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Jungle Entrance
Due to the enormous Leylandii hedge curving round the back, against the prevailing wind, it is very sheltered, and I'm very pleased with the "Banana Skyline"
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The Musa sikkimensis are in their 3rd year (grown from seed)
I'm also pleased with the jungley-look
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Persicaria Red Dragon, and friends, spilling over onto the path and with Canna musifolia grande (from seed this year) on the left, and Ailanthus just beside it (stooled for the first time this year)
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A bit further along:
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Amaranthus Foxtail which I rather like the look of. I've grown several other Amaranthus this year, as a trial, and I like all of them
At the end of the island:
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Coleus from seed, as last year, although the Arundo donax have not done well (I now think they need much more water than they have been getting - although just possibly they need a year or two to settle in)
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Canna Cleopatra
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including chimera flowers
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Ensete maurelii (1L pot in May 2012) with Begonia luxurians in front and the white pendant flowers of Nicotiana sylvestris, and then Paulownia tomentosa to the right (stooled for the first time this year)
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Ensete montbeliardii (1L pot in May 2012) with Tetrapanax papyrifer rex to the right (planted out for first time this Spring)
Wow Kristen not sure how I missed this update! What an epic tropical "room" looks very well protected from the elements too, with supurb growth
Is that some kind of feed in the Dicksonia antarctica crowns?