Cherish Our Earth

I have many different varieties of Citrus trees growing in my greenhouse including Tropical Mandarin Orange Citrus Tree’s, Tropical Lime Citrus Tree’s, Tropical Lemon Cheena, Tropical Calamansi Calamondin Philippine Lime and Tropical Lime Lemon Cocoracha.

They are all around 18 months old and for their first winter they were in a greenhouse that never dropped below 6 degrees C. This year they will be in an unheated greenhouse over the winter so I hope they survive.

Here are some pictures of ones that I have potted up: -

Here are some pictures of them when they were younger: -

Around April 2008 I bought from eBay 20 Hydrangea King George and 20 Hydrangea Lanarth plug plants, the plants were very small (2 inches) but looked very healthy, they were also very well rooted. My plan for the Hydrangea’s is to have 8 really nice healthy bushes, from this I will take many cuttings. Here are some photos: -

I grow my Hydrangeas in ericaceous soil and always put some stones at the bottom of the pot to aide drainage.

Much to the delight of my better half, I have a small heated propogator on the kitchen windowsill. I have different seeds in here at different times, at the moment it is full of Cactus seeds. I am currently propogating the following seeds: -

Ferocacus
Carnegia Gigantea Saguaro
Cereus
Oreocereus
Coryphantha
Melocactus
Rebutia
Haageocereus

Here is a picture with the lid on: -

and here is a picture with the lid off: -

Here is one of my favorite trees, A Fig Tree. This one is around 5 years old and has been kept in a pot in my greenhouse since it was very young. I would love to see how this would develop if it had the opportunity to spread it’s roots in the ground. I may move it to my parents house soon as I need the space in my greenhouse for other things and I don’t want to move in into our garden as it would be demolished by my sons football

Last September I bought around 150 Monkey Puzzle seeds. These were pretty easy to germinate, all I did was:-

1 – soak them in water for 24 hours

2 – Planted them about 1 cm deep in John Innes number 2 soil in 7 cm pots

3 – watered them occasionally

Around 140 of them have germinated and are growing very happily, here are some pictures that were taken around 9 months after first putting them into soil: -