I went back to St James's Park at lunchtime today to play with the Metasequoia, and had a lovely surprise near the café - the gardeners were planting a tropical border!
The first plants I noticed were the tree ferns - almost certainly Dicksonia antarctica. Then there were the bananas (I really don't have a clue which ones, but they looked as though the HTUK crowd would be very interested in them). And some cycads - both Cycas revoluta and another odd one (possibly another Cycas that was moved while the leaves were growing?).
Chuck in a couple of date palms and it was already looking really funky even though the ground cover stuff hadn't gone in yet. It was also nice to see the gardeners seemed to be really having fun planting the stuff - I suppose borders like this make a change from the neat rows of pansies in the more municipal beds you see on roundabouts and the like.
I'm looking forward to seeing it grow into its space over the next few months (although the gardeners were saying that of course none of this is hardy and it will all be rooted up before winter - remind me to just happen to be walking past to relieve them of anything that would otherwise be chucked away!).
The first plants I noticed were the tree ferns - almost certainly Dicksonia antarctica. Then there were the bananas (I really don't have a clue which ones, but they looked as though the HTUK crowd would be very interested in them). And some cycads - both Cycas revoluta and another odd one (possibly another Cycas that was moved while the leaves were growing?).
Chuck in a couple of date palms and it was already looking really funky even though the ground cover stuff hadn't gone in yet. It was also nice to see the gardeners seemed to be really having fun planting the stuff - I suppose borders like this make a change from the neat rows of pansies in the more municipal beds you see on roundabouts and the like.
I'm looking forward to seeing it grow into its space over the next few months (although the gardeners were saying that of course none of this is hardy and it will all be rooted up before winter - remind me to just happen to be walking past to relieve them of anything that would otherwise be chucked away!).
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