Oops sorry, this is what it started out as.
Tropical Plants: Tropical Garden # 46
Planter, I have 2 buds on mine. Mine blooms every summer and I always look forward to seeing them flower. It takes about 3 weeks for the bud to form.
Vossner, thanks for the interesting article. I have a lemon tree started from seeds (from a garden in Italy). I hear it will take about 10+ years before it will fruit, but I'm patient...
wow Planter that is awsome what is it?
vossner, I will be glad ro send seeds or plants, I have both
that plant, rita, looks like my butterfly bahaunia tree.. the leaves do look like a cassia tree on mine too..
I found a lot of nice wild flower seed pods out in the country the other day..
I pay the water bill since I am the one who uses it all the time ..LOL
Beautiful NB Planter, I was never awake to see mine bloom so I gave it away to a friend who was less of a sleepyhead. :-)
I was surprised to see all these E. strictum in bloom all together.
Gerber daisies.
Really???? those bloom??? Someone here sent me some sticks.. one of them was that one.. it is really long now.. should I break it apart or something to make it spread?
Greetings from Miami Beach!
All pictures are from different dates.
Greetings from Miami Beach!
Bananas on The Beach..
Tropical Miami Brach.
Date: Jan/19/2009
Great photos everyone!
Debora, I would cut up to get a full pot if it was me.
Sobo, nice gardens!!!
Tropical Miami Beach 2
Date: March/02/2009
Sobe, you have a wonderful garden and check out the bananas! Do you eat all of them?
I brought a lot of seeds back from Hawaii and they all got stuffed in the same bag so I have no idea of what is what.
Judging by the red stems some of these have they might be Cordylines. What do you think? They are about 1" tall at this point.
Thanks,
Bananas ..Oh yes, we eat all of them (including my neighbors)._.
HEY...yes they are cordylines....and I think the seeds were from MoanaLoa which is cream and green! Good growing!!!
Here is a variegated impatiens ... the pink one has orange ones.... The 'breeder' called them Confetti...
Caught the epi..before it closed!
one of my favorite brugs...I think it is called Hawaiian Dancer...lovely fragrance....
Thanks Carol, this is so much fun.
I call that impatiens delicious, good enough to eat!
Oh Carol, you would hate it here. Over a 100 again today. The plants and the people wilt and with the extreme heat for so long now, nothing will bloom. Barely staying alive with a water bill of over $200.00
Christi
Night Blooming cereus(sp) joeswife
vossner, thanks, those crinums are not very pretty, but they do have a good fragrance
Planter56, I hope that you Mom is doing well.
It is so much fun to watch those Epi. bloom. You do have to agree that they are much prettier in person than they are in pictures.
LiliMerci, what color are your plants? I am still waiting on the ones from sunshinesw to bloom for me.
Sunshinesw, How pretty is that!!! Seven blooms at one time,
Do you have those Gerber daisies in a basket or planted in the ground? Mine seem to do better in a hanging basket.
Joeswife, thanks on the id, I will have to look it up. I like the way my Epi.looks like an octopus
SobeGardener, thank you very much for showing us your immaculate beautiful garden.
I saw that you have mangos, bananas and sea grapes growing. Do you ever get grapes from your plant? I remember my GM making wine from sea grapes.
banana fixing to bloom
Ardesia, you have enough cordyline there to make yourself a hedge.
AlohaHoya, those are beautiful blooms, I love the variegated impatients. Thanks
Alocasia
A hedge! Great idea Rita; it would look ever so tropical.
My favorite crinum for scent is Mrs. James Hendry but I can't find a photo of that one. This is C. Bradley, a petite one and I can't bend down far enough to see if it has a nice scent. :-)
Rita, I have a white dinner-plate-size Night Blooming Cereus and I just saw a 3rd bud today. Hopefully, they won't fall off. One year, I had like 7-8 buds and some of them fell off and only 5 went to full size. I guess there were too many buds and they weren't in a big enough container and had to compete for resources. That's just my guess. I also have those small ones SunshineSw have. Those don't have any fragrance to them and they are smaller, may be 6 inches?
A neighbor of mine gave me a cutting last year. and I think she said it was red but it is small so I don't expect to see bloom on it this year. I'm patiently waiting.
My mother said she grew up (in North Vietnam) with a huge one in front of her yard and the first night most of the blooms open, they were allowed to stay up late to see them. She said they produced 30-50 blooms at a time. I can't even imagine that.
What a lovely memory that must be; it sounds wonderful.
Mom was in San Jose a month ago and she said they have tons of them for sale there. You can get them in just about every color there is. I don't know why she didn't get me one.
Yes, Princess K...I wouldn't like it at all there right now. I really don't do heat!!! Our average temp is 79 which is HOT with no breeze. Our water bill is $0.00. we are on water catchment. But our elec. bill is nearly $200.00 every month and that is with hot water on solar. Elec. is horribly expensive here!!!
79 sounds like a dream, which you are living in a dreamy place AlohaHoya....
Right....and I count my lucky stars every day and thank the godesses often!
Yup they are much better in person than in pictures Rita. My mom is doing okay so far. She has improved somewhat since the initial onslaute back on the 12th. It's going to be a very long recovery period I'm afraid though.
I'll have to get pictures of my iochroma cyanum. It has so many flowers coming this year and I don't know why :) Sooooooooooooooo much rain up here lately.
Living only less than 10 miles, as the crow flies, from Rita, I cannot understand our different results.
Christi
My hang up is the hot nights we have in the summer here in the SE. Having to use blankets while in HI was heavenly. Plants like that respite from the heat also.
I think this is the Miracle Berry I started from seeds this winter. It is slow growing. Can anyone tell if these are leaves from the Miracle Berry? I am going to put it into a larger container.
It does not look like Synsepalum dulcificum, Miracle Fruit.
Here is a Miracle Fruit bush.
