What's looking exotic in August 2012

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

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    Thought I might get the month going, after all, it should be the most exotic month of the year for most of us.

    Feijoa
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    Passiflora "mauve mist", one of the scented ones
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      Pete has the Feijoa ever produced any fruit? Has I heard that that you need need more then a plant to produce fruit.
      Ps lovely passiflora , today seen 5/6 in the garden center at £3 each , red , white , purple , passiflora alata , banana pink and a blue.
       
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      I have had fruit Sal, but I need to hand pollinate with the two other plants I have in the garden, it ripen very late, too late really and usually gets caught by the first frosts.
       
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        few update from me as well .
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          Sal - looks great!
          Nice to see the Eucomis in the foreground of the last photo - which one is it?

          I got a couple of new blooms today. The first is a plant that I bought with me from the last garden - Alstromeria psittacina..................

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          The second is a newbie this year - Belamcanda chinensis.................

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            Longk no idea got it from the luck deep bulb box , it really stand against the Eucomis bycolor , which I realised that last winter I`ve lost all the white eucomis , only got the bycolor and this dark one ......not really disappointed as I didn`t like the white anyway and now that i know that they are not even frost hardy even better.
             
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            I used to have a Eucomis called 'Sparkling Burgundy' which looked very similar to that one...:)
             
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              bilbo when are going to post few picture of your garden , really curious about you bananas and t-rex
               
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              Pete - I love that Feijoa. How big is it? I understand it can get pretty large.

              LongK - that Belamcanda is great - two more new ones on me. Is it hardy for you?
              Your Alstromeria psittacina is growing well, but nowhere near flowering yet.

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              Duranta erecta. I have shown this before when it started to flower, but make no apology as its now absolutely covered in flowers. I understand that it flowers continuously for most of the year in South America - I just hope it will have a go here.

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              Alygoyne huegelii. First flower from seed this year. A close relative of Hibiscus from Australia.
               
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                Sal,
                Your garden is looking really good. :blue thumb:
                 
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                  The red one looks like Eucomis comosa, which the Sparkling Burgundy is part of. The white ones you lost are probably Eucomis autumnalis. Last year I started some seeds of these two to go with my Eucomis bicolor. I also started the E. pole evansii, the one that can get to 6' tall.
                   
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                    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                    I like that Duranta Peter, look like an impressive plant in full flower:blue thumb:

                    My Feijoas are all in the region of 8ft high now, two are grown on a single stem and one is more a large bush.
                    Three separate seed grown plants, so cross pollinate.
                     
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                      Ficus religiosa seedlings
                       
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                        the commun ricinus is actually doing better then the blue giant , considerind that need warm , didn`t do so bad.
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                        not really exotic lily , but this has flowered for the last 5 years with no problem , it`s actually 4/5 feet high .
                         
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                          Pete,
                          What species of Passiflora is that?
                          Looks interesting.
                           
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