I have the new JA catalogue....and half fancied some too....

Thanks! hope you get some!

Yes, I've been growing it for nearly three years. If you go to my home page and hit the Garden tag, there are pictures on the last page of my plants

Oh good! I'm off to do that right now! Thanks!

I bought a plant in the Autumn, and it's growing and flowering well, doesn't seem to bothered by slugs and snails either :)

Thanks Grindle! Mine hasn't arrived yet, I think it will be coming soon though!

I'm sure you'll love it, if you like the very unusual :))

Yes, I do like to find and try out unusual plants, although a lot of mine are fairly standard specimens....

I took a chance on an empty pot at a plant sale not knowing what it was, just sounded interesting, I wasn't disappointed :)

I bought a plant in the winter from edroms nursery uk.
still in pot and Im looking for the best place to grow it in the garden

Bik, it flowered this spring for the first time, just a tiny flower, not as it will be when it's matured, but it was very pretty. Hope yours does well!

Unfortunately mine is almost dead. I suppose due to watering it too match.

Hmmm. could be. Mine are also in a wet spot and definitely not thriving.

I placed in the ground last evening and hope to save it.

Hope so bik!

I planted Ypsilandra thibetica to enhance a fern border in the Cloister Garth of Chester Cathedral in 2007. It is on organic sand (cultivated for at least 1000 years) and being on the north side of the nave and tower never has any sunlight. When I sang midnight mass at this time last year the temperature in the garden was - 10C. The plants are thriving in this situation and flower every February. The scent is exquisite in the enclosed space. At home in North Wales they are no quite so successful on silt. I think the answer is to replicate natural habitat as far as possible - sloping site normally associated with good drainage as organic sand is and shade and shelter. Low temperature is obviously not a problem.
Philip B Hunt,
Custos hortorum,
Chester Cathedral

Thanks for that Philip! That totally explains why mine didn't thrive. I removed them earlier this year as they just looked ill and were struggling. If I'd known, I would have moved them into one of the many sandy areas of the garden in deeper shade! Oh well..there's always a next time! ;)