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BarbaraH wrote

Love this but it's a Greenhouse plant with me. Maybe when it's bulked up
enough I will try some in a sunny spot.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden

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"Maroochy" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote:

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That's nice!
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Peace! Om

"He who has the gold makes the rules"
--Om

"He who has the guns can get the gold."
-- Steve Rothstein

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Bob Hobden wrote:
BarbaraH wrote

Love this but it's a Greenhouse plant with me. Maybe when it's bulked
up enough I will try some in a sunny spot.

Hate to say this, but they grow like weeds here.

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Omelet wrote:


That's nice!

Thanks

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On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:58:28 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:


BarbaraH wrote

Love this but it's a Greenhouse plant with me. Maybe when it's bulked up
enough I will try some in a sunny spot.

They are cliche commercial landscape plants here and a bit too
aggressive for a typical home garden.
Of course they are pretty enough that I still have to try them.
There is another species - D. bicolor - that is nicer and less
aggressive.

--
Prunedale California
Prunetuckey-By-The-Slough
Near Monterey Bay and Elkhorn Slough

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Garrapata wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:58:28 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:


BarbaraH wrote

Love this but it's a Greenhouse plant with me. Maybe when it's
bulked up enough I will try some in a sunny spot.

They are cliche commercial landscape plants here and a bit too
aggressive for a typical home garden.
Of course they are pretty enough that I still have to try them.
There is another species - D. bicolor - that is nicer and less
aggressive.

Yes I also have them growing, they are cheery plants, always brighten up an
area.

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Garrapata wrote:

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:58:28 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:


BarbaraH wrote

Love this but it's a Greenhouse plant with me. Maybe when it's bulked up
enough I will try some in a sunny spot.

They are cliche commercial landscape plants here and a bit too
aggressive for a typical home garden.
Of course they are pretty enough that I still have to try them.
There is another species - D. bicolor - that is nicer and less
aggressive.

I just need a drought proof prolific plant other than prickly pear. :-(
Even the Lantanas are suffering right now.
--
Peace! Om

"He who has the gold makes the rules"
--Om

"He who has the guns can get the gold."
-- Steve Rothstein

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"Garrapata" wrote after
"Bob Hobden" wrote:
BarbaraH wrote

Love this but it's a Greenhouse plant with me. Maybe when it's bulked up
enough I will try some in a sunny spot.

They are cliche commercial landscape plants here and a bit too
aggressive for a typical home garden.
Of course they are pretty enough that I still have to try them.
There is another species - D. bicolor - that is nicer and less
aggressive.


The chap I bought the D.grandiflora from is an elderly South African plant
expert/specialist and he told me he had yet to get D. bicolor to flower in
the UK. If he couldn't get it to flower I didn't think it was worth me
trying.
http://www.rupert.bowlby.care4free.net/bowlby2.html


--
Regards
Bob Hobden