Tropical Gardening

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

yes but can`t remember the name , seen one climber used by butterfly to clean from parasite and actually look like a dandelion but , would say much more pretty and it`s a climber plant.

I thought they might be new purchases, just wondering how used they are to out lousy outdoor conditions. On the other had it could be sun scorch from the warm spell a week or more ago.

Chuck the centre one - it's surviving on the nutrients that it has stored. It's quite possible that the same applies to the other two as well, but they do at least have enough material to make it worth investigating.

Here's the slightly taller of my two "seedlings", now approx 2ft tall and in an 8" pot; they're now too big for the bedroom windowsill and have been moved to the kitchen until tomorrow when they can be moved to the greenhouse now that the weather has warmed up considerably.... One more...

Thanks for the link Victoria I have been through the items , none seem to match my problem . I am hoping it is what Pete thought , sun and wind burn on tender leaves . I am going to prune back to healthy growth and get it back outside in a sheltered shady spot. I seem to be suffering the 7...

Thats beautiful

Hydro & Nick, it is a lovely little tree & will get a photo in a while.. I used to have a Redwwod Burl growing that I brought home from California, but it has taken a real turn for the worst at present but will see if I have an old photo I should do somewhere.. I shall look forward to a...

Thank you Wayne , is your plant outdoor or potted? ps more sunshine????? did you see any around???? where i can buy some of it?????

I think I tried them once, but at the time I was trying all sorts. I certainly didn't get anything like in your picture, makes me want to try again.

clay keep the moist , this year we had a -8 and the gunnera survived happy and healty , under strange circustance i had my Thalia next to it and for the first time i managed to keep it alive , I think clay keep them warmer in winter and keep the roots undercontroll ....or just luck.

epsom salts for magnesium forked into the root system then covered in mulch , mirical grow soluable feed as a foliar feed monthly and i've just started feeding them with maxicrop seaweed extract instead of mirical grow will post results if any

I'd vote for Gunnera. I had one by the pond in our last garden and although dramatic, it didn't dominate. Sadly we had to move in such a hurry that I left it behind. Luckily, I'd given a piece to a local Buddhist retreat centre. As it was planted next to the reed bed treatment pond it did grow...

Hi, I am both new to the forum and to gardening!!! I purchased 3 Trachycarpus fortunei palms. Two are doing very well indeed but the third has what i think is palm scale. I can only describe that the poorly palm has clear like dots which have a brown centre. When i have removed them they kinda...

that was 2 weeks ago , last week they had orchids and brugmansia for £5 . there are tropical plants everywhere

I love the color, very nice.

Thanks Scotkat. Unfortunately the Phals have mostly got to go in the house move.

talking about insulation , Pete did you ever use woodshaving rathen that straw? I`ve used the tenon machine shaving , it kept dry but still lost the bananas as they where to small , it would be nice to find a less messy way wrapping the bananas as insulation would be easy to store .