the fence will be painted something other than ghastly orange and those garages will be hidden from view.
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In my previous garden the design process went something like:
Buy a plant 'cause it's amazing. Take plant home, walk around garden loads of times, over several days to find the perfect conditions. Spy 4mm of bare soil. Shoehorn plant it in. Done!
Repeat ad infinitum
#Cramscaping
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I love this stuff, so mulch.
Ideally, it should be stacked (and covered) to allow it to compost a bit further.
I, however, won't be doing any of that.
I'll add organic fertiliser when I spread it as a mulch to counteract the fact that it'll remove some nitrogen as it decomposes.
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Hmm, seed propagation pot with transparent integrated lid? 🤔
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It's time.*
*to shift the houseplants back indoors
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My Lily of the day is this coral-pink stunner.
'Pink Flight', being an asiatic is tough and easy.
It's unscented but entirely gorgeous with these butterflylike blooms.
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Scruffy, however I'm ok with that.
It's alright from a distance but doesn't bear close scrutiny, just like me.
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Here's Lilium 'Pink Giant' being a little vertically challenged, topping out at about 3 or 4ft.
Maybe next year it'll live up to its name.
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X Semponium plants from Surreal Succulents in Cornwall
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I'm moving into an forgotten greenhouse in *Tuscany, who's coming?
It forms part of an abandoned thermal bath resort, its faded beauty captured by the fantastically talented @ suspiciousminds on Instagram.
Shared with permission.
*I'm not moving to Tuscany
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Planting out a little Irish treefern, dug up from a Donegal garden where they've naturalised.
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Orchid like Kashmir Balsam. Impatiens balfourii, honours botanist Isaac Bayley Balfour.
Self seeds gently here.
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Glenariff Valley, dressed in its autumnal cloak.
The Eagle eyed among you will note the Mull of Kintyre a short distance away across the North channel.
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