Hardy Tropicals UK

clerodendrum trichotomum var. fargesii

I really like the intricate shape of the ice crystal fig too.
they bare pretty cheap and available, why don't you get one?

still looking pretty good




arrow bamboo hedge




mahonia



fatsia



sempervivum - was a little dot I chucked on just to see what happened instead on it ending up in the bin




schefflera.mac.





oak leaf hydrangea



magnolia tripetela




basjoo still going unaided



stuff



this is coming for Dave .B teehee




Mekong

Still looking great mr list i still have cannas and trex etc in leaf! i look every morning to see if they have collapsed but no, not yet, my plants look pretty much like yours good isnt it..

Great

gunnera coming alive





first flowers of the year









my trex which just loves to rot big holes in itself





first boo shoots appearing



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an uber shade success



and an uber shade failure , the duchy schefflera has bit the dust it would seem



some plants in their winter home still coming along nicely.
I have nowhere for the two basjoo and two Mekong spares this year with the mild winter not killing anything,lol.

Grass looks terrible, is it due to all the shade from the jungle?

But bar that I seriously think you'll need to get the machete out by the end of this year, thats a growth explosion waiting to happen, all primed for the sun to come out. What are your plans this year, let it all grow and enjoy?

Is that the Sarcococca that your bought last year in flower?

I have 5 of them in my garden and the flowers have opened, but not as much as yours have.

There is a big clump of it on my walk to work in Edinburgh. It is in flower now and sometimes the smell is intoxicating!

Your plants are looking in rude health (well apart from the dead looking thing in the shade and your grass) The Fatsihedra looks to have put on good growth as has your Scheffys, sadly the "seeds" you kindly gave me look to all be duds. What are your plans for the lawn?

I take it all back, one has germinated tonight!

Yorkshire Kris wrote:Your plants are looking in rude health (well apart from the dead looking thing in the shade and your grass) The Fatsihedra looks to have put on good growth as has your Scheffys, sadly the "seeds" you kindly gave me look to all be duds. What are your plans for the lawn?

I mentioned this on another thread, but I think anyone with a scruffy/dead lawn, should go shingle a'la HTUK's Simba

I think it was a cracking little brainwave to put those Sarcococca by the door. opening the door is as far as I venture into the garden most of this time of year and the scent just wafts straight in

lawn is a pain. it mostly comes back ok in summer, I have done all the blinking things the books say and it is no help.
if I got rid of the grass I would plant some other type of carpeting plants there.

Mr List wrote:
lawn is a pain. it mostly comes back ok in summer, I have done all the blinking things the books say and it is no help.
if I got rid of the grass I would plant some other type of carpeting plants there.

If grass doesn't work out then you should try Soleirolia soleirolii. Looks like moss, grows very fast, is evergreen and is completely hardy.

and does barely nothing , I have been planting it in my lawn for years and it is just clinging on.

Im going to use shingle, my lawn is dead.

Question, Ken. Have counted the number of different plants you have potted and planted?

not a chance