What's Looking Good In October 2014

My spring flowering crocus I planted last week are looking really good... Oh, hang on!

Edit: having done some research just now, it was Crocus Speciosus Albus I ordered and Jparkers just mislabelled their flowering time. Autumn according to the RHS... rather than Feb/Mar according to JParkers!

 

Fuschia 'Microphylla' still looking good.

 

Clerodendrum ugandense has just started blooming in the greenhouse.............

 

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It's a cracking little Fuchsia! Are they slow growing? Mine has been blooming for months but very little growth.

 

I could make you a baby if you want one...............

 

I have two Longk, one in a planter, the other as you see in a bed on sandy soil and surprisingly the one in the bed is doing better. Grown from cuttings last year and planted out this spring, the one above is now about 2 x 2ft height and spread. I'm yet to see how it over-winters.

 

That's really kind of you longk excuse my ignorance but is it a GH plant and how much care does it need,I'd hate to lose it it's a beauty

 

Both of mine were cuttings last autumn. I should have put one in the ground too really.

It is tender. After two or three years frost free is good enough.
I'll bring mine indoors in the next few days where it will bloom its heart out and then get leggy. I'll use this growth to strike cuttings in about five or six weeks so it'll not be ready for post until the spring anyway.
Other care? Lots of water when in growth.

 

I'm not sure how to put this ... but could you make one for me too please?

 

You want my baby

 

Thanks very much Longk

 

Remind me in the spring. I've made a note, but nudge me anyway!

 

Its worse .. I want you to have some of my babies too

 

Now there's an offer