Tropical Gardening

Sorry, Caroline, If I try again to germinate Acacia Dealbata seeds, I'll do it in spring as I have too much things to do in the garden now. If you germinate some Acacia Dealbata seeds now tell me later about your experience, please.

My cannas are over 7 ft tall, they have taken a bit of a battering in the recent gales:

Will do! Thanks

Now I already have 2 blooming flowers on my Angel's Trumpet.

Big is not always beautiful, I like to pot plants on into progressively bigger pots until the final pot size, makes better use of the compost and avoids over watering and root rot that can happen with a small plant sitting in a large amount of wet compost.

Enjoy the flowers when the buds open.

Thanks everyone. How much water are people giving - a) In this warm weather b) when it gets cooler and through winter? I water mine every few days and the compost looks very dry inbetween. It`s never soaking wet even soon after heavy rain or the day after watering. I am thinking of when I have...

Thank you for your reply.

You can get a Pineapple at Asda for £0.95 When they were first grown in Europe in the 1700's, it was virtually worth it's weight in gold. Special hothouses were built, called pinery's I think, to slowly grow them. You can still see carved pineapples on the gate posts of older houses, a real...

Thank you to all of you. It doesn't sound like it's anything too serious at least. I had thought that it could still be adapting to the large ceramic pot, but there's not much I can do now.I appreciate your advice and if it doesn't improve I may try cutting it much smaller as Pete suggests....

I've bought some phyllostachys nigra seeds from ebay that came with germination instructions but as the seller didn't reply to my message once I bought the seeds I think they got the instructions off the internet and they don't know if the instructions works.This is what the instructions...

Can anyone recommend organic summer and winter citrus feed?

When I tried seed I had a fair few that had varegation ,but none of them survived

Thank you :-)

If you delve into old reference books on a lot of the so called exotics you get some very strange statements.I can remember in the 70s trying to find a yucca at a garden centre.They only stocked stuff that the text books stated were totally hardy.Tracycarpus was not readily avilible along...

I got your message Phil but for some unknown reason I can't reply to it. I've noted your address and will send some off next week.

Not a plant I know anything about, but it does appear to have died upwards if you get my meaning. Root rot perhaps?

what about another Eucomis? Zambesiaca is white flowered and coconut scented apparently. I thought I had it, but it turned out to be a purple leaf form, and the other white one I have is not coconutty. Gardenias are a good call.

Blimey, that link is the stuff of nightmares! I woudn't worry unduly, Just take off the affected leaves and make sure you feed the tree well. Citrus are greedy feeders. AFAIK there are no longer any effective fungicidal treatments available, although Bordeaux mixture is better than nothing,...

Personally I dont think it has much of a future in a pot, they are ok for a couple of years but get totally potbound go yellow and dont really thrive.