It is truly amazing the variety of what nature makes!
This is supposed to be very invasive, so it must go into a pot!
Fallopia japonica Devon Cream
I saw this in my friend's cart and felt great need! LOL
Wow!!
Double wow!! Amazing colors!!
:) Donna
Now that's an invasive that I would love to have. I'll have to look it up.
Linda
Amazing!
I had a vest that looked like that, back in the 70s.
That is beautiful. But, it will get enormous in two seasons. I just pulled out the beautiful varigated variety because it became huge and jumped ten feet in its second year. I have plenty of the green variety at my country house and it is 8-10 feet high and 30 feet across. Beautiful stuff but agressive! This year I am resorting to chemicals to kill it.
Maybe if you planted it in a halved wine barrel...
Kell, wonderful colors.
Kell, make sure that pot is elevated; that stuff can find the drain hole in a container, root into the soil and spread faster than that speeding bullet. It sure is pretty though. Kind of reminds me of Chameleon plant, houtonya or however you spell it.
never seen that - beautiful foliage
I knew it was invasive but had no clue it would get that big. I am going to put it in a 30 gallon combo pot. Though if it grows that big maybe it won't be such a combo pot. LOL
Thanks everyone for the comments and the info!
Oh Alice, I was about to email you and see if you wanted one. I take it that is a NO! LOL
Do you think you might want a blue poppy?? Last year they were so rare, the Strybing Arboretum had one at their kick off fundraiser auction and it went for beaucoup bucks. I think I heard they are so hard to grow from seed. They are a beautiful color blue.
Picture copied from http://www.bluepoppygarden.com/
Blue Poppies are so amazing with those saturated blue petals. Sadly, I suspect they do not like the heat in the southeast. I've never seen them here, even at Brookgreen Gardens where they do push the zone window.
kell
we gotta talk
LOL @ CC!
Wow Kell, that is one amazing variegated plant. I can't wait to see it in your combo pot. I bet it will be a stunner even though it might take over the world! What else are you putting in the pot?
Beautiful variegated plant, Kell.
I owe Alice big time. I am going to find a hot phormium!!
Do you want to try one, CC? They are small. I still have your lapageria but I haven't seen it lately. LOL. I have Ada's too. And Ada sent me a box too. I am so pathetic.
Brinda, I need to find some rosy colored plants, not just PINK!
I got a plant of this the other day, it actually is a 3 ft standard. I may put it with it. To make you crosseyed looking at the patterns. LOL
The other day I was panting at a clivia specialty nursery in Watsonville and they had a turkey guarding the one in the yard. But I was so pathetic and needy as I gushed over it, the owner gave me one he had growing in a pot. I also had just given him every penny I had literally to buy his most special (to my eye) variegated clivias. Talk about perfected variegation that takes your breath away! They however must stay inside.
Oh to be Kelley on a buying spree. LOL Except when she gets home to hubby. Then you do not want to be even near her much less her. LOL Dialogue: Oh Tom, I couldn't buy any dinner for tonight for I just had to have this special clivia instead, honey! I ran out of money. PLEASE do not be too mad. And then I flash him a big smile. LOL So true. So he took me out to dinner. LOL LOL LOL. Again so true.
The turkey guard.
Kell, you are a very naughty girl; but keep it up, you rock!!!!
My unabashed need (greed) for plants never seems so bad after I read about your escapades. No doubt, if I lived in CA my credit rating would be shot. LOL
ROFL Kell you are a riot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well it's so pretty... and growing like that... it should make you happy.. and striking foilage... just the plant for me to try... go ahead grow out of the pot on me.. and hit the hot roof... though on some of the roof gardens I've done... like one with a brick topping... and a big planter full of a weeping willow... which sent a root out the bottom of the pot.. to stop up the drainage holes and then down into inbetween the bricks... a willow in search of water..
Have the fun out there... Gordon
Gordon, that is hysterical. Willows are waterholics that will obviously go to any length to get a drink. Hope it didn't damage the building.
If we hear a NYC apartment building fell over due to mysterious roots tearing apart all the bricks from the mortar, we will know it is Gordon's doing!!
Oh Kell... no real danger there... it was a Tobias fireproof roof system.. patented 1894... it's all reinforced concrete.. and on top of it there are big copper pans... .. the pans are plumbed into the roof drains...... the bricks are set.in the pans... so any leaking is drained away... but that willow did grow down into the pans..soaking up the water... I did remove the root after a number of years.. where it was apart of a 2" thick self planting moss mat which was under the planter for the first few years,,, then started claiming the roof out from under the planter ... which was about 4' x 4' x 3' tall... and was raised up off the roof 4"... to keep this kind of thing from happening... but moisture was it's downfall... as the willow got hit by lightning... up on the 11 floor... but even lightning couldn't deter it ... as it soon regrew...... in trying to move it.. the root business was discovered... then it went for good in revamping one spring...
Moral... although it's nice to have all you want... sometimes it's safer to keep yourself in check... but go tell that to a willow... or someone shoppping the nurseries in the spring..
speaking of nurseries... went to a very civilized one down here in AL at mothers... they have a big brewed pot of Starbucks... and a chest of ice and sodas ... avaliable free for enjoyment while shopping... and I only got a 6' tall mandavilla ... with a lovely double pink flower ...for moms... and in lashing it to the trellis here... I had to fight off the humming bird that was buzzing me...
with all of the late cold.. these poor hummers are here... with no flowers available... so... folks put the humming bird feeders out... the dears are in great need...upon arrival..
mother also has a 12' tall and 12' wide fig tree... with millions of tiny freeze dried figs... so sad..
Gordon
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Hard to keep in check in spring for sure, Gordon. I personally have been so out of control!!
So do you have a picture of your 6' tall mandevilla with a lovely double pink flower? It sounds so pretty!