Rich Your 1st photo doesn't look prickly enough to be Manicata. I have one that grew bigger than that when it was in a tub. There are smaller...
Ere Tabby, are you looking at my bird? :D :D :DNik
I've had a long and illustrious career in Show Business. I once managed 10CC, but the police surgeon said that the specimen needed to be a bit...
Jenny I would definitely go with the florist advice from lisa, nature is such a fickle thing. Have a lovely day. Nik
Hi Caroljames Dark green glossy leaves sounds good. Is it a "Grandiflora"? A twice yearly good dose of sequestrene will help keep the soil acid,...
I put up my little greenhouse last autumn purely as extra space for overwintering frost tender exotics eg lemons, strelitzeas, palms etc. There...
Liz Glad you like the gadget. Best make twice as much sloe gin next time ;) "nunc hic aut numquam" translates roughly as "Its now or never",...
Pete I saw some aeonium canariensis plants at Amulree Exotics on Thursday. http://www.turn-it-tropical.co.uk/ They are big aren't they. We came...
PeterS I'm sorry I missed your question till now. I can only blame the drink. It was that time of the year. I got mine from www.maplin.co.uk....
Pete I don't think palm seeds germinate very well anywhwere. A near neighbour in Spain planted 200 fresh yellow palm dates over 18 months ago, and...
I'm supposed to be typing our self assessment tax forms, but that is so enthralling, I needed a break. 'Er Indoors returning from a comfort break...
Pete Those aeoniums are enormous!! I've only ever viewed them as "house leeks on a stick" in green, greeny red, or aubergine before. Are they all...
I like robbsy1s "bog garden" :D Do you think a Gunnera would go in there?Nik
I'd never seen an aeonium flower before, then I saw two. This one hardly out, and another, impossible to photo on a motorway roundabout, a chrome...
Congratulations Nathan and the team. Heres to the next year.Nik
My camera has stopped working :( , so excuse the humbug [img][img]
Oh yes. I missed the deadline for voting in the October photo comp for that very reason. I always blame the last glass.
Pete 9.5Kwh seemed a lot to me, and 5.7C was a little higher than planned, but I'm still getting to grips with the thermostat setting on the...
To maintain a minimum of 5.7C in the greenhouse last night took 9.5Kwh. Projecting this throughout the winter means that the lemons are going to...
Pete Here is a picture of some weather. The standard is so high, all I can do is a joke.[img]
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