WHAT'S LOOKING EXOTIC IN 2018

Dwarf Oleander from a 2009 cutting from Paphos.

 

This Abutilon hybrid is planted out and fully hardy..............
Abutilon hybrid by longk48, on Flickr

Gloriosa superba.............
Gloriosa superba by longk48, on Flickr

 

I have only just learn't that Oleander is seriously poisonous.

I love your Gloriosa LongK - always an amazing plant.

 

Oleanders are grown throughout the world and are particularly common in gardens in the Med they don't seem to have a problem with them there, my brother has a hedge of them in Crete and has two grandsons and cats out there.
People just need to be aware, there are many other poisonous plants that we grow in our gardens.

 

I think we all know where we stand regarding poisonous plants, personally I'd never grow a foxglove, too risky.

But this is doing well this year, yep, another desert plant, Chilopsis linearis.


Sorry but you are going to have to endure a few more pics of the BOP.



And a couple of pics from the lower end of the garden.

 

Stunning Pete

 

How is the Albizia doing @pete? They were flogging 1ft high seedlings at the Hampton Court flower show with a couple of flowering 'trees' to boost sales! No chance of them flowering here, not warm or sunny enough, that goes for Caesalpinia too.
I did see a couple of Koelreuterias in full flower, something else not seen around here.

 

Gorgeous @pete - wouldn't believe you were gardening in the UK!

 

have some neat ones blooming now. but, cannot post pixs here from my computer, as I can at other sights. so just open your mind up and I will ESP the pix to you.

 

Did you see the pic of Albizia Kalkora, if not, this is another shot.
A. julibrissin has lots of buds but yet to open any, one of the best I have is one I got from you as the chocolate version, soon lost it's colouring, but is now a 10ft high tree.

Albizia Kalkora.


Koelreuteria will be another few weeks yet here.

 

I've never seen A kalkora flower. My A. Summer Chocolate turned green the following year, I still have it but it is tiny struggling in dry sand!

 

It's always good to see Manfreda elongata in bloom.............
Manfreda elongata by longk48, on Flickr

Manfreda elongata by longk48, on Flickr

It always seems happiest after a fairly hard winter although it was looking rather sad back in April and I was half expecting the long slow death that the Agave family seem to specialise in.

 

Arisaema ciliatum liubaense


Arisaema consanguineum

 

Not sure if it's exotic enough... but my pomegranate bush in the garden is flowering better than ever before.
And it even appears to have set some fruit