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Nice looking plant. I lost my Lophomyrtus 'Red Dragon' a couple of years ago but I'd had it a good few years.

Checked your link out Delonix and sounds like it's super tropical. Always good to try something different.

You certainly have green fingers Hywel with all your plants.
It's another cold morning here with -1 degrees. I shall wrap up well when I go out for my walk.

Sorry to hear about the loss of your sister Sheila. The memories are always a treasure of the heart.
Salisbury cathedral is a wonderful place to visit. I went there a very long time ago with friends from work when I lived on the I.O.Wight.

Thank you so much Shirley...

https://growsonyou.com/plant/slideshow/Garcinia_mangostana/365692

This is the link to the San Diego Zoo mangosteen tree.

That would be a nice modernist wall picture.

There's a definite golden glow.

😉

Very true Shirley, especially in the tropics. We don't see very many blue blooms at all and that's why I love this one. It grows much better in hanging baskets or in pots for me than it does in the ground.

That is beautiful Julia. How hardy is it?

Thank you .

Shirley, you are lucky to get them on sale. They will not be on sale here until April. I love primroses in early spring. Mine are usually snacked by slugs later but I do not mind to buy them fresh every year.
Our snow is melting (it's relatively warm) so I will go to GC this week to get some too(for sure). I have not got started to work in our garden yet because of all the snow :-(

These things happen..hope you have success tomorrow. Primroses are so welcoming.

Julia, we didn't go to the GC as planned as a brake sensor light appeared on the car dashboard so just went to the local A...i for these! Car booked in for tomorrow.

I started out with 1 bulb of this O. 'Garnet', and it immediately took over. During our 2 month dry spell, it gets no water and looks completely dead. Then the rain returns and it goes crazy overnight. There are also several other types of Oxalis in the cow fields, and they compete with the grasses. But they keep the bees happy.

:0)))

Thanks Hywel ... :o)

Delonix, as I have said before, I adore these plants and their blooms fascinate me!

Well done, no interference from Jessie then?!!

Julia, this is very attractive.

Bernie, methinks I shall stay here in the UK, even though it's so bitterly cold!

Few flowers are blue, this is lovely.

It is really pretty.

Karen, you have a lot of cheerful, colourful flowers, many more than here! It is bitterly cold today, five degrees but feels more like minus two ... :o((

I agree, water sparingly and then you could take cuttings towards the end of March. or plant out as Hywel suggests.

No, I really can't imagine moving a 40 ft anything! It would definitely need a crane and a whole team of people to complete a job like that.

We still find Gerberas at our garden centres but they are always singles and never the old-fashioned double varieties.

The old Niles nursery had one in the ground. I don't know if it is still there. White flowered.
That nursery i thought would have been turned into homes by now.

It really is beautiful! I’ve had one in a huge pot for years.
It didn’t bloom this year.

It was a real pain. It was only me and two other guys. I couldn’t do it now without breaking my back. 😂

Can you imagine moving a 40 ft (13 m ) tall Jubaea chilensis? 😂. I’ve seen them moved, before and you need a huge crane. I think it can weigh 50 tons.

That’s amazing it’s lived so long.

These used to be very popular in California, now I don’t see too many now.

Sorry to hear about your ills during the winter. It's horrid when you come down with something nasty and just can't shake it.

Fingers crossed Spring comes early for you.

It's not really a venom Klahanie.

They bit by grabbing your skin with their six legs and then bites a hole with their jaws.

After they bite you, and it's usually a pretty fierce bite, they pull their tail underneath themselves and squirt formic acid from their abdomen into the bite site just to more misery to the pain!

They will hang on chewing on your skin to mix in the acid!

You can see the bite hole afterwards and the area around it is usually red for a while.

Fancy a visit to north Queensland sometime soon! 🤣🤣🤣

Lots of nice colour in the middle of winter.

That was a shame, Andy! :(

I have a pot or two of Oxalis deppei 'Iron Cross' which I like a lot more for its leaves than its flowers. I have had no problems of it trying to take over. When I planted bulbs that had flowered during the springs of several years in my old church's gardens I did notice a few tiny plants of this Oxalis growing amongst them but they seem to struggle to stay alive as I have seen no evidence of them multiplying over the years since I accidentally planted them out with spring bulbs.

Interesting info and photo. Seems like they have a very strong "venom" (form your description).

I'm sorry to hear that, FF, but as I have never used an Apple computer nor phone nor tablet I have no idea what works on them or even how to use them! :(

Hope it works better for you, Rose! :)

Just today my wife got a new laptop & I've spent a lot of time helping her to configure it. I installed the 2 adblockers I mention here on her computer, in Firefox, & everything works perfectly - no trouble at all! :)

Karen, a Poinciana, a Jacaranda and an Acacia standing together would look fabulous if they were all flowering at the same time.

Klahanie, it's interesting to see what's regarded as a "weed" in various areas of the world. I heard a saying once that I rather like: Weeds are nature's graffiti!

What a fabulous tree, Andy! :)

Hywel is quite right, FF!

So much lovely colour. That would be heart-warming on grey cold days.

I love these trees. All of them I have seen in Mexico had a beautiful shape. I do not think they were considered a weed. Most of them were quite big. There are more Jacarandas then Delonix regia in that little village near Guadalajara . Both tees are beautiful when they bloom.
I do understang the "weed" problem though. We have several tees and plants here on the Island which are considered weeds here but not around other parts of the country.

There's nothing to do now, just keep it slightly moist until the spring/early summer, and then repot it into fresh compost, or plant it in a tub with other summer flowering plants.

Yes I'd seen them Shirley, they'd look nice in the old pond :)

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Julia, we had a few dry and windy days so the grass wasn't nearly as wet as a week earlier. I noticed today that the soil is drying out in the borders, mind you, rain possibly on Thursday.

Hywel, did you see the photo of the Summer bulbs I recently bought in a supermarket? I think a few of those may be planted in the old pond.

Yes, keep us posted with these flowers please.