" a grand day out at Akamba"

[dave2166]

OK

so we've all spent too much, go admit it , you're amongst friends and your now back home with your new additions,

so what did we all get?

anything you have been after for a while and not found til today??

any treats you've bought yourself for being a good boy or girl ???

3 new Restios to replace winter losses
1 additional Chammy
1 new Dicksonia antarctica , only a 1 footer, stuffed with fronds just bursting out,
1 Woodwardia Fimbriate fern
1 colocasia esculenta , it was too cheap to not buy
1 Aeonium for my bulging collection

1 Puya Chilensis

a nd a few plants for the new raised bed on the front garden

[smurnan]

Sounds like someone had some fun then Dave

I've got cramp in my wallet just thinking about it
If I ever got to a place like that I'd end up divorced mate. SWMBO would not take kindly to me turning up home being followed by a 7.5 tonner full of plants I'd bought.

[dave2166]

yes had a good day thanks

i kind of know what you mean, but as she knows it is my hobby and passion and can get way with it....... at the moment

[stephenprudence]

Indeed it was a good day!

I got:

1 Yucca aloifolia to be hardier replacement for my cut down Yucca guatamalensis.. (given they look pretty much the same!)
1 Colocasia 'black magic'
1 Aeonium scwartzkopf
1 Lampranthus haworthii

got given some swaps including an Echium pininana a tropical looking hardy Euphorbia.

Aeonium aside I'm starting to get abit more realistic with my planting strategy hehe!

[simon]

Lovely day out today good to see everyone. Heres what I bought,
From Akamba:
Chamaerops humilis var Cerifera
Arisaema speciosa
Arisaema griffithii
Begonia argentina
Angelica gigas

From CGF:
Fatsa japonica 'Spiders Web'
Podophyllum delavayi
Dracunculus vulgaris
Brunera macrophylla 'Looking Glass'
Geranium maderense
Sineilensis palmata
Heleborus X hybridus 'Double Ladies'

[redsquirrel]

Dave,were you wearing a brown t'shirt and chatting at Pauls car??
Stephen,it was great meeting you and Nick C.(collins99)
had a great day,both Deb and i had a great day out,some fantastic 'gifts' sorry to everyone for not having much to give away,we simply didnt have room for much after collecting up all the plants i had picked up on our travels for people.
apologies to Dave Brown, sorry but i had to let your plant go as it was part of the money needed for a butia we had promised ourselves.also sorry you couldnt make it for reasons beyond your control.
Ade mate,thanks so much for the seedlings,so much was going on,i completely forgot to thank you.
there are loads of others to thank and say hi to but its someone elses turn now and i will chip in again later. from both of us,thanks again everyone

[dave2166]

Doesn't sound like me daz
but glad you had a good day and a good haul of plants
already got two planted up since I got home

what is it they say about kids in sweet shops

[jezza]

I am seriously pi**ed off that i couldn't go today. The so called 'party' that i was 'forced' to go to was utter sh*te, it piffed down with rain all day, hardly anyone spoke to me, would much rather had been at akamba than what i had to endure. I stayed all of half an hour.

[kata]

Good day out then

1 Aeonium scwartzkopf.

.lucky you stephen. Its a beautful plant in full bloom with quite large yellow flowers.

I can tell you a friend got it through a very cold winter leaving it in the conservatory. I saw the friend this week, the plant is doing well.



I had a good day out too in North Wales winder shopping.

[redsquirrel]

dave2166,in that case we got the wrong person mate really need to sort something out so we know whos who next time.sorry didnt get to meet you,likewise with simon,didnt know either of you were there

[kata]

I thought you all went together red?

Why don't you get a coach next year.

[redsquirrel]

great idea kata,would all have to board in akamba front carpark and get off in the rear one otherwise it would take a week picking everyone up from all corners of the country
seriosly though,there were a lot of folk there today i didnt recognise or know and feel kind of rude not saying hello if you know what i mean

[kata]

ok about coach then

Don't feel bad about the not saying hi to everyone..not saying hi would have been the last thing on their minds.

Too busy buried in palms etc

[metalhammer]

Get anything good Red?.I meant to ask you to look at the Philodendron selloum,but all the sun that burnt my head yesterday must've cooked my brain,or what passes off for a brain yesterday.I forgot to ask,dummy .

I have got 60 seeds from Jungle seeds,but they usually are somewhat niggardly in germinating.


How far is Desert to Tropical from West Hatch near Taunton?.I'm likely to be going up to Junkers Nursery at West Hatch in a couple of weeks time to pick up some Magnolia's,might go on to D to T,if I have some spare dosh.Have they got any blackboys?.



metalhammer.

[Dave Brown]

due to circumstances of my own making. but not now under my own control, I was not able to go today.

I'm gutted about losing the Sheffy Darren. My son will feel the heat of this for a long time to come