M I T Z I
I've been pulling the above plant up in their droves for years, however it's the first time I've let it flower and I quite like it, my plant identification app told me its a Japanese anemone, but I beg to differ so this one is for Jon or you to identify.
Lemon plants, grown from seed.
Mature Stephanotis grow pods similar to courgettes, the pods open and the seeds similar to dandelions billow out of them, I brought a few of the seeds home, a souvenir from Tenerife.
Panache fig.
[Monkey-puzzle (Araucaria araucana) - IDV]
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I grew a mango plant from seed, doesn't it look horrible? After scraping the flesh off the stone, I used scissors to get the seed out. I used the paper towel and freezer bag method, to speed up germination, it only took a few days. I don't think I'll be keeping it though, because the mango was brought from Aldi and it's lousy with the gnat!
Waitrose finest Medjool dates, palms grown from their seed.
[From Waitrose, you say? I bet you'll be keeping these! - IDV]
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Mitzi, once again you astound with your propagation skills! I'm already imagining your new garden being filled with home-grown exotica. Thank you for taking part.
* Post title from the subject line of Mitzi's GPE email.
Mitzi does have a knack for propagation, but I seem to be drawn to the Monkey Puzzle tree and the curious light behind so that at first glance it looks like some sort of alien life form.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing Mitzi's new garden, and further propagation.
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It's because I'm cheap Scarlet. I think it could be something other than alien life form, the ivy cuttings were taken from a cemetery, it was sprawling up someone's obelisk!
ReplyDeleteWell, at least Mitzi is not one to want instant gratification, it seems, All this growing from seed is laudable but lengthy in terms of producing any identifiable results.
ReplyDeleteAnemone japonica is definitely the flowering specimen. The white form is less invasive but pink is pretty and there does seem to be rather a lot of bare border for it to grow into.
We are curious about the Monkey-Puzzle tree....that is potentially enormous...but how long has it taken to reach this height? We do hope that your naughty neighbour has not been stunting its growth.
My maid of all work Carmen bought the Monkey Puzzle 5 years ago from a market stall in Beverley, it was a weedy looking thing and only 8 inches tall, for the first 2 years it hardly put on any growth, then starting in spring I give it a fortnightly tomato feed, crushed egg shells, used tea leaves and occasionally, one of my vitamin pills , not sure if that's the right thing to give it but it seems to be thriving, it grows a foot a year and it's a bit close to that fence for my liking, in retrospect I would have planted it more central and away from the porcine gaze of her next door.
DeleteYou've done a magnificent job, Mitzi, getting all those free plants for your garden (and house - I'd never have thought of growing a Streptocarpus from seed!). I love propagation, too - that's how we got our huge rambling rose "Veilchenblau" (a cutting from a branch overhanging a council-house garden fence), as well as several salvias, two (now) ginormous weeping figs and, until they all died, a few Streptocarpus. I do hope hope you're taking them all to wherever it is you're moving to...Jx
ReplyDeletePS Yes, that's Anemone japonica, alright - ours are utterly hopeless weak specimens in their pots, and we are thinking to bung them out in what little tiny exposed earth we do have next Spring (despite the shade) to see if they'll perform better for us. [Our friends' garden in Essex is overrun with it, but here I don't think it'd cause a huge problem].
Thank you Jon. The maid does most of it. The Anemone Japonica is growing in a crevice in my brick wall I will have to tease it out and plant it up if I'm to take it with me. I would love to take the Monkey Puzzle with me but I fear it's too well established I don't want to risk killing it, like the poor Spruce that is hiding behind the shed. I have taken many cutting of the fig and fuchsia I'm not sure about the dahlia tubers.
DeleteYes, I'm looking forward to see what Mitzi does at her new place. I'm another snip-and-poke person!
ReplyDeleteSorry I had to neglect you and MJ for a bit, my maid Carmen reminded me of an appointment I had at the clinic, nothing untoward. I'm a Potter-abouter too and a shake n vac person with the leaf vacuum/blower. Ideally I would like a low maintenance garden, so I can lock up and leave without worrying about coming home to an over grown mess.
DeleteYou mean that wide spread bending over wasn't Carmen???
Delete*Cackles* Carmen has let herself go, but not to that extent. It's the next door neighbour meddling in someone else's garden, I took the photo from my bedroom window, she must have seen Carmen go out and presumed that I was with her. The sly old cow.
DeleteThe woman next door needs a swift kick up the arse.
ReplyDeleteIf I could get away with it I would and I really mean that. My maid Carmen calls her "Mare arse"
DeleteI would fly in from Canada to hold her down for you.
DeleteDo you like her gardening outfit?
DeleteTell me those aren't CROCS!
DeleteThey do look suspiciously like those imitation Crocs you see in B&M Bargains for £2.99 the next time I see her out and about I'll take her picture and if our suspicions are proved right I'll give you her address so you can send her a poisoned pen letter spiked with anthrax spores.
DeleteYou know me so well. That sounds exactly like my modus operandi.
DeleteIs it me or are some of these French ticklers? Could they be French ticklers?
ReplyDeleteAnd paint me jealous Mitzi....I ADORE anemones, but alas have no luck with them. They are one of my favorites.
My panache figs? Mother nature's butt plugs they're very small at the moment about half the size of a Cadburys creme egg, so not much of a challenge.
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ReplyDeleteThere is a great joy in prorogation but a plant seeding itself is a surprise and a joy.
That's true. The Anemone Japonica I would pull them out in clumps thinking the were weeds, I returned home from holiday and found them in bloom and really liked them, and I have a rogue lupin plant that has sprung up out of no where, where did that come from, I suspect it was the bastard squirrels.
DeleteWow! That neighbor has got some audacity to be spraying about weed killer uninvited! I would have sprayed her with a hose!
ReplyDeleteI love seeing what you propagate and grow! It's so different from what I can do here, BUT there is a type of fig that can be grown here. I have the name of it scribbled on a bit of paper somewheres around her. LOVELY, Mitzi.
She's a sly one, her next door. I strongly suspect it was her who backed into my solar powered garden lamp, crushing it flat and then sticking it back in the ground, in the hope it would go unnoticed. I raise my eyes skyward when I see people treating their fig trees like princesses when they are very hardy, my panache survived the 2018 The Beast from the East when temperatures plummeted to minus 10 and it was just a cutting frozen solid in a yoghurt pot (Waitrose's finest of course).
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