Tropical Gardening

Lovely. I bought a black velvet recently

Hiya Rod. I love Pandas. Hope you are all well. xxI read a post by Woo from years ago and he said he cut his back to a foot ... so I had J cut the above and one (can't remember name) which I have had longer than yours.

Hi @Punkdoc it grew well for me in rural Nottinghamshire in an open garden but needed a good year to flower well

I am in central Cornwall and this is new to me so I googled it. It is sold by Charlie Pridham at Roseland house in Chasewater so should be OK for you. Apparently it dies down in winter so would avoid the worst winds. I have a shrubby calceolaria grown from a cutting, now a 2 foot high shrub...

Daylilys look quite tropical and so do Crocosmias and both are fully hardy.

It looks very dehydrated. You need to put the whole plant into a bucket of rain water and then allow all the water to drain through. Do not cut off the roots outside. Then put the plant on a saucer of gravel and mist it to allow the humidity to increase.

yours were about the same size of mine before the "Beast from the East" KILLED THEM mine flowers in the summer which it hadnt done before then fell over lolIf me I would use a saw cut off cleanly to the height you want it at .. let it heal over for a couple of days .. pull of about 50% of the...

@NigelJ WOW! Thank you so much. That is so detailed. V

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@Fof good news especially the new roots and new growth. Ours finished flowering some weeks ago. The flowers are beautifully scented. We stand our orchids on gravel trays with some rain water (not a lot) so that the humidity is kept high.

I have always thought cold tea was good for plants, I have even put J's coffee grounds on things. And milk that has gone off, watered down. I was brought up to use what is available.

Just been watering the orchids and looking on the Vitax bottles of fertilisers they show rather different values to yours.Growth 100 - 30 - 50 Bloom 50 - 30 -100You could probably use any standard balanced fertiliser but at 1/4 strength, which some of the old hands seem to do to save...

I would just like to draw the attention of you orchid lovers to some YouTube videos I have been finding very useful recently.They are called Happiness Garden and are from somewhere in the far east, all about orchids and how to treat them. Filmed with no narrative, just lovely music, with a...

My mission this winter is to keep this one alive! Need to make some more lemonchello haha. Thank you for your suggestions

@Victoria I think it is Pseuderanthemum carruthersii of which there are various colour forms. An attractive tender plant.

I think if it was mine I'd leave it for now and give it a tri to shape next April.

I've been growing musas for years now and still find them fascinating I've even had one of them produce 'fruit' . when it comes to pups I tend to leave them until their 1-2 feet then with the aid of a hose pipe and a sharp knife I water around the pup enough to get my hand deep enough down in...

Many thanks Pete.

You need to put in on a gravel tray so that when you spray/water with rain water this will increase the humidity.

Beaucarnea recurvata with two Beaucarnea guatemalensis in front ... there were three but one died ...