Whassup! from Chester, Cheshire

[Squee]

Hi all,

I've been reading these forums for a few weeks whilst planning some projects for the coming few months. I'm wanting to give both front and back gardens quite a tropical feel and I've gathered loads of great advice already.

One of the main projects I'm hoping to get done this year is to create a cat run/'open' conservatory (imagine a lean-to pergola with partial UPC roofing and wire mesh walls) which might allow me to nurture some more tropicals in!

Unfortunately I'm quite impatient and lazy so hopefully that won't impact on my green fingered projects too much. Also unfortunately one of the main reasons I've joined the forum is to get some professional advice on whether my beloved trachycarpus f. is completely dead or whether I can resurrect it but I'll post that thread in a more appropiate subforum.

Anyway - hi all from Chester!

S.

[outatime1978]

hello and welcome, theres plenty of advice here mate! good luck with the garden project

[bev]

Welcome squee

Cheers

Lee

[GoggleboxUK]

Welcome to the forum Squee. Always good to see another Northwesterner on here.

Lazy and impatient? Reminds me of someone... Oh yeah, me!

[Squee]

Thanks all - looks like I'm in good company!

Cheers,

S.

[dino]

Welcome. We're not professionals though just enthusiastic amateurs although the ones who've been doing this for donkeys years probably know as much if not more.

[bobbyd44]

chester usually does well in winter soif youhave a good spot growing some more tender stuff will be good

[Dave Brown]

Hi Squee, and welcome as Dino said most of us are not professionals, in growing exotics anyway, but we have a good communial knowledge

[grub]

Welcome aboard Squee

[Tropical Bob]

Hi, welcome to the forum

[Tony Woodward]

Hi Squee,

I'm new the world of growing tropical plants so I doubt I'll be much use but everybody else is great at offering advice!!!

Good luck!!

Tony

[Squee]

Thanks for your welcoming words all

Yes BobbyD, normally in Chester we do get very mild winters although of course the last two have been very bad. That goes for everyone I guess. We're on the Cheshire plain so at pretty much sea level.

Dino - I think I prefer the term 'enthusiastic amateurs' - sounds a lot more fun than being a 'professional'

Cheers again all!

S.

[Squee]

Hey,

Just thought I'd add the attached pic of some trachycarpus to this 'introduction' thread. They are in my parents garden and are the specimens that got me into hardy tropicals.

It is a 'clump' of four or five trachys that my Dad planted about 20 years ago. In some ways the picture doesn't do it justice. I'll have to re-take a pic on a sunny day and with a subject in to show the scale but for now - enjoy!

S.

[Yorkshire Kris]

Welcome

[delboy12]

welcome, this site is bar far the best great people on here,with such know how bring on our summer its been along bloody winter