Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #87, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
I have a few Rhipsalis and they sometimes bloom a couple of times each year. I was so surprised to see the one above in bloom ... I thought it might be dead since it got so cold!

prita: Nice planter from your neighbor! Wow, look at all the gorgeous plants you have! My Eucharis grandiflora/Amazon Lily hasn't bloomed in a long time but it would probably do better if I took better care of it. Gosh, that Brom is absolutely gorgeous, who needs blooms with color like that!

Dave: I guess the Hawks have taste preferences too, they prefer birds over rats ... can't blame them, LOL. Rats ... eww! I remember a guy I worked with years ago bought a house and had every palm tree near the house cut down because he said rats will nest down in palms, and if the tree is near the house they will get into the attic and into the house, Yikes! Back in 2004 we had 3 hurricanes come through here in a six week period and take out a lot of large trees. When we were shopping for replacements my husband decided he wanted Palms so we bought 5 small Queen Palms and I told him we were NOT planting them anywhere near the house, LOL. Squirrels will do a lot of damage if they get into an attic too ... I read one time that someone had to have a major rewiring done, costing big bucks because squirrels got in the attic and chewed through a lot of wiring ... you'd think they'd have fried squirrels if they were chewing through electrical wiring?
I have ten or twelve bird feeders in the yard and sometimes in the summer I have to stop feeding the birds because mice and or rats are attracted to the seed.

I Love the inflorescence on that Carludovica ... really cool! Oooh, a fruit with sweet chocolate flavor, now that sounds like my kind of fruit! Oh my ... you are killing me with that beautiful huge Ti plant!

Hoya australis subsp. tenuipes is blooming. I knew it had buds a few weeks ago when I covered all the plants on the deck but I figured it would blast the buds with the extreme cold we were having and no light for a few weeks. Plants sure do surprise me sometimes!

edited to correct typos.

This message was edited Dec 30, 2010 9:10 PM