WHAT'S LOOKING EXOTIC IN JUNE 2014

It grows quite fast, just only have two main shoots at the moment, it will probably bush out a bit now I've taken the one top shoot out, so probably have a few possible cuttings in a couple of months.

 

Old Stinky is out!


First time in a few years that it has not piddled down and flattened it!


Echeveria elegans........................

 

Yeah, I've got a few stinkies out at the moment , but they are on the allotment, I cant smell them
This is looking good, and will be taking its chances next winter.
Brachychiton acerifolium.

 

thats impressive

 

Had to google that. Subtropical east coast of Australia - how do rate its chances??

 

Supposedly USDA zone 9 ... so not beyond the realms etc etc and with usual caveats etc etc

 

A winter like the last one, and I think it will make it, kind of minus 2 min and it would pull through with a bit of damage, minus 5 and its probably a gonner.

Seed from @Victoria , I should add, a few years ago.

Its one of those plants that looks rubbish all winter in a cold garage, but the new growth in spring really shines.
I think it could be pot grown for years.

 

Well, the kitchen and dining room smell foul after a day of that!!!

 

I have just had a Google of that Pete - Its a really impressive tree if you can get it that far.

 

Callistemon Masotii, dwarf plant with lax habit so some flowers rest on the ground. It would look better raised, edge of a rockery perhaps.




Brug Sanguinea

 

Strongy - nice Callistemon.

That B. sanguinea is a very strange colour - not the normal bright red. I had exactly the same with one earlier - very pale and very small flowers from a plant that normally had full sized red flowers. Mine has not flowered since - so I think it took the hump when I told it off.

 

I have only had the plant a few months Peter, so I wasn't sure what to expect.
It's one that is scentless but will look more effective when taller. I have just acquired (and repotted) a bigger white one, probably Candida which hopefully will have bigger and scented flowers.

 

Here, here!
Are you going for national collection status!!!

I like that a lot!

 

Might be my imagination, but I found B. sanguinea flowers had much more definition between the red and the yellow when grown at lower temperatures.
In other words, late autumn flowers tend to be brighter in colour rather than those bourne in early summer.

 

This was my thought too - Pete. The difference in colour of my B. sanguinea flowers was very pronounced. I have often wondered if this could apply to other flower types as well.