Tropical Gardening

@Fof good news especially the new roots and new growth. Ours finished flowering some weeks ago. The flowers are beautifully scented. We stand our orchids on gravel trays with some rain water (not a lot) so that the humidity is kept high.

Lovely Beaucarnea @Victoria Where's mine ? I can't remember where I put it last autumn ... it must be in the greenhouse somewhere. I will have a look later on. I won't be putting it outside yet.

I got this one this week from Spain. It was called Orange Yellow.It arrived with buds which are Yellow. First bud opening yesterday ... it was windy ...Opened fully today ...

You need to put in on a gravel tray so that when you spray/water with rain water this will increase the humidity.

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It looks very dehydrated. You need to put the whole plant into a bucket of rain water and then allow all the water to drain through. Do not cut off the roots outside. Then put the plant on a saucer of gravel and mist it to allow the humidity to increase.

Hiya Rod. I love Pandas. Hope you are all well. xxI read a post by Woo from years ago and he said he cut his back to a foot ... so I had J cut the above and one (can't remember name) which I have had longer than yours.

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

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...

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

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...

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

Had J bring them out of the The Baffa to the front coffee table. The little ones are leafless.

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...

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.

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 took four leaves off the multifida an two off the podagrica and think another two will have to go. The podariga did this last year.

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