Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay on Gardeners' Question Time
I look after a couple of planters on Frobisher Road. It's tricky because they're hard to water regularly, in a street that can get very hot - and occasionally people nick things that look nice if it's before they are fully established.
I asked the experts on BBC Radio 4's GQT for their suggestion. I was embarrassingly excited that they replied. It's a great discussion and you can hear their reply at 33.04 here:
Gardeners' Question Time - Postbag: RHS Urban Gardening Show - BBC ...
The website helpfully gives their suggestions, which I think would be great for Harringay front gardens or south facing terraces as well as anyone else who looks after planters in their street:
Marcus Chilton
Choisya ternate, mexican orange blossom
Aucuba japonica, japanese laurel
Camellias
James Wong
Echium
Brugmansia, Angel's trumpet
Citrus plants
Citrus × junos, yuzu
I'm still working out which of these look most practical. If anyone else would be interested in a HoL discussion thread on street planters do let me know and I can set one up.
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Permalink Reply by andy h on
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I’m no gardener but I do have a recollection that angels trumpet is poisonous or maybe it’s a hallucinogenic- I’d look it up before you plonk it in a planter.
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Permalink Reply by Robin Hewings on
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Thanks Andy - there isn't space for all of the ideas but I'll check out the issues with angel's trumpets.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Did you know that Camelias have a special place in Harringay? Harringay House had one of the earliest camellia collections in the western world. New species were bred and raised by George Press, the gardener for Edward Gray at Harringay House from about 1814 to 1839.
The gardens at Harringay became an extremely well known phenomenon and were widely visited. The man thought by many to have been the leading garden designer and theorist of the early nineteenth century, Scotsman, John Claudius Loudon (1783 -1843) was apparently a regular visitor to Harringay House and may have been involved in the creation of its hothouses. In the Gardener’s Magazine in 1840, Loudon wrote that he had known the garden at Harringay House for twenty years.
A few years ago whilst I was researching the gardens, I visited Chiswick House where they still have specimens of 'Press’s Invincible' / syn. 'Gray’s Invincible' camellia raised at Harringay. They kindly gave me a young plant which I brought home (to within less than a hundred feet of where they first grew against a south-facing wall two hundred years ago). It's very healthy and growing strongly but I'm still waiting for the first flowers!
Read more about the Harringay's House gardens on Harringay Online at The Gardens at Harringay House - the place, the plants the people (or read a physical copy held at the RHS's Lindley Library in Vincent Square).
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I did not know that! Well, that's an extra special reason to get one in.
And thanks for the link - I will take a look.
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