I have a few of these Anthuriums Radicans growing in the ground not showing any significant growth over the years. Now, I will be trying them in a hanging basket.
Tropical Garden #65
This is a superb Alocasia Portodora (that was the name when I bought it several years ago) I have 4 plants this size, and if I ever have to move I will be sure to take them with me.
I am planning on getting a few of LariAnns Alocasia-Blue Portora from the marketplace as soon as winter is over.
So pretty.
Hap
Prita, I can't wait to see the blooms. Thanks! Great plants you got there.
Happy Valentines day to all!!!
As i have been with electricity for ( 87 ) hours.Finally restored and up and running, So a very late Happy Valentine's Day.
With no tv to watch this is all i could look at. Jerry
And this.
But all is well in green house. Now lets have somer SUMMER !!!!!!!
Jerry
Rita that Colcasia with the hat on it is awsome! what is its' name?
jerry.. sheesh! are you sposed to have that snow there?
Oh Jerry, yuck! Glad your greenhouse is OK, did you have a generator or something to keep the heat on?
lakesidecallas.
I have natural gas heaters in my green houses. I thought about getting electric heaters ,glad i did not. This is the second snow this winter. This makes more snow fall than the last 15-20years combined. Hope it's the LAST !! Every one is ready for SUMMER !!!!!!!!!! jerry
Prita, I want to know the name of the hat wearing elephant ear, too. That is just so huge! If that is borneo giant, then I may have to consider finding one just to see it in person. I also love your anthurium radicans plant. I saw a cross radicans x dresseri(sp?) that I would love to find, too. Maybe someday I'll have all the plants I can stand, lol. Probably not, though.
TexasBigLeaves: I'm glad that your greenhouse was unaffected by the weather and power fluxes. I never realized that variegated bananas have the blocky shape to the variegation. That looks really neat :).
Happy belated Valentine's Day ,and hope everyone enjoys President's day, too.
We are getting snow again today, and I am very grateful that we are warm and fed :).
Thanks, Hap. and Sunshinesw!!
Texasbigleaves, looking good in your Greenhouses, I can see a few of my favorite plants just waiting impatiently for spring.
I was very lucky, my electricity did not go out on my side of the street, but with the snow melting, I am once again flooded in the GH.
My yard looks like it has been hit by a bomb.
today in the GH.
Joeswife
3jsmom31, you guys are very funny!!!
My cap wearing plant is a Colocasia Thailand Giant. Unfortunately I could not get the seeds to germinate. I saw on the Tropical forum where this DG was very lucky getting them to sprout.
Mine was a seedling from Jerry, they are fast growers.
today in the GH
3jsmom31, this is my sad looking Borneo Giant. I might have to cut the top off and repot, it seems to be rotting. I keep checking and hoping.
Rita. Dig it up and let dry out. Cut the mushy parts off. Any EE's in standing water dig up fast and do the above as fast as you can!!!!
Jerry
BigLeaves? Who is that in the corner standing so tall? I'm trying to guess, but not sure. It it shockwave or something else?
I have baby elephant ears. so you're big plants make me so impatient for these to grow up :).
Rita: Thailand giant is most impressive, hat and all, and I really hope that you can rescue your struggling borneo. Better to lose the foliage than the foundation.
3jsmon31.
That's my 10ft. tall " Big Blue " from LariAnn.
This pic. from last summer when it was only a baby.
I love how pretty it is, leafed out all the way up. Thank you for posting it's "baby pic" :).
A baby!!! That's one big baby!
I'll say! Gosh! I gotta have one! LOL
How do you move it to the GH? WOW.
They are beautiful.
Hap
Well i finally found a couple of pictures that I have taken this one is a cross of rosalie x rosalie x peanut#2
Wow Rita...I had no idea you'd gotten that snow! Just waking up from a few days sick myself...
and Tropicbreeze...my goodness..if it's not one thing it's another...Mother Nature seems to be on a rampage this winter/summer. At least there are no big fires there eh?
Speaking of tropicbreeze...... Where are ya? I'm only asking because last we heard, you maybe had a croc in the swamp and aliens spacecrafts had blasted your palms. Trees, that is. Anyway, that leaves a lot to wonder about, so I'm wondering about it :)....
Maybe the UFO got them?
Beam me up, Scotty?
Hap
Texasbigleaves, Those two plants in your picture are at the top of my must have list. Thanks for the advice on the Alocasia Borneo Giant, you have never steered me wrong!!
3jsmom31, thanks for the help as well, I will be digging her up as soon as I can. I did a search for the Colocasia Thai Giant and found them readily available everywhere. Brian's Botanicals has them in his e-bay store. I have purchased plants from him before.
Joeswife, I am missing your basement garden and your morning glory blooms. LariAnn has the Alocasias Blue Portora for sale at the marketplace.
I would check this Ginger Costus Erythrophyllus for blooms everyday, the only day that I did not check, it had two blooms (bummer). I will share my disapointment.
pensacolagarden, I hope that you are doing well. Your Brugmansia is growing nicely. I can not wait to see your first bloom!!
Rj, I am glad that you are feeling better. We sure did take a licking this winter, but I am fighting back every step of the way. It will be a uphill climb with lots of good luck and blooms from now on.
Three of our neighbors have offered to help us with the tree trimming and cleaning up of the yard, already.
How did the hoop houses hold up?
Wayne put up a hoop house from the gate all the way to the old hoop house...now it's one long giant hoop house.
We have to have a spring "plant gathering" expedition. and I say gather, as buying is probably low on all of our lists!...
Rj.
Glad you are getting better. I was down with head and chest cold for two weeks, better now. " Spring plant gathering expedition ".
Rita can you say " ROAD TRIP " i think you can!!!!!!!!!
Buying plants low on whos list? Not mind are Ritas thats for sure !
Can not wait for warmer weather but so is every one.
Jerry
Thanks Rita, I was looking at his listing last night. I guess that makes another plant or 3 that I want to save up for :). I have a never ending list of plants that are so pretty or unique that I just have to see it in person, and that won't happen around here unless I order it, lol. Not that I mind, though. What is the red flower with the variegated pineapple? I can almost name it, but not quite :).
TexasBigLeaves, I just keep looking at your picture. You and the plant both look so happy :).... Just being nosy, what size pot do you have it in, and what kind of growing medium? I'm going to be growing in pots and want them to have the best chance, and yours is just plain gorgeous.
Now off to see the marketplace. I am just looking, as I've spent all me plant money for a while, but I have a list... Sigh.
3jsmom31.
This is a pic. of one of my Borneo Giants. It is planted in the ground inside the greenhouse. My Big Blue is planted in a 25gal. pot.it is about 200lbs. I'am going to plant it in ground inside gh. I plant in a mix of peatmoss,landscape mix, hay.
My hand and leaf of my Queen Emma.(Crinum Augustum )
Queen Emmas flower :)
TexasBigLeaves: What a delicate, beautiful flower on top of those huge sturdy leaves. Thank you for the info on planting the giant elephant ears :). Hay was a surprise, but I put it around my berry plants (with some road apples) and the plants love it. That Borneo Giant is huge!!! Over a yard across? I'll bet that gets some attention, lol. Well, goodnight all. I'm off to dream of greenhouses filled with leaves big enough to live under.
Tropicbreeze reporting for duty, suh! What happened was I had to go away for a couple of days to work related meetings. Okay, probably just as bad as an alien abduction, LOL. But they've let me go now so I'm back.
The croc's most probably gone back to the creek. I did 4 nights of spotlight searches of the dam and swamp. A friend who lives along the main river says it's probably the same one that is often seen near his place. He says it's used to people, but I know they don't become "pets".
Looks like 3 of the large Coconut palms copped the lightning. The brown stain on the trunks was probably boiling juices coming out. Fronds have kept falling off the trees and I'd say they're dead. The big Philo is only partly cooked, there seem to be a few points where new shoots are emerging. Mainly on the side of the tree they're on that was facing away from the blast. The smaller Coconut that hadn't developed a trunk yet is also dead, it's heart was cooked. At least in the wet season, what's going to recover will recover quickly.
My Cat's Whiskers is flowering away nicely at the moment.
My Peach Allamanda never did anything for ages but started producing flowers recently.
And a Mussaenda.
Not sure but I think this is Blechnum orientale, a fairly common fern.
