Whats looking exotic in August 2014

As if on cue, 3 flowers out today on the Stepelia :

Jenny namaste

 

@Jenny namaste - mine seems more interested in growing than flowering The two buds I had blasted in favour of new "fingers"

 

Eucomis "Sparkling Burgundy"...................


I'm rather pleased with Lilium michauxii (thanks Simbad!)....................

 

Great start to August Jen the flowers are amazing well done you

 

Would that be two fingers longk?
The seed pods from last years flowers appear to be "saluting" you, they then open to form a mass of fluff.
This is a different one to jenny's,


Podranea just starting to flower.

 

Two fingers for each blasted bud

S.hirsuta?

 

S.hirsuta?
Not sure, it just from a packet of seeds I bought once.

 

Pete the Podranea , what do you do with it over winter very impressive

 

It spent last winter outside in its pot, with the same protection as the bougie and strelitzia.

I'm sure it would take frost free g/h conditions very easily.
It would need cutting back after the summer.

 

The D. wrightii are looking good now, 7 flowers open on one plant tonight.

And I've got beans this year,
Macfadyena unguis- cati

 

Galtonia candicans..................


Eucomis autumnalis......................


And Clerodendrum ugandense.....................

 

It is also Tricyrtis season. Not strictly exotic, but if you're after a hardy flowering plant for an exotic scheme there's nothing better IMO. They flower later in the season and tend to like partial of full shade depending on the species.

T.formosana is bombproof.....................


Taipei Silk is reliably the first of the Toadies to bloom......................

 

Mine are looking good too ... I also have Galtonia viridiflora but the flowers are very green (well Doh! obviously from the name!) but they exactly match the stem colour and I think are a rather nothing-plant. Unfortunately far more of the G. viridiflora have got to maturity size, from the seed I sowed, than G. candicans ... Ho!Hum!

 

Well, if you don't want them.....................

 

I'm pretty sure I don't ... looked at them in flower two seasons running now and don't think they are earning their keep. I'll dig em up in the Autumn and stick them in the post ... remind me if I forget pls?