Last weekend I visited Crews Hill for the first time, to see all the nurseries and garden centres. I had a bargainiferous time at Crews Hill Gardening Club, where I scored a replacement Washingtonia robusta for the one that spear-pulled on all three growing points for £5.99 - and it's nearly as tall as me!
Later, after a very nice sausage butty for lunch, we carried on to Wildwoods Water Gardens, and I made a discovery:
This is Salvinia auriculata, and it's a noxious weed in the USA! And yes, it's an aquatic fern. I had never heard of it, and had to google the name on my phone before stretching to the garden centre's "5 for £5" offer.
I was going to just dunk them into the bottom of the fountain, but I think they might not have enjoyed the moving water so much. So I made a little pond. Bastard the Cycad needed repotting, so I used his old container, bunged an old cava cork in the drainage hole (I'm not posh enough for champagne) and filled it up.
With some oxygenating plants and a long-sought-after Saururus cernuus (I know they're common as muck in the USA but I've never been able to track one down until last weekend), the pond is looking really sweet.
Later, after a very nice sausage butty for lunch, we carried on to Wildwoods Water Gardens, and I made a discovery:
This is Salvinia auriculata, and it's a noxious weed in the USA! And yes, it's an aquatic fern. I had never heard of it, and had to google the name on my phone before stretching to the garden centre's "5 for £5" offer.
I was going to just dunk them into the bottom of the fountain, but I think they might not have enjoyed the moving water so much. So I made a little pond. Bastard the Cycad needed repotting, so I used his old container, bunged an old cava cork in the drainage hole (I'm not posh enough for champagne) and filled it up.
With some oxygenating plants and a long-sought-after Saururus cernuus (I know they're common as muck in the USA but I've never been able to track one down until last weekend), the pond is looking really sweet.
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