Dave, it's an incurable addiction. Sadly it proves terminal and you're afflicted to the end. ;O)
Tropical Garden #62
Incurable? Say it ain't so!
mekos
Jan 13, 2010
OH MY!!!!
Living in the Tropics, can be a pleasure!
Everyday!
Dave, who is your bony creature? I tried and tried to guess.
. . . or night!
Dave, you really need to pick fitter people as your hiking companions. ;O)
Great Pictures!! thanks for posting.
Hi Jsmom, he is Sylvester! A feral goat.
He wasn't too good at hunting.
I thought this was cool. When you have an abundance of lava - make pots!
We visited the same places Hetty.
Back in the 60's and 70's you could just pick up that coral rock alongside the road in the Keys. I had lots of it in one of my homes and left it because I thought I could get more. It was not difficult to work with; I remember hollowing some out for succulents once.
It is still cold here this morning, 32, and I am so sick of wearing thermal undies. I guess the midwesterners think we are wusses but the dampness makes it feel colder than it is.
well i am going to new orleams in march 6-20 I am so excited to see the lady who gave me me my dogs she is such a good friend. I WILLpost ot the pictures that I take of the area while i am there.
James
No photos for two days?!?
Hui Dave.
My Clers are leafless due to the frigid weather that we have had for almost 2 weeks. Gardens down here are a mess of dead stuff. There are starts of blooms, but I can't tell if they are viable or not.
Love yours.
Nancy
Psychotria producing fruit.
Hi Nancy, here is a close-up!
Today's Cacao harvest!
Dave: Nothing pretty to take pictures of here right now. Everything is tan, brown or shades thereof from the freezes. Wow, that Clerodendron is really beautiful! Is it C. bungei? Oh my goodness ... you have Chocolate!! ^_^
Thanks, Dave.
I hand a copy of that on my trees and pretend.
Nancy
Hi Lin, I have a small orchard from which I produce small batches of Chocolate. I am expanding though, in hopes to provide a healthy form of dark Chocolate some day.
Oh no!
The wind knocked a Coconut frond down on my phone line. There's work to be done.
A hui hou!
So happy it's warm again.
Dave, sorry about your phone line.
I put in 5 cocos and they have had babies. So sorry that they were planted. There is such a worry about me in the garden and being hit on the head, and there there is Archie, my baby. He would probably be killed.
The only positive thing about them is that I use the fronds for shade for my pergola. That has saved a lot from the crazy cold that we have had.
Hap
Dave: mmmm .... Dark Chocolate! Sounds heavenly - will you be exporting?
Drat those Coconuts! But, at least it was the phone line it took down and not an electrical line. Most people can do without the phone but not electricity ... well, not for long anyway. We had to go without electricity for a week during the summer hurricanes of 2004 ... no fun!
Sunshine: What is the name of that lovely Orchid?
I wonder at the wisdom of having coconuts in the garden. Wind or no wind, the fronds always end up falling down and often breaking plants. And that's not even to mention the nuts. I think all schools here have removed coconuts from their grounds. Mine in the main garden don't fruit but I warn visitors, especially kids, to keep away from where I have the fruiting ones.
Clerodendrum floribundum flowers getting ready to open.
A Murdannia sp. I believe
Water Canna. Plant has fallen over but it still flowers on.
Hetty your photos from Hawaii pictures were really nice. I want to go there one day. My DH's first duty station in the Navy was in Hawaii but that was long before I met him :(
Have a nice bone-warming weekend......Annette
My Angiopteris evecta. Small in size yet, but big in aspirations.
After the winter we've had I want to move to the islands, permanently! If my DH had been stationed in Hawaii when he was in the Navy I don't think we'd be in Florida now. It would have been very hard to leave such a glorious place! Unfortunately he spent his four years of Naval duty on an Aircraft carrier, back and forth from Virginia to the Mediterranean. He was gone over two years of the first four years we were married.
Tropic: I love that little Murdannia ... will have to go look that one up, it's really pretty! Nice water Canna too ... amazing how tough some plants are, isn't it? That pretty Canna still blooming away even after it's fallen over. Angiopteris is a new one to me also ... think I will go google.
Lin, the Canna just sends up new stems and eventually the fallen ones die off. It's still in a pot in water so that's why it continues to fall over. I should plant it into the soil. There's quite a few Murdannias here, they grow up from a small edible tuber. The Angiopteris is commonly called King Fern.
Arenga hookeriana in front, Golden Cane to the left, Panama Hat Palm at the back.
Agave Garden! They do well in this cool dry weather.
Epidendrum nocturnum
As we speak, Coffee is being roasted on the stove!
Here is the Coffee Beans, still containing the parchment. A papery layer which protects the actual bean; it must be removed before roasting.
