Thanks for the tip, Sunshine!!! Going to try it.........
Tropical Garden # 47
Yep! Ixora loves acid in vinegar.
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Ok, now i will have to try it!
Yes I'm going to remember that one too and try it. How often? once a month????
I only use vinegar mix on my floor about 4-6 weeks, the rest of the time I use regular cleaner. So I think once a month should be good.
I'll be darned...and I already have a 1/2 gallon of vinegar for out door use!
Here are the red cloaks..they are extremely tall this year.
Yours are already that full and blooming. I have one little flower on mine.
I noticed these have 4 or 5 more starting to bloom. The ones in the front haven't started yet.
phughes, I was surprised to find a little bud on my Red Cloak. I gave it a extra helping of super-bloom so that it can hurry up and look like RJ's.
Sunshinesw, I might impress someone one day with that useful tip on the Ixora. Thanks
Chinese yellow banana
Rj, those are very good pictures. Is your last picture a orchid tree? We had blue skies today also until this afternoon when it got very cloudy.
Desert Willow
Alocasia Hilo Beauty
Plumeria Dwarf Deciduous
have you signed up for the HD garden club? This month's coupon is 15% off all plant material
Yes it's been blooming a lot, large flowers...it's not that big of a tree yet either..very happy with it!
I'm excited, Brian just got promoted to Management at Startex, I'm hoping I can stop working over time..and that means...
Christi...dust off the guest bedroom for 1 please!
Here's a picture of my Iochroma cyanum. It's doing very well this year and I
don't really know why and I'm not going to ask either :)
great pictures as always.
i am off to puerto rico on friday for a week to visit my mother in law. i will try and post some pictures when i get back.
Wonderful pictures.. everyone! I will have to try vinegar on my azaelea it is the only acid loving plant I own I think, but then I never really took the time to find out what likes acid and what doesn't.. My Iochromas are going great guns also and I am babysitting two pods..
another hib for me, it was covered in bugs so I washed it out real good, it is a mango something cajun hib from duponts..
this one was open for me after work today, my black dragon was too, but it had already been sun scorched dang it..
I am having that same problem of sun scorching with my hibbies. I have them on the outside of my patio so they get the morning sun but then by late afternoon, they are in the shade and it still doesn't matter. Sometimes I wonder if part of the problem may be the wind gusts we've been having lately.
What pods are you babysitting Deb? on your iochromas?? I have never seen an iochroma seed pod so if that is what you were referring too, take a picture and post if you get the chance.
My summer vacation is nearing an end . . . back to the grind next Thursday. Ho Hum!!!
Patty
Hi Patty!!
Hey Dale How's your summer? I saw where you're going to be moving soon. Found a place yet?
Patty
Nice photos everyone.
Placenciarita, is Chinese yellow banana edible?
I found a Dragon fruit is budding up for the first time, no idea what variety.
Can't wait to see the flower.
I ain't movin' til the eviction notice is on the door.
I haven't paid rent in 7 months. Since no one acutally claims to own this place....
Summer is the same as it was last year, long, hot, tiring.
Pretty coleus. I'm starting to get some more Angel Trumpet's blooms.
Vossner, 15% is a good deal, thanks for the headsup.
Rj, congratulations on Brian's promotion. I will definately come back with a Orchid tree on my next trip to Houston.
Philo
Planter56, your lochroma seems to be over 5 ft. tall and very pretty. I like your colorful garden. I can see lots of nice plants.
candela, have lots of fun in Puerto Rico
Joeswife, very pretty hibiscus pictures, I wish that I had bought a few of those Cajun Hibiscus
white plumbago
phughes, I had to move all my hibiscus plants that are in pots to under a Oak tree, where they get morning sun only. I am sorry that your vacation is almost over
Sunshinesw, The Chinese banana is not edible but the flowers will last for several months and they are cold hardy, which makes them keepers.
I had to do a quick read on the Dragon fruit and found, beside good health uses, that they are also delicious.
variegated costus
Hi Dale
LiliMerci, My Brugs. are not doing anything yet
Hey Rita. Well the Iochroma is only about 3' tall :) the other foot is from the 12" pot it's in. My Brugs are just starting to flush out now. The buds are hanging. I did find two flower's though so I'm hoping the heat wave we're suppose to get doesn't knock off the flowers.
I didn't do too much with the garden's this year Rita. It's been one of those years :)
Hey, Randy. How about weekend after this. Weekend of the 14th, 15h, 16th,etc.etc. Have baby girl, Erin, again this weekend. Can't wait!!!
I'll check it out..I'm suppose to go to Colorado Springs..but flights are looking full
here is one of the Iochroma pods.. it has grown since then in 2 days..
Blue Jishi X TenTen
Been waitng awhile on this one.. worth the wait..
my other Iochroma is about three foot tall and growing on the north fence.. last year it grew to almost 8 foot. The one in the south Barrell is about 2 foot tall now.. just starting to bud out..
Dahlia Dark Angel " Miss American Pie "
Rita: I love your red Iochroma and the white plumbago
My banana tree is still growing..
The plummies are getting alot of leaves.. I am glad we have another three months of growing time..
Happ it gets really hot and really windy here.. but my Angels are blooming , so your heat wave will be okay I bet with them.. looking forward to meeting you next month while we are in Buffalo..
rita are you planning another trip to Houston this year?
can't grow iochroma to save my life. jealous. But maybe I'll make you jealous right back, here is my dwarf singapore pink plumie.
Flowering plumie is Hilo Beauty. Boy do they like it hot! They're in full sun and by the afternoon that area can record over 100 deg. with the radiation from the brick wall behind it.
bloom closeup. if you are a plumie forum regular, you already saw these pics
Vossner, how cute is that dwarf plumy.