JunglePlants

Conservatory J to Z

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.

Justicia aurea

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Brazilian Plume Flower 1 litre plants ■☻

Justicia aurea, is a rare large tropical shrub to 6ft which performs best when grown in a sunny conservatory or greenhouse. Large soft leaves support the beautiful yellow typical justicia family flowers. Keep the soil moist at all times but never soggy, and feed every two weeks with a good all purpose fertilizer from March through to October. Justicias can be pruned back drastically in early Spring to prevent legginess. We have managed to propagate a few for this year but supply is limited.

Justicia carnea

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Brazilian Plume Flower 1 litre plants ■☻

Brazilian Plume, Justicia carnea, is a small indoor shrub which performs best when grown in the full sun of a south facing window. Keep the soil moist at all times but never soggy, and feed every two weeks with a good all purpose fertilizer from March through to October. Justicias can be pruned back drastically in early Spring to prevent legginess.

Justicia coccinea

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Brazilian Plume Flower 1 litre plants 1ft tall☻

Justicia coccinea, is a rare large tropical shrub to 6ft which performs best when grown in a sunny conservatory or greenhouse. Large soft leaves support the beautiful scarlet typical justicia family flowers. Keep the soil moist at all times but never soggy, and feed every two weeks with a good all purpose fertilizer from March through to October. Justicias can be pruned back drastically in early Spring to prevent legginess. We have managed to propagate a few for this year but supply is very limited.

Megaskepasma erythrochlamys

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Brazilian Red Cloak 3 litre plants ■☻♣

This showy, tropical shrub with a grotesque botanical name occurs naturally in Venezuela. The showy ‘flower’ consists of red bracts surrounding the true white flower, a magnificent shrub to 10ft, but containable as a warm conservatory exotic if pruned. Our stock plants all flower profusely from August to October - very rare in the UK.

Murraya koenigii

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The Curry Leaf Plant - slow growing - small 1 litre plants ■☻

We have a few plants grown from seed each year of the Curry-leaf tree. A native of India and Sri Lanka, it is a small tree suitable for pot culture with very pungent aromatic leaves. The leaves are used in curries. Flowers late spring to early summer with small white flowers, 5/16 of an inch across and are sweetly scented.

Murraya koenigii need warm temperatures with full sun to partial shade and a well draining loam based compost mix. The compost should be allowed to thoroughly dry between waterings. Fertilize weekly during the growing season and do not let the winter temperature fall below 18c° when watering should be very light. A small tree perhaps making 4ft in 5 years.

Pachystachys lutea

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Lollipop Plant 1 litre plants ■☻

This evergreen shrub grows in a clumping manner with multiple erect/upright stems emerging from the base. At the tip of each stem, colourful spikes of yellow bracts are borne, within which white flowers are held. Once the flowers mature they begin to protrude from the spike of bracts creating a lovely bright yellow and white display. This plant looks spectacular when in flower and makes a stunning pot plant.

Plumbago capensis

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Plumbago Capensis Darker Blue Clone 1 litre pots 18" tall ■☻

A shrubby plant that throws long runners almost like a non clinging climber. If pruned it can be kept to shape and is often used as hedging in the Tropics. This year I have located an improved new clone of this plant with darker blue flowers, more shrubby in form, making a compact bush. It is also proving very floriferous and will be the only variety offered by us from now on. The one in the picture above and behind is the darker clone.

Plumbago indica coccinea

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Pink Plumbago 1 litre plants 2ft tall ■☻

A shrubby climber from india with bright pink plumbago flowers requiring warmer conditions than capensis but ideal for a heated conservatory or greenhouse. Probably best cut back and placed on a warm windowsill indoors over winter if you do not have a warm enough greenhouse.

Plumeria (Frangipani)

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Frangipani hybrid 1 litre plants ■☻

A fleshy stemmed shrub for the warm greenhouse or conservatory requiring full sun and free draining soil. It bears large pink, white or yellow flowers with a wonderful scent that permeates the air all over tropical gardens. Not easy to flower but if you think you have a good position for this lovely plant in a warm conservatory then give it a try. Please note, our plants are seed raised from the latest hybrids that do not come totally true to type so colours are approximate!

Ruellia brittoniana

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Mexican Pansy 1 litre plants ■☻

It took me a while to identify this pretty robust clumping perennial from Mexico to 5ft tall. Dark green strap leaves with 2” purple flowers on elegant long sprays. Cold hardy to a light frost, but needs full sun to flower.

Ruellia macrantha

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Ruellia Macrantha 1 litre plants ■☻

Best grown in a heated conservatory this plant produces lovely gloxinia type flowers in autumn to winter, as flowering is triggered by the short daylight hours. Grows to 3ft to 4ft tall with lush hairy green leaves.

Saccharum officinarum

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Sugar Cane 1 litre plants 18" tall

If you are into novelties and pampas grass, then this one fits the bill. The course grass like foliage is almost identical to pampas, but with stronger stems. Difficult to over winter below 10C, and can become chloritic in alkaline conditions. One year growth maybe to 5ft in ideal conditions and the suckers can be propagated once the plant is established.

Saccharum officinarum violaceum

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Purple Sugar Cane 1 litre 3ft tall plants ■☻

An excellent architectural plant that grows at an astonishing speed to 10ft given enough warmth. It is definitely a lot tougher and cold hardier than the ordinary form with March propagated cuttings already reaching 10ft tall by August under glass and 6ft plus outside. A graceful elegant large grass with purple/green leaves and purple veins that also performed really well as summer bedding in our trials, forming large purple grass clumps to 7ft by August/September. After running trials 2005/2006 to see if this tough plant is winter hardy, we now believe it to be quite tender at the root level and needs a warm winter environment keeping it on the dry side. Much easier to look after though than the tropical green edible form.

Strelitzia nicolai

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White Bird of Paradise large 5 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

Not as easy to grow from seed as Reginae, Nicolai makes a larger plant with huge broader leaves. Do not expect it to flower in the UK unless you have headroom for 12ft plus though! Excellent tough large glossy leaved foliage plants without the flowers, superb for exotic or tropical effect.

Strobilanthes dyerianus

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Persian Shield 1 litre plants 1ft tall ■☻

Persian Shield is among the most sought after foliage plants worldwide. It produces quite unique shimmering iridescent purple coloured metallic looking leaves. I used to grow this many years ago and at last this found a source of plants for sale. Used as a house plant in the UK it is a shade lover but with dappled sunlight the colouring is much stronger. A strong growing plant, in the right conditions it may attain 3 to 5ft and as much wide, it makes an excellent plant for summer shade bedding or placed in a shaded conservatory position. A rare plant so please do not miss out on this opportunity to acquire one.

Thunbergia erecta

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Bush Glory Vine 1 litre plants ■☻

A vigorous continuously blooming small shrub like perennial. The 2” purple blue trumpets with yellow throats are held against dark-green glossy foliage. Fast growing and easy to look after.

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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 ♥