A visit to a nursery

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A short two hour drive north to the town of Lismore for a weekend getaway. And well as we all know you have to visit the nurseries. A lovely nursery with a beautiful garden centre. A great assortment of plants with some common and some rare plants down to a great selection of exotics. So a hoffmania plant along with a sandra  Gordon grevillia, plus a couple of rainforest trees later iam out of there one happy gardener. A great nursery clean and tidy along with no weeds. And as usual being a nursery man myself you get into that race about plants that can go on for hours or a yarn as we would say in Australia. Oh and I did mention I had a few exotic palms for sale, wherever I see a nursery I always stop in and do a sales pitch. And nine times  out of ten I get a sale. An old sales trick you basically sell yourself with the product after we all have a bit of sales rep in us.

[Harry’s Palms]

I love visiting nurseries . So many that used to exist are now gone so when I see an independent , non-chain store nursery I check it out. I always check out the palm selection . I have gotten many palms that were left at the back of nurseries unsold and needing attention. I guess some palms just don’t sell so they end up in limbo. The Livistona Australis I got was a “ forgotten soldier” left at the back of a nursery with only 2 fronds (one just opening) , the rest were kind of crispy. I got it half price! It was a 5 gallon pot with a 10 gallon palm! It had been there so long. I once found a Chambeyronia Macrocarpa in the same condition but the nursery person told me it was super rare and wanted about twice its worth . The only thing that wasn’t burnt was the new spear . I advised him to move it to the shade cloth area so it could recover and he just looked at me like a deer in headlights stare. “ If it’s so rare , take better care of it!” I said and then left without buying anything. Harry

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16 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I love visiting nurseries . So many that used to exist are now gone so when I see an independent , non-chain store nursery I check it out. I always check out the palm selection . I have gotten many palms that were left at the back of nurseries unsold and needing attention. I guess some palms just don’t sell so they end up in limbo. The Livistona Australis I got was a “ forgotten soldier” left at the back of a nursery with only 2 fronds (one just opening) , the rest were kind of crispy. I got it half price! It was a 5 gallon pot with a 10 gallon palm! It had been there so long. I once found a Chambeyronia Macrocarpa in the same condition but the nursery person told me it was super rare and wanted about twice its worth . The only thing that wasn’t burnt was the new spear . I advised him to move it to the shade cloth area so it could recover and he just looked at me like a deer in headlights stare. “ If it’s so rare , take better care of it!” I said and then left without buying anything. Harry

You gotta do it, part of going away for a true gardener, becoming a plant hunter. You just never know what you will find. What’s rare to one is a diamond to others. And a complete snap up must have. I will say if ever you get the chance to get a Dorothy gordon grevillia plant do so, they are even rare in Australia.such a beautiful grevillia and cool tolerant as well and dry tolerant a must have Australian gem 💎 

Richard 

[Josh76]

On 7/5/2025 at 7:36 AM, happypalms said:

 

 

What is this beauty?

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8 hours ago, Josh76 said:

What is this beauty?

That one is a jacaranda called bonsai blue, even I had a look at that one. Never heard of it, and we have the biggest jacaranda festival in the world in my town!  If you can I recommend Dorothy Gordon grevillia, a rare one that’s beautiful!