Cycad flowering outdoors in the UK

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Cycad flowering outdoors in the UK

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http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/gardening/th ... 46635.aspx

"Our plants have been outside since 2008 on an extremely well-drained and protected site, and have grown well, the growth spurts luckily avoiding winter.

"While taking a group of visitors around several days ago, I noticed one has produced a flower, a male cone. I have never seen this out of doors. To my mind, it is a first in the UK.

"But, unfortunately, we will not see any seed as no female cones are present on any of our other plants."

So, if this is not unique and any of you out there have a flowering female, get straight on the phone to me.
Nathan

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For such an achievement in the UK why does the article have no pic?!?
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i would go take one but you have to pay entry to get in there now icon_rambo
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My cycad was covered in flowers earlier this year. The Acacia pravissima above it dropped its load on the plant last March :lol:

I shouldn't think mine will ever flower. I sometimes wait three years before a flush of leaves open. The roots of the Acacia no doubt see to that.
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Nathan wrote:For such an achievement in the UK why does the article have no pic?!?
I posted a photo of fb I will repost later.
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Here you go.
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Just don't read the column of crаp on the right!
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Thats your fault coni! :shock:
If you hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have read it :lol:
-10c for the south? nah doubt it
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Thanks for the pic, but if the cycad was only planted 4 years ago it must have already been a decent size? So would be a bit like me planting a mature Washingtonia in my garden then a couple of years later claiming I have the first ever flowering one in the UK :lol: But yes I suppose it still is a noteworthy event as have not heard of one at any size flowering outside before...
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they're fairly large, heres a pic i took of one in 2011

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