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The Adventurous Allotmenteer
United Kingdom
Приєднався 8 лип 2020
Hi! I'm the Adventurous Allotmenteer, From the edge of this rainy, cool land known as Britain, I will show you my allotment, and the exotic, adventurous plants I grow. I will show the plants I grow, give advice where I can, and keep you updated on my ever changing allotment space. I hope you enjoy my content - if you do like my videos and subscribe to my channel! Thank you for watching!
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The state of the allotment, early Autumn 2024
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The state of the allotment, early Autumn 2024
Update on Capsicum flexuousum, the hardy Chili pepper!
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Update on Capsicum flexuousum, the hardy Chili pepper!
Fun little experiment with a bromeliad!
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Fun little experiment with a bromeliad!
Rouge de Bordeaux (maybe) planting time!
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Psidium cattleianum has an impressive resilience and determination to survive!
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Psidium cattleianum has an impressive resilience and determination to survive!
Disaster! Are there any Pepper enthusiasts out there?
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Disaster! Are there any Pepper enthusiasts out there?
Old Echium webbii at Ness Gardens, Cheshire
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Old Echium webbii at Ness Gardens, Cheshire
We largely escaped the cold weather this time!
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We largely escaped the cold weather this time!
A few new young (rare) plants for the fruit area!
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A few new young (rare) plants for the fruit area!
Brugmansia emerging from the ground already! 😬😬
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Brugmansia emerging from the ground already! 😬😬
Christmas Update.. Merry Christmas Everyone!
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Christmas Update.. Merry Christmas Everyone!
Tasting fruit on my Luma apiculata (Arrayán)
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Tasting fruit on my Luma apiculata (Arrayán)
Fig looks promising for a few maincrop this year (but who knows)
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Fig looks promising for a few maincrop this year (but who knows)
Update on Grape Vine 'Queen of Esther' (after request)
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Update on Grape Vine 'Queen of Esther' (after request)
If it got damaged in a pot at 20F and still surviving it would be more hardy in the ground
it is now in the ground 🙂
Metrosideros can grow into big trees but it takes a while like many years for them to grow very large. Metrosideros are easily manageable for small gardens
Yes itll take a while, the only thing that concerns me is my allotments susceptibility to frost when comparing to the surrounding area. That said I will probably make an effort to protect it more.
Hey mate, is this a decaspermum fruticosum plant?
it's Kunzea ericoides, I actually donated it to the local park up the road, where the conditions are much nicer for it, and it flowered for the first time. Ill do a video if you're interested?
Yes please, that would be much appreciated, Ive been trying to get hold of some decaspermum fruticosum seeds, no luck yet, I believe it falls under the same family as the Manuka plant also@theadventurousallotmenteer6582
We had a lot of snow here too. It does look very festive, but I do worry about the weight of the snow damaging some of the plants.
Wow that's quite a heavy fall of snow, won't take long to disappear
I had two twenty year old Cordylines,unfortunately the stems were infested with wood lice,and they both died.
Looking great for the time of year. As Peter said seems like your weather has been pretty mild up there 👍
Everything is looking good Stephen. It's interesting that you managed to doge the hard frosts we got about a month ago in your area. My Chilean guava suffered damage on the new growth even after covering it. Thankfully it has been mild since then, hopefully, it continues into the new year 🤞
How’s the plant doing now
@@nirmalasivam2941 it's doing well, still growing and has some small fruit developing, I'll do an update video soon
@ do they get a chance to ripen before winter? I have 3 young plants and expecting them to fruit next year
In that location they do ripen fully but it's quite shady so they lack the sweetness, and can taste a little tart. They will definitely taste better planted/situated in the sun or more light
@@theadventurousallotmenteer6582 thank you for letting me know. I’ve started my own channel sharing my tropical plants. If you like tropicals, do follow and share your experiences too.
How was it? This type is also hardy in southern Ontario, in Canada. I wonder if other opuntias would be hardy in Prince George, all the way in central-northern BC (where I am).
We used to eat this at chilhood snd we ate alot. I am an adult now and very healthy. We never got sick wen young.
Congratulations on becoming a daddy soon, best job ever. Good to see your pineapple guava, Luma and Strawberry tree yielding fruit.
Congratulations ,how lovely!
The summer this year has been very cool, which won’t have helped some of the plants. My second clump of basjoo in the front garden has barely grown at all. The ones in my back garden have done ok, but they were already much more established and are in a more sheltered position.
Congratulations on your news about becoming a father soon! Nice to see many of your exotic fruit plants have done well this year. The pineapple guava is looking incredible! Looks like you're going to get loads of Chilean guavas this year also!
Ornamentals seem to be doing ok Stephen, probably held back this year by the cold summer in the case of the brugmansia
it's all changing Brett, the Brugmansia is getting a much better home, sheltered, drier and warmer, where it will actually have more chance of becoming a tree. Soon I will make a video on the plans.
@theadventurousallotmenteer6582 looking forward to it
Great to hear your upcoming baby news mate, congratulations ! Great to see plenty of fruits on the pineapple guava this year. It can certainly get much bigger here in time, I've seen them 15 to 20 feet tall but they are slow growing in dry years of course. Impressive to see fruits on the Luma
How did those seedlings turn out?
Thank you for sharing.
I had it many times when I was in school
It seems the western assumption of it being toxic is unfounded, like usual. Seems alot of people eat these berries. Thanks for watching, much appreciation.
Can I propagate this osmanthus, I have a huge 30 ft one and am moving and want to take some with me
Yes I think semi ripe cuttings in mid to late Spring around 10 to15 cm in length, though you probably could try now with hardwood cuttings
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Helpful video, thank you.
They are looking really good! I remember when they were struggling back in winter, they certainly have come on leaps and bounds since then 👍
Very interesting chilli plants. Didn't know your strawberry guava had taken a bad hit in the greenhouse, glad its growing back
I've seen them on videos in the snow but here they die back each winter to the ground. Not sure why because I'm in Belgium and its not as cold as Poland or Canada where they survive winter.
Where can I get lankana camara plant here in south Africa?
It's likely someone somewhere will be growing it,it might have escaped into the wild, it'd possible to take cuttings, but it's also likely some nurseries or garden centres will sell it. There also the possibility of buying online seeds and germinating them.
Lantana has a square stem like a mint. That's a bit confusing and dangerous.
The confusion can be easily cleared up with the scent of the leaf 🙂
Are you still alive ?
I am, sorry I'm have a bit on my plate but I'll try to some updates soon!
I have been looking for this plant for a while. I bought them from a french nursery but it died and they no longer sell it. Most of the sellers are in the UK and they dont ship to the EU mainland.
maybe grafted on poncirius has higher cold resistance due to exchange mitochondrial DNA
New subscriber. Thanks for sharing 👍.
Thank you for subscribing 🙂👍👍
Love the idea of using the bag to restrict root growth and hence tree size. I have planted a number of trees in my small garden in buckets that I have buried in the ground.
The bag is quite small, but hopefully it will do the job. The lady fog was allowed free space at the roots but it never did the job so hopefully this will make the difference. There will be updates 😄
Great plants, I would like seeds from them. Do you give some away? LG Wolfgang
Haha yes in fact the naming of figs is very 'figgle' ( sorry shocking pun 😂 ). You never know for sure that you are getting the variety you want, fortunately most will fruit 👍
One of the giveaways will be if it produces Breba Figs. Rouge de Bordeaux is apparently not a breba producer, but does apparently produce slightly earlier maincrop figs. Though Peter has sown some doubt but we will see! If the breba figs drop off it might well be Rouge de Bordeaux though even then, I guess there's still a chance it's not.
@@theadventurousallotmenteer6582 It's certainly possible that mine isn't even 'Rouge de Bordeaux', also it has been grown in a container all its life (and probably could do with repotting) which probably hasn't helped it. I have repotted it once but I imagine it would do better in the ground. I think the real 'Rouge de Bordeaux' is meant to be the same as 'Pastillere', which is much more well-known across the pond. Ross Raddi made a video about Pastillere the other day and mentioned it produces an early main crop, however, in our climate, we can't rely on getting a main crop unless we grow them in a greenhouse/polytunnel.
Might well take, quite substantial size plants aren't they ?
Interesting little experiment, Stephen! Will be fun to see what happens 👍
Nice planting, Stephen! A little bit risky planting it with growth at this time of year, hopefully, we don't get too much frost between now and spring 🤞 I'm keeping my fingers crossed that your 'Rouge de Bordeaux' turns out better than the one I have. I've had mine for almost 7 years, but it's never fruited for me, I'm convinced mine is a variety that doesn't produce brebas as it's always dropped them. I decided to try and find some decent breba producing varieties over the last couple of years and planted the traditional Brown Turkey in my garden as that is known to be a good breba producer. I have a couple of others that I'm waiting on as well.
The growth will almost certainly get checked back but I had to aphids were starting to appear on it. I'd rather have it not fruit this year and get some robust vegetative growth instead. I'll keep you updated, I hope this isn't going to happen to this one too!
They are definitely pretty tough plants (well for guavas lol), hopefully, it recovers well this year 🤞
Haha I feel you've overanalysed that one Stephen, all guavas have peeling bark all year round, it's very ornamental but I'm not sure if it serves any specific purpose unless it helps them shed pests and diseases or simply renews the bark 😁
I would normally agree, except that this bark peeling happened following the mass damage of leaves because of the cold spell. I thought I'd possibly lost it. There are still deep fissures where the cambium was damaged.
@@theadventurousallotmenteer6582 lol the ones in my kitchen and living room look exactly the same as your one right now 😉. Hopefully yours will be fine as it still has green leaves although you might recall mine took about 2 months to die to the ground last winter. It also suffered from split trunks. Eventually it came back from the base by mid summer. I'm covering it this Winter although it has taken damage
Super frustrating when accidents happen, you can bet your life then when something gets dropped it falls on my most precious plant and snaps the stem ! I'm sure you'll still get a couple of the seedlings that you want 🤞
I think the seed shown in the video is indeed Capsicum flexuosum according to the people I purchased it from.. somewhat of a relief
It looks like the soil is quite fertile, hopefully the technique will be successful 4:55
Hopefully, I'm banking on it appreciating a more fertile, damp soil in a warmer climate. In a colder climate than its natuve habitat, it could benefit from drainage
Sounds quite interesting, not one I've heard of either. Where did you get them from?
I got mine from a Scottish nursery called Ardfearn. Very good service and good quality plants
Another one new to me Stephen 👍
It sounds promising for fruit production, quality and as of this moment is very rare so has that interesting.
Wow, lovely specimens!
I'm impressed by how well that Echium is doing there.
It's definitely a legitimate alternative to Echium candicans where that cannot be grown. Its stem, when woody is as hardy if not more hardy than Echium pininana
We had some thought weather here 🥶
I hope your plants escaped damage!
Do you work at Ness?
I work with the volunteers there, as an assisting gardener.
@@theadventurousallotmenteer6582 ah thats cool, I work for the University and am currently on the RHS level 2 course taught at Ness, if you were there today we probably walked past eachother :D
@Knapper94 I think I might have seen your group on the lawn near the herbaceous border.
Mate where is this on the site? Ive been looking for it every wednesday since the video came out and I swear I cant find it haha@@theadventurousallotmenteer6582
I'm in New Zealand and these wee beauties are blooming like nothing else right now 😍 I can bear testament to them being a beautiful bloom. So nice to see she's putting down roots on the other side of the planet! Yay! ❤🙏🏻
Mine hasnt bloomed yet but I need to put it in authority bigger pot actually as it is root bound almost. Can't wait for the flowers!
When you say there's other species as they will cause issue's. What are the other species as I've just bought one from B&Q and it looks just like the one in your video but as it's young it's very small but it does have pinkish berries on. Can you also make wine from it please
They are in the Gaultheria tribe along with wintergreen. There is literature that suggests too many berries could cause problems with Gaultheria procumbens but with Pernettya, there's no evidence of issues from that. You will need a male and a female plant to produce berries, so it might ne worth getting another two from a different supplier to ensure fruit set. Also as for wine I'm not sure, I suspect not, but I think it could make a brandy.