Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 84, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
OH GOSH, Dave Are you kidding me? Those are HUGE! LOL If I give them a bigger pot, they will be like monsters, and prolly like the Macho fern, take up too much room.
Keep talking orchids, I am getting there.. well, not yet... still scared.
Rita I agree with Nicole, I never grow tired of your pictures of your Gardens, they change everyday with the seasons, and it is beautiful. I have more lav moon vine seeds, and yes they bloomed, and the albas did too, don't give up. Start some in February/to get nice vines by May. I think they could be a prenniel in your zone.. see if you can keep one going. trim it back. You might get a surprize. I had to cut down the night blooming jessemine. now I have a zillion cuttings, if anyone wants some, holler up.
Nicole, splash salvia is the variegated leaved one, yellow and green. Black and Blue is a perennial here for me, growing tubers under ground. Omaha gold did not come back from the ground this spring, but the cuttings took. It has a dark green and light green leaf. It gets way bigger than the B&B.
The cuttings I started of Snowqueen hibiscus have rooted. I am very pleased with myself.
If I can keep them going I will be boasting loudly, as I have had problems with this one.
I made a new bug spray. It didn't make anything wilt down in the basement . It did kill the mealy bugs. Liquid dish soap mixed with olive oil and water. BAM! LOL The Neem oil just solidifys too much to use in a mister. I love experimenting..
Man, I need to get out and clean those basement windows? Uhmm...
I have some "ground orchid" seeds and some lady slippers seeds.. didn't know those were real orchids.. Planing on planting them out in the "woodland" Garden . ..