JunglePlants

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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.

Justicia aurea

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Brazilian Plume Flower 1 litre plants ■☻

Justicia aurea, 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 yellow 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 limited.

Justicia carnea

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Brazilian Plume Flower 1 litre plants 1ft tall ■☻

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.

Justicia carnea alba

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Brazilian Plume Flower 1 litre plants 1ft tall ■☻

Justicia carnea alba, is another rare form of Justicea carnea with pure white flowers. Identical habit to the pink form growing to a 3ft shrub that can be cut back when too large.

Justicia coccinea

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Brazilian Plume Flower 1 litre plants 1ft tall☻

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.

Megaskepasma erythrochlamys

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Brazilian Red Cloak 3 litre plants 2ft tall ■☻♣

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.

Monstera deliciosa variegata

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Variegated Swiss Cheese Plant 3 litre ■☻♣

A lovely variegated form of the Swiss Cheese plant with bold white variegation on the leaves and fruit pods. Slower growing than the green form and good for a house plant with some tolerance to dry conditions. Avoid full sun as this can burn the white variegation in the leaves. A reasonably tough plant that we have propogated from a stock plant acquired some 30 years ago.

Murraya koenigii

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The Curry Leaf Plant ■☻

We have a few plants grown from seed last year 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.

Murraya koenigii need warm temperatures with full sun to partial shade and a well draining loam based compost mix. The compost should be allowed to thoroughly dry between waterings. Fertilize weekly during the growing season and do not let the winter temperature fall below 18c° when watering should be very light. A small tree perhaps making 4ft in 5 years.

Mussaenda erythrophylla

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Red Flag Bush 1 litre plants 1ft tall☻

A spectacular tropical shrub with huge flower bracts in pink, white or red. We have managed to acquire a few of the scarlet form for this year but supply is limited. These delicate plants are only for experienced tropical enthusiasts that have warm tropical greenhouses or a humid tropical conservatory to grow them. We also have a pink form (not for resale) that gave us a spectacular display last year and we cannot wait to see this red flag in full bloom.

Pavonia intermedia

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Brazilian Candles 1 litre 1ft tall ■☻

Another unusual Brazilian species with vertical narrow red bracts, that reveal the rolled purple flowers and its protruding stamen. This shiny leafed mallow has an upright growth habit, is easy to grow and responds well to hard pruning.

Plumbago indica coccinea

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Pink Plumbago 1 litre plants 2ft tall ■☻

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.

Plumeria (Frangipani)

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Frangipani hybrid 1 litre plants ■☻

A fleshy stemmed shrub for the warm greenhouse or conservatory requiring full sun and free draining soil. It bears large pink, white or yellow flowers with a wonderful scent that permeates the air all over tropical gardens. Not easy to flower but if you think you have a good position for this lovely plant in a warm conservatory then give it a try.

Ruellia brittoniana

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Mexican Pansy 1 litre plants 2 ft tall ■☻

It has taken 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.

Ruellia macrantha

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Ruellia Macrantha 1 litre plants ■☻

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.

Russelia equisetiformis

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Coral Blow 1 litre plants ■☻

The Coral plant is a multi-branched sub shrub with slender rush like stems. The wiry branches start out erect then fall over cascading down in lengths as long as 4 ft (1.2 m). Flowers from spring until autumn outdoors in warm climates and all year long indoors. The flowers are produced in hanging clusters of scarlet tubular flowers about 1 in (2.5 cm) long that look like little firecrackers, inspiring the plant’s common name. Slow growing at first it will eventually fill quite a large pot given warm conditions. In the tropics it attracts humming birds for the flower nectar.

Solanum quitoense

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Naranjilla "Lost fruit of the Incas" 3 litre 2ft plants. ■☻

Very attractive large leaved medium sized shrub or small tree to 6-10ft from the Andes and a favourite of the Incas. The naranjilla is subtropical and enjoys slightly cooler than tropical temperatures so more suitable in the UK as a cool greenhouse plant. Leaves are large, soft and with purple veins and very attractive Naranjilla's like frequent watering and can stand brief temperature drops below freezing. It is easily container grown, the naranjilla is thought the be a short day plant, and may only set fruit when there are 8-10 daylight hours. The plant has bright orange fruits about the size of a medium tomato, covered with numerous fuzzy hairs that rub off when ripe. Pulp is green, acid, and of excellent flavour.

Strelitzia nicolai

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White Bird of Paradise ■☻җ ♣

Not as easy to grow from seed as Reginae, Nicolai makes a larger plant with huge broader leaves. Do not expect it to flower in the UK unless you have headroom for 12ft plus though! Excellent tough large glossy leaved foliage plants without the flowers, superb for exotic or tropical effect. The one in the picture has been planted with Canna Pretoria for a tropical bedding display.

Strelitzia reginae

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Bird of Paradise Flower 5 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

This plant is a definite must if you want to grow an exotic plant for the patio with stunning flowers. Hardier than it looks and capable of bearing a few degrees of frost, either in a micro climate or in an unheated conservatory. The bonus for waiting maybe one or two years for it to flower is that it is just beautiful and doesn't it just remind you of holidays in warmer climates?

Strobilanthes dyerianus

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Persian Shield 1 litre plants 1ft tall ■☻

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.

Theobroma Cacao

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Cocoa 1 litre plants ■☻

These plants can be tricky to raise from seed and we only send out fresh seed on a back to back basis when we receive it. Even then many of you have had problems with germination so when we received our last batch of fresh seed we decided to plant some ourselves and now have about 50 small plants for sale. Strictly a novelty requiring warm humid greenhouse conditions it grows quickly into a small shrub with large delicate tan coloured new leaves that hang vertically. An attractive tropical looking shrub or small tree for enthusiasts with stove house conditions.

Thunbergia erecta

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Bush Glory Vine 1 litre plants 2ft tall ■☻

A vigorous continuously blooming small shrub like perennial. The 2” purple blue trumpets with yellow throats are held against dark-green glossy foliage. Fast growing and easy to look after.

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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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