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Paul Spracklin
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:55 pm Posts: 2564 Location: North Thames delta UK
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Puya flowering
Apologies if you have been following this on the palm forum but one of my puyas is flowerign rather spectacularly. 3rd time in 20 years! Bought as P. berteroana but clearly a hyrbid - possibly with chilensis. For scale I am 1.8m in my gardening boots.
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Wed May 31, 2017 12:27 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: Puya flowering
Wow thanks for posting on GOTE Paul that is one massive spike love the colour too. How did they take 2010 I am thinking just fine the few I had all rotted out?
I seem to remember you had some Puya's round the edge of your pond.....same plants?
That picture reminds me we need some Echiums again
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Wed May 31, 2017 7:57 pm |
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Tim B
Joined: Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:56 pm Posts: 417 Location: Seekonk, Massachusetts USA, USDA zone 6b
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Re: Puya flowering
A fantastic sight! Thx for posting.
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Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:34 am |
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Paul Spracklin
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:55 pm Posts: 2564 Location: North Thames delta UK
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Re: Puya flowering
Yes, that one has been there for a long time, weathered the bad winters and a change in the landscaping around it. It has many heads and now spreads to over 3m across which is too big for the space, really, but I am not inclined to remove it because when it does this it is spectacular! Not an easy plant to garden around mind you - I currently have a deeply embedded thorn in my thumb from this that is very sore!
As far as puyas go, this one along with alpestris, spathacea and a sp with a collection number all came through the bad winters ok. I lost chilensis and a handful of other spp in 09/10 but have since re-planted a few more.
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Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:19 am |
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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Re: Puya flowering
That looks fantastic - not only the Puya itself, but the whole shot, with a group of spires that remind me of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. I tried growing several spp of Puya on my green roof, one of which (P. coerulea, I think) I obtained in 2007 from Kev when we all met at Paul's. Reviewing my garden diary, I can see that every one I ever purchased from a supplier was mis-labelled! The only one that ever flowered was P. mirabilis (not an especially impressive achievement), which was sold as P. alpestris. They were all still too small to survive the succession of hard winters between 2008/09 and 2010/11. I can look at this and think what might have been...
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Thu Jun 01, 2017 9:14 am |
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Andy Martin
Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 pm Posts: 1279 Location: Oxford UK
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Re: Puya flowering
Paul.... that is a great pic you have of the height of that flower spike... worthy of a national newspaper. You were also correct my plant is Puya spathacea which is a zone 9 plant, so no chance of planting out here. My flower spike only attained a height of a metre or so.
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:35 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: Puya flowering
I had a beautiful pristine Puya spathacea David have you tried Ochavia carnea on your roof?
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:28 pm |
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Andy Martin
Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 pm Posts: 1279 Location: Oxford UK
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Re: Puya flowering
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:23 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: Puya flowering
2010 Andy, as always, it wiped all Puya out here. Thanks for the offer can you come down Cornwall this weekend and give it me.....lol
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:42 pm |
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Andy Martin
Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 pm Posts: 1279 Location: Oxford UK
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Re: Puya flowering
Kev ... I'd love to come down but kinda skint at the moment. I'll hold it for you until the next meet.
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:11 pm |
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John Jearrard
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:19 pm Posts: 487 Location: Cornwall, UK
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Re: Puya flowering
Well, I wasn't going to say anything, but Puya spathacea is a lovely thing!
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:13 pm |
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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Re: Puya flowering
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:31 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:49 pm |
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Paul Spracklin
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:55 pm Posts: 2564 Location: North Thames delta UK
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Re: Puya flowering
Not posted from my phone before - seems odd... Andy Puya spathacea is one of the hardiest, I'd put it nearly as hardy as Fascicularia b.c. David - I promised you a bit of Ochagavia carnea and split a large plant but unfortunately only managed to kill it all off! I'll try again...
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Sat Jun 03, 2017 7:17 am |
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Nick Macer
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:42 pm Posts: 1284 Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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Re: Puya flowering
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