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Farplants (England)
« on: January 09, 2006, 10:21:26 PM »
You rememeber the photo of the lovely garden in Garden Answers that I flipped over?
I checked the business of the "gardener" today.
No ordinary gardener! see for yourself

New plants:
http://www.farplants.com/ourplants/newandexclusive/

Now, theres one REAL beauty there which I MUST HAVE:
This gorgeous little Gaura, with deep crimson foliage
http://www.farplants.com/ourplants/newandexclusive/plant.asp?id=NE11

I saw Gaura for the first time when I took photos at "The Old Rectory" near Northampton.
I bought a plant. It survived all winter in the greenhouse, started growing in spring, then DIED just as I was planning where to plant it. Grrrr!

Anybody grow these?




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Re: Farplants (England)
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2006, 10:14:08 AM »
Yes, I remember something of a photo or photos that were so nice and what a pity: we saw nope.
Still searching for that scanning machine, George? ;)
Farplants is not a little boy: they mention a retail sales value of £35 million. In my humble opinion they have added their wholesale supplying income to it, don't you think? Or can such a firm in GB generate that amount from retail income only? Perhaps your scale of activities is a lot bigger than ours in Belgium.
Their plants seem extra ordinary in the litteral sense of the word. I would have liked more pictures of them.