JE M Yes thank you! Hope you had a good Christmas too! Thanks for all your lovely comments and I hope the New year is a good one for you and your family! 🌴🥳🌴
Janine Maskell Thank you. It’s probably Ricinus ‘impala’ if it’s the taller ones or Ricinus New Zealand purple if it’s the smaller one. They are grown from seed each spring/early summer and do the job of giving height to a garden until the evergreen palm trees give some more permanent height. Most of my garden started with annuals, dahlias, cannas and gingers until these were slowly thinned out each year as I added more palms, phormiums and other exotic looking plants to give interest during winter.
Springyfeller fantastic. Thank you Steve. Thanks for some great advice. I bought a heated propagator a couple of years back, maybe time to order some seeds and give it a whirl. Do you grow the stunning purple tradescantia from seed also? I have ordered some cannas, colocasia, alocasia, ferns, miscanthus, eucomis, kniphofia etc. I have some palms, bananas, phormiums, cycad and a tiny tree fern already so it sounds like I’m on the right track. My tree fern if I haven’t killed it over winter has 3 growing points 😁, does that make it a triple stump? If you have any other advice I would be very great full to hear it.
Springyfeller ooo, what I would love advice on is the T-Rex. Is it invasive at all? I’m quite nervous about things going into my neighbours garden. I let a running bamboo go free when I first started gardening 4 years ago and it’s still coming back. It’s very close to their border now. Do you have any advice for these kinds of plants? What you keep potted or contained. I’ve bought red and black stemmed bamboo so unsure of what to do with them when they arrive. Also mulching. What is used as a mulch over winter?
Janine Maskell If your tree fern has 3 growing points then indeed it is 3 trunks grown into each other to form one. Very nice! A good list of plants so far. Remember to try and plant multiples of some plants to give a more natural look. 3’s or 5’s of a plant or plants can be planted throughout the whole garden to give a cohesive feel. The tradescantia was a cutting from a friend. I think it’s sometimes found in houseplant sections in garden centres. Can come back from below ground in mild winters but overwinter indoors to be safe.
Janine Maskell I mulch usually only in bad winters usually as my dahlias, cannas and gingers tend to get through the winter ok here. Tetrapanax can be a thug if killed to the ground in winter and thus looses its growing point/points. This makes it more likely to put out more suckers. Mine haven’t lost their growing points but they do still sucker. I just snap them off or pull them out when it’s easy to get a good grip on them. If they pop up somewhere that looks good, leave them for a season and enjoy the big leaves and then pull it out. The suckers can travel far from the main plant 10ft or more so it may be an idea to let your neighbour know just what to do should they spot one. Tetrapanax never seem to do as well in pots. All my bamboo are planted in plastic rings made by cutting a waterbutt in half. I use a hand saw to cut off the base and also through the middle to give two rings about 18 inches or so high. Dig these into the ground leaving about 4 to 6 inches out of the ground to help stop the runners and then plant the bamboo in that. If the bamboo sends out a runner over the barrier just snip it off.
LOVE IT,. WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT SLOWER
Hope you had a fantastic Christmas Steve. Happy new year 🥳 (for when it arrives)
JE M Yes thank you! Hope you had a good Christmas too! Thanks for all your lovely comments and I hope the New year is a good one for you and your family! 🌴🥳🌴
Beautiful. What is the burgundy plant that looks like a fatsia? I need one of those.
Janine Maskell
Thank you. It’s probably Ricinus ‘impala’ if it’s the taller ones or Ricinus New Zealand purple if it’s the smaller one. They are grown from seed each spring/early summer and do the job of giving height to a garden until the evergreen palm trees give some more permanent height. Most of my garden started with annuals, dahlias, cannas and gingers until these were slowly thinned out each year as I added more palms, phormiums and other exotic looking plants to give interest during winter.
Springyfeller fantastic. Thank you Steve. Thanks for some great advice. I bought a heated propagator a couple of years back, maybe time to order some seeds and give it a whirl. Do you grow the stunning purple tradescantia from seed also?
I have ordered some cannas, colocasia, alocasia, ferns, miscanthus, eucomis, kniphofia etc. I have some palms, bananas, phormiums, cycad and a tiny tree fern already so it sounds like I’m on the right track. My tree fern if I haven’t killed it over winter has 3 growing points 😁, does that make it a triple stump?
If you have any other advice I would be very great full to hear it.
Springyfeller ooo, what I would love advice on is the T-Rex. Is it invasive at all? I’m quite nervous about things going into my neighbours garden. I let a running bamboo go free when I first started gardening 4 years ago and it’s still coming back. It’s very close to their border now.
Do you have any advice for these kinds of plants? What you keep potted or contained.
I’ve bought red and black stemmed bamboo so unsure of what to do with them when they arrive.
Also mulching. What is used as a mulch over winter?
Janine Maskell
If your tree fern has 3 growing points then indeed it is 3 trunks grown into each other to form one. Very nice! A good list of plants so far. Remember to try and plant multiples of some plants to give a more natural look. 3’s or 5’s of a plant or plants can be planted throughout the whole garden to give a cohesive feel. The tradescantia was a cutting from a friend. I think it’s sometimes found in houseplant sections in garden centres. Can come back from below ground in mild winters but overwinter indoors to be safe.
Janine Maskell
I mulch usually only in bad winters usually as my dahlias, cannas and gingers tend to get through the winter ok here. Tetrapanax can be a thug if killed to the ground in winter and thus looses its growing point/points. This makes it more likely to put out more suckers. Mine haven’t lost their growing points but they do still sucker. I just snap them off or pull them out when it’s easy to get a good grip on them. If they pop up somewhere that looks good, leave them for a season and enjoy the big leaves and then pull it out. The suckers can travel far from the main plant 10ft or more so it may be an idea to let your neighbour know just what to do should they spot one. Tetrapanax never seem to do as well in pots.
All my bamboo are planted in plastic rings made by cutting a waterbutt in half. I use a hand saw to cut off the base and also through the middle to give two rings about 18 inches or so high. Dig these into the ground leaving about 4 to 6 inches out of the ground to help stop the runners and then plant the bamboo in that. If the bamboo sends out a runner over the barrier just snip it off.