Another week and another posting from Will who finds thats its not all sunshine in the southern hemisphere and finally gets acquainted with 'Stella'.
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Hope all is well and the sky isn't too grey and cloudy and that it is sunny. The Wollemi pine from Tregothnan is finally going to be planted at the Arden public gardens near Kirstenbosch. This contains a collection of Gondwanan trees so the Wollemi will be right at home.
Monday, I again carried on with Adam Harrower. I finally finished cleaning the outside flower beds of his greenhouse and weeded inside. I also potted a variegated form of a plant that hasn't been sold as variegated before. Adam found it in a carpark and maybe it will be used commercialy one day.
Tuesday, I helped Adam sort out some of the plants he has been growing, mostly variegated types which he is trying to stabilise but also some more Angolan plants.
Wednesday, spent the day propagating with one of the propagators called Stella. She can be a little bit intimidating but we learnt and got a lot done. We were mainly propagating plants from the Proteaceae family.
Thursday, it was pretty much the same as Wednesday apart from it rained! The rain was actually quite a relief as it cooled everything down, but trying to get the cuttings made me pretty soaked.
Friday, the students and I had the uneasy task of mulching the stock beds. The stock beds are on a quite steep hill and the compost was at the bottom, luckily it wasn't too hot but it was still very tiring. Then we did our 3rd ID test on some plants from lots of families, and finally we did the next weeks ID walk which is mainly trees from the Fabaceae family but also Polygalas which are confusingly similar too Acacias. This weekend I will get some sleep and hopefully visit the beach at a place called Simons Town near Cape Point.
Regards Will Pelton
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Hope all is well and the sky isn't too grey and cloudy and that it is sunny. The Wollemi pine from Tregothnan is finally going to be planted at the Arden public gardens near Kirstenbosch. This contains a collection of Gondwanan trees so the Wollemi will be right at home.
Monday, I again carried on with Adam Harrower. I finally finished cleaning the outside flower beds of his greenhouse and weeded inside. I also potted a variegated form of a plant that hasn't been sold as variegated before. Adam found it in a carpark and maybe it will be used commercialy one day.
Tuesday, I helped Adam sort out some of the plants he has been growing, mostly variegated types which he is trying to stabilise but also some more Angolan plants.
Wednesday, spent the day propagating with one of the propagators called Stella. She can be a little bit intimidating but we learnt and got a lot done. We were mainly propagating plants from the Proteaceae family.
Thursday, it was pretty much the same as Wednesday apart from it rained! The rain was actually quite a relief as it cooled everything down, but trying to get the cuttings made me pretty soaked.
Friday, the students and I had the uneasy task of mulching the stock beds. The stock beds are on a quite steep hill and the compost was at the bottom, luckily it wasn't too hot but it was still very tiring. Then we did our 3rd ID test on some plants from lots of families, and finally we did the next weeks ID walk which is mainly trees from the Fabaceae family but also Polygalas which are confusingly similar too Acacias. This weekend I will get some sleep and hopefully visit the beach at a place called Simons Town near Cape Point.
Regards Will Pelton
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