Looking for Canna "Cleopatra" and "Australia"

I have a lot to offer in return, cannot list everything; just ask if you do not find something eyecatching.

HARDY PERENNIALS
Echinacea tennesseensis
Penstemmon pinifolius
Hosta venusta (miniature)

TROPICAL PERENNIALS* (can be house plants too)
Fuchsia boliviana
Fuchsia paniculata
Firecracker Shrub (Hamelia patens)
Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus drumondii)
Porterweed (Stachytarpeta blue)
Dwarf Poinciana (Ceasalpinia pulcherrima)

HOUSE PLANTS*
Bougainvillea purple flowers
Pink Easter Cactus
Clivia miniata (orange flowers)
Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia milii)
Lantana
Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis)
Yellow Nerium oleander (http://www.floridata.com/wallpaper/jpg/Nerium_oleander800yellow.jpg)

* Patio plants in summer

OR MANY SEEDS just ask for what you are looking for.

This message was edited Oct 6, 2006 6:56 AM

zarcanat are you looking for Stuggart?
:) Donna

You are nice to offert it, actually I do have two rhizomes of this one.

Did you find a way to grow it without scorching the leave? I will be giving them a last chance next summer and they better look great because the garbage can will have a feast LOL!

I did post a picture of mine somewhere I think, but here it is again. I didn't have it in complete full sun. This area faces the East and I did keep it damp all the time. That could be the trick.

Which color is your Fuchsia boliviana? Also what is the plant of the posted picture?

Did you want some Abuliton Hunnington's Pink?

:) Donna

Fuchsia boliviana is the red one as on the picutre below.
The plant of the previous picture is the variegated bougainvillea (pink flowers) offered for the trade.

If you are interested in any of them D-mail me.

Okie, dokie...DGmail on the way.

I'll keep an eye open for you zarcanat! :) (I see them here every so often.....one of my fav nurseries has carried both of them).

Thanks Lily, you know what? I've got fuchsia Autumnale from an E-Bay seller near my house, incredible eh?!

Since you are in Montreal it doesn't surprise me in the least. ;)

Gotta try to get ahold of you again (found a letter that someone had left in an unusual spot :).

You are tickleling my curiosity now... that's not fair ;-)

wow so that is what I have to look forward to. I started a couple Bolivianna Fuchsia's from seed. Nowhere near that size and hasn't bloomed this year but I bet it will next year. What will you do with it over the winter? Will it go dormant or is it evergreen and needs to brought indoors? Please share any of your tips for growing and caring for this one.
In the winter I take all the fuchsia's in hanging pots and put them next to the house. They loose their leaves and do fine there until spring. I doubt that the Bolivianna will be as hardy.

Bea

Actually, I have to bring all my plants inside since I do not have a garage or a cool room, it takes a lot of place but you know... I love them so much LOL!

Mommum, my Fuschia Bolivianna is hardy up Island. I am on a cliff above the ocean and have a nice little microclimate, zone 8b-9a. I just put it under the deck and it comes back every year even when I abuse it and forget to water it et al. It should be fine in the Victoria area.

Brugcrazy

That is good news. I have found all the common variety hybrids from the local nursery will do fine here too. I just move the baskets next to the house but they are outside all winter and do loose their foliage. Nice to know I will be able to do that with these too.
Thanks for the tip!
What else do you leave outside that we all seem to think is to tropical?

Bea

I have left my brugmansias out all winter. They will come back from the roots but won't flower until late Sept. So I bring most of them in now. That way they flower from June until December. My solanum ratonetti stays in a pot next to the house and it survives every year too. I am thinking of putting it right into the ground. All my hedychiums stay outside all year round too and the cautleyas.