Subtropical plants in London (Kensington-Chelsea area)

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:00 am

Long time not visiting the PalmsNorth... Please find a link to the pics shoot in London, UK, last weekend.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1088782263 ... r2_-4aVhwE
Hope you will enjoy.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:03 pm

Hi Igor,

I was amazed at how little sign of Fall/Winter there is in those photos...lots of plants still blooming!!!
And that variegated dogwood

still has all its leaves...mine has not one leaf on it any more.

Thanks for snapping pics of those cordylines and palms.

I almost fell off my chair (photos 41 and 42)...are those photos of Canary Island Date Palm????

And wait until Jim Hardy and Mike (macario) see photo 15...I think that's a Dicksonia antarctica?
Are you drooling, Mike?????

Jealous of southern UK's mild weather!!!!

Thanks for posting pics of your London visit.
Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:23 am

Barb, thanks for seeing and commenting the pics. I spoke to the guy who lives in the area where Canary Palms are growing. He said they are protected every winter.
I haven't shot the variegated leaves dogwood. Which particularly pic you commented as the dogwood one?

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:30 am

Great pics. london is such an amazing place. Also amazing how the jetstream affords such a hospitable climate in which to grow subtropicals like that even at their latitudes,, sigh!

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:32 am

These pictures provided a delight for my senses.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:45 am

Nice plants; like those that grow in Oregon, where I am from.
The Mahonia in bloom in early winter reminds me why I like them.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:50 am

the variegated leaves dogwood. Which particularly pic you commented as the dogwood one?

The shrub at the right in photo 9, also photo 31 look like my variegated dogwood.

Canary Palms are growing. He said they are protected every winter.

It would be interesting to see the winter protection for those CIDP's.
Gorgeous palms.

the jetstream affords such a hospitable climate in which to grow subtropicals like that even at their latitudes,, sigh!

Likely a sign of old age when all I yearn for is southern England's jetstream...

As it gets colder and colder here, I'll look at those photos again, Igor.

Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:49 pm

OK, I've got it. Photo 31 - Ligustrum ovalifolium Variegata, Photo 30 - variegated Pittosporum.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:59 pm

I'll go clean my glasses!

I could've sworn page 9, plant at right, was a variegated dogwood.

Thanks for the correction.
Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:11 pm

Thanks for sharing, great pics.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:53 am

Thanks to everybody for comments!

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:13 am

Great pics, Igor!! There a few nice-sized Phoenix scattered around London. I was approaching one planted in the middle of a roundabout in the Lambeth area, but when I was about to take a pic, my phone battery died

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