What's looking Exotic in 2021

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  1. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I've never noticed it being vicious, slightly rough texture, but I wouldn't say thorny.
     
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      Mine has just finished flowering, so there will be a bit of a problem when the old rosettes die and I have to extract them from the pot- I agree with @pete it's a bit spiky but nowhere as vicious as Puya. I had a previous one where the little blue flowers showed much better (below)- are there any variants available I wonder? It did look a bit different in leaf. Some mentioned f. canaliculatus... FasciculariaSmall.jpg
       
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      • pete

        pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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        I broke up two large pot fulls of this back in the spring, they had been in the pots 10years plus.

        I gave a big bag of single rosettes, with the base intact, away.
        The blue flowers are almost insignificant but when you notice them it's such a strange combination.
         
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          Exactly @pete - in my current plant you could easily miss them, but I'd swear they were bigger and better in the previous plant - which died :sad:
           
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            Calliandra surinamensis, seem that the main flush is late this year as up until now it only had three flowers.
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              Hedychium gardnerianium Kahil Ginger .JPG Hedychium gardnerianum "Kahil Ginger" had this for 5 years or so now and this is the first flower.
               
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                pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                Its the best one in my opinion, nice scent as well.
                 
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                  It was worth the wait :smile:
                   
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                  definitely.
                  @Michael Hewett I'm hoping it will make a habit of flowering and it was just getting to flowering size and not due to the odd weather this year.
                   
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                    @NigelJ A nice variety, I have had H. raffillii for about 6 years now, grows to 6ft each year but has never flowered.:frown:
                     
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                      Gloxinia ... the only flower that opened from two bulbs/corms (?) the others all turned brown before opening.
                      Does anyone know why this would happen ?

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                        pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                        Looks like it's out side Michael?
                        I used to grow these a long time ago and always treated them as a greenhouse pot plant.
                         
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                          I put it outside to take the photo, it's been growing in a conservatory. I thought the photo would come out better in natural light.
                           
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                            Ok, you caught me out there. :biggrin:

                            Other than that idea, can't think why the buds would dry up and go brown.

                            Humidity, watering, feeding,too much blazing sunshine. ;)
                             
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