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Post by pete on Apr 18, 2010 15:31:34 GMT
I intended adding these pics onto an earlier thread regarding Kedi's red peach, but I cant find it, so I'll add it here if thats OK. I cant remember how old the plants are now, but they cant be more that 3yrs, quite amazing to be flowering already I think. And just to show the difference, this is the peach blossom of "peregrine" a tree that I have had for many years. Who knows I might get a hybrid one day.
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Post by kedigato on Apr 19, 2010 1:21:40 GMT
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Post by pete on Apr 19, 2010 18:55:32 GMT
Just looked Kedi, I think I need to find a spot in the garden for one of them at least, the pots must be cramping their style judging by Dags.
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Post by pete on Apr 26, 2010 19:52:00 GMT
Accacia Pravissima is looking good just now, its probably the hardiest of the true Aussie wattles. I managed to root a cutting of the bouganvillea late last summer, its spent the winter in the conservatory and believe it or not its now flowering in a 3in pot. Camellia, "Lavinia Maggi" has done very well this year, the cold weather has held back the flowers so as to make them all come at once. Managed to get this Colocasia through the winter, not sure how it will do this summer, these are not plants that I have grown in the past, there is always somethiong new to try. Got another flower on the Aloe vera. I'm in the process of putting a second hand greenhouse on the allotment, no concrete bases allowed so its timber, 4x2 tannalised, screwed together squared up and leveled, a few spikes into the ground to anchor it.
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Post by victoria on Apr 26, 2010 20:09:59 GMT
Your Acacia is gorgeous Pete. Does it have the heady honey scent they do here?
Well done on the Bougie and what a lovely Camellia ... I can't grow them here but I do so love all candy-striped flowers.
My Calocasia (the black one) died on me last year .. but I did leave it out ....
Excellent on the Aloe Vera ... mine bloomed in the Autumn and was about a metre high!
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Post by pete on Apr 26, 2010 21:10:41 GMT
The Acacia has a very strong scent Victoria, especially in the recent warm sunshine.
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Post by kedigato on Apr 27, 2010 12:22:24 GMT
Like Sis, I just love candy-striped flowers. The Acacia is fantastic!!!!!! - what a glorious show Pete, great going on the Bourgainvilla Is there a special tip to getting pieces rooted? We need lots of them over here and are now wondering if we could get them going too.
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Post by pete on Apr 27, 2010 18:49:33 GMT
Thankyou Kedi. As to rooting bougie, its my first try, I put in four cuttings of half ripe wood in autumn in my conservatory, one rooted within a few weeks, the others were still alive but unrooted this spring. I abandoned them, as one was all I could cope with.
I'm sure in Florida things would move a lot faster and you would have more material to play with.
Failing that layering would probably work but its not the fastest of methods.
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Post by kedigato on May 1, 2010 19:37:05 GMT
, Pete. We'll give it a try and keep our fingers crossed. I'll let you know if anything comes of it.
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Post by pete on May 7, 2010 18:45:42 GMT
The new, (second hand) greenhouese is now up and running, I've moved in some of my bigger cacti that have been struggling in recent years due to lack of sunshine.
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Post by victoria on May 7, 2010 22:25:20 GMT
Wow, Pete, that's superb ... can't imagine where that is in your garden however .... doesn't look like your garden at all ....
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Post by kedigato on May 8, 2010 2:01:40 GMT
Looks good, Pete. Do you also go in for fruit and veggies as well as palms, flowering plants, cactii, etc?
Sis, it is on Pete's allotment, he did say that up in Reply #3.
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Post by pete on May 8, 2010 12:51:50 GMT
Victoria this is on the allotment, I am very lucky as I just have a gate at the end of the garden which leads directly onto my allotment.
I first took the allotment on in 1983, back in those days I would dig the whole area by hand with a fork each year, and grew veg on the whole area, Peas, beans, sweetcorn, salad crops, and masses of winter greens like Brussel sprouts and savoy cabbage, parsnips carrots beetroot etc. I even grafted my own apple varieties and peaches onto root stocks which are still there, although slightly neglected these days.
At the same time, or possibly a little earlier, I was getting interested in Exotics, and that was happening in the back garden.
Over the years the exotics side of things has kind of taken over, and has slowly crept onto the allotment, its basically an extension of the garden now.
I still grow onions,beetroot, potatoes, toms and few other edibles, but I find exotics more interesting.
This small extra space under glass will help take the pressure off the other greenhouse in the garden, which has been far to crowded in winter in recent years , and has led to me losing quite a few plants that really should have survived.
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Post by kedigato on May 9, 2010 13:52:25 GMT
Thankyou Kedi. As to rooting bougie, its my first try, I put in four cuttings of half ripe wood in autumn in my conservatory, one rooted within a few weeks, the others were still alive but unrooted this spring. I abandoned them, as one was all I could cope with. I'm sure in Florida things would move a lot faster and you would have more material to play with. Failing that layering would probably work but its not the fastest of methods. Thanks, Pete, both Peter and I took cuttings of our favourite Bourgainvilleas yesterday and followed your instructions. Now it is just sit back, cross our fingers and hope for the best. for the tip.
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Post by pete on May 9, 2010 20:31:29 GMT
Kedi, one thing thats occured to me, the cutting that I took is in near total sand, it only has a little compost mixed in, I've fed it once or twice but not to any great extent.
It suggests that starving them brings them into flower.
This could explain why I think Victoria says they take a few years to settle down to flowering.
I would think the best thing to do with garden grown plants would be not to feed and only water if absolutely necessary.
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