Flowers of the 22nd June 2019

Flowers of the 22nd June 2019

Some beautiful flowers captured today. There is also a variegated Chinese plant with ripe pod, the seeds of which are available for sale @ AUD 5.00 ea plus postage within Australia excluding WA and Tas. Interspecific collectable Clivia nobilis Nick’s...
The rails and trays project

The rails and trays project

Some time ago I blogged about a construction project where we made up a number of pairs of rails to take steel sliding trays for my nursery, Stanmore Horticultural and new Clivia buildings for the collection. Finally we’ve started to assemble these for the...
New Clivia Shade House Project

New Clivia Shade House Project

This is the area for the new Clivia Shade house. Due to the slope, there will be 4 retaining walls to give level pads going up the hill. Size will end up about 48 meters x average of 9.5 meters. The process to get this project underway included some work with the...
New Igloo

New Igloo

Construction of steel trays has also been completed.  The galvanized steel trays are 1800mm x 1200mm and will slide on portable legs.  This image shows the stack of rails which sit on the legs and allow the trays to slide.  Ignore the trays of last year’s...