BM's August Hideout...

Gob Smacked!!..

 

Ooh, snow ... forgot what that was like ...

Sorry, Babe ... I saw the Aptenia cordifolia and thought it looked familiar but passed by it as you haven't said it "took" and it was a trial run. I am being "strangled" by it at the moment and I am amazed at yours with your rain as it can live in dry rock walls for months on end. Be interesting to see how it winters with you.

:eek: I've double checked now, that's not my Ricinus is it? No, it's a Fatsia thingy ... here at the mo unless they are tended to and on irrigation they look dead as dodos. The "mother" of yours certainly looks well beyond her sell by date but will spring back into life in the winter rainy season, should we have one.

 

Hello, cheers Pal, I was hoping it would be Jaws dropping :D

No the Ricinus is doing fine. Not overly huge at the moment as I am looking for a space to pot it on to. I will probably over winter it in its pot and then give it a full summer to get big. It is very different to the plump seed grown one I was given, your looks much more woody and hardy ?

 

Of course ours is hardy, Babe, it does better on the coastline rather than inland and the coastline gets the worst of the frost here, believe it or not.

The mother of yours can be a shrub four metres square, quesstimate, possibly larger ... so is that woodier and shrubbier than you expected?

 

BM,

That must be quite a micro climate you have there. Looks wonderful.

TO

 

Cheers TO :D

I recon as a woody shrub it will be ok under one of my trees. The place I have in mind is where I have my smaller TFern and that doesn't need covering.

 

Probably do better under something to keep it nice looking but I somehow think you'll be okay with it ...

Glad to see my cars back, Babe, missed them.

 

As usual not only are the plants stunning but the photos are too. Just simply fab

 

Wot can I say Bananaman,

You've excelled all expectations
:D :D :D these pic's are the biz

 

Banana Man it must feel like your in some wonderful exotic place when the sun's shinning and your outside in your garden....I'm jealous but boy it must be hard work to have a garden looking that good!
Helen.xxx.

 

Hi there again B.M. Got a question for you as you seem to be the expert palm person. Here is my poor specimen which comes in every winter and really suffers - I'm rubbish with things in pots! Then back it goes in the garden for the summer and does really well. My question is, as you can see the plant is now too big for the pot and I'll never get it out without breaking the pot, but if I did, would it survive in the garden all year round?

We get really cold winters sometimes - although short - and can get down to about minus 10 degrees. If it will survive with protection where is the best place to put it?

I just hate seeing it suffer in the house in the winter (you can still see the old leaves (fronds??) which I haven't the heart to cut off.




Ta muchly B.M.

[ 09. August 2007, 12:13 AM: Message edited by: kryssy ]