Tropical Garden # 49

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http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1025600/#new

Hi all! Trying to get all caught up here on the Tropical plant forum;-) Loved viewing everyone's pic's thus far and now you start a new thread LiliMerci. Just kidding! Nice plumeria pic.

R.J. Please find something to aid that monster of a Fern tree being that it's reaching the sun more. Still loving that babe!

Rita, I think your piece of my Amazonica vine may be ready to send to you if you would still like it. Everyone that come's to visit here love's that vine and want's a piece of it too. I ordered another one from zone 9 a couple of week's ago and it arrived in pretty good condition.

Tropicbreeze, they do sort of look like beehives, don't they.
Zingiber zerumbet, aka shampoo ginger.

I was noticing today that it was looking larger than ever!

Tomorrows blog
Open Season for the Gardener
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I never get tired of seeing it;-) I will look forward to reading your new blog.



This message was edited Aug 19, 2009 10:03 PM

I bought a curcuma (spelling) ginger today.

WOW!!! now theres some tropicals! LOL

Thanks for the new thread it was taking me forever to get to the bottom........LOL

Here is a Spathoglottis I got yesterday.

curcuma ginger

I got some kind of orchid yesterday, special price $12 at HD. Lili, I wanted one like yours but the blooms were sad looking so I went for a fresh looking white instead.

canna cleopatra

I think that spath above is called ground orchid. There were only a few and they were 14 at Lowe's. The ginger was 9. I rarely see these pretty tropicals at Lowe's. I went there yesterday looking for stuff on the bargain rack but they didn't have anything I wanted. I am going to plant the curcuma ginger in the ground but the mosquitoes are so bad since we've gotten some rain.

jasmine

Melastoma malabathricum - Native Lasiandra

I just got a coupon with the HD garden club newsletter and it is 40% off their orchids.

uh huh....open season...get the bargains!

For Rachel

here's a brighter pict

It's slowing down on the burning now.

Randy, did you ever feel the little baby TF's "bumps" as they emerge on the trunks of the older trees? They felt like furry little animals to me. I half expected them to start creeping away when I reached for them. Thought I had a picture of one but can't find it.

I have, although mine aren't so furry- which as Tropicbreeze pointed out, leads us to believe it is not C cooperi....what did you say it was Tropic?

I went to one of the fancier garden center yesterday and they had all plants 35% off and they sell some cool plants - pretty bananas, but I don't need anymore tropicals. I went there to get a dancing ladies ginger but they did not have any. Mine did not come back from last year - so sad. :(

Very nice plants you got there LiliMerci.

R.J. Love, Love, Love it! Thank's for posting it for me and I enjoyed reading your blog as well.

Hope everyone has had a great day.

These are extracts off our national botanic gardens web site:

C. australis is commonly known as the Rough Tree Fern due to the presence of adventitious roots, tubercles (knobbly bits) and masses of hair-like scales on its ‘trunk’. The horticultural appeal of C. australis is not only due to its beautiful looks but also because it is an extremely hardy species, even capable of tolerating direct sun when the roots are wet. It is also a robust tub plant and is unusual in that it is tolerant of salty winds. C. australis is thus a popular, cold-hardy tree-fern, adaptable to a variety of climates and soils.

C. cooperi is quite distinctive from C. australis in that it has a more slender trunk with distinctive "coin spots" where old fronds have broken off the trunk. C. cooperi fronds are bright green and lacy and tend to be very fast growing.

LiliMerci, thanks for the new thread and the fabulous plumeria picture. I lost all of my curcuma siam tulips as well. I added about 6 in. of soil on their bed and thought that they would come back, nothing so far. They are so pretty.

RachelLF, it is so good to see you. I would love to have a start of the Amazonica vine but the variegated sea hibiscus is not ready yet. I will D-Mail whenever they are.
This is a new Alocasia Louiseville

Rj, Lowes is the only place around here that will mark their stuff down, and I usually have to be there when they put them out. I can not even get the busted bags of potting soil anymore, the secret is out.
We can tell that your Big Fern is well cared for, it is looking so healthy.
Alocasia Sting-Ray

Thanks Tropicbreeze.
It definately fits all of that in description.

love the alocasia

Tropicbreeze, so Randy's fern is a C. cooperii and the ones I saw were the C australis? They definitely had those "knobbly bits".

I need to learn how to propagate it.........I should have gone to that fern spore class..

no..I think the other way around...mine is the australis

You are correct, I just looked up the C. australis and in all the pictures it had a single trunk like yours.

Hi Rita. That Alocasia Louiseville is a wowzer! Your vine is starting to show a good sign of new growth but I will wait another week or so to make sure if that's OK with you. When ever the variegated sea hibiscus take's start will be fine with me and even if it does not will be fine as well;-) I am in no hurry for another house-plant;-)

D-mail me your address and I will let you know when I send it. OK?

Good conversation on the Fern tree's!

Rachel

For joeswife who I believe love's the morning glorie's. I like them too;-)

Rita, if mine make it through this year and multiply, I will be glad to share. What zone are you in? May be I should plant to bring a few inside.

Hey RJ, if your lucky, you'll have babies popping up in the garden when the spores land there :)

I did remember reading about soaking a brick for a few days and then patting on some spagnum moss(wet) and then shaking spores all over it and then putting it in a plastic bag with hoop's to keep it off the spagnum move and putting it some place that is shaded and cool.


This message was edited Aug 20, 2009 10:45 PM

Rachel I love your Morning glory, lets trade seeds..
Rita, what was the name of the flowerfrom your first pic of this days' post ?
RJ, your fern is just awsome, your care,concern and facination of it is even more awsome to watch.
Lilli ... your Jasmine looks different from mine, I like it.
b. sualeons pink from a winter cutting.

Well it explains why I've been so lucky with it, and others around here have not.

Ironically the pups I brought back from Hawaii look similar

debra, I have lots of different ones. This is some kind of jasmine sambac and it's been blooming like crazy since late spring. My flower pot if full of blooms right now. I bring this one in for the winter, but I am going to try to plant one in the ground and see if it will survive winter. One of my friend planted hers in the ground. It's easy to start cuttings. I can send you a cutting when it's done blooming in the fall or I can start you a cutting. I do it in water and it takes about a month for it to root - very slow.

My mom has another jasmine sambac that looks just like mine but the leaves are thicker and it doesn't root well at all. I have that new jasmine that the flower is the size of a small mum and I have a cutting in water right now to see how it will root.

Let me see photo of your jasmine.

Joeswife, would love to trade seed's with you.

Hope everyone is having a great day.