What's looking exotic in June.

Longk are you still living in UK or you have moved in Spain?
My Euchomis are not out yet and your are in flower , same with the datura mine is still a seedling of 3 inces max and your are already in flower and I planted the seeds in march.
ps really need to know how to multiply the Euchomis by cutting leaves as I`ve just notice that I`ve got a purple leaves Euchomis.

 

It's last years tuber which I started off a couple of months ago Pete. The Dianthus packet was the first thing that came to hand to give a sense of scale.They get bigger with decent weather - these are some that got ripped off in last years winds...............


The Cubanola are interesting - think we may have discussed you having one earlier

 

Ah so its a tuber grown Dat, my seedlings are moving slowly in the recent gloom.

I dont remember the Cubanola?

 

The Datura is last years tuber that I started off again.

Eucomis leaf cuttings are easy.
Ordinary multi purpose compost and grit 50/50 in a 15cm pot.Select a mature leaf in good (firm) condition and remove. I then removed the top and bottom of the leaf and discarded, cutting the remainder into 40 to 50mm sections. Most important; place the leaf cuttings in the compost with the end that was nearest the plant down in the growing medium. Place in a clear plastic bag and place in a warm light spot.
Even after the leaf goes brown, leave it in (unless it is going mouldy), as there may well be new growth happening under the soil.

Yes - second year plant from seed sown last February.

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I will post some Eucomis pictures when they will grow up , got some normal white , few bicolor , a spotted leaves and just notice this purple leaves , really great plant and extremely frost hardy , would really love some of the new variety like dark star and the giant euchomis.​

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That is a tall one!

After the blooms are finished, they can produce a bulblet in the crown - I got one last year.

This is one that I want - the dwarf Eucomis vandermerwei

 

not 100% sure but the spotted one I`ve got is an octopus eucomis very similar to the vandermerwei , Yes i did manage to get the bulblet in the crown of the white one , but didn`t really wanted more white, got seeds out of the bicolor as well...Eucomis is just one of them plants that not really original or extremely impressive but it`s unbelivable exotic and frot hardy , alway left the bulbs in the soil and never lost one.

 

I too can't believe LongK's Eucomis - I just planted some out today in a bed and ther were just a couple on inches of leaf.

Sal - what's that purple one? That foliage is really nice.

 

I have some in deep rose pots, been in the conservatory, plunged (in their pots) last week. Nowhere near in flower :(

 

Crikey - I thought that mine were behind! There's a chap in Surrey who's has E.bicolor in bloom for about three weeks now..............
There is no sign of flowers on my E.comosa varieties yet.

 

Spring very late in East Anglia ... but I didn't think my conservatory was that cold!

You soft Southeners eh? !!!

 

Peters , that`s an eucomis dark star , it`s really nice indeed , but as a novelty plant expect to pay around £50 or more , more available in UK is the eucomis comosa 'sparkling burgundy' available from Architectural plant uk at £11 .
Last year in a fair there was a stand with bulbs and they had a box with unlabled bulbs and got some of them out for 50p each , but still don`t know what eucomis I`ve got , plus got some white Eucomis from poundland boughted 5 years ago and still growing every year.

 

Sal - I didn't realise that there were named Eucomis cultivars about. 'Sparkling Burgundy' looks very nice too. In the spring flower show in Harrogate there are usually several people selling Eucomis bulbs, so I will keep a lookout for named varieties.

I am currently growing bicolor, which flowered last year, and comosa, which has never flowered yet.

 

Dark beauty is one to keep an eye out for, but not at fifty quid!!

E.comosa seems to be one that lends itself very well to cultivars - Sparkling Burgundy and Oakhurst are the two that I have.
£11 for Sparkling Burgundy seems way over the top - £6.49 in GC's around here. I paid £4 for mine in growth at Hill House Nursery last year.

 

No flowers yet but sooo excited about this one, grew from seed last autumn only got 3 plants and after reading they can be killed by spring wet didn't hold out much hope, but they all survived and one now has a 3ft, and still growing, stalk with buds in all the leaf axils , have to admit to going out in the dark to tie it to a cane during the wind and rain the other night
Michauxia Tchihatcheffii (catherine wheel flower)