Have a great trip Strongy - I envy you.[IMG] If you can't bring back a big Anthurium - how about a Mucuna benetti - Red Jade Vine. They have...
Thanks Strongy - I have just had a look - huge. And you can actually buy it .... if you live in Australia.That's interesting about the spineless...
[ATTACH] Clytostoma callistegioides (Lavender Trumpet Vine)[ATTACH] Heliconia stricta (False Bird of Paradise Plant)[ATTACH] Asarina...
Hi Strongy - Thank you. You have prompted me to have a Google. And whilst nearly all Guzmanias are the normal vase of coloured leaves, I found...
Hi Nigel - this was my first Amorphophallus flower so I didn't know what to expect. Mine has been kept reasonably warm at 18C over the winter. The...
[ATTACH] Voodoo Lily (Amorphophallus konjac) - now very smelly[ATTACH] Its an impressive flower.[ATTACH] Brunfelsia pauciflora (Yesterday...
`Wonderful pictures Strongy. I loved Madeira, and would go back any time.
Happy New Year to everyone. Being winter, things are a bit quiet, but even so a few plants are flowering.[ATTACH] Thunbergia coccinea is now...
Thanks Victoria, that would explain why you never see them in flower.
Nigel - that's most unusual. I have never seen flowers on a Crassula before.
Thanks LongK. My Thunbergia mysorensis sadly died a couple of years ago. But I am more than happy with T. coccinea as a substitute. Now that I am...
Even though its now December, there are still a few plants flowering today. [ATTACH] Thunbergia coccinea, in its second year of flowering....
Lovely collection LongK, and such unusual plants. - wonderful. That Echeveria photographs really well.[ATTACH] This Hibiscus had been outside...
Hi Victoria, I do like unusual things and this has to come close to the top of the list.Strongy - they have some lovely stuff down there, but I...
Hi Victoria. I am fine thanks. I keep thinking of you everytime I see my Tecomaria and also my Pandorea, that you gave me seeds for. Its been...
[ATTACH] Tecomaria carpensis (Cape Honeysuckle). @Victoria kindly gave me some seeds for this several years ago and I have a fine plant standing...
Hi chaps - I am sorry I have been absent for some time but I have been very busy writing a computer program, which I should have finished a long...
Lovely pictures LongK.I remember very well seeing it in flower with you at the Oxford Botanic Gardens. I always understood that it was a very...
Lovely LongK - Iochroma is one of my favouritesI would agree with LongK. I. niamniamensis is basically a 'Busy Lizzie' and I would treat it...
Nigel and Pete - its nice to have confirmation about Hoya and the sun. At least its not a nasty virus.
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