Your best plants of 2017

@KFF Scented plants are beautiful...with our two garden plants have been moved etc and with in 10yrs I bet 4 to 5 lots of new plants have gone in and I've throwed many away.

 

Does the Zanthoxylum produce peppercorns, @NigelJ ? I was given a Z. piperitum this year but I don't think that the flowers are pink, which is a shame......

 

So you can get PawPaw fruits in Scotland! Food for thought.

Jealous. I lost all mine over the last two winters.

I used to grow a scarlet Dianthus - not frilly, uber fragrant and just plain nice.

 

@longk

Aquitane wasn't in Scotland last time I looked.
@noisette47 It looks and smells very much like the Sichuan pepper I buy, however it's not a species that's used for cooking, as far as I know. This link has detailed information on the various species used in different countries Spice Pages: Sichuan Pepper (Zanthoxylum, Szechwan peppercorn, fagara, hua jiao, sansho 山椒, timur, andaliman, tirphal)

 

Just a few, nothing new I'm afraid, space is at a premium.
coelogyne cristata,

Queen of the night, Hylocereus.

Caesalpinia gilliesii.

Aesculus californica.


Chilopsis linearis.

Strelitzia.

Ferocactus emoryi.

Lagerstroemia indica, crape myrtle.

 

@pete You have some unusual plants and the hanging basket I did like, I've spent some money on those in the past

 

@ARMANDII Beautiful plants but could you imagine lights on this one at Christmas ..so unusual and resembles a xmas tree.

 

At this point you may all point, call thicko and laugh For some reason I had Silu in my head who is deffo in Scotland

Nice one @pete - that's blown us all into the weeds especially the Caesalpinia and BoP

 

@ARMANDII I've never seen one before or at garden centres, really nice but lights on it also would really give it such attraction, especially with the tassels.

 

Found him in a skip

 

@Zigs Well that was a nice surprise mate

 

Hope they're not ones I sold you?