Tropical Gardening

we have a large shrub of Tabernaemontana outsidemy office window...it's rather boring if I'm honest and have never noticed any scent....that's a complimentary pic of it though ;-)

It flowers and produces a large, hard, black berry. I purchased six seeds, started two and two weeks later had two plants. The plant in the photo is four months old. Here is the information from the site: Mgambo is a little gem of a tree native to East Africa. Only 15' tall in captivity, it...

@sal73 - if you went to Harrys' link then the Begonia would have been a big plant. I've been there a few times, ordered on the net a couple of times too and totally swear by them. For example, most plants that I've had are second year plants requiring a one metre box for mail order. P&P is not...

I'm also certain that I've had longer inflorescences on Hedychium greenii in previous years, but mine have been like yours this year ... apart from their ease of propagation if they don't improve I'm going to find them a new owner

I'm leaving the Musella and the basjoo outside, Sal. I intend giving them a bit of protection, but if they dont make it I have replacements as both sucker quite well.

Thanks Fern! The best thing about it is that the colours in real life are as good as in the first photo that I saw of it!

Mine are a little behind yours at the moment Peter. They'll be in the g/house with a little heat this winter I'm afraid as my front room hits 25°c once I get the fire going!I'm just building up the courage to dry out my seed grown Gloriosa lutea for their first winter rest.

@JWK That's rather low overnight temps for tomatoes!

New thread available for What's Looking Exotic in October 2013 - in case you want to mark it as "watched"

Apparently if you call it a scientific experiment there is no failure, only lessons learned!

I am going to suggest a bamboo. One of the Fargesia. This is a clumping, non-invasive genus, that doesn't get out of control. And it will complement the tropical look of the Palms.Fargesia scabrida is a fantastic, fairly new introduction. Might be a bit difficult to track down, but well with...

Warmth and humidity are the key to keeping Nepenthes pitchers going.I personally don't think you need to feed the pitchers. In fact, if you overfeed, it will hasten their demise. There will probably be a few fungus gnats in the soil and any other bugs they might catch is more than enough...

I had two large pots of B Nutans Var and decided to split them up last June. They had leaf damage from being put out too early and got frosted and didn't look to good, I now have about 15 small ones in 9cm pots, some with a little root and some without. I waited till the flowers had long...

Thank you ever so much hydrogarden , the nice thing about using the forum is that we never stop learning new trick , let me see if i can find one

Coolsox, Very nice. I love this genus for its wierd flowers.

At the start of the year I planted out four Musa Sikkimensis I grew from seed over the winter - Ive just left them to get on with it & they have done really well: -- I was hoping that Musella Lasiocarpa was going to flower this year, but its not quite gotten too it. It has produced a couple of...

One of the best new plants this year has been Mackaya bella.....................It set seed and I collected as many as I could (bearing in mind that the pods explode). A trial sowing of ten seeds has so far produced five seedlings at the three week mark.....................As if that's...

Six is just about perfect for this type of system.

Dead presumably ... given how poisonous Ricinus are! Seems like a suicidal plant to