WHAT'S LOOKING EXOTIC IN 2017

@pete, does that Bougie stay outside?

 

Yep, but I cheat.
It's protected at the same time as the Strelitzia, was thinking of getting rid of it actually as it gets very rampant.

 

Pete - looks wonderful . But you are keeping us in the dark .
What is the top picture?
then Brugmansia
Clytostoma ? I have one that has never flowered yet.
Ensete Maurellii amongst others
Musa basjoo?
Yucca
I recognise the next but can't think of its name
?
Bougainvillea x 2


Eucomis pole-evansii. I have been impressed by the size of these - nearly 4 feet high.


Canna Cleopatra is a lovely plant with its bi coloured foliage and flowers.


Heliconia psitticorum - an orange one this time.


Pete - I love all your plants outside. I have to keep my garden inside.

 

ok @PeterS
Everything looking good your end, really like the Heliconia.
I'll go back and put some names in.

I tried editing the names in but it all started coming out garbled, so this is the list.
Amicia zygomeris
Brug
Podranea ricosiliana
All kinds of stuff, with a pomegranate to the right and Dasylirion wheeleri to the left, with a ensete maurelli showing over the top.
Basjoos
Yucca Aloifolia, got a clump flowering this year, so pics might follow.
Albizia
Tobacco
Bougies.

 

Hi @shiney - please, is your first ginger Stephen? or Tara?
@Victoria - thank you! I will write a label now for the Crassula... my Hibbertia (also tubestock brought over from Perth) is only about 30 cm tall - a long way behind yours!
@pete - wonderful plants...
@PeterS - is that lovely Eucomis scented? I am growing Eucomis zambesiaca because it is suposed to be coconut scented... but no flowers so far

 

Caroline - No I don't think that Eucomis has any scent. I like it because of its size.

Many thanks for the names Pete. I have never heard of Amicia zygomeris - interesting. I am intrigued with your Podranea. I had to compare Podranea and Clytostoma pictures and they are almost identical. But I don't think they are synonyms for the same plant.

Is that the smoking tobacco, rather than an ornamental Nicotiana ? It's a fantastic display. I think I will have to take up smoking.


Pete - this Heliconia might suit you - H schiedeana. Its the hardiest of all Heliconias and will take some frost. I suspect that it is no more tender than Strelitzia. I managed to get a small plant from Hill House Nursery in Devon, but it isn't big enough to flower yet.

 

Canna Louise Cotton

 

@PeterS , Yes it is the smoking kind, first time I've grown it, like that Heliconia, cant believe it might be cool greenhouse hardy.

If the Ginger is one of mine @shiney it will be "tara", the other one I brought was H. gardnerianum, which is my favourite.

 

No the other one in your pictures looks like H. densiflorum, not one I brought along.
I did bring some gardnerianum, maybe you didn't manage to get a piece.

 

Thank you all for replies and info. By the way @PeterS, I also strongly recommend amicia - I found that it flowered nicely with decent sized yellow pea flowers, as well as the very interesting foliage. However it didn't like my clay soil... in other words, I killed it.

 

Thanks Caroline - that's one that I will have to try. But I find that my clay soil does kill a lot of plants too!

 

Just a (very gentle) correction Louis Cottin.......he's got a sex change somewhere along the way!