Tropical Gardening

I have put mine outside - just been trying to empty the house. But it hates this cold weather, the top leaves have gone brown and are rotting - so its inside again.

Joolz , wait.... to my expirience they tend to have roots rotting very easy in cold and wet .

I would love to be able to get hold of some of those Aristolochias. Have seen Hydnora in the wild. It is a parasite that attaches itself to the roots of plants - mainly Acacia trees. You don't see the plant at all. Only the flower (if you can call it that ) emerges from the soil.

Very nice report and little bit joules because I love to travel and swimming is my favorite hobby. I never go there but not it is in my list for my upcoming tour. I wish to swim in an infinity pool.Above Ground Pools

One already flowered, I can't find the rest!

Seems that Musa has been slow this season because of the cold spring.

coolsox , that was a new experiment and the spring didn`t help at all , no one know what would happen and so far I still don`t have a new bulb out yet .... but in case we can always try again

I like it, but I can't ever see me spending 6 hours a day every day in the garden

Cheers thank you! Lovely pic btw

I can believe it! One of my cats is a right clumsy sod! But he is catching the odd squirrel lately so I let him off!Bomarea is easy (if slow) from seed. Plant World Seeds is where I got mine.

It looks a lot smaller than in the pot. Hopefully it won't take too long to get going.

I`ve never growed one as it`s a really slow grower and the roots are really invasive ....really can help ...but welcome to the forum

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

Six is just about perfect for this type of system.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...