Garden tour: Three French plant collectors stunning gardens!

This week on The Horti-Culturalists join us for a tour of three fabulous plant collectors gardens in Northwest France. The mild climate, great soil and good rainfall of this part of France makes it the perfect spot for the lover of the rare and unusual in the plant world. Stephen was there in June leading a garden tour for www.asatours.c... so do follow the link if you'd like to join him in Madeira next year!
The three gardens we visit in this video are:
Les Jardin de Kerdalo: lesjardinsdeke...
Les jardins de Ker Louis: sites.google.c...
Le Jardin de Pellinec: le-jardin-de-p...
And if all this botanising has peaked your interest in learning more about plants and gardens and you're in Victoria do consider joining the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria: www.rhsv.org.au/
We name a few plants in this video and they are:
Camellia amplexicaulis
Trachycarpus fortunei - Chinese Windmill Palm
Rosa filipes 'Kiftsgate'
Araucaria araucana - Monkey Puzzle Tree
Wollemia nobilis - Wollemi Pine
Pseudowintera colorata
Pachystegia insignis - Marlborough Rock Daisy
Photinia myriantha
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Zorro'
Prunus rufa
Olearia macrodonta
Anemanthele lessoniana
Xanthorrhoea
Iris ensata - Japanese Water Iris

[@Garnetspagrud]

Fabulous!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

thanks for the thumbs up.Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

The Iris ensata! Gorgeous 😍

[@thehorti-culturalists]

They certainly are fabulous. Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

Love your jacket by the by!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

So do I. Regards Stephen

[@matadaniel6520]

That was brilliant 👏Beeeutiful ❤

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@Salmagundiii]

I'm glad the new owners of Kerdalo allow it to be photographed 🤣

[@thehorti-culturalists]

It is a wonderful place and the new owners seem to really won't to protect it and move it forward. Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

Enjoying your French rare plant garden odyssey currently Stephen. And without interruption! 😃

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it! Matthew might be less enthused by your comment. Regards Stephen

[@michelleadams1210]

OMG! I'm saving up!!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

They are fabulous trips!

[@brocktoon8]

One of my dreams is to see the gardens of France. Really enjoyed this.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching this one!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for a super video and also the mention of our collab. Can you believe, my Facebook memories popped up today with the fact that I was in Kerdalo on this day in 2016. I loved the garden. Your other two gardens are new to me though so I will have to make a visit. By the way I grew the grass tree from seed a while back. After several years of really slow growing, I lost it one winter. Probably just as well. It would have given me no joy. Love Iris ensata, by the way, but can't grow it.🌷🌷🌼🌼🌸🌸 Loved the video.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

PS I want your job, Stephen Ryan 😉😉

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Sorry but I'm not giving it up for anyone, even you. 😀

[@GardeningatDouentza]

@@thehorti-culturalists Don't blame you

[@dianwilliams239]

Thank you for this interesting French garden adventure. Love gunnera.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it. Regards Stephen

[@thegonzalezs4953]

New subscriber, I think I have seeing you in the middle size Gardener videos 😊

[@thehorti-culturalists]

You have , Alexandra is a friend and comes to Australia regularly. Regards Stephen

[@slowzuki1]

A future episode could consist of 10 plants of Gondwanan heritage Cheers.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

A good topic. Regards Stephen

[@tarzouet3142]

"Les hortensias" (hydrengea) of Britanny get it's stunning blue from the soil. The secret to improve the blue colour is to mix the soil with broken slates. Real slates, the rock, is used to cover roofs of houses of Britanny.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

They certainly are stunning and I was sure its was the soil. Regards Stephen

[@MDA-rs4uf]

I've always heard the blue in hydrangea was related to aluminum uptake controlled by pH of soil...more acidic more aluminum uptake and more blue color,,,,higher pH more pink, less aluminum uptake...??

[@applewoodandearth]

I got a black stemmed hydrangea from Mitre 10 in Tassie last summer, black stems and pink flowers - very stunning! Hydrangea 'Black Lace'

[@thehorti-culturalists]

I still think I want Zorro as it’s darker than any I’ve seen in Australia so far. Regards Stephen

[@applewoodandearth]

@@thehorti-culturalists ah, the eternal frustration of the exacting gardener 😄 I'm a friend of Toni's BTW, she put me on to you guys. Great videos! 👍

[@besottedorchids3605]

At 21/18 I'm assuming this tree is a Cornus. Absolutely stunning. Thanks for giving us tours of these gardens

[@thehorti-culturalists]

It was Cornus Controversa 'Variegata' the beautiful tabletop Dogwood and I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. Regards Stephen

[@dianecotton9531]

Possums LOVE roses, and so do pet sheep, which is another story, but my Dad (a farmer in Vic) used to spend quite a bit of time trapping and relocating possums at the behest of my mother who was not happy at all about them chomping on her roses. I live in NSW now & in a country area but don't seem to have possums here. Maybe they went the same way as the koalas due to the destruction of habitats in the establishment of large pine forests.😢 However, my roses do get eaten ( or rather sucked on) at the beginning of spring by crimson rosellas, apparently sucking on the new shoots for the enzymes so I've been told.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

If it's not one thing it's another when gardening. Good to hear from you. Regards Stephen

[@MDA-rs4uf]

Are any of the French gardens open to the public or just "special" people like Stephen Ryan ?????

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Most are MINE however Kerdalo is more generally open. Regards Stephen

[@franconianable]

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

[@MDA-rs4uf]

have you ever come across a plant that you felt like was one of the most beautiful plants you've ever seen ???? that happened to me in Raleigh NC here in the southeast US last week. it was a small tree called castanopsis cuspidata a variegated, cultivar called 'Nakafu" (sorry Matthew)....... it was so attractive and the nursery/garden that has it has tried to root it hundreds of times and ways and failed every time......... i wish i could send you the photo i took so you could see if you think it's worthy from your perspective or perhaps not....???... Matthew would indeed poo poo it but he's tainted in his view of variegation for sure......... m.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Don’t even think about Matthew’s view on variegates, not everyone has our impeccable taste! Gunnera killipiana from Mexico to Honduras was such a plant for me when I saw it and lusted after it in a garden in Brittany. Regards Stephen

[@struanmcgrath1619]

if it only flowers for 2 weeks, why not just try offering something better to eat for those 2 weeks instead of removing rose.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Things can be worth it if they are spectacular enough during their 2 weeks especially if the garden is huge as there is always somewhere else to look. Regards Stephen