I don't go a bundle on thistles generally, but the 'milk thistle' is a nice thing to have popping up in odd spots. There's a dryish, sandy bank...
Or it could be lacking in a few essential minerals/trace elements. It looks as though it is growing in a succulent collection and possibly...
Yup, that's the one, a year or so after it has grown on a bit.
This doesn't look like a bromeliad to me. It is more like Dracaena deremensis 'Compacta', which is widely sold for bottle gardens when young and...
Ah a 'Joey Palm' (Johannesteijsmannia altifrons). I've always fancied these and a few years ago IKEA were knocking them out at a very reasonable...
I had a similar instance of young plants jumping into my pockets when I was in Cyprus last year. Oddly enough they were Kalanchoes (Bryophyllums)...
In this little corner, we get it much warmer than most of Cornwall and with significantly less rain too [img] The last time it dropped below...
I've grown one John, but it is not a plant for wintering outside due to very high humidity coupled with low temperatures. The roots will rot if...
There's a 'hedge of them growing along the roadside on my way to work. Although only about 7 miles inland, it is as cold there as almost anywhere...
Pete, I'll put money on your plant flowering this year. It is already building up to it with the shorter leaves being produced at the top, which...
Fresh seed and lots of heat is the answer for Musa. The trouble is that getting truly fresh seeds is a bit of a lottery and most tend to have...
I decided to get a few of these from Focus a couple of weeks ago. I already have a clump that has been growing in the garden for about 10 years,...
So I hope you won't resent me for mentioning that the big clumps of nutans planted along the top of my garden wall are budding nicely with fat...
Surely this is feverfew - Tanacetum/Chrysanthemum parthenium? Pity the poor folks that eat the leaves in sandwiches or make 'tea' from it to...
This looks decidedly like the 'false pregnancy' that one of the stems on my clump exhibited the year before last. In the end it just carried on...
Backtracking along this thread a bit, Pete where did you get the Coccoloba from? I've been trying to track it down for yonks and concluded that...
I'm 99% certain it is the 'garden balsam' Liz - Impatiens balsamina. It doesn't seed itself about that freely except in the south of the UK and...
I can't remember whether I've mentioned this before, but have you tried Aloe ciliaris ('Climbing Aloe') LOL? It does very well in the Med and can...
Couldn't resist butting in with this chat about Pandoreas. This is the 'straight' P. jasminoides, which I've had growing around the kitchen door...
A lot of places are doing much the same nowadays Strongy. Most are grown very quickly in vast numbers over in Holland and they're shipped out by...
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