Q: While visiting Singapore last year we saw a pink flowering semi-climber. Actually, it was weeping out of a pot in a glasshouse in Gardens by the Bay. I was later told it was a medinilla. I know it’s a stupid question, but will it grow in our garden in Sydney?
H & R, Drummoyne, NSW.
A: I have seen this plant growing in glasshouses in Japan, Singapore and The Netherlands. I have discovered that it is much hardier than I suspected. There is a fine specimen growing in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. I also saw a beauty in Willoughby on location for BHG shoot.
Medinilla magnificais native to the Philippines, suited to tropical and warm temperate gardens. It will grow in warm frost-free gardens to about one metre. It is partly epiphytic (growing on a tree like a staghorn) but it grows happily in a pot in an orchid bark mix.
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