What's looking Exotic in 2022

Nice one Nigel, mine didn't get away this year, I think it didn't like the dry weather.

 

Jatropha podracia really looking good this year. I can't believe it is one of my seed successes with that stunning caudex living happily in full sun next to a bamboo ...


That is a rogue Freesia that keeps appearing as I had them in that pot a couple of years ago.

 

Hmm, can't find the other thread so here is the Brugmansia with the Poinsettia colouring up ...

 

You must have one heck of a microclimate there, JWK! I wouldn't dare leave Brugs and Bougies out in the open here at this time of year We've had a couple of ground frosts this week.....

 

I wasn't able to keep my Crassula ovata for more than 2 years!!! It was a birthday present from a brother of mine & his wife. it eventually died this summer

 

I can usually grow most plants like weeds but there are a few I seldom have any luck with. I can't keep a Lavender alive on the balcony for more than a few months! Yet plants grown from the same seed on the allotment I used to have were going strong for several years - & may still be going strong for all I know after 10 years since I planted them out. But the few little plants I brought home died within a couple of months!

 

WOW! @Victoria your Poinsettia is sooo tall! Fortunately (?) our plants grow no more than 50cm or we'd never get them in our living rooms! Your plant reminds of the one I kept growing in Spain for at least 5 years. It got too tall & leggy & it just wasn't worth the time & space (on the balconies in Spain) that I probably got rid of it. As we didn't have Internet way back then I didn't know you could prune them back & get them to remain fairly dwarf & bushier. So I never did any pruning other than cutting off the dead flowerheads each year. (This would have been in the mid 80s I think!)

 

It is cut back to about a meter every March when it has finished blooming.

 

I've set one of mine at 3.7c which means it goes down to 2.7 before coming on.

The other thermostat is pretty accurate but it's not digital so I have to do a bit of trial and error with that one but aim for around 2 to 3 degrees.

One of my heaters has a one or two KW facility, I'm wondering if you get a better spread of temperature running it at one KW as I think when you sail that close to the wind getting cold spots could be a problem.
Any thoughts?

 

I find canna and ginger fairly root hardy if dry in general Aeoiniums don't like any frost neither do brugs although the roots can survive.
Ensete seems to look for any excuse to die but I think bougainvillea can be quite hardy if dry and leafless.
Some varieties are probably more tender that others.