WHAT'S LOOKING EXOTIC IN 2015

Thanks Longk, that's great ta

How's your Vallotta, mines just sent a flower stem up
Didn't think I would this year after splitting it.

 

I have one stem too!

 

Calydorea (Cypella) amabillis has burst into bloom on the top shelf of the greenhouse staging without me noticing!


It is a small bulbous member of the Iris family from South America. The reason that it caught me out is that the seed was only sown in January so the last thing that I was expecting were flowers.
There are a couple more to come so hopefully I'll get a couple of better photos.

 

With all the other Agapanthus gone over, Enigma has been in flower for a month.

 

The first flower on the Pink Powder Puff, Calliandra Surinamensis. It looks similar to an Albizia flower.

 

Like that one strongy

 

It can make a small tree in the sub tropics and is one of those 'don't park your car under it' ones!
It drops a lot of sticky sap and can damage paint work!

 

Oh, thanks for the tip, I'll remember that.

 

I have just returned from some time in Devon, where a visit to Hill House Nursery was a must.

They have a huge glasshouse, which is very sunny. Which must explain why there were so many tender plants in flower. In particular I noticed Duranta, and Iochroma cyanea and coccinea, which surprised me as I thought they were spring flowerers.

Whist I have no space, I couldn't come away empty handed.


I bought a Clerodendron speciosissimum, which had been in flower, but the picture is from the internet. I have never seen it on sale before. @strongylodon - didn't you show a Clerodendron paniculatum - I can't find it now. Where was that from, that's another rare plant I have never seen on sale. I also bought a Clerodendron Ugandense, which you do see around sometimes.


My other purchase was Stropanthus speciosus, with a picture again from the internet.


When I got back I found my Dahlia imperialis was in flower - outside.


But mine is tiny compared with this picture taken one year of Ray Hubbard and his 18 feet D. imperialis at Hill House. It doesn't flower every year outside even in Devon.

 

Just a few pics,
as things start to wind down now for the winter.

 

Hi Pete,
You're garden is still looking fantastic
Those Passifloras are spectacular

Can we have some names please.... Is the top one a Hedychium ?

And, what's the red flowered climber please in no 5 ?

 

Hi Anthony, yes you are right no 1 is Hedychium gardnerianium, its about a month late this year.
Yucca recurvifolia, Podranea ricasoliana, Passiflora "victoria", "anastasia", "constance elliot", P. caerulea, and "X belotti".
No 5 is a plant which Longk sent me the seed of this spring, its Caiophora hibiscifolia, its flowering like crazy now.

Last one is of course good old Bougainvillea.

 

@pete you seem to have had a fantastic displaythis Summer and even now in October!
I only wish we had the heat and sun you get it the SE.

 

Not much heat and sun now strongy, but I think we had a good spell july to mid august that might have made a difference.

 

@PeterS - congrats on the C.speciosissum! A real gem of a plant in the flesh.

Mine did booger all here as it was so cold and dark this year.

Cyrtanthus elatus/Valota speciosa which @Anthony Rogers sent me early this year..................


I was surprised to see it bloom this year as some of the Amaryllidaceae family sulk after root disturbance.

First flower on Tibouchina urvilleana opened whilst I was away...............


Thunbergia gregorii is still blooming. Amazing as it was outdoors all last winter!