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Post by Chuckles on Feb 17, 2007 20:32:53 GMT
I live in France, it is all so totally different. Gardening is just not the same over here, I cannot get the choice we had from the Nurseries in England. I return from visits to London with my suitcase crammed with plants! So now I trawl GW for enthusiam and gardening knowledge. Can we help jardinière, the above is jardinières post in Gardening Experience. When I holiday in the Algarve I also notice the difference and lack of nurseries and GC's as jardinière does in France. I have taken cuttings from my own gdn over in the last few years, Buddleia, evergreen Jasmine, Sedums to name a few. I guess there is the internet, but wondered if anyone else had any ideas or knew of any sites that would be good I guess the climate is going to be a big factor in this and the differing styles of gardens in other countries
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 18, 2007 9:31:56 GMT
I've been thinking jardinière, why don't you start a Jardinières Garden thread in The Gallery and show us some pics, start a comment thread too and we might be able to help a little better then
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 18, 2007 9:45:16 GMT
Well I can understand why jardinière has problems. Things are very different on this side of the water.
I must admit that I can be a little jealous of things that you all manage to do in your gardens. Weather conditions do not a allow so much here and in France, and I would imagine Rosefan's situation is even worse.
There is a good choice in the Nurseries and GC's here but it is NOT the UK choice and that is of course what we miss.
Certainly something to think about - perhaps a seed/plant swop between us all.
Rosefriend
Update
What really would be interesting jardinière is if you also did some of the plant trials - tomatoes, chillies and perhaps sweetpeas. Whatever you wish.
You do not need to use the same seeds but something similar - I would be very interested in the results.
RF
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2007 14:19:44 GMT
Rosefriend, you say you are a little jealous. I am certainly VERY jealous of both the weather conditions and the big choice of nurseries and GCs in UK. And I can say the same for France. Actually we have had no nurseries or garden centres in the past. Nowadays they can be found here or there but its still far away from what you have in western Europe. Last year I was in France and can say I visited the first real garden centre. I was thrilled, spent hours there. So you are all lucky! Most of my perennials are from friends or from cuttings taken from other gardens. Part of my roses are from a nursery 200 km far away and for the other part i took cuttings and budded the rootstock I had planted in my garden. So still not too much choice here. It was funny the other day when I went to a shop where flower seeds are sold. Reading so much about what you have there nothing from what i saw in the shop was appealing for me. I was with a colleague and she did not understand why i didnt like anything, why i wanted something different. ;D
Rosefan
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 22, 2007 7:33:17 GMT
I know this doesn't help you jardinière, but this is one of the GC's I use when I'm on holiday, it is a small setup compared to many UK GC's but they do have a reasonable selection and they are always very friendly. www.nexus-pt.com/ojardim/I remember on one occasion I'd seen a tall yellow rudbekia type flower in someones gdn and had spoken to one of the ladies who works there about it, she thought it was a plant that grows a wild and that she had some in a waste area at the side of her gdn. She even went to the trouble to dig some young seedlings up and bring them to the GC for me. Unfortunately they didn't turn out to be what I wanted but it was very nice of her to go to so much trouble. I was talking to her one day about Lavendars and how they never seem to stop flowering there, and how difficult it was to get Rich (my friend who lives there) to prune them when I wasn't around. She miss understood that it was his gdn I was takling about and thought he was my gardener ;D. We still laugh about it today.
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