Brilliant Scrungee - that's my kind of price. You have encouraged me to go out and look for end of season bargains.
I think legalised pot smoking on a small scale would be an interesting experiment. I don't approve of drug taking, but then I don't approve of...
Yvonne - you have done marvellously already. In some ways a blank canvas can be the best start - that's how I started. There are no hang-ups about...
Gaz- what a wonderful jungle. It is inspirational - and set me thinking. :dbgrtmb:
Rhodichiton was a first for me this year and I was exceptionally pleased with it. It went above the top of the cane wigwam at 5 feet and flowered...
Pete - I always thought that Kent could have some very cold winters, but you keep amazing me with your exotics that grow outside. That...
Kristen - I really don't know about overwintering. But, as you see them for sale in the spring as bare tubers, I suspect that you overwinter them...
Strictly speaking edible ginger, I think, is Zingiber officinale, as opposed to the ornamental gingers that are various species of Hedychium. But...
At the moment I have left the doors to the greenhouse and summerhouse open. Even when it was -3C outside, a couple of nights ago, it was still...
Longk - I had to look up G. lutea. Thanks for the intro. It was a bought tuber, but I think it is a rothschildiana because there is a faint...
Yes Verdun - I think that you would have a good chance of both of them flowering in Cornwall. The imperialis is better known and I suspect the...
Longk - thats very kind - I would love a cutting - thank you. [IMG] I find the above interesting rather than impressive. On the left the...
Hi Verdun. These can be seriously massive. Apparently the hollow stems of Dahlia imperialis are sometimes used as drainpipes in Mexico. My...
Assuming XXXXL stands for extra, extra, extra, extra large, I am showing the tubers that I lifted today. They are from Dahlia imperialis and...
In some ways I am not surprised that there are so many hallucinogenic plants - though I was not aware of all those. I think that we all know that...
Thanks LongK - its nice to have hints on what will and won't flower in our climate. that Lotus has been hovering around my wanted list for some...
That Strelitzia is amazing Pete. I always thought of them as being tropical exotics that would hate our weather.
Life's a bitch - and then you die :heehee:
Lovely pictures Wylie. I have read about H. mutabilis - but its nice to see the sequence of pictures.
Salamander - I do agree with you. I was emphasising the need to dry out rhizomes before storing for winter, and didn't make myself clear. I...
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