These are the things we grow for ourselves just for fun. There are always a few spares, but too few to catalogue; we’ll collect them together over the weekend, in with the geraniums.
Aeonium tubuliform – flat-topped aeonium
Abutilon Nabob – the true dark flowered form
Amicia zygomeris – in autumn, pea-like purple and yellow flowers – and hardier than you might think – down to -10 degrees
Cestrum elegans – terminal clusters of red flowers
Cestrum nocturnum – Lady of the Night – insignificant yellow-green flowers with a powerful night fragrance
Kalanchoe beharensis – unusual succulent with large grey felty leaves
Iochroma anstrale blue – deep blue tubular flowers
Iochroma cyaneum – purple tubular flowers
Nerium oleander – an evergreen shrub with narrowly lance-shaped grey-green leaves and terminal clusters of salver-shaped cream flowers 3-4cm across, in summer
Plumbago blue – this is the less lax Escapade F1 hybrid form
Plumbago white – also the less lax Escapade hybrid
There are also some Mimosa pudica (sensitive plants) for children of all ages which should be ready by the end of May. These are spiny annual or short-lived evergreen perennial of low, spreading habit with divided leaves that are sensitive to touch, and fluffy pale pink or pale purple flower heads in summer
