What's looking exotic in July

What is the purple/pinkish flower Sal.
Or am I being dense.

Also the last pic?

 

First blooms on the Bessera elegans....................

 

The entrance to the Exotic Garden:



and some Cannas:



Canna striata flower, and its leaves:





Canna Cleopatra (thanks Pete )



Canna Picasso

 

And some nice leaves:



A nice clump of Persicaria Red Dragon




a single leaf! of Aamorphophallus konjac




Paulownia tomentosa, stooled for the first time this year (Ensete maurelii in background), leaves are doing reasonably well :

 

Looking great Kristen and sal

 

Datura wrightii, thanks for the seed Longk.

 

I grew one identical to that a few years ago called meteloides. Had no success at all with it. The flowers would wilt and due right at the point of them opening.

 

A bit ahead of mine, but they're far better after a winter or two anyway.

Biggest problem that I have with D.wrightii is that the huge blooms get flattened by heavy rain or wind!

First bloom on my surviving Abutilon x hybridum (?).......................





Very easy to grow Roscoea scillifolia (the dark form) looks exotic...................

 

I used to buy the seed as D. metaloides, but Longk pointed out its now changed to D. wrightii.
I also have grown very similar called D. innoxia.

The flowers only really last one night and a bit of the next day anyway.

 

Yucca flaccida, at least I think it is, I grew it from mixed seed.


Slightly different, Yucca filamentosa.



Asimina triloba has grown well this year.


Strelitzia appears to be taking a rest this year, only three flowers.

 

Found this fig growing on the allotments, no idea where it came from, but might be worth propagating for foliage alone.

 

Pete remarkable as ever , the fig is a wild fig , don`t ask me way and what
but it called male fig .
has your paw paw ever produce fruit?

 

I like the look of the fig.

The paw paw has set fruit a few years ago, but it needs cross pollination with another plant.
My other plant is on the allotment, its cooler there, so flowers a bit later.
I have trouble getting the two in flower at the same time.

 

Me too!

Freeze the pollen from the one that flowers first?

 

I'm not sure what constitutes exotic, but I'll put this forward as it's not overly common and sure looks exotic when in bloom.

Desfontiania spinosa....................


I was a little surprised to see this as they are just young cuttings...................