Thanks Richard. I now have a free standing garden room at the bottom of my garden (where the sun is). I heated it over the winter with a minimum...
Kristen - I think you have got it all wrong. Its like saying that getting drunk on supermarket plonk is the same as getting drunk on the finest...
Propagating Ensete Maurelli - day 160 Richard - that's lovely. Maurelli has to be my favorite. [ATTACH] At the start of this thread I showed...
I tried quamoclit but couldn't get any seeds to germinate - so will be interested how it turns out. But Pete's comment suggests I may not be...
Yes - in one of the greenhouses. A large part of the pleasure of going to nurseries, as opposed to garden centres, is to see their beautiful stock...
:snork: - I wish I could be so handsome. My Ravenalla is only 6 inches tall, so that would make me very short. :doh:
I am planning to grow them all inside - LongK. It can get very cold up here and I don't trust anything other than hardy perennials to overwinter...
I have always assumed that many species of Ipomea are perennial - albeit tender, In fact I believe that some can be very invasive in warmer...
Bilbo, Victoria and Wylie - lovely photos of S. nicolai. I saw one last year at Wisley for the first time - really impressive. [IMG] I was...
That Clianthus is lovely LongK. I have just returned from a few days in Devon. On the way down I called in at the Old Walled Garden nursery...
Thanks Pete - that was something that had been puzzling me. But it seems very early into flower even so. I still can't trust stuff outside yet....
That's brilliant Pete
LongK - that's amazing that Salvia discolor is in bloom now. Although many Salvias are long flowering, they usually don't start for a while yet.
[ATTACH] Yellow Brugmansia - nice to see the coloured ones start to flower. [ATTACH] Asphodelius alba. Grown from seed 7 years ago - its only...
To me, A. sikokianum is the only one with a beautiful flower, but I love the stems on many of the others, and as you say Nigel - they are so...
I had no idea that it was actually policy not to water - daft.
Fascinating site. :dbgrtmb:
That's lovely LongK. You think you know what a Gladiolus looks like and then you find you don't know anything. :dunno: There are just so many...
Nigel - that red one is lovely. [ATTACH] Arisaema sikokianum - very strange.
[IMG] Now - this is a Tibouchina to die for. T. grandiflora. The only problem is that a) its unobtainable here and b) its short lived,...
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