"Oh my god - what's that"

We can look and dream though!

He has a bit of a thing for Lewisia too...............

https://plus.google.com/photos/105169228901870620843/albums/5170605746472921873?banner=pwa

 

Keith - all I can say is WOW - I have had a close look at them all. I do like some of those Moraeas

GCC - now that is a real WOW or is it a PHEW plant.

 

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Luckily I don't have any in my garden - you an feed Grandkids to them & I might be tempted.

 

He has a fascinating collection!
I have some Morea huttonii seeds in at the moment - up to a year to germinate, and even then I was told "expect low germination".

That really does have the OMG factor! Do you know the name?

 

Rafflesia arnoldii -
If you're looking for weird - plants or otherwise - stop when you reach your level of tolerance!

here's an interesting site:-http://www.chilloutpoint.com/featured/4-worlds-most-unusual-plants.html

 

gcc - I have Dracunculus vulgaris. Here is a photo of it today.

 

Hi Pater,
buy one of those giant sunflower seeds, they write on the seeds 4mtr high, so I guess if you don't plant it in a pot but in the ground and put chemical fertilizer on regularly you will end up with a monster

rosa viridiflora, if you want sth towards the strange/ugly

moss roses are probably not evoking OMGWT, but they have nice mossy flower buds, rosa centifolia muscosa is a well known one

 

Love weeds - I tried to grow a Bolivean sunflower - Tithonia diversifolia, a couple of years ago. But couldn't get any seeds to germinate.


I think this one was 26 feet high.