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Wakehurst Place today
Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos
at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Regards Bob |
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"FrankB" wrote
"Bob Hobden" wrote Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Some really nice photos.I used to visit Wakehurst nearly every year in the 90s. There's a Himalayan area there which was covered with Meconopsis in June, so it's worth a revisit just for that. We used to get there quite often when Stonehurst Nursery (Orchids and Camellias) was literally just down the road, gone now like so many others. Although there is still Laurence Hobbs Orchids at Crawley Down but it's by appointment only. The drive used to be Herons Bonsai (still there), then Stonehurst, then Wakehurst for P & T and then onto McBeans (under new ownership after a fraught few months) down in Cooksbridge. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Some really nice photos.I used to visit Wakehurst nearly every year in the 90s. There's a Himalayan area there which was covered with Meconopsis in June, so it's worth a revisit just for that. |
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On 31/03/2015 17:15, Bob Hobden wrote:
Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Regards Bob Lovely pics, Bob. You may very well be the cause of our diriving down there in the near future. Thanks for sharing. -- Spider. On high ground in SE London gardening on heavy clay |
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"Spider" wrote
Bob Hobden wrote: Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Lovely pics, Bob. You may very well be the cause of our diriving down there in the near future. Thanks for sharing. Thank you. Unfortunately unless you are Friends of Kew, Day Ticket visitors or Season ticket holders you now have to pay for the car park, in other words that's National Trust members then. http://www.kew.org/visit-wakehurst/p...arking-charges -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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On 01/04/2015 17:09, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Spider" wrote Bob Hobden wrote: Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Lovely pics, Bob. You may very well be the cause of our diriving down there in the near future. Thanks for sharing. Thank you. Unfortunately unless you are Friends of Kew, Day Ticket visitors or Season ticket holders you now have to pay for the car park, in other words that's National Trust members then. http://www.kew.org/visit-wakehurst/p...arking-charges Thanks for the warning, Bob. Alas, RG has just today come down with a cold (man flu!), so we may not be going until he's better:~(. Nevermind, I could drop a hint to go on my birthday in a few weeks time. I'll miss the magnolias, of course, but there'll still be plenty to see. -- Spider. On high ground in SE London gardening on heavy clay |
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:15:17 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote: Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Nice. I love Magnolias, have tried to grow them here but the frosts get the better of them. |
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Jeff Layman wrote: On 01/04/15 23:55, wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:15:17 +0100, "Bob Hobden" wrote: Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Nice. I love Magnolias, have tried to grow them here but the frosts get the better of them. The flowers or the plants themselves? There are late spring or summer-flowering ones which could be OK for you, depending on where you are. Quite a few are hardy down to USA Zone 4 or 5. The problem here is our very maritime climate, with spring being a mixture of warm and cold spells. The usual problem with such flowers is that they come out of bud in a warm spell, only to be caught by a cold spell or sharp frost. That is much less of a problem in continental climates, like those in the USA. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 01/04/2015 17:09, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Spider" wrote Bob Hobden wrote: Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Lovely pics, Bob. You may very well be the cause of our diriving down there in the near future. Thanks for sharing. Thank you. Unfortunately unless you are Friends of Kew, Day Ticket visitors or Season ticket holders you now have to pay for the car park, in other words that's National Trust members then. http://www.kew.org/visit-wakehurst/p...arking-charges Thanks for the warning. I just looked that up. "First 30 minutes of parking free" What on earth use is that? By the time you've walked from the car park and through the gate it'll be time to leave! -- RG (ah-choo!) |
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In article , RG wrote:
On 01/04/2015 17:09, Bob Hobden wrote: Thank you. Unfortunately unless you are Friends of Kew, Day Ticket visitors or Season ticket holders you now have to pay for the car park, in other words that's National Trust members then. http://www.kew.org/visit-wakehurst/p...arking-charges Thanks for the warning. I just looked that up. "First 30 minutes of parking free" What on earth use is that? By the time you've walked from the car park and through the gate it'll be time to leave! Well, it allows you time to drop someone who needs a wheelchair, and pick them up later. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote
RG wrote: Bob Hobden wrote: Thank you. Unfortunately unless you are Friends of Kew, Day Ticket visitors or Season ticket holders you now have to pay for the car park, in other words that's National Trust members then. http://www.kew.org/visit-wakehurst/p...arking-charges Thanks for the warning. I just looked that up. "First 30 minutes of parking free" What on earth use is that? By the time you've walked from the car park and through the gate it'll be time to leave! Well, it allows you time to drop someone who needs a wheelchair, and pick them up later. Or buy something in the shop, have a coffee, or a P. All in the "newish" visitors centre right next to the carpark. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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On 02/04/2015 22:53, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Nick Maclaren" wrote RG wrote: Bob Hobden wrote: Thank you. Unfortunately unless you are Friends of Kew, Day Ticket visitors or Season ticket holders you now have to pay for the car park, in other words that's National Trust members then. http://www.kew.org/visit-wakehurst/p...arking-charges Thanks for the warning. I just looked that up. "First 30 minutes of parking free" What on earth use is that? By the time you've walked from the car park and through the gate it'll be time to leave! Well, it allows you time to drop someone who needs a wheelchair, and pick them up later. Or buy something in the shop, have a coffee, or a P. All in the "newish" visitors centre right next to the carpark. But for everyone except the most local visitors, there will be somewhere nearer home where they can do all of those things. Why go to Wakehurst and NOT see the plants? -- RG |
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On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 09:54:19 +0100, Jeff Layman
wrote: On 01/04/15 23:55, wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:15:17 +0100, "Bob Hobden" wrote: Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Nice. I love Magnolias, have tried to grow them here but the frosts get the better of them. The flowers or the plants themselves? Certainly the flowers, but the couple of Magnolias I had have either died, or died back to ground level and never grow back past that stage. The few flowers I have had do not look properly developed either, I suspect we simply run out of summer before the flowering really gets going. The latter problem happens with many other plants here too. There are late spring or summer-flowering ones which could be OK for you, depending on where you are. Quite a few are hardy down to USA Zone 4 or 5. Thanks Jeff, I will have to look into other varieties of Magnolia. I am in Tasmania. I just looked into this USA zone business, and it looks like I'm in zone 2 or 3... more like zone 2 though, as I live in the mountains: https://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/rese...rch/zones.html |
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says... On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 09:54:19 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote: On 01/04/15 23:55, wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:15:17 +0100, "Bob Hobden" wrote: Drove over to Wakehurst to look at the Magnolias and spring flowers, photos at... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...7651263189080/ Nice. I love Magnolias, have tried to grow them here but the frosts get the better of them. The flowers or the plants themselves? Certainly the flowers, but the couple of Magnolias I had have either died, or died back to ground level and never grow back past that stage. The few flowers I have had do not look properly developed either, I suspect we simply run out of summer before the flowering really gets going. The latter problem happens with many other plants here too. There are late spring or summer-flowering ones which could be OK for you, depending on where you are. Quite a few are hardy down to USA Zone 4 or 5. Thanks Jeff, I will have to look into other varieties of Magnolia. I am in Tasmania. I just looked into this USA zone business, and it looks like I'm in zone 2 or 3... more like zone 2 though, as I live in the mountains: https://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/rese...rch/zones.html If minus 10 is your coldest, stellata magnolias are pretty hardy IME and they flower at a very young age. Janet |
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