Sowing osmanthus fragrans
Osmanthus fragrans, sweet olive or fragrant olive, is an asian native shrub. It’s famous for it’s sweet scent reminicent of ripe apricots or peaches. There are two main groups of osmanthus fragrans, a white to yellow flowered group and an orange flowered group. I have grown white, -with a hint of yellow in the centre…
How to grow passion flowers in a cold climate?
Passion flowers, or passiflora are tropical flowers from South America. To me it’s pretty impressive that most of them can deal with temperatures below freezing. Truly cold hardy passion flowerThe common blue passion flower, Passiflora Caerulea, is truly cold hardy, it will keep it’s leaves in winter when temperatures are above -12. Below that it…
Sowing passion flowers
Sowing passion flowers or passiflora from seed is very rewarding. Some seeds geminate more easily than other varieties. There are many different ways of sowing seeds. In general when I try to sow a new seed, I try a few different ways before sowing the bulk of my seeds. Here’s my favorite way of sowing…
Sowing Plumeria
Growing Plumeria from seedsPlumeria propagation is relatively easy. They can be grown from cuttings quite easily. But sowing has the advantage of being able to aquire more different species, since the international trade of live plant materials is restricted. I prefer the following steps to successful grow plumeria from seed: It might take two years…
Sowing Adenium Obesum
Growing Adenium Obesum from seed is relatively easy. There are a lot of guides and video’s on the internet, personally I like to do the folowing; Care It’s quite easy to take care of a Desert Rose. As long a you can provide lots of (sun)light and don’t over water it. LightAdenium Obesum thrives in…