De GroenePrins Exotic nursery and Botanical garden is open by appointment – please ring +31(6) 22370001
Winter’s here!
Half hardy plants like Dicksonia antarctica do need good protection against severe frosts in the winter!
Here we have protected our plants against the winter’s cold. We started with the mountain banana collection. After that the tree ferns and last but not least, the palm trees.
During the winter months we’re open by appointment only(+31-6-22370001)!
Customs damage
Be careful when exporting or importing plants – customs sometimes destroy plants and call this “inspection”!
Rare plants now available!
We now have the following beauties in stock:
Woodwardia fimbriata, a large fern for sheltered, damp spots
Polypodium ‘Whitley Giant’, a large, good hardy variety of the oak fern (Polypodium vulgare)
The following plants have long proven their hardiness:
Rhododendron macabeanum , Blechnum nova-zelandiae , Blechnum magellanicum, Blechnum nudum , Astelia nervosa
(Please collect at our botanical garden in Northern Holland as we aren’t able to send plants to you!)
Storm damage in the Jungle garden!
the large trees suffered ..
Large Trachycarpus fortunei palm trees now in stock!
The best palm tree for your garden is Trachycarpus fortunei.We’ve got large ones available in pots of 130L with a trunk of around 2m (6 feet) in length! These plants are delivered at an angle (see photo). The price is € 400 (exclusive of transport) but for that price you’ve got an exceptionally beautiful plant in your garden! Small ones are priced from € 5.
Helen’s Hybrid – a promising new banana!
Helen’s Hybrid is probably a cross between Musa sikkimensis Red Tiger and Musa Chinichampa.
Seedlings from this happy marriage are all different. Some resemble one parent, some the other, but most resemble both like the plant on this picture. Human children are sometimes faster or smarter than their parents. Also in the plant world, crosses are occasionally more vigorous than both parent plants. The plant shown on this photo grows abnormally fast in the garden, has inherited the beauty of Chinichampa and hopefully the frost resistance of sikkimensis!
Given maximum winter protection this seems to be a promising newcomer in our range of garden bananas. Small numbers of seedlings are available at the botanical garden, each with different characteristics. So they are not tissue-grown bananas (= not from the laboratory)! I can’t yet predict their hardiness for sure. Next year I’ll know more!