We came from here.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1021356/
Tropical Plants: Tropical Garden # 48
Here are the moss roses as ground cover.
I don't know if I should move LA Irises or leave them there. Hmmm
This message was edited Aug 10, 2009 1:01 PM
Hard to capture small flowering burbine.
Angel Trumpet Flamenco
This is a variegated Stephanotis.. can't see the leaves..I had to use telephoto to get the blooms.
I wish I could get my stephanotis to bloom. I put it in the ground (from a pot) in the spring I think it was. It's not doing much, but at least it hasn't died.
Don't feel too wistful, this is it's first time and my first time to get any to bloom. !
I brought mine home from the store with blooms. Some of them opened and the rest of the plant died! So sad. I'm not trying to grow that one again. It was expensive. I had same thing happened to my jasmine but it was spring by then, so I stuck it in the ground and all the brown leaves eventually fell off and the plant came back and thriving.
However, I don't know what kind of jasmine it is and don't know if it's zone hardy and if I need to dig it out for the winter. It looks delicate. I will take a picture and post later since I have some guys cutting down some pine trees right now. They've been here all day...
Here is another one of my Brugs that i got for a trade. It is doing so well I can not wait to see it bloom
Our brugs won't start blooming until around Sept or Oct when it starts cooling down.
The heat however has been great for Paw Paw's!
Looks like you have quite a Paw Paw Patch way down yonder in Houston.
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/pawpaw.htm
randy, do you eat the fruit? I didn't know paw paws were related to papayas. But when I think about it, they look quite similar.
randy, do you eat the fruit?
Vossner, they are Papayas..we call them Paw Paws in Africa, and a lot of places around the world call them that! And yes, they are delicious, sweet. The flavor is in between Mango and Canalope.
Tomorrows post
Chocolate Invasion
http://www.chron.com/commons/persona.html?newspaperUserId=rjudd&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckUserId=rjudd&plckPostId=Blog%3arjuddPost%3a68a42935-fe21-4604-b99f-9b9a133f3598&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest
This message was edited Aug 10, 2009 6:12 PM
rotflol aredesia!
Sunshinesw, thanks for the new thread, that is a lovely bunch of bananas you have there.
I have one Heliconia bloom
LiliMerci, Flamenco is a beauty. There are so many beautiful brugs, I would like to have one of each.
I noticed blooms on a few of mine today.
blue ginger is doing much better after being transplanted.
pepsacolagarden, that is a very healthy Brug. you have there. I hope she blooms for you soon.
last of the daylilies blooms
Rj, those papayas are almost ready to eat, mine are covered with spidermites. I am saving Chocolate invasion for bedtime reading
do you have any advice for the Heliconia. I've not had one bloom yet, although I haven't had any long enough.
Hey Dutchlady your Dragon fruit blooms are lovely. I'm going to have to get a picture of my one Brug that is blooming. So far in two days we had about 5" of rain. So much flooding in the region. There was a tornado in cattaraugus county Sunday, and some wind damage in other areas, but mostly flooding. We had two severe storm systems move through. One around 9 and another around 3am this morning. Water water every where. I think my 30 gallon rain barrell could have been filled twice over if not more last night.
Sorry to hear that you are being deluged with all that rain. We're getting the afternoon showers each PM but I believe we are still in a drought here. The rain isn't even cooling temperature off either just making steam!!!
Well that rain went north of us last night and tore a steeple off a church.. the winds were 80 mph.. there was another storm warning this evening so I moved everything and un-wound the jmgs and moved the budding brugs to safety.. once again just lite rain and no wind so far.. thank goodness.. James u r in NY? well I am glad u r still growing plants!
Nicole your flamenco is wonderful.. I lost my flamenco this winter waiting for spring * sniff*
Rita I love your blue ginger.. mine have not bloomed yet... they are spirals? looks nice tho..
sunshine, I wish I had a pawpaw tree.. I planted some seeds given to me in trade, but they rotted..
My sambac is going crazy as it does every summer.. and loves it in the basement during the winter even.. I am already thinking winter for some reason, must be the leaves falling already. it got up to 98 here today..I am sooo tired of comng home to little green worms eating my brug leaves.. bah!Wish my garden spider would eat those, but am grateful he gets the grasshoppers..
here is a mix pot of things tonight as I was "inspecting"
look at this close up of the great blue lobelia
eeps! that one up there is a Rebecca mornig glory about to bloom, sorry.. here is Great Blue
Preview!
My weed patch and the Salmon 4 oclocks look so pretty at night.. there is alot in there.. three creeping sedums, Perilla "beefsteak", White Jimson Weed ( datura), cone flowers, woodland violets, tomatoe plants, cosmos, marigolds, a strange but cute little vine with tiny little lavender pink sweet pea looking blooms..
( beggars tick?) and liatris, which is done now and setting seed.
Yes I am in NY but hear him thank goodness but we have been having lots of rain but not that much lately until last night.
cinnamon basil
Love it Love it Joeswife..the blue plant!
I forgot what this is..jacobena?
RJ, that is Jacobs' Cline Monarda.. I have almost all the different cultivars of monardas.. love them..
good morning. storm passed us by..
Blue Kansas Native Aster
Hello guys Good Morning morning joeswife i am a monarda lover here also but sadly to sat I do not have one yet mostly like next year.
duh! I didn't know paw paws & papayas were one and the same. I think I would like a dwarf papaya. Maybe next spring.
Here is another Brug that i have going it is called sunset I am sure that it will not bloom this year that is for sure. But I am sure that it will bloom next year.
Brugmansia sunset
here is one of my brug bloom this morning.
Rj, my Heliconia is 7-8 years old maybe older from Jerry. I recently found out that it will bloom on second year stalk( I am a trimmer). It is in partial shade with no die back in the winter. I also have a dwarf variegated one from e-bay that is not doing well and a variegated heliconia also from Jerry with very little variegation and no bloom for the last 5 years.
I think that I might get more blooms if it was in full sun. I'm planning on dividing the clump this fall.
Good luck with yours.
Philo. Giganteum
I just found that out yesterday about the second year growth. Of course I ran out there to check the stock that grew twice as big as the other this year...lol..
I observed an interesting thing with the shell ginger..trimming the leaves like we do, well I have several stocks going for a second bloom..I've never heard of that...
The Red Cloaks are really coming out now..noticed the ones in front are starting to bloom as well!
The fern is still kicking....see how I elevated the umbrella? on the deck, on wheels, on a high carved elephant so I can get coverage...don't know what I'll do next year...let it burn I guess...
nope. can't you put the elephant on top of another box or coffee table from a resale shop. won't be pretty but it'll work.
pensecolagarden, do you let your Cinnamon Basil go to flower? I read where the flowers are edible.
very nice pictures.
joeswife, I look forward to see what beauties you have flowering today, thanks for sharing.
LiliMerci , that is a very good picture of your Brug. Are your morning glory vines blooming yet?
I am having computer problems today
