Ness garden

[Devrim]

I loved the place from the photos, very beautiful plants.
thanks Alan.

A plant took my attention. in the fourth picture, on the right. it has 6 heads, but two are lying to opposite directions (like the creeping devil), whereas the other 4 are upwards. can anybody recognise the plant?
I thought it strange that offsets of the same plant act differently, some grow horizontal, some vertical.

[iann]

How are the Lithops doing? Last time I was there they looked a little lost in a big open bed.

[Mal H]

Visit soon, not long after it was finished it was decided by Ness to demolish the glasshouses by the end of the year. Two of the four have already been cleared..........

A few fine cacti went into the annual plant auction at the branch meeting last month.

Mal H. Wirral.
Chester Branch.

[Bill]

That's terrible Mal. Don't tell me maintenance costs and heating costs???????

Our local uni just pulled the plug on heating the greenhouses in their gardens last winter, which were maintained by the friends of the Garden, most plants survived through the judicious use of fleece ect.

[Alan Clark]

iann Wrote:
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> How are the Lithops doing? Last time I was there
> they looked a little lost in a big open bed.

I don't remember seeing any lithops - perhaps I didn't look hard enough!

[Jim_Mercer]

Bumping an old thread instead of starting a new one.....

Just been to Ness, they still have some plants, looking through the door of a "closed" greenhouse I saw a few in pots...

They must be planning to do something with these plants as they had some bags of Cactus Compost

I thought these would be the only cacti/succulents as the only other greenhouse that I could see I knew was the Alpine house, but when I got closer to it the plants I could see did not appear to be Alpines.

For a botanic garden there did appear to be a shortage of plant labels, and some of those that did have labels were a bit suspect

Crassula Morgans Beauty???

[Alan Clark]

i went to Ness in May, and they are making a lot of changes, with a new water feature under construction. There were no cacti on display, and the Alpine house contained alpines! The laburnum arch had been cut back very hard and had few flowers - very disappointing.

[Jim_Mercer]

I think this is the new water feature - "Making Waves".

[BrianMc]

I think this is the new water feature - "Making Waves".

Well they certainly have!

Very disappointing.

[Dave_S]

Nice pictures thanks for posting