Marie's Fatsia

everybodies is flowering except mine carole :o(, not a bud and ive had it a good few years now,

Lovely flowers mine flowers each year can't understand why yours is not flowering Sandra

Very striking.

Lovely and the birds enjoy them as they turn to black seed heads .

Do take a few years Sandra seem to need to produce woody stems to flower from this might be encouraged by pruning.

Thanks everyone, I BB is right as we have lived here 5yrs now and its the first time I remember it flowering.

Takes me back PP when first moved to Scarborough lived in old hotel ..when so cheap to buy ..had a huge victorian conservatory on the back with a fatsia tree it was huge and required sawing to keep it pruned !

That sounds fantastic BB and love the idea of an old Victorian Conservatory, I like to grow Fatsia myself but afraid they are too big for my garden, so I will just enjoy Maries instead!

thanx ray/jane, its not to big at the moment so dont really want to cut it as yet, i will take a look at the stems tomorrow, it has some new growth this year though

Oh PP how I miss it had a grotto water feature that was pumped from an old boiler room and heated cast iron radiators that supported the roof sadly so neglected would ve have cost thousands to fully restore .

Managed to get the water feature working it was tiered with stallegtite pools and the sound was fantastic have some old negatives but never worked out how to transfer to digital .

Have a pic of variegated fatsia which less intrusive.

Once you happy with the height of it Sandra can be cut back fairly tough and bomb proof as long as you leave leaf stems on it and dont take back to ground level will always recover..

cheers ray :o))

BB why dont you have your negatives developed then you can scan them and I could see the old water feature, it all sounds quite magical ;0)