Tropical Gardening

Sihitch. The problem is in getting them back into growth without them rotting. Its the same problem you get with many different types of tuber and rhizome, such as Colocasia, Amorphophallus, Gloriosa etc.I am not that good at it myself. But I think the key is to have them in very very slightly...

I'll take some pics of the seedlings i've potted on, early days though.

I tend to use ordinary compost with quite a bit of coarse grit added. I repotted one today and also put some slow release fertiliser.Well drained rich compost is usually suggested, I think cacti compost might be a bit to low in nutrients.But be careful of over potting.

That's interesting Pete - because I thought that nearly everything was hardy in your garden. The phrase that Morrisons use for P. canariensis of "hardy palm" is really pushing it then. Perhaps its just the money that's hardy. The plant dies but the money lives on.

I suspect something at the base/roots too. Maybe dig it out and put it in a container until it recovers.

Calathea is a strange plant. Looking at the big leaves you don't expect a flower like that - I gather its a member of the ginger family.

Dibley's have a fantastic range of Begonias (and other plants too)

Bostin

Here's mine Coolsox - Zantedeschia elliottianaIt's one of the smaller ones so I grow it in a pot and allow it to die back over the winter. Seed grown it was just the two plants that I potted up and it is multiplying freely.

What an incredibly moody looking picture!Thats my lonely cabbage palm out front, the lower leaves are starting to yellow and it's looking sad (like last time it was rootbound) but that pot is fairly large! Under the pot is a stump from the last owners tree that once grew in the same...

Sirius do you want seeds of parritae? ad the moment I`m growing an hybrid of it , less delicate , the only parritae seedling I`ve managed to germinate it`s really slow and not easy

...Amazing Kindred

I'd forgotten that it was you who started me off on that one

That's a shame Harry - fingers crossed for your others.

Thanks jwk, appreciate the advice. Thankfully little care, although my wife did bump the car into one!

Lol that would not be wanted

Well it looks like its spineless? So that narrows it down a bit.

Thanks for the replies. I might just keep it now

Well, the plant certainly seems to like the spot it has found in the greenhouse, as it has been flowering for weeks. I am going to let it fight it out with the cucumbers for the netting support.

Enjoy...................The relevant info is on page two but have a good look through anyway The mother plant has taken a few degrees of frost before but it's the first time that one of the children has.I've lost Cubanola seedlings of up to a year old for no apparent reason. I suspect...