What's looking exotic in 2016

Pete, you beat me to it.

Sysirinchium Striatum

@longk , I'm surprised at you, with your knowledge of the Iris family. I reckon this is one of the easiest of them to identify.

 

I reckon that you could be right although I can't see the ribs on the stem.

 

Oh yeah, getting all technical now then are we....

 

Lets just wait for the yellow flowers

 

Makes a gem of a bedding plant for a shady corner!

I still haven't found seeds though.

If I didn't know the two of you better I would say that you're taking the wee-wee

I recently bought an Arisaema taiwanenese in bud and here it is in all its glory................








Nice to have one blooming as all my others are barely poking their heads above the soil!

 

Sarracenia flowers, most are just going over now. All have been pollinated so expecting some interesting hybrids for next year.

S x moorei



S flava var flava


S x mitchelliana


Cypripedium hybrid




Dracunculus vulgaris









This opened up this morning and has an 'interesting' fragrance. Very similar to road kill at the end of a hot summers day! You wouldn't want to stick it in a vase [emoji15]

 

Coolsox - those Sarracenia flowers are lovely. I have never seen them before or even thought about them. They are not at all what I expected.And I love your Dracunculus. Its something I have never grown - quite spectacular.

LongK - I haven't come across Arisaema taiwanenese before, but there are quite a lot of them aren't there. The stems are always lovely.


Anisodontea carpensis. A mallow from South Africa. Tender, but will overwinter just frost free.


An Arbutilon - though I don't know which. I find some are a bit big and blousey, but I like this as it's quite small and muted.


Anomathaca laxa (false freesia}. I saw masses of this at Hill House nursery in Devon. It had self seeded (perhaps with some help) and was growing freely in crevices and soil all over their huge glass house. I was told it was an annual, but on Googling I find its a tender perennial. Its a bulb that will grow from seed and flower in its first year. Tender and doesn't like being moved, but produces loads of seed.


Does anyone know what this please? It cost me 99p and for that you don't expect a name. Its a succulent with small rounded leaves. I saw a huge one in the glasshouse at RHS Whisley, but no label and no one to ask.


Clytostoma callistegioides. My first flower from seed sowed two years ago. It comes from Brazil and Argentina. Its a vine - mine is now about eight feet tall. It will apparently take some frost, but I am sure I couldn't grow it outside in Yorkshire.

 

You really have built up an interesting collection of plants @PeterS
Cant help with the succulent, but it does have a Kalachoe look about it.

 

Thanks Pete. I have finally found the secret - if I am a bit sloppy about looking after them, it causes so many to die that there always seems to be room for just one more.

Pete - you are brilliant thank you. I did think it might be a Kalanchoe, but I never took it any further. I have just had a Google and think it might be K. manginii. Many thanks.

 

PeterS, Sarracenia flowers are quite unique. Most are extremely fragrant and can vary from cat pee to a bunch of sweet roses! Once the petals fall the flower head remains intact and attractive until late autumn.

 

There's no doubt to me they grow better under glass (with the except of S purpurea ssp purpurea), but even outside they should flower if mature. Mature plants will usually have quite a large well defined crown with a thick piece of Rhizome, similar to Iris.

 

I used to grow Sarracenias, but after leaving them outside for a few years they gradually dwindled away.
They are hardy enough to survive, but as Coolsox says, they are much better under glass, produce bigger unmarked pitcher as well that way.

 

They are just coming through the soil outdoors here now.

Very nice!

I would tend to agree. I had a nice one a few years ago but when I moved it didn't like the new conditions and so in the greenhouse it went. Winter put an end to it.

 

I didn't realise that they were that close to hardy - how cold does it get for you in winter?