it is cold here in miami! just about all of my clerodendren leaves are on the ground. it looks like the flower buds are ok though
it is nice to see some tropical pictures in this cold weather.
Tropical Garden #62
this is my attempt to keep some plants warm. fingers crossed they have been in there for a couple of weeks now.
at least the queens wreath is starting to flower
Great reading and interesting pictures everyone, Thanks!!!
candela, you made me go check my queen's wreath for blooms, nothing yet. It is good to see you.
Rachel, so far most of my tropicals are doing ok. I have kept a constant watch at night, and slept in the daytime. This is what all three of my GH's look like at night.
the monitors
Blue Sage from Rj's garden is starting to bloom.
pink/purple firespike from candela is still in bloom.
I really enjoyed viewing each and everyone's picture's. Thank's!
Rita, I had a big smile on my face when I seen all your heat/humidity monitor's lined up in that window . I have at least two monitor's in every room that has plant's. I hope you can sleep better now at night time with the temp's starting to get back to normal for some state's.
Cissus Amazonica climbing anything it can find.
It's raining!
Hey Rachel, what is that plant behind the Cissus amazonica?
candela: I hope you were able to keep your plants warm enough in this awful cold! That Queens Wreath is so pretty.
prita: I like that Blue Sage and the Purple Fire Spike is really pretty. We have a lot of the red one up this way but I've never seen the purple flowering one.
Rachel: Love the Cissus amazonica! That's a really pretty color on your Hibiscus. I have, or should say had a light apricot double blooming Hib. It was a small potted plant and got frozen in this awful winter we've been having. It wasn't a favorite though so it doesn't bother me that it didn't survive, LOL.
Dave: You can send some of that rain my way! After so many frosts and freezes everything is extremely dry and crispy. We have red flag fire warnings up around central Fla. Rain is forecast for this coming weekend so hopefully we well get a decent amount.
It was 26ºF here again last night with frost covering the ground. Hopefully the warm up is beginning as reports have us back up to the mid to upper 70's by the end of the week. I sure hope Florida is spared any more cold weather this year ... or for the next dozen years for that matter! I saw on the news it was even down to 42º in Key West night before last. It's hard for us here in the northern part of the state to deal with weather like this but folks who live that far south are not used to those kind of temp's at all. Most homes built before the 1950's here in Florida were not equipped with heat. It was all over the news for a few days that every big box store had completely sold out of space heaters, none could be found anywhere in Florida, so I hope these freezing temperatures are over with for a very long time!
This is the Hibiscus that was blooming two weeks ago and is now a goner from the freeze.
Good Morning All,
We were still 41 at 5am. Now, thankfully, we are up to a roaring 53. That's higher that it got yesterday. It will be a busy spring picking up all the dead stuff!
Stay warm, kiddos.
Hap
Oh, wow on the wave photo. That is amazing!!! I have loved every single pic, and so sorry for the damage caused by mother nature.
We are warming up! Yeah!! It is so nice to be able to go outside again without layers of clothes! Our high today was upper 50's ... normally we Floridians would consider that a bit cool but it sure makes me happy! We are due for two more nights in the 30's and then by the weekend it will be back to normal for this time of year, mid to upper 70's daytime and low 50's at night. I am one happy gal! It will take awhile for the landscape here in Florida to recover, but spring is hopefully just around the corner! I just placed an order for Caladium bulbs on the classified ad forum and I look forward to having them in mixed container plantings and hanging baskets.
This is what the Schefflera in the backyard looks like today ... sad looking tree! In the next few weeks those brown leaves will be mushy and droopy. My husband will have to get his chain saw out and chop the tree way back but by late summer it will be pretty again!
lin. have you ever not cut it off? I'm wondering if the burned leaves would naturally fall and new ones appear in their place. Or, are you trying to control size?
As the weather seems to normalize in my area, I'm evaluating which plants will have to be pared to the ground and which ones can be left alone and new leaves will reappear. One thing is for sure, there will be a lot of cleaning up to do.
Here's to an early Spring!
Good evening everyone, it was a very nice day here in Red Oak as well. I guess I was a little premature in saying everything looked good in the GHs. I found a lot of yellow leaves on the ground this morning, there is not a green leaf or bud left on my Chalice vine.
RachelLF, your Cissus Amazonica is a very beautiful vine. Mine is hanging in there with one new leaf. Thank you.
Metrosideros plant looking very healthy as well, I will join him in inquiring as to the name of the vine in the basket behind it. It is spectacular.
Plantladylin, I can see a few green leaves on your Schefflera. It might surprise you with new growth soon.
My Philo. is starting to climb this papaya tree, maybe in the next 10 yrs. it will look like the ones in Tropicbreeze pictures or on Metrosidros plantation. lol
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Nice warm days with a few rain showers.
Pleasant evenings.
Bright nights!
Sunny mornings!
Oops! That was a sunset over the chicken house.
Here's a sunny morning!
mekos
Jan 13, 2010
Ahhh Duchlady, wish I had those fond memories, but all I can do is dream!
Let's go hiking!
Swimming!
Surfing!
Looks like you're in the National Park, Dutchlady!
It's good to get out on the land.
It looks like the position of the jetstream which was channelling the cold air into SE USA is changing. So looks like the temps will go up for a while. But they say it will bring heavy rain to the western coast where they've been having drought. This can be a 'double edged sword'as happened here in NSW and Qld just a few weeks back. Weakened livestock standing in water died, no feed at all then. Mother nature exacts a price which ever way things turn out.
Here the rains continue, but not as heavy lately. I've had 42% above my January average and we're not yet half way through January. And the temperatures are down too. Yesterday it only just got over 30C (86F) which is unusually low for any time of year. Even during winter that would be abnormal.
So, it's back out in the rain with the camera. You can see the plants are loving it.
African Oil Palm, Elaeis guineensis, with very happy looking Drynaria quercifolia nestling against its trunk.
Mauna Loa!
Sygonium tends to be a weed here. Especially with a bit of rain it thinks it has licence to go anywhere and smother anything.
Mauna Kea!
I think that's an Epipremnum up against the trunk of the Cuban Royal. The trunk to the left is a Dypsis madagascariensis.
Dave, it's great to get into the outdoors, although my job does that for me a lot. But I wouldn't mind getting to a few more places that I'd like to see.
Hey Tropicbreeze! You seem to get in more botanizing & hiking than most folks. I think it's habitual!
