I'll do the script when RedSquirrel has posted the pic for me.





metalhammer.

ok

Tease!!!

I don't think that photo, no correction, I don't think any photo does that plant justice. You have to see it in the flesh to really appreciate what fabulous plants these are.

Looks to be having some good growth MH.

Di

Ai currumba....looking good..

Mine snuffed it... it actually started to produce new leaves and then stopped growing. Just like palms it took ages to show but when it did, there was no way back. It was a 3 year old with a five foot stem.
This is what effectively killed it
Frost burn An overhead cover was not enough to protect it.

was there no way of trying to re-root the top?

Nor a good pic I know,but it's very hard to get a clear shot against a back drop of foliage.All what is visible is growth that has appeared in the last 10 weeks,I bought it from Crug about 3 months back.I am utterly amazed at the growth,seeing as my previous specimen did very poorly.It is planted in a 65litre pot & hasn't been fed since planting.Red knows what my garden is like,it is very difficult to get into a position to take decent pics.




metalhammer.

Not knocking your photographic skills MH, far from it. It's just that all the photographs I have seen just doesn't do this plant any justice. When I had mine delivered last year, although I'd seen photo's etc. of it, it still took me by surprise the sheer size of these leaves (about 1-meter in all) and very tactile.

Still grieving over mine

Di

I know what you mean about size,some of them have stems of at least a metre in length.

I have found all my Scheffie's have put on prodigous growth this year.They get watered,but never fed.I am worried what the hell I'm going to do with this winter,already to big to go into the garage,guess it will get lugged up to the grenhouse by yours truly.




metalhammer.

i know its a bit of a squeeze getting round there but wouldnt a temp shelter be easier,few batons and a sheet of fleece maybe?

Just wondered if anyone had tried the Schefflera chapana outside and more importantly if it got through this last Winter. I'm very tempted with this one but would like to know realistically if it is one for permanent outside planting.

Di

Somebody has to be the first one to try.Can't you containerise it for a couple of years until it's,at least become a bigger plant?.Hopefully by the we'll be back into a milder winter scenario.I still have he gut feeling we are in for a really bad winter this year,1962/63 event.




metalhammer.

You are not alone in that. Cornwall had 'freak weather' in 08/9 with much of the county seeing -12, 'coldest for thirty years' we were told, and then last winter was worse, not quite so cold, but too cold and for too long. Now we are being told that the La Niña is likely to give us a 'colder than average' winter.

After the run of exceptionally mild winters we had before I think we had been lulled into thinking we could grow anything down here! A lot of people are being very cautious about re-stocking with anything too tender having lost it twice in a row.

Chad.

Will Giles said exactly the same thing last year. He said he had planted it in Feb in almost frozen ground, but it had grown about 1m from then to August when we visited

I'd thought about that but to be honest am finding it a bit heavy going on the ol' back these days and am trying not to buy anything that needs to be protected inside over Winter. I've got one of those trolley's which are a bit of help, but the garden has so many 'step-ups' and uncomfortable dips, it's still a strain.

Di