What's looking exotic in July

Got this wrong! With the benefit of hindsight obviously Galtonia viridiflora is going to have green flowers ... I need to plant things with much better contrast behind it next year, probably some red leaf plants.

perhaps this Amaranthus Foxtail:


or this Amaranthus (I'll have to dig out what name it is ... might even be some more Foxtail plants!):


And some leafy things that are looking nice and chunky. The single leaf chucked up by Amorphophallus Konjac:



Rodgersia pinnata Chocolate Wing

and Paulownia tomentosa that I stooled for the first time this year (to stimulate large leaf production)

 

First blooms on my Nicotiana glauca. Stands about 2.5metres tall at the moment so not the best photo........................


It will form a nice large shrub/small tree in time with these glaucous leaves......................


Aloe striatula.......................


Opuntia......................



Ledebouria socialis bloomed indoors in the spring and has decided to bloom again outdoors this summer...................

It's a great foliage plant.................


Solanum rantonnetii was a small cutting a few weeks ago..................