Ficus benjamina
 

Anybody seen the pics of Barbados in the new RHS Garden mag? My gob
has been smacked - surely nobody is ever going to want to grow Ficus
benjamina in a pot after seeing those pictures.
Rod

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Anybody seen the pics of Barbados in the new RHS Garden mag? My gob has
been smacked - surely nobody is ever going to want to grow Ficus
benjamina in a pot after seeing those pictures. Rod

Haven't seen those - but the ones in Rio are the size of huge oaks...

--
Klara, Gatwick basin

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Rod wrote:
Anybody seen the pics of Barbados in the new RHS Garden mag? My gob
has been smacked - surely nobody is ever going to want to grow Ficus
benjamina in a pot after seeing those pictures.

No, but I can imagine. I believe that Monstera deliciosa is also
quite impressive in its native habitat.

I get a bit annoyed with seed companies that describe how interesting
the baobab is (and it is), and then say that it makes a good pot
plant. Oh, YEAH.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Rod wrote:
Anybody seen the pics of Barbados in the new RHS Garden mag? My gob
has been smacked - surely nobody is ever going to want to grow Ficus
benjamina in a pot after seeing those pictures.

The one in the grounds of my (very) old school was a monster, and if
memory serves me correctly, was the size of a respectable oak, and had a
trunk to match. (And delicious purple figs with a pink interior...)

No, but I can imagine. I believe that Monstera deliciosa is also
quite impressive in its native habitat.

I get a bit annoyed with seed companies that describe how interesting
the baobab is (and it is), and then say that it makes a good pot
plant. Oh, YEAH.

I believe it is *VERY* slow-growing though, and goes on for millennia if
you can cope with all the watering, feeding and repotting for that
time...

It's (properly) a succulent, isn't it?

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Rusty
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

I get a bit annoyed with seed companies that describe how interesting
the baobab is (and it is), and then say that it makes a good pot
plant. Oh, YEAH.

I believe it is *VERY* slow-growing though, and goes on for millennia if
you can cope with all the watering, feeding and repotting for that
time...

Yes. But it is a very BORING one until it gets to middle age, and
its trunk starts to spread. Its main interest as a curiosity is
the massive girth of its trunk.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

I get a bit annoyed with seed companies that describe how interesting
the baobab is (and it is), and then say that it makes a good pot
plant. Oh, YEAH.

I believe it is *VERY* slow-growing though, and goes on for millennia if
you can cope with all the watering, feeding and repotting for that
time...

Yes. But it is a very BORING one until it gets to middle age, and
its trunk starts to spread. Its main interest as a curiosity is
the massive girth of its trunk.

Do you think there might be a market for inflatable rubber ones? I mean,
the little woman wouldn't mind one of *THOSE*.

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Rusty
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"Rod" wrote ...
Anybody seen the pics of Barbados in the new RHS Garden mag? My gob
has been smacked - surely nobody is ever going to want to grow Ficus
benjamina in a pot after seeing those pictures.

But that's the same with any tree we grow as a house plant, see the Monstera
delicosa in Jamaica for the first time and your mouth opens, same with the
"Rubber Plant" trees (F. elastica var decora) in India, the Baobabs in The
Gambia, Cycads in Oz, ..... it's that we might know how big they get but
don't understand untill faced with the reality.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

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But that's the same with any tree we grow as a house plant, see the
Monstera
delicosa in Jamaica for the first time and your mouth opens, same with the
"Rubber Plant" trees (F. elastica var decora) in India, the Baobabs in The
Gambia, Cycads in Oz, ..... it's that we might know how big they get but
don't understand untill faced with the reality.

There was a rubber tree in an office building in Norwich - it was
planted in the stairwell and was three storeys high.

I found my rubber tree on a bonfire heap (unlit) and it survived the
ordeal without even dropping leaves. It's being trained down again as
it's reached my living room ceiling.

--
Rusty
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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote
afterBob Hobden" wrote
But that's the same with any tree we grow as a house plant, see the
Monstera
delicosa in Jamaica for the first time and your mouth opens, same with
the
"Rubber Plant" trees (F. elastica var decora) in India, the Baobabs in
The
Gambia, Cycads in Oz, ..... it's that we might know how big they get but
don't understand untill faced with the reality.

There was a rubber tree in an office building in Norwich - it was
planted in the stairwell and was three storeys high.


Was it straight up or had it bushed out, I've seen them as big as a large
stand alone oak.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

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There was a rubber tree in an office building in Norwich - it was
planted in the stairwell and was three storeys high.


Was it straight up or had it bushed out, I've seen them as big as a large
stand alone oak.

It was high and skinny, and was multi-trunked.

Mine, though only six feet high, is reaching out to engulf one corner of
my front room.

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Rusty
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