Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #91 - February 2011, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Loving everyone's blooming beauties as well as the foliage plants. It's finally warming up down this way and we are expected to have mid to upper 70's the rest of this week and through next week! I am going to be out of town for at least a week. I leave on Saturday morning and haven't decided if I'm going to take my laptop with me or not ... so if ya don't see me around I'll pop back in when I get back home.

Debra: Love your beautiful Morning Glories ... so pretty! I have that same Oxalis, planted beneath a variegated Ficus and I just noticed this afternoon that it has buds. It never went totally dormant this winter as it has in past years.

GeorgiaGirl: It sure looks like you have a love for succulents! I really like those Haworthia, and the Euphorbia tirucalli Rosea ("Fire Sticks") is gorgeous! I can see why that one is called Fire Sticks. I had three very large solid green Euphorbia turicalli ("Pencil Tree") plants but they got frozen last winter. Two were planted in the ground and two others were in containers ... they froze to death in our many nights of low 20º temps!

I'm loving the Blue Orchids ... HollyAnn: Your's looks like a Vanda but I'm not sure about GordonHawk's. They sure are pretty. The only blue orchids I've ever seen are Vanda's and I've been thinking about trying one ever since someone here in Florida on another forum told me that Vanda's do really well in our sunshine! I guess they can take more sun than other types?

Rita: Love that photo showing the Lily's, are they the Stargazer's? And that flower in front looks like an Amaryllis I used to have. I noticed a couple of them popping up when I was walking around the yard a few days ago. I thought I had dug them all out and given them to my sister but must have missed a few, now I am curious as to which ones I have left.

This is a planter that a friend gave me recently. I couldn't decide what I wanted to put in it and ended up planting it with "Cape Daisy" (Osteospermum). I might end up changing it out in a few weeks.