Tropical Gardening

What you have is a keiki, Hawaiian for 'baby'. You can just remove it from the old flower spike and pot it up.

Thank you! I’ll investigate further…

@Fof oh dear! You are quite right they weren't well rotted but of course well rooted! I should check more carefully before I post. Glad that yours have the lovely scent.

J podagrica this morning. First time I have noticed its new stems, another with a bloom coming.

Thank you for the advice!

This one is a little miracle growing on The Child's windowsill. It has not only survived from last Christmas on the draughty North facing windowsill just above the radiator but has actually turned quite a few nicely coloured bits without any light treatment.I labour over my plants to offer...

I'd leave it and see what happens,

It’s a possibility @pete must do some more research tomorrow! need to get my gardening books off the bookcase . Thanks

I've got double red, double yellow and a lovely peach/yellow striped double

I think a few plants are available in the UK but at stupid prices mostly.

Probably other ways but how I do it is take a picture and my phone stores it in the gallery. Click on upload file and I get my pictures on my phone all come up as thumnails, select by tapping on the one you want, it then loads it into the reply box. Add text if you want and hit post reply.

Lovely! Do you dry them off over winter @Victoria ?

The one bud disappeared in the storm the other week, but the other bloomed today, a very pale pink ... but all the leaves got eaten by something ...

First thing that strikes me is its a very large plant for such a small pot, I get the impression it didn't actually grow in that pot, but was moved into it just before you bought it, possibly with a lot of root loss. I'm just guessing, its had a bit of a shock being moved into a house setting,...

Ooh definitely worth it!

No green but I don't really expect it to produce new fronds until next year. The reason I've not given up hope just yet is that the centre of the trunk appears to still be alive. Yes they do sulk - I moved mine a couple of years ago because it didn't thrive in the spot I'd chosen. It doesn't...

P. mollisima is one of those cool flowering ones, manicata is the same, I found manicata grew like crazy all summer but only budded up in autumn as it got cooler. Doesn't really fit in with our growing conditions being, I believe, from higher altitude in the tropics.They sometimes group those...

Thank you @pete @CarolineL @Goldenlily26The root (x2 stems) was quite thick and totally dry so I trimmed straggly bits and of course planted them in fresh compost and watered. They all permanently live in relative shade with only a couple of hours full sun. I will reduce some of the leaves...

I planted a reasonably large one in my garden a few years ago, it was about 7ft tall. It came through the first winter with some damage but was killed down to the ground the second winter.It's still alive but makes very little progress now. They do get quite big even in the UK in city...