Tropical Gardening

Well if it's growing alright I'd leave well alone.

I'm on the lookout for a decent sweet orange at a sensible price, but they always seem to be large plants at stupid prices.

Depending whether different levels i.e. steps are involved, what about repotting them into half-barrels on wheels? All my citrus trees and a fair few tender shrubs and trees are grown in them so they can be wheeled under cover for the winter, then wheeled out onto the terrace once frosts have...

Many thanks Pete.

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

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

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...

The Melaleuca was leaning too much, on Friday ...... so Saturday I had it cut back drastically ...

Reading back, I saw this question I did not appear to answer. We do it twice a year, late Spring and Autumn.

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 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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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