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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 06/03/2009 : 08:48:18
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The medinilla pendula is late flowering this year but has a heap of buds coming on now and is growing quickly. Each bunch of flowers gets to about 30cm long and stays out for several weeks. They are then followed by pretty pinky purple berries which hang on the plant for months so looks good for a long time. It is hard to get an overall impression of this plant in a photo, you really need to see it in the flesh to realise how beautiful they are when fully out in flower. It is a favourite of mine.
Cliveas are starting to flower again
Two of my Crucifix Orchids are flowering well, always have a flower on them
Blue waterlily has hardly been without a flower but only had a couple of flowers on the lemon one.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 08:49:58
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 love the water lily  and I wish my clivea would flower one 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 06/03/2009 : 09:42:04
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Gail the Medinilla pendula is a glorious plant, I've been looking at the on Google
I'm being tempted to get one.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Edited by - pitta on 06/03/2009 19:54:44 |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 11:10:12
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I wish that waterlily would grow enough so I can split it up but it just seems to stay the same size. Those cliveas are getting on in years now and it is only the last couple of years that they have done much.
Gwen, many of the medinillas are beautiful plants. I have been trying to get some of this one growing from seed or cutting but not having any luck yet. I must go out and check the last lot of cuttings later and see how they are doing. You will find them fairly easy to get up your way but they are quite rare down here. Apparently Cairns botanical gardens has a big one though I can't remember if it was pendula or cummingi but they are both similar.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 11:22:42
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Very pretty Gail your Medinilla has grown a lot from the first time I seen it and such beautiful flowers.. Lucky you with more Clivia out, that white Crucifix Orchid has not grown much at all I dont think it likes being where it is.. I will dig it up and plant somewhere else, maybe half sun instead of none
Beautiful blue waterlily..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 11:27:23
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my red crucifix orchid has flowered continually for 12 months now
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 11:51:28
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Thanks Mary-Anne. My white crucifix hasn't grown either.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 12:06:23
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Yes strange that about the white one..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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otamot
head gardener
1013 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 16:45:40
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| theyre all gorgeous gail |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 19:19:30
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Gail the Medinella in Flecker Bot. Gardens is magnifica.Iwas on that site today.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 04:45:00
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I just gone back through my emails. According to a medinilla grower in Cairns who helped me ID mine a couple of months ago, M cummingi is growing on the Cairns Botanical Gardens. Maybe it just isn't on their website. He went to the gardens to compare it with pendula as he wasn't sure which one mine was.
Thanks Ota.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
Edited by - Gail on 07/03/2009 04:45:52 |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 13:50:59
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Gail check the Bot. gardens site thats where I saw it .
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
Cooktown |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 18:52:31
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I know they have M magnica at Flecker, I have one of those as well but it hasn't flowered yet. They do also have M cummingi as the person who ID-ed mine went to Flecker (he lives in Cairns) and compared the pendula and cummingi they have growing there to work out which mine was.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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liatris
dirt-poker
Australia
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Posted - 25/03/2009 : 14:37:12
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| Actually, they have a few medenillas at Flecker. They're usually one of my first poins of call when I go there. |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 26/03/2009 : 22:12:53
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Quite a few at Roma street park lands too and so much closer..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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A mixture of flowers in the garden