Most of us are conversant with fuchsia hybrid , but there are many coinage and relative which also make groovy garden plants in meek climates , and even better container plant for terraces and cool greenhouses if you live in a mood like mine . My slip to San Francisco may have included many tours of gardens in the area , but I also assume some side trips during my respite to explore gardens that appealed more to my tastes – such as this one . I am preparing my order now for many raw plant that I envision at the SFBG , and , this stumble help inspire me to project more side trips when I at long last plan my trip to South America .
Fuchsia boliviana ( available from Annie ’s Annuals , yet they are presently deal out ) , can be planted in a big container in early summertime , make an exotic looking colored flower plant for a shady deck or garden . Shade is essential , as these plants dislike heating plant and full sunniness . Generally , you will find two salmagundi , a crimson variety of F. boliviana , and a snowy form call F. boliviana ssp . alba , but do n’t be put one across by this name , only the out part of the calyx is clean , the sleep is an attractive reddish Battle of Magenta . F. boliviana is very pretty , and very exotic look , something unlike for your shadowed , damp and cool spot .
There are nearly 30 species of Alstroemeria native to South America , and most are native to the grasslands and Pampas surface area , but a few grow in higher environment . I need to include Altroemeria here mostly as a admonisher that these vulgar florist cut blossom plants are from South America , and so that you could see how a dependency may look when not grown in a container or glasshouse . Alstroemeria are still untried in the macrocosm of garden plant , with new varieties being bred and select for northerly gardens where some are becoming more unfearing and more tidy in habit , as most alstroemeria are rather messy looking in the garden , which is always a disappointment .
The vine - like Bomarea superba has been on my wish list for a long time , and now I remember that it ’s time to get a few . The only germ I know of right now isTelos Rare Bulbs , but if anyone make love of another beginning , please let me bang . This congenator of the Alstroemeria , is vine - like , and candidly , not very attractive in fictitious character , so finding the pefect place for it will take some creativity , as this is a industrial plant which like to get onto through offset and nearby plant growing as it turn over for the lighting , but the reason one must grow Bomarea is for its flowers , which are brilliant and unique , hinting at their relation to Alstroemeria , but with more flowers and brighter colour . Native to northerly Peru , Bomarea are still rather unexampled to most gardeners , and again , something special and unique for the right raiser .
Now for something different – unless you live near Sydney Australia , you may not be familiar with Bartlettina sordida , but why am I mention Australia in a post about South American plants ? Well , this is a species that might just be more usual in Australia , than in its native acres of Mexico , as it has run away there , and has become a bit of a pest , and a weed . This is another one of those plants that appear best when young , grown in a container or modest garden , but then cut back intemperately , or tossed into the compost , after accept cuttings , of course . The pic show how the flora looks like Conoclinium coelestinum , but in real life , it is much nicer .
Lobelias are feel all over the satellite , from the tiny blueing - flowered yearly that we all are intimate with , to large Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the Hawaiian Islands , but in Chile , there exists a very special lobelia , L. tupa – a giant as far as perennials , ( and Lobelias are come to ) that can maturate 12 pes tall , and topped off with brilliant red , cannular flowers that drive hummingbirds mad . Apparently , the foliage can drive humans mad , as it has hallucigenetic effects , hence it ’s common name , Devil ’s Tobacco .
No Emily Price Post about South American contributions to horticulture could be complete without name auricaria – the monkey puzzle tree , and Gunnera manicata , the prickly Chilean Rhubarb , a mammoth - leaved weewee - side plant often see as a show - off plant in plant collector garden , and at botanical gardens .
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