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Tropical Plants: Tropical Garden # 48
I'm sure I'll figure something out for next year.
I see they released that freezepruf...I know it's to darn hot to think about it...but..save it to your favorites!
http://www.liquidfence.com/FreezePruf.html
Liquid Fence makes this stuff, I wonder if it will be available wherever Liquid Fence is sold?
Great photos everyone.
I don't know...but I'm sure trying it.
Me too, just don't want to pay postage if I don't have to. Maybe I'll ask the local hardware store where LF is sold if they can order it.
Rita, my MG are bloomings all over the place. I have this at my mailbox
And some deep pink noid on my pergola. That's the one that was producing lots of vines and no flower for a long time. Now I get about 5 blooms every morning.
and these two along the picket fence and the back part of the pergola
and jasmine
This is kind of fun
3D Waltz of the Flowers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuQXPdoxxrY
I need to find my 3D glasses....!
sunshine what is that pink flower you posted?
RJ... you need one of those tall artificial palm trees they sell to restraunts.. they are online..you can even neon it up.. we have a street corner in town that uses them... outside their club. ( Palm trees are not commonly grown in Kansas)
Ardesia, is that a crinium? omgigotta get me one..
Nicole, i have the same pink and blue mgs growing around my back yard.. I just love them.. is that a flying saucer? I am still waiting on one of mine to show up.. Love your jasmine!
Rita.. can I move into your yard and set up a tent to I can see everything? You are such a lucky person to have what you want where// save me a seed pod of the hibiscus you showed up there.. is it a prenniel?
James, I have lots of monarda PLANTS I can send you this fall to get into the ground or a large planter.
Patty.. Pink collection almost ready for you..
Does anyone live in a climate that is more tropical than my zone is? I need someone to send plants to over winter..
You mean like this?
I actually did sell some of these to a restaurant here when I was part owner of an import store. I bought about 10 of them in Chang Mai Thailand. Talk about a shopping trip..40 foot container..boy was that fun!
I also made this one out of spare parts.
oh yeah..I love those out door ones...they are very pricey..ouch pricey
Good morning!
joeswife, it's Jethropa(bad spell)
Rj, cool palm trees. My brother in law made one.
I need to go get some coffeeee.
Jatropha grows very readily indeed. It's a declared weed here. Coincidentally, I've been out removing Jatropha gossypiifolia over the past three days. Once established it's difficult to get rid of and the seeds stay viable in the ground for a long time. Jatropha curcas is also a declared weed but I understand there are some other species which people here have in their gardens and that haven't gone rampant.
I didn't know Jathropha were easy to propagate. I don't think I ever got a cutting to root and finally bought one when I was in Tampa last year. You can't buy them here in the nursery.
I think it's going to rain today. My Plumeria is blooming!
updated picture of Crane
Seeds galore everywhere.. I have planted a ton of things in thebeds because I am pruning down to get new growth and new plants with flowers..
This is a compass plant, they are native to my state and not tropical, they are fun to watch as their tops follow the sun.. it is facing west here at 12am in the morning, I utilize the native plants for shade giving for my tropicals, this one is above the hibiscus collection,, the tall thing in the oicture to the left is called showy evening primrose yellow, blooms at night, smells woonderful, and this one will have about 6000 seeds on it by october.. in the pods after a bloom, so I have been cutting them back.. they also give good shade with their wide leaves, and the japense morning glory loves to climb it.
This is the back side of my little water well tub, the grass is in a pot in the outer pocket, I get seeds from the grasses and spread them into the lawn.. Fescue gets real tall in the natural.. the tropical plant sits in the water tub part with a bubbler..
White Bauhinia
Hi Rj!!! I am really enjoying your blog!!! Does that White Bauhinia have a smell? I have one in a pot that is roughly 5 years old and of course the watched pot will not bloom.
Hi! I'm pleased your enjoying the blog..! It's fun writing about something your passionate about.
Ya know...mine was in a pot too for the past year and half. I decided to put it in the ground if I had any hopes for blooming, and sure enough it didn't take long at all. I was surprised when I noticed blooms on it.
Vera Purple bougie peeking through the railing ont he steps.
This is my pink jatropha (thanks Gail). PF says it is integerrima but the leaves are different. I am wondering if the pink flowered ones are a different CV.
A new bid on the Momo Botan lotus.
I can't seem to get a decent picture of this one. It is Ruttya fruticosa or Jammy Mouth. Thanks again to wonderful Gail! I had to cut a piece and lay it on the deck to get a clear pic.
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Clock Vine is just starting; it had a bad winter and I didn't know if it would come back or not. Thunbergia grandiflora.
Good morning!
Dutchman's pipe in bloom for the first time.
Rangoon Creeper still going.
Porter weed, Lemon grass. Lemons in the back ground which I might loose due to Hurricane Charlie, it tipped over and it's been going down hill since. ; (
Second flush of musical note buds.
Krinkled up first pink brug bloom.
Perilla & cladium.
Rat tails keeps on blooming.
Love that musical note. If I could ever clean up what I have aleady and find a spot for it, that one is a must have.