Tropical Gardening

I think you are right with Brevifolia Sirius. It will be interesting to see how they have fared in a month or so.

Pete - I have never had a flowering Strelitzia. Where exactly do the flower shoots come from. Is it from every leaf axil? and do you just get one flower per axil? Do you also get flowers from the outside axils which are younger, or just the central ones?

Hi I have got one outside but it is under cover, and so far, seems fine.It also has a lot of pups attached and I'm going to have a go at removing mine come May

Just use a piece of the plant with a few nodes lay it on the mix in a seed tray and just lightly cover each nodal area with some of the mix & within about 8 weeks you should have roots & leaves from all the nodes,I then snip off the stems joining each rooted node and pot them up in a gritty...

Very kind of you to offer, thank you. If you can get fresh seeds, try growing u. westonii (Polypompholyx). I grew these partially submerged and the bright pink flowers where amazing. The seeds need time, but are not too difficult to germinate.

Steel rots, so not too sure as to the implications of that on a Tree Fern, but it can be bad for the human body (especially the blood stream).Quite possible that they have taken their toll on it to the extent that the struggle to survive was just too much this year.

While I was driving around New Zealnd , near by Christchurch (10/15 frost every year and -4c ) I saw this amazing plant that look like a young coconut tree , but then after a closer look I realised that it was setaria palmifolia never seen it before and i was quite surprice to see that actually...

It is a species Paph...Gratixianum

My husband does the drilling and tough work, he likes the fact I save money by recycling items in the house for my garden needs instead of spending money on new pots and gardening goodies. Its probably his way of saying "Thanks for not spending tons of cash on your gardening whims and wants."...

That's definitely F1

Take the plant out of the soil and pour some water over all the roots. The ones that go green are alive. The ones that don't are dead and can be cut off.

Suttons sell wasaby roots ......so no need to go to a Japanese restaurant

P.S. I put all my tender plants out a couple of days ago. Night Min. here forecast for 10C (well, probably 8C) all week, so they went out and will stay out - until we get another frost forecast. Much easier than out-and-back-in-again which is necessary if it is colder at night.

I had them in New Zealand and apparently a virus is killing all the plants , called golden kiwi , are actually really sweet . recently in Uk i bought some kiwi berry

Interesting Java - there are just so many plants that we ( well I) have never heard of.

Thanks Wayne , the one in the picture is not mine , the picture is from internet ...... I was about to buy one and they told me that mobisu can carry virus and it would have been to my risk .......

It is a bit of a bully but not so bad.. My friend grows it & this is what she says..

I've gotta grow one!!!! Val

Thanks Pete. I potted them up this afternoon in exactly that mix.

here are some info: -seeds germinate easily, to 98% after 15 days and the plant that reproduces well from cuttings, can be in any soil, even if it grows more quickly with rich soils and limestone 2 - the plant can bloom and bear fruit already after 11 months from sowing 3 - comes from Africa...