What's looking exotic in September 2012

Yes it is the quitoensis without the pesky thorn , been there since march but only start to move in July , it will be hard to overwintering in the greenhouse will have to bring it in , as it`s didn`t get woody yet.
ps any idea of the cactus?

 

I found quitoensis only flowered late, so late, that I never got any fruit.

I think your cacti is some kind of Epiphyllum, bit sun burnt perhaps.

 

Epiphyllum with fruit? didn`t know they where producing fruit in UK .
Tell me about !!! got many of my cactus and succulent with sun burnt , can you belive it , but I do understand why , that why I had to cover my GH with bamboo , rain , rain , rain and then one day of sunshine and all my cactus are burnt.
I rekon quitoensis will not produce any fruit unless a long hot summer , my pepino melon flower last year in July , but for miss pollination , lost all the flower and no fruit.

 

Yes epiphyllum does produce fruit in the UK, if pollinated, it tastes similar to dragon fruit.
On both quitoensis and pepino, (muricatum), I have always found the same problem, late flowering causing it to be too late to produce ripe fruit.

I'm convinced its a day length "thing", but might be wrong.

 

I even tryed to hand pollinate the pepino flower , with no luck , I wish i had left one outdoor just to see if any insect would have done the job , now that I`m thinking it wasn`t july but it was September when I had the flower.

 

This is nearly looking exotic...............



The Leonotis may just make it with a little luck and an Indian summer............

 

impatiens niamniamensis 'congo cockatoo'. It came complete with beetle which has now "gone" but he left his calling card -apologies,

 

I brought a piece of Commelina Cyanea back from Nairobi and it rooted in a week, it has a tiny vivid blue flower which barely lasts a day. As it is normally a rampant 'weed' in the sub tropics I'm not sure whether to keep it indefinitely. it might take over the greenhouse!

 

You can always eat it if you get too much.

 

When I've had enough I'lll send some to you!
By the way the flower has already collapsed.

 

Presume that's a P. alata bud above the leonotis, longk.

 

Does well outdoors too Jenny! This is mine in the main bed a week or so ago.............

I have C.tuberosa blooming well outdoors at the moment - has a more "complete" flower that lasts but a few hours on a sunny day, but is worth a spot in my opinion........



Should have seeds for C.communis somewhere too.

It is! Got a few buds now but realistically only expect two or three to come to anything.

 

Do you bring your Impatiens indoors during the Winter Keith? Surely it isn't hardy?

 

Longk , I`ve got C.tuberosa as well , but I keep missing the morning bloom , it used to self seeding , but the seedling didn`t survive the last 3 winter , but the main plants still there in the same spot almost forgotting untill the end of the season .

 

Gonna put a knife through it and make several babies for next year Jenny!

Tradescantia is of the same family, so I'm going to bring a small C.tuberosa (it was late to germinate) indoors to see how it fares...................