Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Pics of the landscape., 0 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
Its both I am a collector just trying to make a living doing something I love. I am one to take things to far in all the things I do ( my Highschool teachers can vouch for that). I first started collecting plants when I was around 14 years old and it was more for my turtle ponds than for the plants manly aquatics. Once I got into the larger tropicals and aroids I had to get everyone that I saw it took years to tack certain forms down. After I had just about everything possible. It seemed like with many things I collected I would get tried and move on to something else. Then I started talking to some older breeders about hybridizing plants. It caught my interest that I could make something totally new that no one else had ever seen name it and grow it out. So after a few years I started producing my own hybrids. After this its as far as your imagination and your breeding skills can get you. I am looking foward to breeding the largest and most color cannas as well as the largest and most colorful Alocasias and Colocasias. It is a slow road but it is a lot of fun and extremely interesting to me.


Here is a pic of the hybrid canna field. Something about walking out their and waiting for one to bloom seeing if its good enough then moving it up to the landscape to see if its worth naming. Not many jobs were you get to do that.