Tropical Gardening

Naw! It's a large leaf with a bird standing on it - specifically to illustrate the size of the leaf.As soon as I'd taken the picture I told him he could fly away

ta Longk , I think more to come as well I will take another photo September Lets hope I get it through another winter , wont be much space left in the greenhouse though

Hi An update on the use of Provado Ultimate Fruit & Vegetable Bug Killer on my Brug's I wont be using it again on my Brug's, I sprayed three of the four I have, the one I didn't spray continues to grow and looks healthy. Unfortunately (comparing to the one I didn't spray) the three I sprayed...

Firstly, take it out the pot, wash off the roots and cut away all the dead ones, if the stem seems soft at the bottom you will need to keep cutting upwards until you find good tissue with no blac rot or soft bits. You then let it dry for a day and pot into gritty compost in the smallest pot...

Hahaha ... NOW I see the canes I think I was distracted by the bench before ...

On seeing your planters I thought you might be interested in this article ;

Thanks John - thats very helpful. It shows what can be done with a big plant.

I've done a lot of research about them before I bought one. It came with full growing instructions and a certificate of authenticity. We're going to grow it in a large terracotta pot.

I just pull off the individual flower (petals) that have finished, to "tidy it up a bit"

They are Phoenix canariensis,

I've planted a Clematis otophora, its a species clematis, comes from western and central China, with bright yellow flowers.

Excellent John - some plants are already a good size.

Thank you very much, Victoria! I appreciate it.Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Lol , Mogwley that`s a Shefflera arboricola , no frost resistend but will tollerate -4c , overall seen many of them all over London ..... I would love to buy a taiwanian for my new garden , finger cross that should be a garden show near by and Crug farm shold be there

We're lucky to have the market here as well as a couple of farm shops, a couple of florists that stock a lot of plants and one of my favourite shops is half a grocery type store and half gardening items with a fantastic array of plants outside which are added to every Tuesday and Thursday, his...

It's supposed to be a well behaved variety, clump forming, not too tall, copes with thinning out and trimming if required and suitable for small gardens. I did a fair bit of research before choosing one because I know some grow and spread like mad!The mature ones in pictures do arch/flop over...

Where is it situated ? It could be not enough or too much light, too dry? they should never dry out even in winter.

Stephen - I bought some small Celosia recently thinking they were annuals - but I love the colour and shape anyway. But I will keep them inside overwinter at a min of 10C and just see if they come back. I think I did read that they are annual/short lived perennials somewhere. Victoria - have...

Excellent stuff Sal, you have the space you need to make use of all the plants.. it'll be interesting to see it when everything is grown up too :D

Take over your neighbour's garden(s)?!!