Tropical Gardening

Longk,Those Impatiens are really unusual!

Bilbo I`m sure that your £2.50 musa will look great near the other musa you already have or even better near the bananas puppy that all the musa are producing after all this rain . Now that I remember i bough another musa just because I was thinking to plant in the soil and see how will it come...

I'm only talking about B. sanguinea, I'm sure most of the large flowered ones we are growing would prefer more sunshine as long as they get plenty of moisture

I had one a few years ago, but it didn't do too well. They get very big, so ideally, should be in the ground. But our winters are too cold for them, so they should get some sort of protection.

We're all learning from each other!! Wayne

Thats my problem Pete, I am what i call a "fluffy" gardener.I have nearly everything in pots and a very small area for growing directly into the soil. I am never armed with a spade

Not really - if it doesn't flower you can just take cuttings and flog them on ebay for £13 a time. Simples!

Cor thats some garden. Kinda puts my geraniums in the shade

Oooops, sorry Kristen!! You are so politea proper gent sir, Jenny

We all need bigger greenhouses Especially this year.

It is so pretty. I guess those are the species that I only get to enjoy watching from far, far away. It is too hot here. Thanks for sharing.

Tks Wayne, I shall give it my best shot

Quite a few of the houseplants have sulked since the move, especially the orchids. A couple have thrived though............. This is one of my favourites..............

I have been sent some seeds for Tricyrtis lasiocarpa and have two questions;1 - are these viable seeds? They look a little small to me............. and2 - what is the correct way to go about germinating them? I've grown Tricyrtis in the past and have always needed to give them a...

It almost rewards you for neglect - mine seems to produce the aerial tubers over the winter when I withhold water.

Far better than I ever got!

Hi Rr I would leave the flowerheads on to self seed but you can cut away the old leaves from last year but leave the fresh new leaves that have grown this year. Spruce

excellent, love the way pic no 4 looks now from when you started

Peter, Thanks for all that info. Bertie is definitely of the warm group and i have just germinated a sanguinea from the cold group. Oh dear Ive been googling a lot about these things but didnt realise there was warm and cold groups . Ive repotted him but into a mixture of multi with some john...

Absolutely gorgeous!!!... and heres little ole me so chuffed cos ive managed to germinate a sanguinea seed. No doubt it will be as huge as those, this time next year