Where is shaving brush in gardens of time

Its seed could be toasted and eaten and the fruit fibers kapok was used to fill pillows and as insulation. Its importance to the Mayan civilizations is evidenced by the its presence in the artwork on ceramic pieces.

The plant was first described in as Bombax ellipticum by the German botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth and later reclassified to its current name by Columbian botanist Armando Dugand in The name for the genus is the combination of the Latin and Greek words 'bombax' meaning cotton 'pseudo' meaning "false" in reference to this plant previously being placed in the genus Bombax, whose name came from the cottony white fibers, called kapok, that surround the seeds. Long considered in its own family, the Bombacaceae, the current treatment has transferred them to the subfamily Bombacoideae within the family Malvaceae.

The specific epithet is the is in reference to the elliptic shape of the leaflets. Our plants from seed collected from our own plants that were hand pollinated. August heliconia, bananas, roses, gingers, hibiscus, plumbago, pentas, yellow poinciana, cassia, crepe myrtles, tibouchina.

September gingers, bat flowers, roses, hibiscus, plumbago, lantana, pentas, salvia, heliconia, floss silk tree, bananas. October roses, Philippine violet, beautyberry, hibiscus, floss silk tree, blue ginger, cassia, hibiscus. I would always assure her we didn't mind the leaves and that they were good compost for the soil. But she would clean both yards anyway. Peter and I will miss Katie but will have reminders all around us as this special tree goes into it's spring ritual or the little mud hen, that she gave me from a cutting, flowers in my garden each year.

We swear there were twice as many flowers on the tree this spring. Is that you Katie? The shaving brush tree, a native to Mexico, is a small tree at around 30 feet in height. It is suitable for bonsai and has very interesting bark with stripes of green, yellow, brown and white.

More interesting are the pink, brush-like flowers. The flowers of this autumn-flowering cyclamen often appear well before the leaves, with some coming into bloom by late July at the Exotic Garden.

Although they are usually considered as dappled shade plants, they originate from the Mediterranean, so are equally happy in sun, taking dry conditions well as this simulates their native habitats. They look excellent planted en masse in a woodland setting with ferns and other shade-tolerant plants or around the base of deciduous trees where they will grace your garden for months with their diminutive beauty.

Earlier in the year I bought several potfuls of the late winter-flowering cyclamen coum Maurice Dryden which I planted on the grave of my late Devon Rex cat Dweezal — I'm sure he would have approved. The leaves on this form are a strong shade of silvery-pewter edged with the smallest amount of green. From late January, good-sized, dumpy white flowers appear, heralding the start of the new gardening year. September is often a difficult month for colour in the garden, but if you have dahlias, you are always guaranteed a really good show.

Unfortunately they are very brittle-stemmed plants that, if not well staked, easily break and fall over. This past week with high winds has been a real challenge for dahlia-growers. Thankfully mine are all fine apart from a few snapped flowers. In early August I mentioned dahlias, but now they are all flowering to perfection. I have gone mad with dahlias this year as they are such spectacular flowering plants that bloom profusely from high summer right through to first frost providing they are dead-headed regularly.

For years I had been put off dahlias but they are well and truly back in fashion and not only in my garden.