Ovatifolia going ?to flower

[MartinNicklin]

That is going to be magnificent!

[LostInJapan]

Looking massive. Please keep the updates coming.

[Richard K]

Here are a couple more pictures

[MartinNicklin]

Stunning. Especially against the blue sky.

[LostInJapan]

Fantastic! May you have many seeds.

[Richard K]

As the flowering progresses, some pods are dropping off from flowers that have finished. I just wondered if anyone here has experience- when they dry are these going to contain viable seeds, or is it likely to be ones which haven't developed that are dropping off? I had somehow expected to end up with drying seed pods still up in the stem.

[Paul S]

Those are the spent flowers. Anything that stays in place and swells up is more likely to have seed inside. You could help things along with a set of step ladders, an artists paintbrush, a head for heights and a steady hand if you fancied a go. With an elementary idea of what is what is is simple to work out what goes where.

[Richard K]

Thanks Paul, it is fairly inaccessible to a step ladder but it is constantly surrounded by a cloud of bees so hopefully they will be capable of pollinating at least some of the flowers!

[Richard K]

Flowering has finished now.
It seems to be making seeds, these are from a pod that had fallen, ill give them a go to check they are viable. If they are, there will be 1000's of seeds to come!

[LostInJapan]

I see a lot of seedlings on the horizon.