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Re: New Subtropical Gardening Forum for the UK

Susan George wrote:

>Your forum looks interesting - can others join or is it just for UK 
>gardeners?

Well, its not *my* forum - a friend who is a palm and exotics fanatic
asked me to spread the word.

We seem to have a couple from the US who have joined in Susan so I see
no reason why anyone shouldn't join in.  However, our growing
conditions are bound to be considerably different so the methods we
employ to grow things may vary from the norm.  

>In my own garden I am trying to develop a workable blend of 'tropical' 
>looking plants and more traditional perennials and shrubs (a kind of 
>late twentieth century version of a 'Victorian' garden (the era not the 
>state!))- one of my primary sources for plants at the moment is the 
>Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne - they have a fine collection of large 
>leafed plants - many probably dating from the 'Victorian' period. I have 
>some wonderful things such as a a few shrub Lobelias, shrub Eupatoriums, 
>numerous species from the Malvaceae family, cannas, species from the 
>arum family, Wigandia, Melianthus, Sparmania, species fushias, 
>Cordylines, Datura etc - but I am always interested finding out about 
>new plants.  

A lot of those are often grown in southern gardens here - looking at
your list, its only the Eupatoriums I haven't seen locally.  Even your
Bower Flower (Pandorea) seems quite at home, although it tends to
flower rather late in some years.
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