For the summer of 2008 we have graciously been received by Lullingstone Castle in Kent, England to perform some trials with Bat Guano on plant life from across the globe. Tom Hart Dyke famous for his adventures travelling the world in search of rare plant life and also the force behind the ‘World Garden’ at Lullingstone castle invited us to spend the day in the castle gardens and help to pot up some plants for display later this year. We set up comparison’s by potting plants with and without Caveman’s Bat Guano in the soil mix. Using plants from Europe, the America’s, Asia & Africa we set the wheels in motion to discover how effective Bat Guano can be as a fertilizer on more exotic plant life, as well as the more well known species that our customers have enjoyed success with.
Some of the plant species we used in the comparison test are:
- Toothed Lancewood – ‘Pseudopanax ferox’ is a rare tree of lowland forest and scrub throughout New Zealand.
- Gingers – ‘Hedychium Greenii’ has a beautiful bloom of orange flowers which look like butterflys, Native to South West China.
- Succulents – ‘Echeveria’ has rosettes of fleshy leaves which flower in spring, summer or winter. Mexico.
- ‘Crassula Sarcocaulis’ or Bonsai Crassula is a succulent sub-shrub native to South Africa.
- Canna Lily – This particular variety of Canna was only discovered last year in forest around Quito.
- ‘Iochroma Cyaneum’ – spreading evergreen shrub with shiny green leaves and drooping clusters of deep purple-blue tubular flowers in summer – South America.
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More news on the out come this July.
More info about Lullingstone castle
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- Caveman’s Bat Guano @ Lullingstone Castle.
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- Adding a top dressing of Guano
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- Fertilized with Caveman’s Bat Guano
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- Tree endemic of New Zealand
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- South african ‘Bonzai’ Plant
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- Ready to be potted.
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- Michael from Caveman’s Bat Guano apperently in a muddle.
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- Fertilized with Caveman’s Bat Guano
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- Potted and off to the Greenhouse
