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Turn your Conservatory into an exotic Jungle! (Delivery May to Sep)
We are continuing to expand our range of jungle plants suitable for Greenhouses, Conservatories and House plants for those of you wanting to try something different or just to have your own rain forest jungle. However please read the descriptions carefully as their requirements differ greatly, some like it hot and sunny, others prefer warm humid shade. |
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Justicia carnea 1 Litre Plant £19.95 JP1063 |
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Brazilian Plume, Justicia carnea, is a small indoor shrub which performs best when grown in the full sun of a south facing window. Keep the soil moist at all times but never soggy, and feed every two weeks with a good all purpose fertilizer from March through to October. Justicias can be pruned back drastically in early Spring to prevent legginess. |
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Justicia coccinea 1 Litre Plant £19.95 JP2120 |
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Justicia coccinea, is a rare large tropical shrub to 6ft which performs best when grown in a sunny conservatory or greenhouse. Large soft leaves support the beautiful scarlet typical Justicia family flowers. Keep the soil moist at all times but never soggy, and feed every two weeks with a good all purpose fertilizer from March through to October. Justicias can be pruned back drastically in early Spring to prevent legginess. We have managed to propagate a few for this year but supply is very limited. |
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Malvaviscus arboreus 1 Litre Plant £19.95 JP3041 |
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This unusual attractive plant is an
autumn and winter blooming relative of the Hibiscus. The bright 3" long
scarlet red flowers are pendulous and last for several days but the
petals do not flare back like Hibiscus, but remain swirled around the
pistil. This gives the impression that the flowers never open, and hence
the common name of Sleeping Hibiscus AKA Turk's Cap or Lipstick
Hibiscus. It is a large soft wood shrub fast growing to eight foot tall
by six foot wide but can be kept to size if pot grown by pruning. A
native of Mexico it flowers best in full sun, but will tolerate light
shade. We saw this plant all over Grenada and Tobago where its used as
hedging. |
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Megaskepasma erythrochlamys 1 Litre Plant £29.95 JP2388 |
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This showy, tropical shrub with a grotesque botanical name occurs naturally in Venezuela. The showy ‘flower’ consists of red bracts surrounding the true white flower, a magnificent shrub to 10ft, but containable as a warm conservatory exotic if pruned. Our stock plants all flowered profusely from August to October - very rare in the UK. |
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Murraya koenigii 1 Litre Plant £26.95 JP2278 |
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We have a few plants
grown from seed a few years ago of the Curry-leaf tree. A native of
India and Sri Lanka, it is a small tree suitable for pot culture with
very pungent aromatic leaves. The leaves are used in curries. Flowers
late spring to early summer with small white flowers, 5/16 of an inch
across and are sweetly scented. |
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Plumbago capensis Darker Blue Clone 1 Litre Plant £15.95 JP264 |
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A shrubby plant that throws long runners almost like a non clinging climber. If pruned it can be kept to shape and is often used as hedging in the Tropics. These plants are an improved new clone of this plant with darker blue flowers, more shrubby in form, making a compact bush. It is also proving very floriferous and is the only variety offered by us as plants. |
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Plumbago indica coccinea 1 Litre Plant £16.95 JP733 |
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A shrubby climber from India with bright pink Plumbago flowers requiring warmer conditions than Capensis but ideal for a heated conservatory or greenhouse. Probably best cut back and placed on a warm windowsill indoors over winter if you do not have a warm enough greenhouse. |
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Ruellia brittoniana 1 Litre Plant £12.95 JP702 |
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It took me a while to identify this pretty robust clumping perennial from Mexico to 5ft tall. Dark green strap leaves with 2” purple flowers on elegant long sprays. Cold hardy to a light frost, but needs full sun to flower. |
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Ruellia macrantha 1 Litre Plant £15.95 JP441 |
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Best grown in a heated
conservatory this plant produces lovely gloxinia type flowers in autumn
to winter, as flowering is triggered by the short daylight hours. Grows
to 3ft to 4ft tall with lush hairy green leaves. |
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Saccharum officinarum violaceum 1 Litre Plant £20.95 JP1297 |
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An excellent architectural plant that grows at an astonishing speed to 10ft given enough warmth. It is definitely a lot tougher and cold hardier than the ordinary form with March propagated cuttings already reaching 10ft tall by August under glass and 6ft plus outside. A graceful elegant large grass with purple/green leaves and purple veins that also performed really well as summer bedding in our trials, forming large purple grass clumps to 7ft by August/September. After running trials 2005/2006 to see if this tough plant is winter hardy, we now believe it to be quite tender at the root level and needs a warm winter environment keeping it on the dry side. Much easier to look after though than the tropical green edible form. |
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Saccharum officinarum
Subject to Availability! 1 Litre Plant £24.95 JP591 |
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If you are into
novelties and pampas grass, then this one fits the bill. The course
grass like foliage is almost identical to pampas, but with stronger
stems. Difficult to over winter below 10C, and can become chloritic in
alkaline conditions. One year growth maybe to 5ft in ideal conditions
and the suckers can be propagated once the |
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Strelitzia reginae 3 Litre Plant £18.50 JP1243 |
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This plant is a
definite must if you want to grow an exotic plant for the patio with
stunning flowers. A tough plant even capable of bearing a few degrees of
frost although some leaf damage will be evident, Excellent for a frost
free unheated or heated conservatory. These 3 litre plants will need
another year or two to come in to flower but well worth the wait and a
lot quicker than growing from seed which takes about 6 years to reach
flowering size. Eventual height is 4ft to 5ft with a clumping nature
requiring a large pot. |
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Strobilanthes dyerianus 1 Litre Plant £18.95 JP1772 |
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Persian Shield is among
the most sought after foliage plants worldwide. It produces quite unique
shimmering iridescent purple coloured metallic looking leaves. I used to
grow this many years ago and at last this found a source of plants for
sale. Used as a house plant in the UK it is a shade lover but with
dappled sunlight the colouring is much stronger. A strong growing plant,
in the right conditions it may attain 3 to 5ft and as much wide, it
makes an excellent plant for summer shade bedding or placed in a shaded
conservatory position. A rare plant so please do not miss out on this
opportunity to acquire one. |
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Tecoma Mayan Gold 1 Litre Plant £10.95 JP2852 |
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Tecoma 'Mayan Gold' is
a fabulous new variety of Tecoma for use in conservatories or as a
summer patio plant that blooms from spring to late summer. The flowers
are golden trumpet shaped typical of the Tecoma family and borne in
large numbers over glossy green foliage adding a nice tropical look to
the plant. If kept frost free it will eventually reach 6 to 8 ft, great
for attracting bees and butterflies into the garden if outside. |
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Tibouchina semidecandra 1 Litre Plant £20.50 JP186 |
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A gorgeous conservatory
shrub with 3" purple flowers that will take cool frost free conditions
and an excellent conservatory plant where it will keep flowering all
summer. The name comes from the appearance of the stamens that resemble
a spider! At last after many years I have cracked taking the cuttings
successfully! My stock plant I have had for over 30 years so about time
it produced some offspring! |
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Symbol Code To Grow --- Easy n, Moderate n and Challenging n May be ok for a dry Conservatory ♣ Backlog for Fresh Seed --- u New Seeds not in Catalogue ---« Hardiness --- ] (To -5°C) ]] (To -10°C) ]]] (To -15°C) Growing Symbols --- £ Sunny position £ Shady position S Lots of Water |
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