Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Plants #105, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Hi everyone ... Great Growing! I've been trying to catch up on the older threads and have really enjoyed viewing everyone's photo's.

I used to have quite a few Philodendron's and seeing the gorgeous specimens some of y'all grow makes me think I could get addicted again ... aaah, but I'd just need to move to a more tropical location with an acre or so where I could have my very own outdoor botanical garden!

MJ: Great idea with that feeder! I sure wish I had such a creative brain because I recently threw an identical feeder in the trash, the interior plastic was broken and it had been hanging in the shed for a year! I really love your Yellow Gloriosa photo from the last thread. I had no idea there was a yellow variety, and that is one really gorgeous bloom! I have the Gloriosa rothschildiana from tubers I purchased on a DG co-op a couple of years ago. The beauty in Debra's photo looks just my plant which has been blooming for a couple of months now but needs a taller trellis.

Debra: Your alien plant looks like this Kalanchoe: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/594/#b It can be an invasive one down here in Florida but isn't it interesting how the little "teardrop" babies hang on the edge of the leaves? Once those babies fall off and hit the soil, they take root and grow on.
Love the Gloriosa Lily bloom, one of my favorites! Yours looks just like my G. rothschildiana: