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Bromeliads Beauteous

Bromeliad gardening…. Enn Zud Style !

Maureen Green has made a living masterpiece in the charmingly tiny hamlet of Maungakaramea, north of Auckland on the way to Whangarei in New Zealand’s Northland.

Here, at the end of a long jewel encrusted driveway, is a bromeliad mother lode. But this is not an artless “pizza garden”, with taste free gobs of colour indescriminately daubed from patch to patch. Oh no, THIS comes from a master eye that sees everything, from the tiniest ruby edged margin to the full visual weight of truly magnificent hero plants.

Maureen's lateral thinking brain sees opportunity in this
Maureen’s lateral thinking brain sees opportunity in the exposed underneath surface of this fallen tree crown, transformed into a mini city of epiphytic delights
Maureen's Magic Tank
Maureen’s Magic Water Tank

Such is the creative agility of the horticultural mind; if your large tree falls with all epiphytic occupants catapulted to far flung garden parts, make the unsuspecting into a  magical Tillandsia Water Tank…… Maureen has.

Especially rich in vrisea, neoregelia, aechmea & their interspecific crosses and hybrids, together with myriad tillandsia, nidularium, billbergia and canistropsis  don’t let Greens Bromeliads unassuming street sign deceive you …. GO DOWN THAT LONG DRIVE and you will be rewarded.     

Infront of the "magical tank"
In-front of the “magical tank”

Greens Bromeliads 0011 64 9 432 3759 kjgreen@xtra.co.nz Tangihua Road, Maungakaramea, Whangarei

Pod + Pod

hakea 1
hakea 1

Scanning the excellent  Garden Drum by Catherine Stewart this week, I came across some rather good work by artist Julie Hickson show casing her impressive  Pod + Pod range inspired by Sydney’s Northern Beaches where she lives. So impressed, that I just had to take advantage of the oh so easy on line point of sale available from the web site. Perfect for coastal themed house & gardens and especially in association with “warm winter” micro climate growing conditions that allow many to cheat like hell with planting that would otherwise be at the difficult end of its range once cooler June/July nights are with us.

After an admiring glance across the Botanical & Coastal examples of Julie’s fine work, you can then join her mailing list from the bottom of the News page for Studio Open Days, markets and events like the Pittwater Artists Trail.  

Designer RBG Sydney Planting for Your Garden

Exciting Designer Planting that are good garden “doers” for your home garden
THIS Wednesday 11th March 2.30pm-4.30pm at

RBG Sydney Growing Friends Nursery

(next to Maiden Theatre & Herbarium on Mrs Macquaries Road).

GROWING FRIENDS PLANT SELECTION FOR LANDSCAPE TRADE OPEN DAY  

Now this day is especially for the trade to increase awareness of the possibility of having plants grown under contract, why shouldn’t YOU benefit also …? Sales to home owners for their gardens also welcome !!  Production Grower Greg Lamont and I can answer questions you may have on these new plants I’ve helped select, that focus on benefits for use as well as their ornamental virtues as shown on the link above.

Near non-transparent from ground level, excellent fence concealer
Hibiscus insularis, near non-transparent from ground level, excellent fence concealer

So if you’re searching for something special for that difficult spot or just always on the look out for good garden plants, why not add something special from the Royal Botanic Gardens to your home garden ..

Exceptional Plants, new to RBG Growing Friends Plant SALE

Hibiscus boryanus
Hibiscus boryanus

GROWING FRIENDS PLANT SELECTION FOR LANDSCAPE TRADE OPEN DAY

Wednesday 11th March, 2.30 till 4pm

Dear Plant Lovers,

Click on the above link to reveal a recent expansion on RBG Growing Friends SALE listing, at the very peak of this lush high summer for exceptional plants for your garden. These are species I’ve recently been helping to release more availability to you at this exciting point of sale. Hope to see you there, where I’l be explaining more on how these durable and beautiful plants could be just the right one for that difficult location or to add extra sparkle as feature to your home garden. Sydney  Growing Friends Nursery, Mrs Macquaries Road adjacent to the Herbarium & The Maiden Theatre