What's Looking Exotic In September 2013

Thread for photos of plants looking Exotic in September 2013.

For anyone wanting to look back here are some related threads:

What's Looking Exotic In August 2013

and what everyone thought was looking Exotic in:

September 2012

What's Looking Good Index

 

Evening Primrose Beans

 

I thought , maybe, this should be in the "Exotic" section, I saw it last night, and we were still in August.
I also seem to have come across two threads, "What's looking good in September", one posted by Zigs, today, and one by Kristen on Friday

Anyway I'll let you sort it all out.

Chillopsis flowers, slightly scented


cereus peruvianus.


Bougainvillea is just starting to come out.

 

WOW!! The cereus in particular looks amazing!! Is is scented?

Val

 

It has a scent, you know when you enter the greenhouse it is in flower, but not really pleasant, but at the same time, not offensive.

 

Nice shot Zigs. Can I see a sunflower lurking in the background?

 

Hibiscus moscheutos is looking fairly exotic right now. Some flowers have been nearly 8" across.



Not pretty, but certainly 'exotic', Aristolochia trilobata


Brugmansia sanguinea. Flowering nicely.



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Gorgeous!

 

Loving the Cereus too!

What is the plant in the last photo to the right of the Bougie (the one with the pinnate leaves and maybe red flowers)?

 

Passiflora "Amethyst".......................




Nicotiana langsdorfii.....................


Nicotiana sylvestris........................


Lobelia Queen Victoria.....................


Salvia Wendys Wish...................


Finally, Tricyrtis "Taipei Silk" goes from strength to strength..................

 

Its Sesbania punicea, only just coming into flower.

 

A beauty Pete, the one I grew a few years ago fell prey to RSM (as my outside Ipomeas have this year). I may try it again.

 

I thought so. I've suffered chronic bud blast on mine. Still, it's less than a year old from seed. How do you overwinter yours?

Mine has suffered from RSM too. Not bad, but it means that I can't move it to the greenhouse.

 

I spray with abermectin for RSM, or westland plant rescue for ornamentals.

I overwintered in a cool greenhouse fairly dry at a minimum of about 4C, lost a lot of leaf but survived, I then cut back by a third this spring.

 

The Entrance:




and the Banana Skyline


quite pleased with how the paths have overgrown


Persicaria Red Dragon spilling over the paths, with a bit of Nicotiana langsdorfii (bottom left)



Amaranthus Foxtail (middle left of path)



this one is Amaranthus Fat Spike - although I wonder if I have mislabelled it? as they aren't that "fat"!

Coleus raised from seed (bottom left) and Canna Cleopatra (thanks Pete ) on the left