Hoya bloom
September Outside Photos
Snow Queen Hibiscus
Lipstick Plant
Invasive wild Morning Glories taking over the Knock Out Roses ...
Penta's that the Butterflies love
Pretty Coleus ...
Chrysothemis pulchella
C'mon y'all .. I seem to be the only one posting pictures of outside plants. Doesn't anyone else have something to share? Pretty foliage? I'd love to see some of your pic's.
I don't!!! (LOL)
Yours are so pretty but we are coming out of year long drought. The weather was 61 this morning and my brother says we are going to have a much colder winter than usual this year. (I guess we are going to make up for 3 months of over 97 degree weather this summer)
Gail, what about all those great plants on your porch?
They all died one by one from 60 mph winds and 100 degree temps all summer. The only thing I have on the front porch now are two giant pots of syngonium with Ti plants in the center and a few hoyas hanging. That is it!!
But I did get all those plumerias I bought from Susan and will get them potted up this weekend and they (plus my other outside plants) will spend the winter on the front porch.
What a site that porch will be if all those Plumies bloom at the same time! They are glorious plants, I sure love mine and hope we don't have a freeze that kills them. I lost four or five this past winter but it's just too much of a hassle to dig them up and bring them inside every winter. There's a house down the road from me that has one that's almost as tall as the house, planted on the south side and it's been there for years. The last time I drove by I noticed they had pruned it waaay back to about 4' in height. I thought about transplanting mine to the south side of the house but it's full shade over there and no sun at all so I don't think they would bloom.
I have some syngoniums in containers too, the solid green and the white veined. Syngonium is invasive here and we have the solid green kind growing all over out in one part of the backyard. In one area it was growing so thick and climbed the outside of the screen deck. I yanked it all off the screen and dug it out and threw it away but I must not have gotten it all because I noticed a few sprouts showing when I was doing yard work the other day.
I am putting all my plumerias in pots.........and plan on putting the pots in the ground when March comes...........so the wind doesn't knock them down. I have been told that if I keep them in pots for a couple or three years, then they can be planted on the south side of the house in the ground????
I wonder why it's recommended to keep them containerized for 3 years? Maybe to get a good strong root system going? I think once they have a good sturdy root system they would survive zone 9 winters, we've even had hard freezes here and the one I've seen in the yard down the road has come back afterwards, which surprised me. They do cover it with blankets but other than that I don't know what else could be done to protect from freezing temperatures.
I don't think you have the winds we do, Lin. Even in the winter those winds just tear up plants in the ground................
Patty Hughes lives 10 miles from here but her yard is very protected with a high fence, etc.........she lives in town. She has hers planted in the ground and they do great..........but I am out in wide open spaces with no protection from the winds..........
I did buy that thermal cover for outdoor frost and it works well.........comes in a 300 foot roll by 12 feet.........amazing how much good it does to wrap a plant in it..........
No, the only time we have high winds is if there's a Tropical system or Hurricane. Is that frost cover you are referring to like the stuff I saw at Home Depot? I think it was white but I don't remember it being that large. Where did you get yours? I want to get some to be prepared for winter this year. We have tons of old blankets and comforters but some of them are so heavy. I think that new frost proof stuff on the market is very light weight but I've heard it protects well. Do you actually wrap the plants or just drape it over?
I ordered mine from a friend who owns a nursery here at home. It only came in that big roll.................This is so light weight we use these big metal staples and push the staples in the ground through the white frost cloth.
I know she ordered it from BWI.........the biggest wholesaler in Texas for supplies for nurseries...........
Lin,
The nights here have been dipping into the 40s now and then,but so far I have left everything outside.We usually have a freeze sometime in October,so I will have to bring things in soon.
Oh my goodness, night time temp's in the 40's? That sounds awesome! I'd love that for night time, makes for good sleeping. Our weather reports say we have a cold front coming through here mid week next week but it won't affect our temperature's much ... still predicted to be @90-92 during the day but it is supposed to be cooler at night, in the mid 60's ... nice change. I would love if the weather year round could be upper 70's daytime and 40-45 at night, that would be perfect!
It sounds great,but a lot of those beautiful plants of yours wouldn't like prolonged temps below 50!! I really should have brought a few things in already.
The only plants I bring in are the dozen or so orchids and a few hoyas. My house is very small and I don't have a lot off space so everything else stays out on the deck even when it gets down into the 20's and 30's. We had a couple of nights of frost and three freezes last winter ... they all stayed out and were covered with old blankets. In this part of Florida we sometimes have nights that dip down into the mid 20's but thankfully not often and when it does get that cold it only lasts for a few hours, as soon as the sun comes up the temp's warm up considerably. In the 42 years I've lived in Florida I only remember a handful of times where temp's hovered in the 40's during the day!
That's great.Here the temps get down to zero or below zero.No amount of blankets can save tender plants.My house is small,so It's always a matter of what to keep and what to throw.I wish I had a sunroom or something so I could overwinter tropicals.
If I didn't have the screened in front porch that I can wrap poly around, I wouldn't be able to keep plants in the weather you describe at all...........wouldn't even do me any good to wrap with poly if I lived in Omaha.............
Gail,
Even here you can overwinter a lot of things on a screened porch,like Begonias,but nothing at all on the tropical end unless it is wrapped outside and heated inside.
Wow, this year sure is flying. I can't believe September is gone. I thought I would post one last bloom photo for the month. This is one of the Plumeria's I got from TurtleChi a year or so ago. The blooms smell heavenly!
See y'all in October! ^_^
Lin, I have blooms but my leaves certainly don't look beautiful like yours. Please take my winds away........not to your house but maybe the prairie somewhere. I love the blooms and the colors!! Thanks for sharing!
So far the two of mine that have bloomed are both yellow ... I sure hope one of the others is pink! It will probably be next year before I see blooms on the others, if they survive the winter ... I'm hoping for a mild winter!
If she doesn't bloom pink............I have two that are blooming pink..........don't have time now but in the spring I certainly will (I forget you live in Florida so I can send it anytime after I catch up with these streps and avs) send you a nice big cutting of a pink one............please remind me.......
Let me see if I can find a pic of one blooming pink............I will look for it in the morning.......obviously the name of the file is not plumeria (LOL)
Those Plumerias are gorgeous!! Love that yellow.