Bonkers! I love ASG and would happily live there. Craig your knowledge of exotic plants for British gardens is very enviable. I've bought quite a few plants from GrowParadise, always absolutely perfect and marvellously packaged, and after seeing this I need a load more! The giant-leaved Begonias are well up on my top 100 wanted list. It never ends!
Great finds! Just got my first Hardy schefflera this season for my northwest garden here in the US and now hoping to find that jagged edged one as well!
I have some of the common variety just growing wild in my yard. These are native to Japan, and these cultivar names indicate that "kinki" which could refer to a number of things, but might refer to the region around Osaka, Kyoto and Nara, and "nezu jinja" which I am going to guess means it's a type grown around shinto shrines.
I have a schefflera delavayi with the smooth edges. I planted it last fall as a very small plant in a 4” pot. Then we had a very suddenly cold winter after a mild fall. It stayed around -10C for 3-4 days with wind, freezing rain and then snow. So many plants were severely damaged or outright killed. My little schefflera delavayi didn’t even bat an eyelash. They are apparently extremely hardy. I wasn’t aware there existed a cut leaf variety. Let the hunt begin! lol I grow 4 types of saxifraga stolenifera. I have the standard one, the tri-color variegated one that’s pink/white/gray, one called ‘harvest moon’ that is chartreuse/yellow with red undersides and one called ‘maroon beauty’ that looks exactly like the first one you showed. I don’t have the one with the very large leaves. I will be looking for that now too
Thanks Craig for all your information and help in all your videos. I live in Jackson, TN, U.S.A. in west Tennessee in Zone 7b, where I have a varied and mixed garden, leaning towards more tropical plants. Thanks again for Grow Paradise!
