What's looking good in December 2014

My friend brought me these today from her garden....aren't they wonderful?
AND they smell like gardenias......


Jenny

 

They are lovely Jenny.

 

I couldn't resist showing off a Brugmansia flowering in December so I took this before going to work this morning................


A bit cheaty really as it is B.sanguinea which is one of the cool group of Brugs.

 

Love it

 

Me too. Well worth the extra effort IMO.

 

From the stunningly architectural to the merely colourful...Camellia sasanqua

 

that is "merely" exquisite Noisette...
Jenny

 

It was the first plant to go in over here, Jenny.....it's got my Dad under it

 

Signalling in Christmas is always my Poinsettia, which is about 4 meters tall but is cut back to one meter after blooming (around March) ...

 

That's lovely noisette .,. the Camellia that is, but also the memory of your father. My friend's husband is under a lemon tree in their garden in Spain. He liked his lemons for his drinkies so it was a fitting shrub to plant him under.

 

Thanks, Victoria. In fact, Dad didn't want to move to France, yet he made it over here before we did, unknowingly. There are days when I sincerely wish that my mother was down there with him
Your Poinsettia is amazing! What a difference a few hundred kilometres makes, eh?

 

Vicky, have you ever seen pink or white Poinsettias planted out anywhere? may be they are slightly more delicate. Yours look stunning as usual.

 

Hiya Clive

No, I have never seen pink or white planted out ... and to be honest, you rarely see the red in gardens ... I can think of perhaps a half dozen Portuguese homes! When I bought it oh some 12 years ago was it?, I was asked if I wanted 'um para casa or um para rua?', ie, one for the house or one for the road as, according to the Portuguese they are different species and you are lucky if you could ever grow one that was intended as a house plant. Obviously, mine is a 'rua' species.

I did however buy one of the hybrids five years ago because it looked unique , but it didn't survive the winter ...



PS Clive, that's one of the Jacarandas it's climbing into and Charlie the Brug it's towering over ... which himself is more than two meters tall now ...

 

Plantlets forming along the leaves of Bryophyllum daigremontianum (formerly Kalanchoe daigremontianum).................