My Troughs

[Garry Edwards]

Hello Everyone please take a look at my troughs and let me what you think ,I have posted a direct link to them i hope it works.


Edit to give new link :
https://plus.google.com/photos/116318229778526767555/albums/5805154199113617633?banner=pwa

[Botanica]

Hello

Very beautiful garden !

And good photos.

[johnw]

Wonderful job on the troughs Garry.  A lot of hard work as well.

Can you tell me which bamboos you grow in Whitby?  Specifically the one behing the blue ceramic pot.

johnw

[Garry Edwards]

John the bamboo is Phyllostachys aureosulcata (Yellow grove bamboo) planted in the ground it should be able to take -15 My back yard is very protected from the wind so they should keep its foliage all winter.

[ashley]

Beautiful troughs and photos Garry
Did you make the troughs from concrete?  If so, the thin walls look good and keep the weight down but do you reinforce them in some way?

[Garry Edwards]

Yes they are made of my own mix of,,sand,peat,cement and gravel.All of my troughs have 14 gauge 1inch square weld mesh as a reinforcement.

[ashley]

Thanks Garry,  I must try this.

[johnw]

John the bamboo is Phyllostachys aureosulcata (Yellow grove bamboo) planted in the ground it should be able to take -15 My back yard is very protected from the wind so they should keep its foliage all winter.

Thanks Garry.  That one seems to be good here too.  Sometimes in colder winters  - circa -18c - it will drop its leaves in late March but quickly releafs.   It's quite the aggressive runner in NS, even on the coast!   The yellow form of it, Aureocaulis,  has shot up in the middle of a newly paved driveway close to work, culpit was growing next door and 5m away in a raised planter.

johnw

[Garry Edwards]

Thanks Garry.  That one seems to be good here too.  Sometimes in colder winters  - circa -18c - it will drop its leaves in late March but quickly releafs.   It's quite the aggressive runner in NS, even on the coast!   The yellow form of it, Aureocaulis,  has shot up in the middle of a newly paved driveway close to work, culpit was growing next door and 5m away in a raised planter.

johnw

Yes it is a strong runner,I have potted them into 30 gallon heavy duty tree pots and then planted them into the garden.This seems to have stopped them from migrating to the garden next door.

Garry

[Tim Ingram]

Garry - I think I like the large shallow trough with home made rocks best of all. Do you use the same mix for these? In the absence of getting hold of any tufa this looks very good.

[Maggi Young]

Ian and I are great fans of troughs , Garry, so we really appreciate your collection.

Can you remind us what the likely minimum temperatures are for your area of Ontario?

 
 

[Garry Edwards]

Garry - I think I like the large shallow trough with home made rocks best of all. Do you use the same mix for these? In the absence of getting hold of any tufa this looks very good.

Tim I use I different mix for the rocks,I add course perlite and a larger percentage of peat.When hardened of it is very easy to drill with a wood bit.I will have to see how they hold up in our extreme freeze thaw that we get.

The rocks that I made early in the spring have started to green up a little and have weatherd nicely

[Garry Edwards]

Ian and I are great fans of troughs , Garry, so we really appreciate your collection.

Can you remind us what the likely minimum temperatures are for your area of Ontario?

We hit -20 last winter and + 42 this summer.

[Maggi Young]

 Plus 42 ? Good grief, that could cook the gardener, never mind the garden!

Glad we don't get that hot here   

P.S. I also like your  Jack Russell!, which I see working in a supervisory capacity in the photos!

[Garry Edwards]

It's was one of the hottest summers on record,realy difficult growing conditions this summer.

Ps Buster the Jack just turned 16 and still going strong.