Candela, thanks for the tour of your garden. I can just imagine the fragrance from that ginger plant. I see that you got the Africian tulip tree.
That gardener must be a true plant lover to recognize that you will take good care of those Orchids.
Parrot's beak
Gmelina philippensis, still blooming
Pensacolagarden, Great shot!! I can not get them to pose for me like that.
This is Colocasia Nancy's Revenge, she is struggling .
Joeswife, here is an Afternoon Delight for you.
Placenciarita, what is the plant in front of Nancy's Revenge?
Marianne
I'm looking for an Allamanda Blanco (very white). Has anyone seen any at any of the nurseries?
Marianne
Eclecticuno, Welcome. The plant in front of theColocasia is a Climbing Oleander Vine (Straphanthus gratus). It bloomed once last year but none this season. I found it at Zone 9 Tropicals in Houston.
I am sorry but I have never seen a Very White Allamanda, I have a pink, purple and yellow. I have a nice big white Mandevilla called Sun Parasol Giant White. I will keep a eye out for a White Allamanda, they grow very well here for me. I would like to have one of every color. lol
Senna
that fire spike is is so red you must get hummingbirds. i have never seen a parrots beak is that a tree or vine?
this is my little sting ray ee
ginger
candela, the Red Firespike does attracts a lot of hummers. It has been blooming for a while.
The picture was just a excuse for me to show off my lovely bunch of bananas in the background.
Is the ginger Hedychium Elizabeth? I will have to get some of those, they are pretty.
This ia a Ti plant behind a Thai Giant
Crinum
My crinium have never bloomed. May be not enough sun, but with those trees cut down now, it should get more. may be next year. Leaves are starting to fall here....
Placenciarita - Great looking bunch of bananas!! I know you are proud of them! How long do you leave them on the tree? And do you cut off that purple thing at the bottom after all of the bananas have come out? (I have read that that is what is supposed to be done - the article said it is just male flowers that unnecessarily take up nutrients. I have bananas, also.) I would love to know if you do the same things with your bananas that I do with mine.
I would love to try the climbing oleander; does it get the oleander caterpillars like the shrubs do? Any ideas why yours has not bloomed this year?
Thanks!
Lucy
Candela, what a wonderful blessing! That is fantastic!
RJ, and others, I always love seeing pictures of your gardens!
Thanks!
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Thanks guys- Good to see Candela and Sunshine around again. We all seem to have an eye for similar plants. Rita and I, most assuredly do. LOL, if her and I are shopping together we bee line for the same plants!
Candela, I wonder if there are different types of African Tulip. I brought some seeds back from Costa Rica, and did get one to grow. When it got taller, it had a very long trunk and then an umbrella like canopy at the top, was cool looking. Now that it's older it seems to be filling out more tree like. I'd say it is about 6 years old, and has surprisingly survived the winters fairly well. I've always been unconvinced though that it is a tulip tree, but then I have no basis to compare it too. Time will tell I suppose.
Here are a couple of pictures. It's so tall, I get a proper picture.
Standing underneath it. This one is another trunk it's sent up, another item that adds to my speculation on identity. The variation is slight to others I've seen as the leaf rows seem closer and more numerous. Some times the plants will look different from a potted version to one in the ground.
Rita, your plants are look beautiful and healthy.
Cubanola domingensis bloom is almost open. I would love to put this in the ground, but it doesn't like cold at all. I'm surprised it bloomed already, the plant is only about a foot tall, so the bloom looks a bit disproportionate
the whole plant
Does anyone know what this is? I thought may be a coleus, but Wayne didn't think so. It popped up in my seed tray. I probably stuck some seeds in there and forgot. I leave the seed tray from spring to fall, and it's surprising how many seeds sprout 5 or 6 months down the line- in fact just noticed a morning glory that sprouted this week that were sowed in March.
another photo
musical note, with Wrightia in the back ground. Those Wrightia are wonderful, always in bloom.
The Seaforthianthums are starting again.
This normally pure yellow hibiscus, is sporting orange tinges. I wonder what makes it do that. Haven't seen that before.
Double Rangoon Creeper
This blue pendulant ginger is one of my favorites, the down side is that photographs to capture the real beauty.
Rubber vine had very good summer. In fact, I've noticed it's sporting it's first ever seed pod.
Hetty, that weeping blue ginger is Dichorisandra pendula. I find it is a much slower grower than it's cousin the D. thrysiflora.
Randy, could that mystery plant be Perilla Magilla?
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Thanks Ardesia, I think your right! It looks like the Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens)
- where in the world did it come from? I'm thinking Wayne must have had the plant and it some how seeded into another pot he gave me, which I recycled for the seed tray. Okay, the best theory so far.!
I found that both the blue gingers seem to be about the same speed growing for me.
This a view from my Kitchen window.
from the outside looking at the kitchen window.
This view is from the bedroom, looking out the double french doors that lead out to the deck. The deck wraps around the house to the double french doors in to the living room.
walking around the hot tub towards the pond and fern tree on the left, is the Garden Throne, and seating area, with the epy wall...I ignored, neglected the orchids this year, and most of them are sending stalks now..I like em!
looking back towards the pond and seating area with epy wall
Completing the circuitous route back into the living room- both entrances are conveniently located in equal distances from the garden throne!
Rj
That one seed pod will give you lots of seeds. My vine has taken over. I am not sure what to do with it. I never did the cattle panel arch like I thought about. It really is not a vine for trellises. I'e got it on three of them but it ends up using the fence, the plumeria and any other plant nearby that it can get its "hands" on.
I agree with Ardesia, it's perilla. Perilla is edible, strong pungent taste.
I wrap rice in with hot paste or you can use in salad. I've not had that variety but it's similar.
I wonder if the P. Magilla is edible? It can be sort of a nice weed here; using it to wrap rice sounds interesting. I think it is time for another recipe here Sunshine........... :-)
Ardesia, do not eat that P. Magilla.
It's poisoneous according to plant file.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55780/
that looks like an african tulip. there are quite a few around here. the one i have is from a neighbor that had it growing less than a foot from her house. it was a present from the birds. they bloom twice a year. this one is orange i think there is a yellow one as well.
wow rj thanks for the tour. what an oasis.
Thanks Sunshine, my magilla is safe.
