Fanny said:Thanks Scot. The big dark one at the back is going through some changes. It flowered and set fruit which I let ripen then pushed into the ground and they sent up plantlets. Then when I cut off the old flower spike a new plantlet grew on the flower stalk. So I let that mature a bit then cut it off and pushed that into the ground however the whole plant then decided to branch into three top shoots and start shooting from the ground (three shoots) same time. So the big lower leaves are starting to senesce at moment, very slowly while the top branching is going on. I will cut the whole three headed branch off and stick that in a pot up to it's neck as its getting a bit tall for pots with our monsoon winds. Then I will have a good length of thick cane left to chop up and stick in the ground to finally make a display in the garden, two year project since I bought it. It's been a very fast grower.
Scot I wonder if you know what this one (pictured) will turn out to be? I bought a tray of them, quite tiny plants and planted them in a pot. Box store special, but quite pricey, 80$ each. They were quite horrible (ha ha ha) a sort of muddy stripy happening but I realise that plants often only come into there own as they mature so still bought them. Only a week or two in the full, sunshine and they're showing some lovely colour. Do you think its a mini? It looks a lot like what they call "Pink Champion" in Australia, "Pink passion" elsewhere and even "Glowing Electra". Not sure hope its a biggish one! I cut back the ubiquitous Diamond Frost Euphorbia to make room it had taken over the whole pot. Im not an absolute size queen but I quite like the short or minis to have wide broad leaves like "Francis" does.
I will send the top view of "Temple" tomorrow morning.
Way to much rain here.
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