Tropical Gardening

This is a brilliant and helpful thread thankyou Longk

It's in a cool greenhouse now..........

thank you Pete the colour ,look like this in the picture and the shape is similar to the moore.....but I start to give up the idea to know what species it is , there are too many ....plus it must be a true species , has it been in my grandad garden for at least 40 years . It would be nice just...

Not sure when it changed I'm afraid.

They can be slow to germinate. I put some in a tray about a month ago only one is showing at the moment, they are on a heated sandbed with a propagator on.Trevor

Thanks Scotkat and PeterS.PeterS - thank my insomnia affliction (and the really annoying tickly cough that I have at the moment)! I'll no doubt have to tackle a repot soon (I keep putting that job off), so I'll do a similar post then too. I'm growing plants that I would not have been growing...

Have the same problem with Schyzostilis (maybe bad spelling) in my garden they flower occasionally and not too many blooms.

Hi, so is it just a matter of leaving them in the greenhouse and hope that they live until spring ?Gazania

That's the one Spruce!I got off fairly lightly last winter all things considered.......... I lost my Diplarrhena latifolia though which was pretty annoying.

Spruce - minus ten was probably pushing the limits a little for a Western Australian native! The white one came from Burncoose - they incorrectly sent the blue form at first, but replaced it without any fuss at all and told me to keep the wrong one too, which is why I have two of the blue form....

Thanks for the advice Peter just sent for some seed of this from the RHS.

Hi there Sal Now some of your postings make sense .. I repeat SOME ... I will respond to your PM shortly. Tchau

I wish you both all the best and really hope she finds her feet again soon. And you too, don't forget to make sometime for yourself while you look after her

Lol! Now the food I probably couldn't do....but the rope bridge....I would LOVE that!!! :D

Smashing stuff Mira

Thank you for your replies - i will post a picture at the weekend, this way you may recognise what it is. There are lots of different grass type plants in gardens around my parents, phormiums/cordylines/yucca/redhot pokers/pampass grass/could be any of them to me. Also, searched around her...

I grow dozens of them here, have done for a few years now, but all in the ground, various types/heights/colours. If it's ultimate height says 60cm expect at least that and they'll want to spread so make the pots diameter and depth about 2' each way - they've very strong root systems so a...

p.s. Pixe - Agaves take really well from the off shoots , popped in a pot of gritty compost , I've got five in the greenhouse from mine . Growing from seed sounds interesting . have fun with that . Thanx again : )

Thank you again Gaz ; )....so far it look like i will have to wait till spring and maybe will be more lucky . Thank you all and please any nice suggestion about unusual hardy plants are more then welcome.