Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #90, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
ardisiia: Someone told me those little Lawn Orchids don't transplant well. I dug the one up from the Tecoma Stans pot and put it in a little pot of it's own ... will see how it fares.

GaGirl: I keep going back and looking at the photo's of your gorgeous orchids and that pink Cattleya that you said looks like Cotton Candy is really beautiful! Is it fragrant? I also really love the "Nun's Orchid"/Phaius in your photo here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=8337853 That is really stunning! I've had a Phaius tankervilliae for quite a few years, planted it in the ground, dug it up, replanted it in the ground, dug it up again ... it's in a container now but hasn't been doing real well for the past couple of years ... probably mad at me because I can't make up my mind about where I want it planted!

Love those pink Hibiscus! The one in Debra's photo looks a lot like some we dug out and threw away about 6 years ago. We had planted hibiscus around the entire front and side of our house many years ago and they grew so fast I couldn't keep them pruned below window level. They got so thick and so tall we couldn't see out of the windows so we finally decided to rip them out.

Rita: Nice photo's, which Impatiens is that pictured? Very pretty foliage ... looks different from the I'mpatiens I'm used to down here. I will have to look up Ruttaya, that's a neat looking plant with a pretty flower! I had a Black Tacca chantrieri (black Bat Flower plant) a long time ago. It suffered when I was traveling back and forth due to my mom being sick before she passed. It bloomed two times in the years I had it and the blooms are really unusual and very pretty! Wish I had a picture but it was lost with thousands of other pic's and files when my laptop crashed a year or so ago. I never used to do backups but now I try and back up at least once a week.

PerennialGirl: Congratulations and great growing on that Fig! Y'all amaze me with your ability to grow some of these plants indoors! Love the Amaryllis ... I had a Pasadena but gave most of my Amaryllis bulbs to my sister in Fort Lauderdale. They didn't seem to re-bloom for me but go crazy in her garden!

Debra: Gee, I thought I had a full time job with the plants I have ... you humble me with that collection of yours. I know the amount of work it takes to care for such a large number of different types of plants ... my hat's off to you gal! LOL, the older I get, the shorter my attention span seems to be and I am not the greatest plant mom at times. :(

mjsponies: Love the Dischidia ovata! You should add that photo to Plant Files: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57418/ There's currently only one photo of D. ovata listed.

I have never seen Dischidia ovata at our Lowes, Home Depot or Wal-Mart garden centers. My car is in the shop right near Big Value Garden Center and after I return the loaner and pick up my car tomorrow afternoon I may just have to stop by and see what they have.

I got real excited today when I saw what I thought was blooms on this Saxifraga stolonifera (not a begonia but has the common name of "Strawberry Begonia") - the little blooms I saw were weedy oxalis growing in the soil. I put stuff out in the yard and in the trees during spring, summer and fall and get all kinds of weeds sprouting! I tried pulling it all out but I bet I didn't get it all. The weedy oxalis (Creeping Wood Sorrel) has popped up all over our yard.