A few days ago I featured a few blooms. This time it will be a few leaves and a cat interlude in between...
I love it when Schefflera taiwaniana throws out leaves that is arranged almost in 360 degrees, well almost. Like this one. And the good thing about this particular plant is that almost all of the leaves it produces are like this. Nice clone...
When we saw the mother of this plant a few years ago at a private garden in Cornwall the leaves were almost a meter wide. Yes, a meter! Hopefully its offspring will do the same eventually. The large leaf form of Fatsia polycarpa (this may turn out to be a different species altogether but time and botanists will tell).
A curiosity rather than a thing of beauty, the weedy looking Cordyline 'Karo Kiri'. Ours makes for a comfy home for a spider at the moment.
Now for the cat interlude...
It was a lovely, lazy Saturday and Twinkles had a wonderful day sleeping...
Zzzzz
Yawn
Pose
Yawn again
Then groom
Back to leaves...Schefflera kornasii with a nice set of new leaves that seems to reach out to the sun.
This one is planted right at the back of a border and I couldn't get a decent photo of it but the leaves are huge and looks so exotic and tropical! The Mexican big leaf Magnolia, Magnolia macrophylla var. dealbata.
A shrubby Euphorbia that gets really tall and has plenty of oomph! Euphorbia x pasteurii
Last but not the least is this Schefflera macrophylla. Shame it's not that hardy but still well worth growing in a for those gorgeous large leaves.
Hope you all had a wonderful, plant filled weekend!
Mark :-)