2025 in the round

[charlie]

Charlie thanks for the rose ID Rambling Rosie. I’ve now got one but unlike my in-laws for whom the rose was “dirt cheap” I had to resort to sending for it from David Austin and forking out almost £40! Hope it does well:

I hadn't liked to mention before but we had had lots of them up at Hodnet!! :lol:

[MartinNicklin]

I didn’t even think to check your rose list :roll: :roll:

incidentally Charlie the fuchsia cuttings are putting on new growth and the Calceolaria pavonii has started to “climb” the wall I’ve got it planted up in the greenhouse, as is the Bomarea.

I know they don’t feature prominently on this site but I’ve really got back into fuchsias this year. They are a plant which was partly responsible for my love of plants when I was a child. My dad took me to a specialist fuchsia nursery and I was like a kid in a sweet shop. I’ve managed to get hold of a few of the cultivars I grew as a youngster but am also drawn to the species. I’ve just acquired boliviana (I’ve grown and lost this before, as well as boliviana alba), regia subspecies regia (finally!), lycioides, fulgens, vulcanica, denticulata and a few of the tryphylla types. Excorticata has always been bone hardy up here and I have to hack it back abruptly several times a year. I do think fuchsias look more exotic when they reach a good size if damaging frosts can be avoided. For instance, I’ve got a big standard Dollar Princess in the garden which is probably about 8ft across and getting on for 6ft tall and it’s quite impressive to have the blooms at eye height rather than having to get on the floor to see them.

[AndyC]

A new one for me, first flowers on Crotalaria agatiflora



Impatiens tinctoria



Kniphofia uvaria nobilis

[MartinNicklin]

I should really post this on Andrews "Plants which elude me" thread. Your tinctoria is wonderful Andy. It's on my list of plants I lust after after seeing it doing magnificently in one of the big Cornish gardens (Glendurgan or Trengwainton) a few years ago. My plant had two stems (when I bought it) last year but this year only one and no flower yet, though it's about 4ft tall at the mo. It's in the greenhouse, planted in the ground in good soil and I was expecting it to have bulked up a little this year. I wonder if it is too warm in there, although other plants grow well in there? I might get another and try it in a big pot to bring under protection in the winter. Does anyone grow this in a pot? I'm determined to grow a decent one ... or at least see a flower!

[charlie]

Gardens really coming along there Andy :)

[Chad]

Impatiens tinctoria: Does anyone grow this in a pot?

Not for long Martin.

It has a huge rootstock and would need a 100L pot by the end of its first season if it was happy.  It can be 'held' in a smaller pot where it would sulk.

You are right that it doesn't seem to like heat.  It won't grow in the tunnel, petering out over the summer when I tried it, even though its natural range includes DRC, I presume at high altitude.

You don't need to buy another one; either cut off the top as a cutting now or divide the rootstock in the winter.

Get it in the soil outside.  I don't think hardiness is an issue even in England.

Chad

[MartinNicklin]

Thank you Chad for confirming my suspicions regarding the heat in the greenhouse. I didn’t think it would survive outside up here but I will give it a go. I’d love to see this flower in my garden.

[NigelJ]

Impatiens tinctoria has loved the wet autumns recently and is over 6 ft tall.



Eryngium agavifolium largest of several grown from seed sown 4 years ago.

[charlie]

If you are ever wanting to try something bigger than Eryngium agavifolium I have E. pandanifolium which I regularly have to re-home chunks of! (not known it self seed although it does set seed most years)

[Chad]

Aralia vietnamensis getting going and begining to show its golden sheen of tiny hairs.

Chad