Hi icom and welcome to the forum - I hope you are still with us. I am afraid I have only just seen your post.Was the water container higher than...
Hi Simona and a warm welcome to the forum. That's a gorgeous palm. I assume its a Dwarf Fan Palm (Chamerops humilis) - though I am not too good on...
LongK - I will let you have some Salvia leucantha. Thanks for the kind offer of seeds for Lobelia tupa. I grew some from seed a couple of years...
That's really impressive Kindredspirit :dbgrtmb:
I have plenty - just let me know it you want a bit. No, I am sure they don't. I have been thinking about the awesome size of their Thunbergia...
Africa [ATTACH] Strelitzia reginea (Bird of Paradise Flower) with Zantedeschia aethiopica (Calla Lily) in front. Both from South Africa....
[ATTACH] I first saw Wentworth Castle conservatory last autumn having heard that it had just had a £2.7m revamp. The planting was fabulous and...
I had to look that one up - fabulous. But you are keeping us all in suspense without showing a picture.No Prickly as in prickles that draw...
Harry - so sorry to hear of your problems. Its a sobering thought for us all.
Nice pictures LongK - that Lantana is prickly isn't it. Mine have done nothing so far. That Canna is amazingly fast to flower from seed. Except...
Thanks Anthony. In fact its some way from my house its at the bottom of the garden where it gets most sun. The logical place would be the back of...
[ATTACH] I have just had a clear out and re-arrangement of my conservatory - left.[ATTACH] Right.[ATTACH] A pink Mandevilla has just started...
That's a good idea to grow some aroids as a group. I have always grown them singly - but I think a group would look good.A few days ago I went...
Pete - that Echium is brilliant. I haven't cracked how to overwinter them. Inside my house its not humid but there is not enough light. Inside my...
Richard, I think the dry corm method of overwintering bananas mainly works for Ensete Maurelii. I am not sure if it works for anything else - but...
I am just looking at the base of yours Richard - its very big. Mine are still pretty small by comparison.However they grow so fast that we will...
That's a really good size Richard - looking at the base. Did you dig it up for the winter or had it always been in a pot before?
It will certainly grow from a very small tuber, but I found it didn't flower much till the tuber got quite a bit bigger. I would be interested to...
It just goes to show that you can be pretty rough with them and they will still come back.
Is that the one you sliced off Mowgley - because its looking very good.I haven't got the hang of them yet. There is clearly a main growing point...
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