Tropical Gardening

@JWK That's rather low overnight temps for tomatoes!

New thread available for What's Looking Exotic in October 2013 - in case you want to mark it as "watched"

Apparently if you call it a scientific experiment there is no failure, only lessons learned!

I am going to suggest a bamboo. One of the Fargesia. This is a clumping, non-invasive genus, that doesn't get out of control. And it will complement the tropical look of the Palms.Fargesia scabrida is a fantastic, fairly new introduction. Might be a bit difficult to track down, but well with...

Warmth and humidity are the key to keeping Nepenthes pitchers going.I personally don't think you need to feed the pitchers. In fact, if you overfeed, it will hasten their demise. There will probably be a few fungus gnats in the soil and any other bugs they might catch is more than enough...

I had two large pots of B Nutans Var and decided to split them up last June. They had leaf damage from being put out too early and got frosted and didn't look to good, I now have about 15 small ones in 9cm pots, some with a little root and some without. I waited till the flowers had long...

Thank you ever so much hydrogarden , the nice thing about using the forum is that we never stop learning new trick , let me see if i can find one

Coolsox, Very nice. I love this genus for its wierd flowers.

At the start of the year I planted out four Musa Sikkimensis I grew from seed over the winter - Ive just left them to get on with it & they have done really well: -- I was hoping that Musella Lasiocarpa was going to flower this year, but its not quite gotten too it. It has produced a couple of...

One of the best new plants this year has been Mackaya bella.....................It set seed and I collected as many as I could (bearing in mind that the pods explode). A trial sowing of ten seeds has so far produced five seedlings at the three week mark.....................As if that's...

Six is just about perfect for this type of system.

Dead presumably ... given how poisonous Ricinus are! Seems like a suicidal plant to

I`ve never growed one as it`s a really slow grower and the roots are really invasive ....really can help ...but welcome to the forum

It looks a lot smaller than in the pot. Hopefully it won't take too long to get going.

I can believe it! One of my cats is a right clumsy sod! But he is catching the odd squirrel lately so I let him off!Bomarea is easy (if slow) from seed. Plant World Seeds is where I got mine.

Cheers thank you! Lovely pic btw

I like it, but I can't ever see me spending 6 hours a day every day in the garden

coolsox , that was a new experiment and the spring didn`t help at all , no one know what would happen and so far I still don`t have a new bulb out yet .... but in case we can always try again

Seems that Musa has been slow this season because of the cold spring.

One already flowered, I can't find the rest!