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- Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:27 pm
- Forum: Other Exotics
- Topic: Growing cashew from seed
- Replies: 9
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Growing cashew from seed
You are growing a tropical tree of Caribbean origin so conditions for growth are heated greenhouses and plenty of sun. Getting fruit is only likely after about five years. Bear in mind the liquid inside the shell is toxic so be careful if you have nuts
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:17 pm
- Forum: Palms (including Cycads and Cordyline)
- Topic: Cordyline Indivisa Failures
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7932
Cordyline Indivisa Failures
I had mine from 2003 after some previous failures. This one was promising as I thought I would lose it in the fierce heat of the summer that year and I kept it healthy by keeping it in its pot in a shady side passage. I planted it out the following year and it grew VERY slowly but remained healthy, ...
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:20 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your current weather in one word...
- Replies: 3649
- Views: 236840
Your current weather in one word...
Sunnyandfresh
- Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your current weather in one word...
- Replies: 3649
- Views: 236840
Your current weather in one word...
Mostlysunny
- Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:35 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your daily weather blog -June 2011 onward
- Replies: 6417
- Views: 334535
Your daily weather blog -June 2011 onward
Don't know of any days this Summer where the arrival of advancing rain so quickly dispersed bright sunshine. Perhaps it's right that it happened for the first time in meteorological autumn
- Wed Sep 05, 2018 9:53 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your current weather in one word...
- Replies: 3649
- Views: 236840
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:47 pm
- Forum: Cacti & Succulents, (including Yucca and Rock Plants)
- Topic: id if possible please
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1782
id if possible please
No.1 looks like Euphorbia ingens.
No.2 is Mammillaria but unsure if the cultivar
No.3 is Echeveria, possibly schaviana
No.2 is Mammillaria but unsure if the cultivar
No.3 is Echeveria, possibly schaviana
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:43 pm
- Forum: Exotic Gardeners Question Time - Ask Here :-) (Public)
- Topic: ID if possible please
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3424
ID if possible please
Welcome to HTUK, JM icon_cheers Confirm you have Yucca elephantipes "Jewel". Not as hardy as the type. (My old specimen was unprotected and unscathed from the "East Beast".) You should get away with a brief dry frost, say -2c but daytime freezes will ruin them unless you have fac...
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:18 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your current weather in one word...
- Replies: 3649
- Views: 236840
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 10:31 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your current weather in one word...
- Replies: 3649
- Views: 236840
Your current weather in one word...
WarmHazySunshine
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 9:43 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Exotic Plants in London
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6383
Exotic Plants in London
I was in the Tulse Hill area of South London yesterday and deliberately looked up this Phoenix canariensis that I hadn't seen for quite a few years.I was very impressed.
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:52 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your current weather in one word...
- Replies: 3649
- Views: 236840
Your current weather in one word...
Anothercracker
- Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:08 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your current weather in one word...
- Replies: 3649
- Views: 236840
Your current weather in one word...
Anabsolutecracker
- Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: Weather and Climatology (public)
- Topic: Your current weather in one word...
- Replies: 3649
- Views: 236840
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 10:15 pm
- Forum: New Members Introduce yourself here ;-) (public)
- Topic: New member
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1966
New member
Echo Tatter''s greeting and comments. Don't be afraid to ask.... Most of us are a right bunch of know-it-alls when it comes to exotics and even the not so exotic. (I've dared to mention Forsythia more than once on this forum )