JunglePlants

Conservatory J to Z

Turn your Conservatory or Greenhouse into an exotic Jungle!

(Delivery Apr to Sept)

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 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☻

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.

Malvaviscus arboreus

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Turk's Cap Hibiscus 1 litre plants

This unusual attractive plant is an autumn and winter blooming relative of the Hibiscus. The bright 3" long scarlet red flowers are pendulous and last for several days but the petals do not flare back like Hibiscus, but remain swirled around the pistil. This gives the impression that the flowers never open, and hence the common name of Sleeping Hibiscus AKA Turk's Cap or Lipstick Hibiscus. It is a large soft wood shrub fast growing to eight foot tall by six foot wide but can be kept to size if pot grown by pruning. A native of Mexico it flowers best in full sun, but will tolerate light shade. We saw this plant all over Grenada and Tobago where its used as hedging.

Megaskepasma erythrochlamys

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Brazilian Red Cloak 1 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 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.

Plumbago capensis

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Plumbago Capensis Darker Blue Clone 1 litre pots ■☻

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 ■☻

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.

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.

Russelia equisetiformis

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Coral Blow 1 litre plants ■☻

The Coral plant is a multi-branched sub shrub with slender rush like stems. The wiry branches start out erect then fall over cascading down in lengths as long as 4 ft (1.2 m). Flowers from spring until autumn outdoors in warm climates and all year long indoors. The flowers are produced in hanging clusters of scarlet tubular flowers about 1 in (2.5 cm) long that look like little firecrackers, inspiring the plant’s common name. Slow growing at first it will eventually fill quite a large pot given warm conditions. In the tropics it attracts humming birds for the flower nectar.

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 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 reginae

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Bird of Paradise Flower 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

This plant is a definite must if you want to grow an exotic plant for the patio with stunning flowers. A tough plant even capable of bearing a few degrees of frost although some leaf damage will be evident, Excellent for a frost free unheated or heated conservatory. These 3 litre plants will need another year or two to come in to flower but well worth the wait and a lot quicker than growing from seed which takes about 6 years to reach flowering size. Eventual height is 4ft to 5ft with a clumping nature requiring a large pot.

Strobilanthes dyerianus

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Persian Shield 1 litre plants ■☻

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.

Tecoma Mayan Gold

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Hybrid Tecoma 1 litre plants ■☻

Tecoma 'Mayan Gold' is a fabulous new variety of Tecoma for use in conservatories or as a summer patio plant that blooms from spring to late summer. The flowers are golden trumpet shaped typical of the Tecoma family and bourne in large numbers over glossy green foliage adding a nice tropical look to the plant. If kept frost free it will eventually reach 6 to 8 ft, great for attracting bees and butterflies into the garden if outside.

Tibouchina semidecandra

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Brazilian Spider Flower - 1 litre pots 18" tall

A gorgeous shrub with 3" purple flowers that will take cool frost free conditions and an excellent conservatory plant where it will keep flowering all summer. The name comes from the appearance of the stamens that resemble a spider! At last after many years I have cracked taking the cuttings successfully! My stock plant I have had for over 30 years so about time it produced some offspring!

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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 ♥