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drnicko

Dentist by day....horticulturist by night. Love fragrant tropicals and fruits. Self taught grafter and tissue culturist. www.thebloomingjungle.com

Gunnera manicata

  • Season Icon Early SpringEarly Spring 2016
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drnicko

Has given off a seed pod this month

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brightcolours

#seedpod #gunnera

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brightcolours

You need to get yourself a garden!!

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drnicko

I have a garden!! But all my plants are tropical so I have 2 X polytunnels for winter and 1 spare room with grow lights and around 30'c for my ultra tropicals, in which I grow grafted guavas, Tahitian gardenia, lychees, custard apples, mangoes, gac fruit, sugarcane, attemoya, plumeria, cananga odorata, Michelia Alba/champaca and coco etc!!! Will eventually put some pics up @brightcolours

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drnicko

My electric bill is very big!!

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brightcolours

I can imagine it is!! 😳

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brightcolours

You have got the tropical bug real bad!! 😉

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brightcolours

#otherworldly

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joanboston

Is your gunnera in the garden? We had one in our last garden. In a large pot sunk in the ground to limit it's size. It was quite hardy. I love the way the leaves uncurl.

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Naomi126

Man- your electric bill must be huge 😱😱😱

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Naomi126

Oops just saw above 😂

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drnicko

My gunnera @joanboston is just in a heated polytunnel, which I insulated with bubble wrap, and held onto a few times at 2 in the morning over the winter storm period.....I live in Brighton, so we've had a few good winds!!! Had nightmares over seeing it in the neighbours garden......😀😀

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