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What exotic plants are you growing this year?

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  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923

    ground cherry is no more difficult than a tomato, its other name is cape gooseberry

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    tee hee, got to love common names. It's neither a cherry , nor a gooseberry. image

    Tasty though.

    Devon.
  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923

    i'm also growing

    New Zealand yam, which is not a yam and comes from the Andes of South America and Jerusalem artichoke, which is not an artichoke and is not from Jerusalem.

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    Brugmansia angel trumpet and ipomea heavenly blue

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    My Colocasia is huge this year.

    Planted a small tuber 2 years ago, dug it last winter, and started it indoors in February. Planted it out in June, and now has leaves 2-3 foot long, and a foot wide.

    Well pleased.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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