Pure beauty - exceptionally well grown; congratulations!

Andrew,

I always love to see your Alcantarea photos, it certainly does look spectacular.

Thanks for sharing.

Rick

Nice to see the final product looks as good as your artful shots from earlier. Other than odorata, do any of the alcantareas have a fragrance? Do the alcantareas set seeds readily? From all the great pictures in old posts it looks like you guys on the other half of the earth are growing a bunch of species and varieties and grow them well.

Keep sending your great pictures of great plants Andrew. They are great for motivation and ideas (and learning).

Those photo's need to be sent in to FCBS(atleast send the last 3)..they are wonderful

That's a real show-stopper, Andrew. Well done!

Hi Andrew,
Truly a magnificent sight.
It looks like you folk from Kiwi Land, grow Alcantareas as good as you make Sauvignon Blanc. Top of the range!

Thanks for sharing with us, all the best, Nev.

For Alcantarea fans, here is a couple more sp. Not quite in flower yet, but still impressive.

This one we are growing as Alc. nahoumii

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And this one as Alc. glaziouana

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Andrew - they are all mouth-wateringly delicious! - the plants, your photos, and their setting. Well done!

Your supposed Alc. nahoumii looks like the same furphy oft sold in Oz as nahoumii. IMO, and others', it is really Alc. extensa.

I hope you've got some more advanced alcs coming on to fill the gaps when those magnificent specimens have finished their flowering display?

I agree with HDD that your wonderful photos ought to be submitted to the fcbs photo index. I'd like to see more landscape broms pictured in a garden setting, as well as in their natural habitat, rather than individual specimens on their "Pat Malone" in a shade house.

Cheers,
Kerry

Absolutely beautiful.I love your garden.The lovely old tree trunk in picture 1 would look superb with neo fireball hanging of it in sections.
I hope my alcantrea look that good when they do finally flower.
Cheers Fran

Wow.. these pics are stunning.

Your garden is looking really great.