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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
I like that Tom. Looks more like an epiphyte. Exotic.
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Thuur
Joined: Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:57 pm Posts: 301 Location: Stonemountains
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
The cobra lilies just started to flower and are now my plant of the moment:
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charliepridham
Joined: Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:42 pm Posts: 1925 Location: Cornwall
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
For me its Lonicera hilderbrandiana
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Tom Velardi
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:20 pm Posts: 4337 Location: Kyushu, Southern Japan (33.607N latitude)
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
Thurr - that one is a beauty. It is remarkable that this species remains fairly expensive, something like double most. I wonder if they are difficult from seed. All the other species I'd tried grew like weeds.
Charles - nice to see a Lonicera that is NOT L. japonica. I grew L. sempervirens in the states, another beautiful plant.
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
My Platycerium superbum has sent out its first fertile leaf.
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Tom Velardi
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:20 pm Posts: 4337 Location: Kyushu, Southern Japan (33.607N latitude)
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
Awesome Stan. I miss the glory days when I had two of these growing like gangbusters. Now I only have the P. bifurcatum and it is finally beginning to recover from last winter's deep freeze - honestly I'm just glad it is still alive!
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
Thanks Tom,I've had thoughts of other Platyceriums..like P.andes. There are some cultivars of P.bifurcatum that could truly pass as the very tender species. I have P.bifurcatum and P.'lemoinii'..I'm waiting for the last to turn silver...hints at it so far.
I'm thinking of adding to the "tree lovers" some Nematanthus and related. I've looked online..some would do great here. One,actually grows small flowers dangling much like a Pitcher plants. I might be out of the tree and shrub buying. Hence my interest on smaller jewels.
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Andy Martin
Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 pm Posts: 1279 Location: Oxford UK
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
Without doubt my favourite plant at this time of year.. Toona Sinensis "Flamingo" In general I have two good months of changing colours particularly when Springs are cool. Looks nice against the backdrop of the blue Yucca and Nolina
_________________ Lover of Yuccas,Palms,Nolinas,Schefflera.
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alpine
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:56 am Posts: 205 Location: West side of the Wirral, UK
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
At the moment it's lots of things. But my eye has been caught today by the Leptospermum I bought a few years ago as the 'woolly manuka' from Trevenna Cross Nursery in Cornwall. I think it's Leptospermum lanigerum. I assume the fact that it's 'woolly' means that it is quite hardy compared to some. I have previously found the red and pink flowered scoparium variants shortlived. Mine is now about 12 feet tall and was not knocked back by the dire 2010 winter, when I lost previously hardy cordylines. Covered in its white flowers, beloved of bees like the rest of the Leptospermums:
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alpine
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:56 am Posts: 205 Location: West side of the Wirral, UK
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alpine
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:56 am Posts: 205 Location: West side of the Wirral, UK
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Martinnicklin
Joined: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:06 pm Posts: 2675 Location: Telford UK
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: What's your plant of the moment?
Most people thought this was a Dudleya when I posted it in spring. The label said Cotyledon teretifolia. "Wait until it flowers" they said. Well,the day is here. It SURELY is a Cotyledon. Only...on google images and reading the true C.teretifolia has yellow flowers and hairy or fuzzy leafs. This has neither. Here it is today:
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ChrisW4
Joined: Thu Aug 29, 2013 5:46 pm Posts: 130 Location: London UK
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alpine
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:56 am Posts: 205 Location: West side of the Wirral, UK
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