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Conservatory Plants
Hi
My mum has had a new conservatory built and i want to get her a large, fragrant colourful, easy maintain plant. Lots of green and lots of large flowers. i plan to buy quite mature and large in a large pot. I like a climber and they look good in a conservatory but she may think it will be to much hassle, we are Dahlia lovers.. The glazed walls are NW to SE along with the roof, the side walls are not glazed. I like the look of a Hoya!!
Any thoughts??
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Lemon tree. The smell of the flowers in an enclosed space is gorgeous. Lemons come in handy for g &t.
One of those indoor Jasmine plants would suit. They climb, are easy to maintain, and have the most amazing smelling flowers.
Must admit when my jasmine and Hoya plants start flowering they go straight outside as the perfume in the conservatory just gets too overpowering! If scent isn't such an issue:
1. For big flowers, definitely hibiscus. I bought two from Morrisons about 10 years ago. They are now each 2 ft high and maybe I'm just lucky with them but I only have about 2 months a year when there's not at least one huge flower on them. I forget to water them, they droop, I soak them, and up they come again - very easy!
2. Mandevilleas (or when I bought them they were called dipladenia I think). I have both pink and red varieties, grown round cane hoops but can be trained as climbers. They flowered from March through to November last year in my SE facing conservatory.
For a bit of scent I bought frangipani seeds last year. Plants currently 5" high, think it will be a few years before they flower!
Not Dahlias, they are best outside.0ne of ours is only single glazed so can get cold at night, I just use if for Lilly, Geraniums,fuchsias begonias etc. would like to sow something exotic for in there but I don't think any plant would like the extreme change in temp on a single glazed unit.
I may try my new Canna just up from seeds.
Edited to add a couple of pics, this does take more than a hour every single day to maintain though, so if you haven't the time, I wouldn't recommend it!
Lovely photos, Lyn. I could spend a lot of time in that beautiful conservatory.
Fab photos. I have a conservatory and used to have alot of scented pelargoniums but had terrible problems with whitefly - How you you manage yours?
I found that pelargoniums attracted whitefly so badly that I got rid of the plants & now have no whitefly in the conservatory at all.
Never had white fly in there, do get a few green fly, but being vigilant, I squash them as soon as I see them.
Hi mark499, what plants do you have in there now? At the moment I have some Christmas cactus, my hibiscus, a couple of carniverous pitcher plants, some succulents I am overwintering and a couple of 'bird of paradise' plants that my mum grew from seed that seem to like it in the conditions they are in at the moment.
Although the conservatory is north facing and can get a bit chilly overnight in winter (we do have underfloor heating), it gets full sun from mid morning until early evening in the summer meaning that it gets incredibly hot, so I have to be selective about what plants I keep in there as they do scorch.