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Mike Clifford

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A Plantsman with a botanical themed Jungle garden Propagator and provider of rare and unusual seeds

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Just found this article The fantastic Green Rooms Market did about me back in 2020 , whilst searching for seeds online this morning it really sums up everything that I love about growing plants .😁🪴 Cultivating a spellbinding tropical garden in Dorset greenroomsmarket.com/blog/2020/7/31…


#FernFriday today I put all the tender ferns in the seating area of our summerhouse just need to put the clear plastic tarpaulins round now to make it frost proof for winter .

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Our front Garden probably won’t look like this next week with frosty weather on the forecast maybe even some Snow ❄️ So thought I had better take a couple of photos in the sunshine today not bad for the 13 of November 🌞

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Oreopanax now all dug up and in the greenhouse

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Last year I had five Musa basjoo banana plants flower and die . This year just three have flowered I took these photos of them as they were looking great here in the Sunshine today .

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I’m normally not a great fan of Oxalis . However these two palm leaf varieties are my favourites. Oxalis palmifrons and O.flava

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I never give up trying to get our Schefflera delavayii cut leaf form to produce berries so have been out hand pollinating the flowers again today as not many pollinators about 🤞I’m successful this year

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Today I made a start digging out the tender plants in pots that we plunge planted outside for the summer including these two cracking Brassiopsis hispida , (yes they could be hardy here for us but I want to get seeds again this year ) one of them already has flowers forming

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#FernFriday Cyrtomium macrophyllum the large leaf holly Fern from Asia

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Collecting more Streptocarpus wendlandii seed today and decided to sow some as well

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Saurauia napaulensis flowering in the garden today

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Such a cool plant .Dermatobotrys saundersii . An epiphytic semi evergreen shrub from S.Africa with strangely scented leaves and red flowers that appear throughout winter into spring, then followed by small fruits .

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I already have grown these three this year Wercklea lutea / Wercklea cocleana and Wercklea ferox , and today I sowed seed of Wercklea insignis . To add to my collection.

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Our Hildewinteria colademonis has been flowering on and off all summer and is still flowering today

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#FernFriday Our Niphidium crássifolium has been outside all Summer but is now hanging in the greenhouse for the winter 🌿

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Cuphea macrophylla brightening up the garden on a dull Autumnal day .

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Well chuffed 3 Wollemi pine seeds have now begun to germinate after two months , No pre soaking no cold stratification. Just fresh seeds pushed into the compost in the heated propagator stat set to 25 degrees

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