Everyone is welcome to share pictures of their Tropical plants and Gardens
Warning, this is a very big picture, sent in error
This message was edited Jul 30, 2009 5:58 PM
Tropical Garden # 47
we came from here http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1018400/#new
Rj, It seems as if I goofed again tonight. I clicked on the wrong picture. This is the one that I meant to send.
I think that I will join phughes on one of her midnight raids to your garden. I love your Philo.
Thank you very much.
Joeswife, you are prettier than the flower.
I will send you a start of the obedient plant.
LiliMerci, I promise to send you a start of the obedient plant as soon as they have finished blooming.
pensacolagarden, First Belle is a beauty, I like the color.
firebush
I love that philo! I am really liking Philos..reminds me of Jungles.
I'll post this one again...it's really grown this summer.
a few months earlier..course I didn't take one when we were on our trip in march..gosh ..that was a cold day starting out!
There are times when I wish i was down in Florida, loved the keys when I was down there with the family many years ago :)
me too * sigh* lived there for a year and a half during winter was fantastic
this is blue jishsi x ten ten can't wait for it to bloom
Tropical Hibiscus 'Snow Queen' loves Miami Sun
Pink Mellow Hibiscus moscheutos
Hibiscus rosa sinensis
I lived in Orlando for a while....even though I might have preferred to live farther south, I probably never would have moved from Florida had work not doubled my salary to do so!
New Blog post
Musical Note
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Blood Banana 'Zebrina' (Musa acuminata)Silky leaves.
Blood Banana 'Zebrina' (Musa acuminata)Silky leaves. 2
Turtle enjoying some sun after the rain
The apple dumpling gang....they love following the turtle around.
Albino Tetra Barbs
Rj, thanks for the great read. I have the Musical Note plant on my wish list ever since Sunshinesw, showed it a few months ago. All I need now is a trip to Zone 9 to get one, and a little more room in my Hoop house.
Papyrus
Planter 56, my Medenilla Magnifica died, I do not think that I will try to replace it. I waited so long for a bloom, then it up and died on me. How is your plant doing?
Philo
Joeswife, I am waiting to see your bloom too, it has very pretty foliage.
I also lived in Englewood Florida for a while.
SobeGardener, nothing says summer in Florida like sunshine and blooming Hibiscus. I have little red bananas on my Rowe Red for the first time this year. I hope that they do not fall off.
Beautiful plants. thanks.
Had to stay up to see the storm thru.. it has passed and we are in good shae, so off to bed for work tommorrow, Love those blooms and love the turtle picture..I love the coleus collection as well.. RJ I have to have a musical notes.. I am part of a very in to music family.. mainly my hubby..
Brugmansia Isabella
different shot of that area and the other two SPs opened.. I cut the first one off to put in the brug bloom vase..this is tonight after I came home and before the storm...
She is a big bloom, and has some colour, but can't see it for the dark..
My wintered over four year old hibiscus bloomed in the tomatoe tub for me
first year ever for those daturas , and there is some crazy vine action going on on top of all that.. had I known what I was getting.. *sigh*
Joeswife, you have color everywhere, Brug. Isabella is a beauty.
We are having a nice shower right now, after I spent the morning watering.
This is Natal Mahogany, it was a little houseplant. It is over 9' now.
Rj, we have seen the bats flying out of Carlsbad Caverns and the bats leaving Bracken Cave in San Antonio. Waugh bridge is next.
this is my latest buy from Noveltyg on e-bay. His plants are always a nice size.
Anthurium Cupulispathum
Haight Ashbury Hibiscus
African Rose Mallow in a hanging basket
Blue potato bush
Rita mentioned noveltyg on ebay; after Carol spoke of him several years ago I got this Keeley's Gold Ti from him. He has some interesting material listed now:
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/noveltyg_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_ipgZ25
Nice plants! Love the purple blooms on the potatoe bush... I went to visit Don ( Tropicman) last night and his yard looks like a tropical paradise.. it is always good to go visit with them, they let me have some seeds when I find some .. LOL I am afraid to take anything else home from him his things are always so nice.. my fittonia is failing... I am sending it to someone who knows how to love it.. any takers? Someone wanted the little dayflower blue jumping grass, I pulled seeds today after work.. I have been dead heading and collecting seeds already my dining room is covered in bags of seed heads .. Joe grilled a salmon with some kind of Plobano pepper he saw on TV,, he made a coconut custard pie, what a great Joe I have.. he let me play in the yard until our date tonight..Last the rain beat down my tree high four o clocks.. now I have them trimmed down.. here is the first bloom of that varigated rose of sharon, and it is called sugar tips as someone had mentioned here..I have not sunk it into the ground yet..will it winter over? I am in zone 5 or 6 I think.. we have bats at night here.. my youngest daughter adores them and loves to watch them come out.. Fearless Joe has trapped two of the mice in the flower bed.. I don't think he got the momma yet.. I hope he doesn't..I love critters..
I have never seen whiteflies until I saw them at his place last night.. we saw some white spots and disfiguration on an area of his gardens.. I got a whitefly up my nose.. yuk! here is the dark weigeilia budding and ready to bloom, I am so excited.. it is also not in the ground/ there are no instructions as to its hardiness..
My tropical butterfly weed is really growing .. I wintered it over as it is not a winter hardy one like our native butterfly weeds.. I sent out seeds from this last fall.. if anyone wants any I am making up individual seed bags with names on them.. this plant will produce about 200 seeds this fall
My red border dahlias are finally blooming.. These will bloom all year in tropical zones.. I will be digging them up this fall to send out as I will not be keeping these in my basement nursery.. my hardy border dahlias come back and they are alot bigger than these little petite things.. the flowers are about two inches big..light green foilage..
This guy is in the Brug/Vine corner, I call him Henry, I have been feeding him all spring and now he is about 3 inches in diameter.. of all my bug eaters, he is the best for grass hoppers and katydids, which I have this year.. and have not had those problem leaf eaters in a long time..Henry has shed his skin twice.. He also had a companion, but I found it dead in his web ( or hers) sorry for the bug picture, I believe in using Garden spiders as a natural garden pest control.
I have seen my praying mantis babies in the four o clocks, they help me with the little pests..
One last tropical picture.. This is my stardancer crossed with ? pod 2 I got from Violabird . I started this seedling in winter, and the coleus I started in winter as well.. I love starting things from seeds... isn't she looking so happy?You can see a tag in this picture of a rescued a dying "flying saucer" morning glory from the trash bin at ACE hardware, I finally saw a bloom this am on the way out to work.. it didn't look like the tag, but... oh well, it isn't dead now..
LOL, I LOVE those spiders but I think your Henry is really a Henrietta. If I am not mistaken, the males are the tiny ones.
Mom got me this coole new jasmine. Check out the bud size! Smells just like the other asian jasmine that I have but the leaves are longer and it's a large single flower instead of a cluster of flowers.
Joeswife, we know who to go to first when looking for seeds. I love your red dahlia, that is one plant that I have a hard time with. They will look very good in the spring, and then nothing.
I have a lot of garden snakes, I do not like them but leave then alone because I know that they are good for the garden.
This is my variegated ROS, I like your bloom better.
