Wales – HungryforHostas

Hi all, I do hope you have all had a great weekend, rating weekends, I’d say mine was pretty good.

I managed to do a fair bit in my yarden, it really is turning into a bit of a jungle. That is the look I’m going for by the way.

Other than pottering about, my friend and I had planned to go to a plant nursery that I’ve wanted to visit for some time. So on Saturday we set off at nine o’clock for North Wales.

After a quick coffee stop we realised that we were close to an old nursery I used to visit regularly when I was younger. So we decided to take a bit of a detour and allowed ourselves half an hour at Aberconwy Alpine Nursery.

Aberconwy Alpine Nurseryis a small family run plant nursery that specialises in alpine plants. It is a little hidden gem, they have been growing and selling these tiny alpines for some time. Due to ill health it’s not as packed as it once was, yet they still have some lesser known varieties and it is still worth a visit. I’d recommend calling ahead if your visiting on a weekend.

Needless to say between my friend and I bought a fair few plants, here are two of the twelve we bought between us.

Sempervivum ‘Cmiral’s yellow’

Aeonium sedifolium

Leaving here we set off for our planned destination, and only half an later we arrive to another out of the way plant specialist. Crûg Plant Farm is not what everyone is looking for, more for the inquisitive, I’d say. They have unusual plants (and some more well recognised) and an interesting garden of lesser known plants that’s worth a wander round, with this in mind the rarer plants have an understandably higher price tag. Sadly we were both a little disappointed with our visit, they didn’t have many of the plants that I was hoping to buy and it’s much smaller than you’d think. I put this down to going too early in the season. Again I would call ahead and check before making the 220 mile round trip. Saying that I’d definitely be back, hopefully I’ll meet Sue and Bleddyn next time, as they were enjoying Chelsea Flower Show.

Still we managed to buy some plants of course!