This is a variegated artillery plant I picked up in Nebraska a couple of years ago.It makes a great houseplant or border plant for an outdoor tropical bed.The new foliage in the spring has pink/white/green areas, very nice!I sent these to Logees too..they will be out in the fall supplement I would imagine.
Very pretty plant
Kyle, you have mentioned in the past that you have sent plants to Logee's, what do you mean? do you mean that they used your mother stock to produce other plants? Especially in the case of your hybrids?
I can't wait to see your photos of your new tropical landscaping, you have inspired me to follow in your footsteps, but what a lot of work it will entail...Moving all those plants, but the end results should be fun
It looks like its own little snow mountian
Hello Eclipe - postings never cease to amaze me - I have grown many hundreds of artillery plants (Pilea muscosa) which has insignificant flowers but attractive foliage. This one is a real beauty. I wish I had had it years ago.
Peter.
Pebble..it started a few years back..I approached Logees and said I had some new hybrid brugs..they were interested and I sent them some cuttings. Since then I have sent them some other types of plants That I thought would be nice to get into the trade so we don't lose them to cultivation.They propagate them and I get a few in exchange.I don't get money..just a few plants.
Plants are better than money anyday!!
Eclipse, it is a good thing you are doing, and you should be rewarded if nothing else, with glory.....
You are awesome!
Pebble....****OUCH**...I hurt myself patting my back.LOL Not such a big thing...I just snoop out new cultivars of things and send them on..that way more people have access to them.Sometimes they use them sometimes not. I have sent things to other nurseries too.
This sounds like a nice arrangement between you and Logees. They seem to be a very reliable company. Last year I bought a plant (one of many) from them that said in the catalog that it was hardy to zone 5. This year it said zone 10. So I wrote and asked them if I should expect my plant to be dead and they wrote me back saying they will replace the plant because it was a printing mistake in the catalog and therefore their mistake. I thought that was really nice of them. I do believe they will do their best to make their customers happy and keep them that way. You will have to keep us updated on what plants to expect them to have from your stock.
Kyle, don't sell yourself short...What you are doing is a spectacular thing.
May I add my 50 cents to it?
Logees has a very good name in Europe, it is well known by botanical gardens and their naming of plants are acknowledged.
Kyle, does your artillery plant shoots as far as to my place? LOL Thats a real beauty. But I have to look if it will be hardy enough in our area. Thats sometimes a pity. So many beautiful plants, but when they hear about moving into the Vogelsberg mountains, they prefer growing backwards.
Monika..this little plant does well in sun or shade and I plant it outside as an annual each year.Reproduces real quick.Gets about 10 inches across in a season.
I looked into my smart books and found Pilea, the Kanonierpflanze, which has the same meaning as in english. Its marked as a tropical, half hardy in the subareas of the vinegrowing parts and of course Freiburg. But it needs there a protection too. I could plant it on a well sheltered place during summer and bring it into the GH in winter.
We have a few nurseries, which have many of real plant treasures. Maybe I will find it there.
