In the poly-tunnel things are stirring. If only we had humming birds to do the pollination!
I assume Brugmansia sanguinea is humming bird pollinated, but it must be a much larger one that pollinates Tropaeolum tricolor [I've been calling this T.tricolorum - but I can't verify that name].
The Bomarea that isn't pardina has revealed its true colours if not its species [I'm working on that].
And even outside flowers are trying to get birds [not humming birds now] to pollinate them. This is [after a very mild winter here] I think Aloe arborescens 'Variegata'.
I am dissapointed, I thought maybe you really had humming birds!
I think I may have killed my pardina - not . I planted it out during last year and itssulked since, tunnel looks the way to go, caldassii is up outside but not edulis
Great that you got the variegated aloe to flower, I can't get mind anywhere near flowering so well done.
Can you buy hummingbird moth pupa like you can for other butterflies and moths? It would probably be warm enough in your poly for them and would be fun to see them buzzing around for how ever long they live.
I get humming bird hawk moths in the summer without trying. They hover over the Salvia and almost [well not really] give the impression of humming birds.
Chad wrote:I get humming bird hawk moths in the summer without trying. They hover over the Salvia and almost [well not really] give the impression of humming birds.
Chad - that Tropaeolum is lovely. And presumably you are getting all that growth from a tuber.
How goes it cope with heat? Charlie was saying Tropaeolums tend not to do well inside because of the heat. But perhaps heat is not a problem at this time of the year.
Both Tropaeolum tricolor and pentaphyllum [about to flower - photo's when it does] are winter growers here. Outside they get blown to bits, but the wind shelter of the tunnel lets them flower about now. By the time the tunnel warms up they are over and aestivating as tubers.
That said, the tunnel has large doors at each end that are open in the summer so it hardly ever gets 'hot' in there. 30C was seldom reached last year.
