I see a aglonema (sp) :-) Talking about a panoramic picture I have a program that will do it. It says it will do a 360 and you have to take a minimum of 15 pics with a minimal of 15% overlapping. I guess I will never figure it out.
Indoor Blooms & things that get you through the winter #3
Yes there is a Chinese Evergreen, Peace Plant, Arrow Vine, Spider plant, several varieties of ferns, Philo Moonlight I have been slowly (very slowly) working on cataloging all my house plants in my journal. Here is a closer look at the ones in the back . Lets see there is a large Prince of Orange Philo, more ferns, rubber tree two Bougies, some AV, several orchids, a croton and a very old Jade plant. Forgot the Hibiscus. HOLLY
This message was edited Mar 15, 2010 1:47 PM
Look what's blooming in my window. It bloomed at x-mas too.
nice Holly & Jumper!!
Nice cactus, Jumper!
Holly, I'm so envious of all your plants and your southern exposure on the sunroom. I love that huge 'Prince of Orange' Philo. At least I think that is it, the big one in the foreground of the pic where you mentioned it. Or is that a rubber tree? I tried a variegated rubber tree like you have, kept it in my bedroom. It died on me. I don't know what I did wrong. My 2 Rex begonias are doing wonderfully. I have a stromanthe called 'Carl Marx' that is struggling. I think I bought it over a year ago. I'm surprised it's even still alive. It's hanging in there, but it's not happy. I don't have enough humidity for it I'm guessing, though the Rexes like humidity, and they seem to be happy.
Here's a pic of a corner of our sunroom. This is during an overcast day, and you can see it gets pretty good lighting. This is the east facing side.
Karen
Karen, What a nice sun room and the view of your gardens beyond is lovely. I just love your fern on the table. I was looking at one of those the other day but ended up with the Rabbits foot instead. Yes that big plant is the Prince. It was just a little 4 inch pot when I brought it home a few years ago. HOLLY
I haven't had that fern very long. Just about a month or so. I bought another bird's nest fern last fall that was a bit different, very wavy fronds but no fingers. That one did so well for me that I decided to buy another one. I have 4 now. The last 2 I got for $1 each, and one is going to a good friend in TX soon.
I want that Prince. It's gorgeous!
Karen
The first time I saw one was at the Rawlings Conservatory in Baltimore several years ago. So I came home an started looking for one. I found only 2 of them and that was after checking out the 4 nicest GH/Nurseries in the area. I picked up a small pot for about $4 or $5. I have been casually looking for a Moonlight Philo to go with the Prince and was very happy and surprised to find one a couple of months ago for $5.
Here is a close up of the Prince it has what I think of a flower popping out right now.
Here is the Moonlight it is much like the Prince but the coloring is limegreen/yellow leaves. There is another similar one that has much darker leaves kind of chocolate colored but I can't remember the name of that one. I saw it at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh.
Wow Holly that sure is a good thing wish i could have solar.................lol. James
Very nice, Holly! I would love to have both. I'm going to have to go around looking for those now. I know a nice GH/Nursery near me that has great tropicals. A few, actually. Will check them out. Logee's has it for $14.99 for a 4" pot, but that's kinda high. As soon as I saw it in there I wanted it. I was looking at HD the other day and the woman who working in the garden section said she had seen a little pot of philo with new orange leaves, but when I was there she couldn't find it. Someone must have grabbed it up.
Karen
Love the bright lime green of those leaves!
I like Logee's plants but the prices are really high. I can see those prices for things that are rare or hard to propagate but really they have some pretty common and easily propagated plants at big $$ IMHO I did get the Raspberry Ice Bougie from them years ago and I have found a few things that I really like and might fork over the big$$ to have. Plus I have several nice nurseries near me and access to some other plant sharing/buying that people in other areas might not have.
I'm giving my Orchids a shower today. Looks like the Sherry Baby is going to put out a few more blooms.
Lovely photos! I don't get enough sun here to grow many tropicals.....we have no south windows, our garage faces south, because our view faced north & west---now everything is grown in, & we have no view, either!
Me too, RD. My next house will have south-facing windows because now I garden. ^_^
I would love a sunroom on my next house...or because I'll probably never move, add one to this house!
I want a south-facing sunroom! Mine is pretty good, though, but just not sure if the light is enough. It seems bright enough for me, even though it's not south-facing, but it has lots of windows on east, north and west.
Karen
I lost this thread and I have lots to keep me happy inside. Hippeastrum's galore. Patti
A few more out now. Patti
Patti, I love the evergreen! What photo program are you using? I've been using Kodak and absolutely hate the software. One of the things is I'd love to do multi views or collages. Ric
even the free picasa software is better than the kodak.. but I like the one that came with my olympus .. but don't love it
I am not a computer wiz but Picasa is easy once you figure it out.
I have found that their software will resize photos to fit into their format so when I have many collages to send I create an album rather than send multi collages as 1 collage. Pictures would be really teeeeny.
the only thing I don't like about the picasa collage ... you can't change positions after the auto feature.. unless I am missing something
Yep there are a few things I dont like too.
The only collage choice where you can do that is in the "scattered look" you can resize in there too.
I would like it if the mosaic feature would let us move and size pics.
I also dont care for picturs in so many places on my drive.
and when I make a collage and export it with its file name, it opens with the filename of one of the images.I have to rename every collage.
the multiple pics are annoying ... never had it use the photo file name for the collage.. hhmm maybe my settings are different .. mine usually get some crazy number names
Beautiful Patti!! I like them all!! ^_^
thanks for the heads up about the picture pile - scatter.. good to know!
Those are the digital numbers from your camera.
I load all pics from the camera and save them with file names in folders where they belong.
I cant make anysense out of DC#'s when searching for a file when I want to post on DG
Ihave started to load all pix from my camera into photpshop and size and save them with file names there. Then I open Picasa and fine tune there because their contrast program is better and takes less time than PS.
Picasa export from the camera saves the file with such a small thumnail I cant see a darned thing.
The pile scatter takes longer and you dont end up with even frames sround the pix but its better if you want a lead pic to be a certain size.
my camera puts the photos in a year folder ... then a month.. then a day... automatically.. now I see it took the folder name say the 22nd and making the collage that number ... a program I have on my old computer is better for collages.. I will get you the name
I am so bugged by the collage feature I went to PicasaHelp forums for answers, something I never do.Learning disabled means I have to self teach and bug my kids to gat anything tecnically done.
They also want the sizing and moving feature in the Mosaic mode.
There were questions about changing that mode to behave more like the scattered feature. All agree its tedious but the only way to controle collages with people and objects in them.
Picasa crops to fit the collage size and many found heads missing etc. I guess when it really counts I will use the scatter feature in order to have an entire tall plant next to something less rectangle.
I know the other program is called foto-something ... the rest is not coming to me
Welcome to my world.
I found it easy to make this panorama using Picasa scatter pile feature
LumaPix - FotoFusion it's what i used to have. need to get it again!
ok coffee kicked in fotofusion
http://www.lumapix.com/index.shtml
is it free?
we crossed posted. No more buying software for me.
no the scrapbook one is $40.00
http://www.lumapix.com/web_store/store_newlicenses_online.shtml
No, not free! I liked it because I can make family tree's, invitations, collages, ect....
OHHHH Thats a nice feature.
I'll stick with Picasa and work on my photo skills for panoramas. I am not too keene on the panoramamaker that came with my camera.