JunglePlants

Conservatory A to I

Turn your Conservatory into an exotic Jungle! (Delivery May to Sep)

We are continuing to expand our range of jungle plants suitable for Conservatories and House plants for those of you wanting to try something different or just to have your own rain forest jungle. However please read the descriptions carefully as their requirements differ greatly, some like it hot and sunny, others prefer warm humid shade.

Acalypha hispida

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Red-Hot Cat Tail 1 litre plant ■☻

This is a very attractive tropical shrub with its bright green toothed leaves toothed and long, hairy tail like crimson drooping red flower clusters. Capable of reaching a height of 2 meters careful pinching and pruning may be necessary to keep Acalypha Hispida from becoming too tall and untidy. The red flowers can reach up to 10-50cm long. It requires bright light, well drained soil and warm conditions. Dead flowers should be removed and watering should be minimal in winter and spider mite can be a problem without control.

Beloperone guttata variegata

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Shrimp Plant 1 litre plant ■☻

A very useful pot plant that I have grown at various times over the years and always a favourite of my wife. We offer here a lovely variegated leaf form for something a bit different.

Bilbergia nutans variegata

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Queen’s Tears 1 litre plant ■☻җ ♣

A lovely leaf variegated pink/green/white form of Billbergia nutans that makes a good conservatory plant and is also happy as a houseplant where it can live on a windowsill for years. It is often listed in magazines as one of the top ten houseplants that can tolerate almost total neglect. It is a bromeliad, related to the pineapple requiring a well drained, gritty soil. Water only when really necessary and feed only occasionally. Grown in full sun, the foliage loses some of its lustre but produces copious amounts of exotic pink flower spikes.

Brillantaisia guianensis

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Tropical Salvia 1 litre plants ■☻

Medium to large herbaceous, tropical shrub with tall spikes of purple blue flowers from central and west Africa. Can grow up to 8-9ft but responds well to pruning. Large, rough, fiddle shaped leaves and hairy stems. This is a large shrub suitable for a spacious conservatory or used as summer bedding in a warm location. Ours flower non-stop from Spring to Summer and grow well when treated as summer bedding..

Cestrum elegans

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Pink Cestrum 1 litre plant ■☻

From Mexico, this lovely tender shrub bears clusters of rosy-red flowers on arching branches, deep green 4" narrow leaves. Hardy in parts of Cornwall it will make a large shrub.

Clerodendrum ugandense

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Butterfly Bush 1 litre plant ■☻

The blue butterfly bush is a tough open growing African evergreen shrub to 10ft tall, but is easily kept much smaller. The inflorescences, borne at the ends of long arching branches, are panicles 4-10in long composed of individual 1” blue violet flowers more or less continuously throughout the summer and autumn.

Cyperus papyrus

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Egyptian Papyrus 1 litre pots 3ft tall ■☻♥ ♥

Both seed and plant demands for Papyrus from JS&G are high. Attractive 6ft plus reeds with 18” delicate flower heads, drifting in the breeze. Requires protection from the wind planted out or the reeds will bend and break.

Dendroseris litoralis

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Cabbage Tree (Very Rare) 3 litre Plants ■☻

This unusual plant comes from a small, isolated group of islands 400 miles off the coast of Chile with temperatures typically 10C to 25C. At one point there were only 3 plants left in the late 1980s, and today it is still critically endangered. It is usually only found in botanical gardens, making it one of the rarest plants in cultivation. If you can provide the right conditions, it will be an exciting plant to grow.

It is an evergreen, perennial species in the daisy and sunflower family. It's unusual in that it has woody, tree-like stems, and rubbery, tennis racket-sized edible leaves (hence the common name) up to 18" long. It grows to about 6ft if pot grown in cool conservatory or greenhouse conditions kept frost free.

Dombeya wallichii

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Pink Ball Shrub large 1 litre plants☻

Dombeya is a spectacularly large shrub with large heart-shaped leaves and dense heads of little pink flowers which hang from foot long stems. The plant is native to Madagascar, but widely grown as a large garden shrub in Florida. Not at all frost hardy but ok for a cool conservatory. Can be pruned after flowering in mid summer to keep to a sensible size but best in a large conservatory where it will create a dramatic impression. (We had a 10 litre stock plants in bud around November flowering in March at 4ft tall from a late spring pruning.)

Epiphyllum Oxypetalum

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Queen of the Night 1 litre plants ■☻♥ ♣

An easily cultivated, fast growing epiphyte. Needs compost containing plenty of humus and sufficient moisture in summer. Should not be kept under 10ºC (50ºF) in winter. Can be grown in semi-shade but not full sun, extra light in the early spring will stimulate budding. Flowers in late spring or early summer and large specimens can produce several crops of flowers in a season. The blooms are stunning 12" wide strongly fragrant and pure white. Each bud only opens for one night though and usually after 7pm, and it is really frustrating if you miss it! This epiphyllum like plant can reach tree like proportions sending out 4ft glossy green shoots that are tougher than they look. Why we do not sell it is that slugs simply love the new growth and I gave up trying to produce "clean" plants, but if you do not mind the odd nibbled leaf we are happy to supply this rare and fabulous plant.

Gardenia thunbergia

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Wild Gardenia 1 litre plants ■☻

This is a slow growing evergreen shrub or small tree to 1m or 2m if pot grown. It is hardier than the common pot grown plant down to frost level for brief periods and suitable for unheated conservatories. The leaves are carried in whorls of 3 or 4 crowded near the ends of the branchlets and the flowers are large, showy, creamy white and heavily perfumed, particularly at night. It may take a few years before large enough to flower!

Hibiscus mutabalis

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Confederate Rose or Cotton Rosemallow 1 litre Plants

A large shrub or small multistemmed tree that grows to 15 ft in a warm climate and a native of China. Hibiscus mutabilis will need a warm glasshouse in the UK to over winter but is spectacular when in full bloom starting in late summer and on into autumn. The flowers open pure white and change colour over a three-day period until they are deep pink. The most notable characteristic of this flowering shrub is that flowers of three distinct colours appear on the bush simultaneously as the blooms colour cycle independent of one another. There is always great demand in USA garden centers for the Confederate Rose when it is in full bloom, for it is one of the most imposing and unusual of flowering trees.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Cooperi

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Variegated Hibiscus Sinensis 1 litre ■☻

A lovely, rare, slow growing variegated hibiscus with red flowers. We have seen this grown as hedging in the Caribbean and it looks simply stunning. The leaf variegation is white, pink and green in an unusual mixed pattern. A must have for any collector enthusiast.

Hibiscus schizopetalus

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Fringed Hibiscus 1 litre plants ■☻

One look at the fringed hibiscus, and it’s easy to see why the shrub is so popular across the world. It’s unique weeping flowers set it apart from other hibiscus varieties. The gorgeous pink and red pendent flowers make it very popular as a pot plant. Growing naturally to more than eight feet tall, the plant can be pruned and trained but it needs a very warm environment to survive our winters.

Impatiens niamniamensis

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Congo Cockatoo 1 litre plants ■☻♥

This succulent-stemmed, balsam like plant from tropical East Africa has flowers that look like the head of a scarlet, yellow, and green parrot. This dramatic and unusual houseplant can grow to 3’ tall, covered periodically with these quite gaudy flowers. Although not constantly in bloom, it typically produces its long-lasting flowers several times a year. Grow in a warm part shady position under glass just like a balsam plant.

Ipomoea batatas - Blackie

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Ornamental Sweet Potato 1 litre plants 1ft tall ■☻

Ipomoea batatas ‘Blackie’ has a excellent dark purple to purple black palmate foliage given a sunny position. This Sweet Potato Vine makes a great pot plant or hanging basket plant in a warm location. Blackie has deeper lobing in the leaves than other Sweet Potato Vines and is a vigorous grower, trailing up to 24”-36”.

Ipomoea batatas Chartreuse

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Ornamental Sweet Potato 1 litre plants 1ft tall ■☻

Ipomoea batatas ‘Chartreuse’ has bright golden yellow green palmate foliage given a sunny position. This Sweet Potato Vine makes a great pot plant or hanging basket plant in a warm location. Like Blackie this plant has deeper lobing in the leaves than other Sweet Potato Vines and is a vigorous grower, trailing up to 24”-36”.

Ipomoea carnea

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Bush Morning Glory 1 litre plants

A large leafed tropical bush version of Ipomoea seen throughout the Caribbean. Grows quickly to over 6ft as a bush and should be useful in this country as a large annual for summer bedding or for conservatory use. The large pink flowers are a classic morning glory type fading to pale pink by the late afternoon as they close. Flowers produced in dense clusters making a great show if given enough sun.

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To Grow -- Easy ■ Moderate ■ and Challenging ■

May be ok for a dry Conservatory ♣

Hardiness - To -5°C җ To -10°C җ җ Fully Hardy җ җ җ

Needs Shady Position ☻ Sunny Position ☻ Water Loving ♥