Houseplants

This is the plant which the true Cardamom pods come from. The leaves are very aromatic too and exude the fragrance of cardamom when bruised. It makes an attractive houseplant or specimen for a conservatory in its own right. 

Syn 'Deutsche Kaiserin'. Reported to be a more robust form of Disocactus (Nopalxochia) phyllanthoides. On mature plants masses of pink flowers, up to 10 cm long, appear on long trailing stems in spring and summer.

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Varietal name unknown. This vigorous plant produces beautiful deep red flowers on spiny trailing stems.

Epiphytic (tree-dwelling) cactus with trailing stems and huge lemon yellow flowers in spring or summer.

Epiphytic (tree-dwelling) cactus with trailing stems with reddish tips. Spectacular pink or red flowers in spring or summer.

Plants are out of stock but cuttings are available.

Possibly E. crenatum v cooperi. An epiphytic cactus, living on trees in tropical rainforests. Large powerfully night-scented flowers appear on mature plants, each lasting only 24 hours.

Probably a fancy name for E. crenatum. A variety with very wide fleshy wavy leaves which arch upwards before trailing downwards. Makes an impressive foliage plant.

An epiphytic cactus, living on trees in tropical rainforests. Large mauve flowers appear on mature plants, each lasting only 24 hours.

An epiphytic cactus, living on trees in tropical rainforests. Large mid pink flowers appear on mature plants, each lasting only 24 hours.

South African succulent forming clumps of upright mostly leafless stems, topped in spring with small yellow flowers. CAUTION, SAP IS TOXIC

Large succulent with fleshy, cylindrical, leafless stems. New growth in spring can be tinged yellow-orange. This is a good specimen plant in a large pot, capable of getting to around 6ft if potted on each year. CAUTION, SAP IS VERY TOXIC AND A SKIN IRRITANT.

A member of the Gesneriad family, forming spreading mounds of fresh green leaves which set off the beautiful vivid orange-red tubular flowers. May be hardy in a sheltered garden in very well drained soil and a thick mulch to protect the underground tubers. If in doubt overwinter indoors. Can also be grown as a trailing houseplant.

The original old fashioned houseplant, a tender perennial with fleshy stems, making an upright or sprawling plant. Large bright pink flowers over a long period. Can be bedded out in the summer, indoors it makes a nice house plant.

Tender evergreen shrub with small tubular white flowers surrounded by yellow coloured bracts which last long after flowers have faded.

A pretty variegated form of the Shrimp Plant, with green and white mottled leaves, and small white flowers with distinctive salmon bracts.