Sergey
Active Member
Some time ago I promised to share pictures from my Southeast Asia journey, today I’d like to start with Indonesia…
Indonesia turned out to be the greatest croton experience in my journey. I’d been planning to visit this country for several years since I bought some beautiful Indonesian varieties in Bangkok. Judging by various internet sources crotons were gaining in popularity in this country – many new varieties, croton society, nurseries and exhibitions...
Before the journey I’d made several attempts to contact croton collectors and nurseries, but didn’t receive any reply. So I went to Indonesia without clean scheme where I would search for crotons.
Also I made a big mistake planning to visit many nurseries around the country – but as it turned out a week in Indonesia is too short for “croton exploration”. This time is enough only for one relatively small city BSD neighboring Jakarta. I came across crotons everywhere – they grew around houses, were sold in street garden shops and decorated road borders.
They like crotons in Indonesia and like in India large-leaved varieties are most favorite.
Here in BSD I got acquainted with devoted plant collectors and welcoming hosts Chandra and Harry. Chandra is the owner of educational centre, beautiful eco-park and ornamental plant nursery. He has got rarest species and varieties of plants in his private collection. Harry has got very impressive collection of Indonesian varieties. In their collections I found about one hundred new interesting Indonesian crotons.
I didn’t bring many good pictures of croton from Indonesia as it was rainy season and somewhere groundwater level had bad influence on crotons. I took many pictures on the run just to capture images of these unique varieties.
Indonesia turned out to be the greatest croton experience in my journey. I’d been planning to visit this country for several years since I bought some beautiful Indonesian varieties in Bangkok. Judging by various internet sources crotons were gaining in popularity in this country – many new varieties, croton society, nurseries and exhibitions...
Before the journey I’d made several attempts to contact croton collectors and nurseries, but didn’t receive any reply. So I went to Indonesia without clean scheme where I would search for crotons.
Also I made a big mistake planning to visit many nurseries around the country – but as it turned out a week in Indonesia is too short for “croton exploration”. This time is enough only for one relatively small city BSD neighboring Jakarta. I came across crotons everywhere – they grew around houses, were sold in street garden shops and decorated road borders.
They like crotons in Indonesia and like in India large-leaved varieties are most favorite.
Here in BSD I got acquainted with devoted plant collectors and welcoming hosts Chandra and Harry. Chandra is the owner of educational centre, beautiful eco-park and ornamental plant nursery. He has got rarest species and varieties of plants in his private collection. Harry has got very impressive collection of Indonesian varieties. In their collections I found about one hundred new interesting Indonesian crotons.
I didn’t bring many good pictures of croton from Indonesia as it was rainy season and somewhere groundwater level had bad influence on crotons. I took many pictures on the run just to capture images of these unique varieties.
