Houseplants

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.

A half hardy tree which in the UK is grown mainly for its beautiful, finely cut foliage. It makes a lovely specimen for a pot. Min temp 0C

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.

A form of the popular house plant which produces curious red bracts which house small tubular red flowers. The bracts last long after flowers have faded giving it a long season of interest. Keep above 5C

A delightfully fleshy, soft, hairy, branching succulent that just begs to be stroked! The thick felt-like leaves grow on stems to about 90cm. A fine specimen for a sunny room or conservatory

A tall succulent large, triangular, fleshy, furry, felty leaves, with soft furry teeth underneath.

Tall-growing succulent with wonderfully weird, large, fleshy leaves with a distinctly furry touch. This form is my name of a form with more serrated amorphous brown leaves.

Name not certain. Previously listed as K. pinnata. An upright branching plant with large fleshy red-tinged leaves with wavy margins.

A shrubby upright succulent from Madagascar, its main attraction are its spoon-shaped leaves which are covered with white felt.

Capable of making a tall plant, with the ability to produce baby plants along the edges. Clusters of large pink pendant flowers Keep frost free and out of direct sun under glass.

A spreading succulent with frosted grey-green leaves and urn-shaped pink flowers in spring. good in a hanging basket.

A cross between Kalanchoe rosei subsp. variifolia and K. delagoensis (tubiflora) delagoensis. Upright stems are clothed with serrated fleshy leaves, each producing plantlets along the edges. Umbels of nodding salmon flowers, probably in spring.

Name not totally certain. A lovely houseplant for a well-lit windowsill etc. The yellow flowers are generously spotted with red dots.

Half hardy bulbous plant from South Africa with spotted leaves and red and yellow drooping tubular flowers in spring. For a cool greenhouse or a sheltered frost-free garden.