This is an Incredible Garden – Trompenburg Arboretum

This is one of the best gardens I have ever visited – Trompenburg Arboretum – In this video we visited the amazing Trompenburg Arboretum and saw some amazing old plants in their collection.

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We made it to Roderdam in the Netherlands and this is the Trumpenberg arboritum. Hope I’m not butchering that too badly. Uh this is a really beautiful arboritum. This thing this part of the garden that we’re in over here was originally a formal kind of English garden. uh it’s evolved somewhat over the years and then uh as the garden has evolved uh so has gardening and uh we’ll I think we’ll see some more plantings for pollinators and more plantings with you know leaving things in place if a tree falls and those kinds of things. But originally, you know, gardening in the 17, 18, 1900s was very a lot of formal English garden, you know, type of gardening. They have an incredible roodendran collection here. And I mean, a really great roodendran collection. I’ve seen this, you know, I was at the Berlin Botanic Garden a couple years ago. Didn’t do any filming there. Their collection is amazing, too. But it’s a lot of North American species, a lot of Asian species. I don’t know them. I mean, it’s amazing. I so lost at the Berlin Botanic Garden. It was a May uh years ago and they were in bloom uh at this time at that time. This is a beautiful meta sequoia um called Miss Grace. Uh perfect name for it. Uh just a graceful weeping metaoya. I don’t know how long this has been here, but it’s got a trunk. It’s about 12 in around uh down at the base. So, it’s definitely been here a while. A little jealous of their still be here uh in the Netherlands. This is it’s a really interesting space here uh in Roderdam. You would think you would not have so many of the leafy evergreens and some of the zone 7 things that we can grow at home. It appears that you really lose some of the tender zone 7 things. Some things like laura pedetylum or distillum that we might say are zone 7 but can really be stung in a cold winter. It’s mostly the leafy evergreens that we would say that are 6B hardy or are definitely 7A hardy are here. And so that would be things like a billia which are you know considered zone six hardy. We saw some nandinas out front. Uh there are crepe myrtles here. Uh there are, you know, so some of those crossover things. So it’s really they’re really they’re this close to being able to grow all the things we can grow, but they’re this close to being able to grow some of the northern things that we would really like to grow. So you know, there’s dur durilla. Uh these are still be which we can grow in Raleigh, of course, but they don’t, you know, they don’t look they don’t necessarily grow uh like these are growing. uh there’s snow berries and a lot of the northern northeastern shrubs that we would love to grow in our area seem to grow fine here and then again they overlap a bit with some of the leafy evergreens. So just a real sweet spot you know and that was the same thing up in Amsterdam and we were just amazed there’s olives planted in the ground uh that are doing fine. The southern magnolia that are here and we consider some of those as cold hearty as zone 6b. You can see the tops get knocked out of them. Uh, and they just kind of spread outward a bit more, but they still are striking in the garden even without a central leader in them. Let’s do a few North American uh, conifers. Look at this taxodium. This went in in 1870. So, this is a native to the southeast uh, United States. And, uh, this is a heck of a specimen. You know, this is a, you know, cultivated uh, tree, you know, in a in in a garden like this. So, it’s been watered. It’s been babyed. It’s been mulched. It’s been It’s been cleaned around. It’s competition has been kept at bay and all those things. And look at the just the massive massive tree that this this has become uh since it was brought here in 1870. Uh around the corner. So, there’s quite a few conifers on this what was the original formal garden over here. Um apparently these were these were things collected from all over the world and brought back to this garden. And this is auxidentalis which is we know to be native of the northeast and up into uh up into Canada. And you guys will know emerald arbita and droos arborvita and all the little ones and big ones and there’s so many varieties. This one is um it has a gold tint to it. It’s Douglas gold u has a little bit of a gold hue to it. But I thought that was interesting because that we’ve seen a southeast native and then there’s a northeast native. And then if we come here, this is AB’s Kong color, which is the uh Colorado fur. So not a Colorado blue spruce as you might think. That’s pyca. This is Aby’s and this is the blue form of the Colorado fur uh right here. Uh see that how beautiful that is. And it has been here for a long time and it’s a little contorted and you know it’s it’s seen it’s it’s it’s seen a lot of days here. Uh and if we walk a little further down uh some really some really fun conifers in here. A lot of fun conifers in here. Um this is another thuyoxidentalis right here. This one’s been sheared and you can see they continue to shear it uh to make it that narrow. But there’s a capressus sevirons back here which is Italian cypress. Uh and that’s a gold version of it right there. Um Swain’s golden is that variety. Uh but that look at that gold Italian cyprus again. But there’s a here’s a a threadlike cryptoaria japonica. So a Japanese cryptoaria. Uh but then I wanted to get back to here is the uh the Rocky Mountain fur right here. This is AB’s lassio carpa and this is the blue form of it. So this is the Rocky Mountain fur. These are kind of soft to the touch really more much more so than you would think. So, we’ve got the western part of the country, the northeastern part of the country, and the southeastern part of the country covered in here. So, you see when they went out collecting plants from all over the world, uh they got a lot of them from uh from North America, which is kind of fun. That’s just a a prestigious beach, right? Yeah. The Asian name. Oh, that’s something. We found a grove of western red cedars otherwise known as thuya plata. Uh green giant arborvita is like half plata. U but these were planted in 1870. And what I can’t figure out is this is this one plant. I’m I’m sure this is one plant. this piece that’s laying on the ground going that direction over there and then has the vertical pieces that go probably 40 feet tall over there that you can’t see and then this one that’s 40 or 50 ft tall and I’m thinking that this is just another piece of it over here. Um, and that what’s happened here is this is actually just a colony of western red cedars and it was like one original planted plant. Uh, and it’s just branches have laid down in time and they’ve rooted into the ground. But uh it’s about 15° cooler in this spot. It’s unbelievable what a grove of trees of conifers like this can actually do to a space. You get a little moisture in the ground, you get a tree over your head and instantly, you know, the heat of the city is just gone. You might be able to see a koiish in the canals here. Uh Steph is trying to get over to one now. U canals running through here just like you would expect anywhere in the Netherlands. uh cuz that’s you know the canals just are uh everywhere. They’re beneficial you know to all the all the farming activities that are everywhere in this country. We did find a Canadian himmlock over here. So uh you know another North American conifer, but this seeaxis is unbelievable. Look how big this actually is. Uh we film we talk about sephotaxis a lot. Sephletaxis just means u like but it’s not a u. Um, sephilot taxis has these little green um, fruit on them basically here. This is actually roastable and edible. And I did not mean to knock that off. That’s not something I should do at a botanic garden. That was a complete and total accident as I was just trying to show it off. Um, but there’s lots of them on here, but they can actually be roasted uh, and eaten apparently. I have never I’ve never tried it. Deer don’t don’t eat this and so you know where you know typically they will eat used. They’re hardy in zone six, but there’s ground cover ones, ones that get like this and spreading three to four, five foot ones and then very tall growing ones as well. But this is definitely the biggest single specimen I’ve ever seen. I thought it was a group of planted in here, but it’s just one plant that’s gotten this wide. Here’s a Chinese juniper that’s familiar to lots of folks in in our area in Raleigh, North Carolina, and all over North America really because this is Toolusa juniper. Hollywood juniper has a mind of its own. Like you couldn’t grow two of these the same if you wanted to. This one’s just got an interesting form. It’s been here I don’t know how long ago it was planted, but obviously very very long time ago. Uh and it’s just become this gnarly. It almost looks muscular, you know, frame to it that it has uh with these branches that come off. And again, you couldn’t grow two of these uh the same if you wanted to. uh which is what makes this plant so unique really. Uh this is one of the reasons I’ve always been drawn uh to Torusa or Hollywood. Here’s a southern magnolia. So literally one of these growing this one, this variety is called Tulsa. I don’t know what makes that one significant. I don’t know if it’s meant to be more if it’s more cold hearty or why it was picked. I’m guessing so with the name Tulsa that this one must be one that has uh has survived some cold weather um in Oklahoma. But uh again uh just you know this is a plant that’s native to our back garden uh at the house. I always like to point out, you know, and I pointed out I pointed out that incredible garden garden in Amsterdam, um, the Hortice because they had the plants laid out by their their history of the evolutionary history of flowering plants from conifers to becoming flowering plants. And you can see on this magnolia, basically the seeds are formed in a cone. Um, oh, you found one without me having to do all that. Okay, there you go. That’s the uh you know the basically the seed formation is happening in a cone after the flower was pollinated uh earlier in the season. And of course you can always going to get these yellow interior leaves on these magnolia. They’re always going to they’re always going to drop leaves underneath. It’s just living with the southern magnolia really. But they are incredibly beautiful. We’ll see meta sequoas, seoas, but rarely do we see sequoia dendrin gigantium, the giant seoia, uh, outside of, you know, that a little small area in, uh, on the west coast. Not anywhere near as big as the giant sequoas you’re going to see out there, but maybe one day. Uh, it will be. Uh, but that was, uh, that was fun to run across right there. Uh, for sure. Uh, there’s a sequoia here next to it. Um, here’s a cunning hammy. We showed off this blue cunning hamia in our garden a week or two ago. Well, I don’t know when this will go up, so within the last month. Uh our blue cunning hamia Chinese fur uh is what it is. Uh but this is the gau, which is the blue form. Uh there’s uh blue and uh green forms of this, but the blue one’s super super showy. Uh I don’t know how long this one’s been here, but we’ve seen them big. We’ve seen them much much bigger than this uh for sure. So this this plant can get quite big. It’s amongst some competition in here for some space for with some other conifers, but it is a striking blue when you see this one. The lighting might be a little shadowy on this one, so it may not show up quite as well, but this is thuya orientalis, Frankie boy, which we have next to the porch at the house, otherwise known as platty clatus orientalis as well. Several other names or orientals, all kinds of names for this one. Uh, but you can see this one can be sheared into a little Christmas tree form or it can just be allowed to become this kind of open weeping habit that it has here. Because of where we have ours planted next to the porch, it’ll have to be maintained a little bit more formally than this probably. I don’t think this would quite fit in that little corner that we’ve got it planted in. But this is also got a lot of years on it. I don’t know that I’ve ever had a garden slow me down so much as this one. I mean, it is an unbelievable collection of of of of pieces in here. This cryp this cryptoaria is just strikingly beautiful. I mean, it is really really special. There’s a pyramidal cedar Atlantica up there up above our head. Uh, and behind that, a weeping golden beach. And that weeping golden beach must be 40t tall plus 50t tall, something like that. uh with those branches, those gold branches coming down and then it’s moving in the wind. Uh it’s really super striking fitzer juniper. That’s completely uh completely wild. A lot of losenas in here. This uh look at this gold sienna here. It’s pinest burgi which we filmed a bunch of out out west and will again this year I’m sure that oh it’s a weeping diodor like feeling blue or something. They probably have a different maybe have a different name for it over here. Divinely blue. Design and blue. Divinely blue. Divinely blue. Okay. Similar and we have this in our garden in Raleigh. Lot of different cryptoaria in here. Beautiful blue spruce straight ahead there. Pacia pungons. Glocka procumbent. That’s very similar to the one we have planted next to the porch. Of course, ours is not growing like that. There’s some ver verbina bananaris back here which I’m sure just comes from seed. wherever it comes up. But the bees love it. So St. John’s wart back in here. Stuff you see St. John’s wart has the flowers on it up front. Right there. The bees will go crazy for those. I think that’s is that a variegated lot to the left of the right. Yes. Boy, this thing looks great. Our versions of this just look rough and roughly when we try to grow these in that clay soil. I think this is a bit more sand in this soil. This really flat juniper here. A lot of plethora. You film some clethra over there, right? With bees on it. There’s a ton of plethora. Our great southeast native. Um and it colonizes a bit here too. same exact same thing it does in the uh in the Raleigh garden. Look at this uh weeping aquafolium. It’s variegated. It’s it’s variegated and weeping. I mean, look at this thing. I want that plant. I don’t think I want one that big because of our our size of our garden, but would I want one of those? I would absolutely want one of those. And that’s one we can actually grow uh in Raleigh. And the roodendrrons just go on and on. The conifers go on and on. The roodendrrons. Uh the collection is just absolutely amazing. They don’t have as many hydrangeas as we would think they would have considering how great they look in the garden. You go from that red one over here to this near purple one. Uh the foliage looks great. The flowers look great. Obviously, they get enough chill hours to make them, you know, fully verilize them. And maybe there a little small, you know, than smaller than it might be if it got a little more it got a little more cold, but still the f everything looks great about it. So, they haven’t but they haven’t overdone them. Uh here, um what is this to the left of it, Stephend? That’s a claradendrin. I’m just noticing that claradendrin, which we’ve shown off several times now in our garden over the last month month or two. Uh that we have one of these next to the shed in full bloom. This one’s going to bloom much later in the season than ours is, but it is going to have time to bloom. Uh so I didn’t It’s an amazing collection of plants here. They have this one pathway here that they use these heavy heavy steel structures to tree form these wisteria. And there’s a lot several different species of wisteria. I haven’t seen fretess which is our uh native our native one. I think most of these are Chinese or Asian uh species. But notice, you know, these are in the pea family. And so you get that that’s what the seed forms in is basically amounts to a pea pod. You can really see it in the flowers when they’re blooming. So we’re later than the flowers here, but they’ve turned these wisteria. They’ve prevented them from being invasive and climbing on something else, you know. So they basically tamed them on a structure and turned them into these really cool tree forms. I take that back. Here’s futessins right here. This is Amethyst Falls. This is a named one that you can find uh readily uh in North Carolina and around gardens and you know all over. Uh if if wisteria is hard in your area, we do have a native option. That wisteria collection is mindboggling honestly. I mean that that’s just I never seen anything like that. Every single one of them is a different one. all the way around this pond. The pond is beautiful and it connects all those locks back there. Couple other interesting North American natives. Here’s Ita Virginia. I grew gosh, I grew so many of Henry’s garnet it. I can’t even tell you. That one’s already getting its fall color going uh here in August as the days get shorter here. Um uh it’s already developing that beautiful fall color. Of course, it blooms in the spring a, you know, as it’s leafing out and then, you know, has pollinators on it. And then this can colonize a bit in the ground. that’s been worked on in a lot in the breeding uh over the years and Steph and I have never seen it in the wild where it didn’t have its feet in the water and I mean in the water but it somehow translates to our really tough uh garden spaces. There’s a Mahonia back here um which is uh a species native to California and um I think can you get in there a little closer and show that one off? This is panata or paneda and it’s similar to aquafoglium which is the Oregon great poly. This one’s called the Oregon barberry or the Oregon great poly or I mean the California Oregon great poly. Like a lot of common names for it. It’s it’s a species very similar. I mean if you looked at it when we walked past it we immediately thought Oregon great poly for sure u uh mahonia aquafolium but it is a different species. And this one’s a little more southern uh in the range uh into California. So there you go. There’s a few things at this garden. And I think I’ll have stuff pan around here to the right and just pan a circle here. Uh this is just one particular little circular spot uh in this garden and it’s unbelievable. Every single entrance and exit out of this space is unique uh in some way. There’s a weeping diodor cedar as one of the exits out on the other side over there. Uh it’s just super striking. Uh this pine is unbelievable. Uh just a incredible collection of conifers here. Incredible collection of uh plants from around the world. Uh really and uh there you go. So thank you guys for following along with our travels here. We have been uh fortunate enough to do a video now in Iceland. Uh one up in Amsterdam and one down here in Roderdam. And I say down here just because it’s a little south of Amsterdam. Uh we’re heading up kind of to the middle next. Uh and you’ll hopefully see some video content coming from Boscop. We’re staying with a friend in Boscop. Uh there’s like 500 nurser plant nurseries in and around Boscop. And then we’re going to spend a few days with another friend a little east over in Teal. And uh uh we’ll see some interesting things there we hope uh to bring you including all kinds of garden activities like this nursery content and uh content related to uh a big giant formal garden we hope we can get into and see. So thank you guys for following along with this trip. This pinestrobus is one of the coolest coolest plants in this entire garden. We finished the video and then saw this. Look at this gold pin of strobes. It’s a little hot in our area for these. This one’s called Louie, but if you’re in an area where you can grow this, look at that thing. It’s the brightest thing in his garden.