Greenkoos currently consist of 2 independent sole-trading gardeners who pool their knowledge, resources and plants and offer them up to the public for pennies. We do the occassional garden make-over together but we're mostly interested in propagating plants and selling them as GREENKOOS at plant fairs in Northern England and formerly on t 'net as GREENKOOSBIOMASS. This however, for reasons I'll probably get to later, has yet to provide us with a living wage so we generally depend on scratching around in the mud like our peasant ancestors.
I suppose I'd better introduce the 'we' of which I speak:
I am Koosie, currently a human male in his late 30s. I originate in the south-east of England and been involved with plants one way or other since I grew up and naturally a little bit before. The other one of us is Greenie (or GreenDD) who is a human male in his late 20s. His origins are in East Yorkshire where we met in the early years of this century. Obviously these are not our real names but were our MSN Messenger names when we originally planned this thing. Originally we were called Green-Koos Biomass as I thought Biomass was a good word for plants with a nice 21st century eco-technology ring to it. As it turned out Biomass is a bit of a dirty word in ecological circles these days as it's become associated with vast monoculture plantations growing food for motor-cars on what used to be rainforests. Crap! At the moment we're just 'Greenkoos' or 'Greenkoos Brugmansia and Tropical Plants' as Greenie would have it. More about that later, no doubt.
Our short-term aim is to have our own small commercial nursery and my own long-term aim is to have a great big commercial nursery attached to big park with a mini-railway running round it, a nature reserve, an arboretum, an oriental garden and some dinosaurs. Oh yeh and an eden project like thing but loads better.
For now, I'll just concentrate on the little nursery bit. Given that we're currently operating out of a not-huge private garden in east-Manchester, we already have an enormous variety of different plants. We don't really discriminate too much. Basically we'll grow anything we can get our paws on but there are certain things we will go out of our way to obtain. Greenie, for example, is very keen on Brugmansias which are the shrubby form of the Angel's Trumpet Plants often collectively known as Datura. I don't have any specific favourite genera but I do have a penchant for large leafy tropical-looking things though I often state that the apex of the horticultural arts is bonsai.
It did occur to me to list here all the different plants Greenkoos hold specimens of, highlighting those currently available for sale. This however would take several hours and I thought I'd never get this started if I commited myself to that so late in the afternoon. Just for starters though I'll begin with the diversity of houseplants visible from my current position. Let's see there's...
Aspidistra elatior
Ficus retusa
Ficus benjamina
Crassula ovata
Tradescantia fluminensis 'Variegata'
Cyanotis sp
Maranta sp
Salvia sp
Sansieveria trifasciata
Kleina articulartus
Nothing that amazing there but that's just 1 window-sill . Sp, by the way, in this use refers to nothing more than me not knowing the species name or simply having forgotten it. That's 10 already. Impressed? Not yet eh? Well there's lots more to come....
The picture accompanying this worthless introductory prose is of a hardy perennial called Morina longifolia or the Whorlflower. We have these available as plant or seed.
