>>I don't think I want to go in for exotics - too expensive and needy Ah but you see, us chaps go for arm candy :D In reality, there...
Charlie and Steve B Thanks for putting that right. I couldn't remember taking that photo, but I scoured my files for an hour in case :D Nik
Pete How did I know that someone would ask that :D It's Pennisetum Glaucum, Purple Majesty, ornamental millet. Just got that off the label "in...
Pete Here are a few more pics. Standing at the top left corner of the overview you're rotating clockwise.(I hope) We are off for a week in the...
We have Holly Blues, but the body isn't as big as that one. Nik
1st Charlies "2nd hover fly on petunia". Printed on A4 and laminated, it would make another wonderful placemat on the BBQ table. :D Cheesy I...
Aqua Your mystery wild flower looks like Honesty to me. Does it have 2P sized round, flat, semitransparant seed pods on it by now? Nik
Pete Our lean-to conservatory/shed has been called a nut house before, but never a palm house :D It can manage 10 feet high, just, so there is...
Hi Zutman If you like the sound of exotics, you could try overwintering Cannas alive and green, rather than dormant tubers/bulbs/hairy things....
Petal You could always line it with polythene bubble, install a fan heater and thermostat, and use it to overwinter exotic flowers like...
I guess most things have progressed this year. In May 04 we bit the bullet and took the Palms and the Gunnera out of their pots and straight into...
Pete Spot on. The "Big" one is Strelitzia Nicolai, a birthday present last March. The other one is a pair of S. Reginas, which, after 4 years of...
This is one side of the BBQ patio[img]Nik
Birdy Try these http://www.thenaturalhome.com/gasappliances.htm...
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Nathan, thanks. Pete, A wonderful picture. Its a good point about overwintering the cuttings, I'll give that a go. The Mother plant doesn't...
Nathan Re your picture posted on 4th Feb of FLOWERING Ipomea Purpurea. (Grrr) I have been doing what you do for three years, but get NO flowers. I...
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