JunglePlants

Conservatory A to I

Turn your Conservatory into an exotic Jungle! (Delivery May to Sep 2008)

We are continuing to expand our range of jungle plants suitable for 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.

Acalypha hispida

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Red-Hot Cat Tail 1 litre plant ■☻

This is a very attractive tropical shrub with its bright green toothed leaves toothed and long, hairy tail like crimson drooping red flower clusters. Capable of reaching a height of 2 meters careful pinching and pruning may be necessary to keep Acalypha Hispida from becoming too tall and untidy. The red flowers can reach up to 10-50cm long. It requires bright light, well drained soil and warm conditions. Dead flowers should be removed and watering should be minimal in winter and spider mite can be a problem without control.

Allamanda cathartica

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Golden Trumpet Vine 1 litre plants ■☻

A classic climber from tropical regions not at all cold hardy and you will need a very warm heated environment to keep this wonderful climber. We also have a purple flowered form and an apricot/purple flower but they are reluctant to propagate easily.

Beloperone guttata variegata

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Shrimp Plant 1 litre plant ■☻

A very useful pot plant that I have grown at various times over the years and always a favourite of my wife. We offer here a lovely variegated leaf form for something a bit different.

Bilbergia nutans

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Queen’s Tears 1 litre plant ■☻җ ♣

Billbergia nutans makes a good conservatory plant and is also happy as a houseplant where it can live on a windowsill for years. It is often listed in magazines as one of the top ten houseplants that can tolerate almost total neglect. It is a bromeliad, related to the pineapple requiring a well drained, gritty soil. Water only when really necessary and feed only occasionally. Grown in full sun, the foliage loses some of its lustre but produces copious amounts of exotic pink flower spikes. I have had customers tell me that they will survive quite well outside given a sheltered micro climate,

Bilbergia nutans variegata

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Queen’s Tears 1 litre plant ■☻җ ♣

A lovely leaf variegated pink/green/white form of Billbergia nutans that makes a good conservatory plant and is also happy as a houseplant where it can live on a windowsill for years. It is often listed in magazines as one of the top ten houseplants that can tolerate almost total neglect. It is a bromeliad, related to the pineapple requiring a well drained, gritty soil. Water only when really necessary and feed only occasionally. Grown in full sun, the foliage loses some of its lustre but produces copious amounts of exotic pink flower spikes.

Brillantaisia guianensis

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Tropical Salvia 3 litre plants ■☻

Medium to large herbaceous, tropical shrub with tall spikes of purple blue flowers from central and west Africa. Can grow up to 8-9ft but responds well to pruning. Large, rough, fiddle shaped leaves and hairy stems. This is a large shrub suitable for a spacious conservatory or used as summer bedding in a warm location. Ours flower non-stop from Spring to Summer and grow well when treated as summer bedding..

Carica Papaya Babaco

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3 litre plants 3ft tall ■☻

Rare cool tolerant Mountain Papaya - Grow your own Papaya Fruits on a dwarf 6ft tree!

This mountain Papaya comes from the highlands of Ecuador and thrives in a cool subtropical climate, free of frost. The babaco is much more tolerant of cool, damp winters than the papaya. It will withstand temperatures to about 28° F in very short bursts, although it may lose most of its leaves. The babaco is ideally suited to container culture and also excellent for greenhouses in a sunny spot.

Growing to about 6 feet in height it does not branch and during the cold winter months the leaves degenerate and are usually shed. As these plants are vegetatively propagated they only produce self fertile female flowers. The excellent seedless fruits, to 12" long ripen in the late autumn to winter depending on the season. The flesh of the babaco is very juicy, slightly acidic and low in sugar with a unique flavour that has been described as having overtones of strawberry, pineapple and papaya. New growth from the base should be only encouraged when the old stem has become too old to be productive.

Cestrum elegans

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Pink Cestrum 1 litre plant ■☻

From Mexico, this lovely tender shrub bears clusters of rosy-red flowers on arching branches, deep green 4" narrow leaves. Hardy in parts of Cornwall it will make a large shrub.

Cestrum nocturnum

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Lady of the Night 1 litre plants ■☻

This plant has one of the strongest fragrances around in the evening, when the scent becomes almost intoxicating. The masses of small, creamy blooms open up at night releasing their perfume, but some scent still lingers during the day from the semi closed flowers. They bloom on and off during the warmer months of the year and grow quickly so regular pruning will be needed to keep it contained. An extremely popular plant always in high demand.

Clerodendrum quadriloculare

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Shooting Star 1 litre plant ■☻

I have been after this tropical Clerodendrum for a few years now, it has striking large blooms in early spring that explode into a star burst of pink/white colour. The green leaves have a burgundy underside for added attraction. A large plant in its native Philippines to 10ft, but can be kept to size and shape by pruning or made into an attractive standard pot shrub. We have managed to acquire a quantity of micro propagated plants for sale in 2007.

Clerodendrum ugandense

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Butterfly Bush 1 litre plant ■☻

The blue butterfly bush is a tough open growing African evergreen shrub to 10ft tall, but is easily kept much smaller. The inflorescences, borne at the ends of long arching branches, are panicles 4-10in long composed of individual 1” blue violet flowers more or less continuously throughout the summer and autumn.

Coffea arabica

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Coffee Bean Trees 1 litre plants ■☻

Such a well known commodity! But did you know that the plants make interesting house or conservatory shrubs with dark, glossy green leaves, small white scented flower clusters followed by bright red coffee beans. Don’t get too excited though about grinding your own coffee from the seed - unless it is dried and cured correctly, it tastes awful!

Cyperus papyrus

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Egyptian Papyrus 1 litre pots 2ft tall ■☻♥ ♥

Both seed and plant demands for Papyrus from JS&G are high. Attractive 6ft plus reeds with 18” delicate flower heads, drifting in the breeze. Requires protection from the wind planted out or the reeds will bend and break.

Dombeya wallichii

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Pink Ball Shrub large 5 litre plants☻

Dombeya is a spectacularly large shrub with large heart-shaped leaves and dense heads of little pink flowers which hang from foot long stems. The plant is native to Madagascar, but widely grown as a large garden shrub in Florida. Not at all frost hardy but ok for a cool conservatory. Can be pruned after flowering in mid summer to keep to a sensible size but best in a large conservatory where it will create a dramatic impression.

Epiphyllum Oxypetalum

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Queen of the Night 1 litre plants ■☻♥ ♣

An easily cultivated, fast growing epiphyte. Needs compost containing plenty of humus and sufficient moisture in summer. Should not be kept under 10ºC (50ºF) in winter. Can be grown in semi-shade but not full sun, extra light in the early spring will stimulate budding. Flowers in late spring or early summer and large specimens can produce several crops of flowers in a season. The blooms are stunning 12" wide strongly fragrant and pure white. Each bud only opens for one night though and usually after 7pm, and it is really frustrating if you miss it! This epiphyllum like plant can reach tree like proportions sending out 4ft glossy green shoots that are tougher than they look. Why we do not sell it is that slugs simply love the new growth and I gave up trying to produce "clean" plants, but if you do not mind the odd nibbled leaf we are happy to supply this rare and fabulous plant.

Eugenia uniflora

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Surinam Cherry 2 year old 1 litre plants ■☻

The Surinam cherry rarely grown outside of the Americas is a bush or small tree to 25ft in height that can be kept to a manageable size when pot grown . It has adapted to both subtropical and tropical climates and is hardy to -3°C when full grown and possible a good candiate for a sunny winter cool conservatory. Plants like full sun and are drought tolerant, needing only moderate rainfall. Fruits develop and ripen in just 3 weeks from flowering on young trees and eaten fresh with sugar or used in preserves.

Hibiscus schizopetalus

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Fringed Hibiscus 1 litre plants 1ft tall ■☻

One look at the fringed hibiscus, and it’s easy to see why the shrub is so popular across the world. It’s unique weeping flowers set it apart from other hibiscus varieties. The gorgeous pink and red pendent flowers make it very popular as a pot plant. Growing naturally to more than eight feet tall, the plant can be pruned and trained but it needs a very warm environment to survive our winters.

Hibiscus sinensis

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Tropical Hibiscus 1 litre plants ■☻

We have a few hibiscus plants for sale grown from our hybrid seed but with unknown colours. These should reach flowering size for 2008 and the ones we have grown to flowering size from a previous seed trials have all been stunning. A classic tropical flower with huge open brightly coloured flowers. Makes a useful conservatory small shrub ,flowering on and off all year given sufficient heat. Best over wintered with a minimum day or night temperature above 15C.

Impatiens niamniamensis

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Congo Cockatoo 1 litre plants ■☻♥

This succulent-stemmed, balsam like plant from tropical East Africa has flowers that look like the head of a scarlet, yellow, and green parrot. This dramatic and unusual houseplant can grow to 3’ tall, covered periodically with these quite gaudy flowers. Although not constantly in bloom, it typically produces its long-lasting flowers several times a year. Grow in a warm part shady position under glass just like a balsam plant.

Ipomoea batatas - Blackie

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Ornamental Sweet Potato 1 litre plants 1ft tall ■☻

Ipomoea batatas ‘Blackie’ has a excellent dark purple to purple black palmate foliage given a sunny position. This Sweet Potato Vine makes a great pot plant or hanging basket plant in a warm location. Blackie has deeper lobing in the leaves than other Sweet Potato Vines and is a vigorous grower, trailing up to 24”-36”.

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To Grow -- Easy ■ Moderate ■ and Challenging ■

May be ok for a dry Conservatory ♣

Hardiness - To -5°C җ To -10°C җ җ Fully Hardy җ җ җ

Needs Shady Position ☻ Sunny Position ☻ Water Loving ♥

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