This years solanum seedlings starting to put on some decent growth at last

So chuffed , we have two flower buds on our Aechme covata

#FernFriday Pyrrosia lingua Corymbifera.

Aristolochia delavayi .
This must be the most prolific early flowering plant in our garden and so many buds still to flower , and yes they really do stink .

Great View of our Magnolia macrophylla from inside and outside of our kitchen window today well at least it’s enjoying the rain 🌧️

We went away for a few days and I love coming back to see what’s germinated one surprise was a whole pot of Bocconia frutescens , none before we left last Friday and now 17 are visibly germinating
I still have seeds available
PM me if you would like to see our current list .🌱

Our First Brugmansia flower outside this year B. Mobisu

Happy days , after five years waiting to collect the seed my first Brassiopsis dumicola has started to germinate🌱

Another amazing leaf in our Botanical collection and next to Trevesia I would say it’s my second favourite and hardy .
The new growth emerging now is nothing less than spectacular , Metapanax delavayi

Checking on our begonia seedlings I noticed the Begonia fusca seeds sown just over a week ago have started to germinate 🌱

I just love the colour of the new growth on our Brassiopsis hispida
All this years berries have now been harvested and over 60 seeds have been sown , a few have even germinated already ,I didn’t get any berries last year but we still have one 2 year old seedling left .

So glad to see new growth on our Meryta sinclairii, the puka tree .i was kindly given a cutting from My good friend Sean Boast a few years ago and it was growing beautifully, until a plant blew over and snapped the top off ,it’s taken a couple of years but looking good again now

Unusual leaf of the day is from my Isodon umbrosus given to me earlier this year by my good friend Philip Oostenbrink. This is the second time I’ve potted it on , this time into a 4l pot

# fern FridayPyrrosia polydactyla
Lots of spores escaping so we May have a few sporelings pop up in the greenhouse in the future 🌿

Impatiens pritzelii humbei red .

Here’s hoping that the forcast low of 3 degrees forecast tonight dosnt bring frost with it as all the schefflera in our garden have produced their new tender growth .

Whilst walking past the greenhouse I noticed a pot of Bocconia frutescens seeds germinating. I sowed them quite a few months ago and had forgotten they were in there .
at least 10 have already germinated 🌱

Sometimes the seeds are just as amazing as the plant , today I was given some Nerium oleander seed pods . Wow how cool are these 😁

Well Chuffed today as I found a shoot growing from the base of our Strobilanthes sp that was planted outside overwinter .
it had fleece cover for protection ,but in January I cut the stem back and covered with a bell cloche. We had low’s of -6 last winter here in Poole Dorset .

Re -potted this beautiful geoginanthus cilliatus today, one of the late Andy Smiths plants 🌱