The Ti is wonderful, Rita. Lowes in Waxahachie?
Tropical Garden #69
wow, that Ti plant is so pretty!
Prita, do you think your NOID philo is.... Philodendron cannifolium http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/144158/ I'm just guessing. There are others it could be.
Pretty Ti Plants. I really enjoy them and love seeing the pics.
Beautiful flower show. I am enjoying spring bulbs and one viburnum, very fragrant :). If it still has blooms after the rains, I'll get a picture even though it's not tropical :).
Thank you for the link, I went to Lowes the other day after work, wanted to buy a plant, but didn't see any cool ones to get. *sigh* only some angels exoctics and they still don't have them ID as to what they are.. so sad..
any way. Love the new Ti plants!
I went to Lowe's the other day, and it was as stocked up to the ceiling as I've ever seen it, tons and tons of plants and other stuff.
Isn't it nice to open this thread and see photos of beautiful plants instead of tales and photos of gloom, doom and destruction from freezing. Gives it a sunny appearance. Thought I'd take a bit of a stroll through the garden today with the camera before the end of the month.
A long piece of Vanilla Orchid that fell out of the top of a very tall palm (probably knocked off by a falling frond). Put it on this tree stump where it'll only be able to climb about 3 metres high.
You are so right, tropic. It was a very hard winter for some of us who never had this craziness before. But the sun it shinning, it's 78 degrees and the world is coming back to life. AHHHH.
Hap
This Philo's at the bottom of the stump with the Vanilla Orchid on it. They'll both have to share it. At the moment the Philo's a bit slow growing. It puts out a pinkish red new leaf which turns orange and finally green.
Life's great! First you had the big cruise, and now spring. Does it get any better than that?
My Alocasia reginula is enjoying our weather too.
And the other jewel , Alocasia melo, too.
My Philodendron cv Hendersons Pride has put on more growth, but I still can't decide on its permanent home. Hence still being confined to a pot.
Water level in my dam has been dropping because of the lack of rain. So the waterlilies think it's their time on centre stage. This happened back in February as well but they got drowned when the rains came back. And now we have a cyclone forming off the coast which looks like bringing back our rain. So these might be getting drowned again shortly.
Calyptrocalyx hollrungii, slow growing but a beautiful palm.
tropic,
Any more sightings of the croc?
Hap
Great photos. Prita, I do need to take some more photos, I have Clivia blooming too. Nice to see some color after a long winter!
I've got 8 seedling ordinary Philodendron bipinnatifidum, but this one is my pride and joy, the frilly-leaf variety.
Cute, they look like snowflakes!
No sign of the croc of late. But the rains have almost stopped and water levels are down a bit. They prefer to explore when it's flooding. There's a cyclone forming off the coast now (expected to develop tomorrow night) which should bring back the rain. Can almost hear the crocs cheering now. ;O)
Xanthosoma robusta is growing slower than I'd hoped.
Lakesidecallas, I thought that word "s...flakes" was forbidden now.
;O)
My Xanthosoma robusta is only about half the size of this one I saw in Papua New Guinea last year.
My Spathoglottis plicata has been flowering for ages. Set seed which I sprinkled around. Never know, might get something up. But I know for orchids you need the right fungus to get the seeds going.
A friend swapped me a purple one for my white one. Put the purple in the same pot as the white and it's full of flowers now.
I've been wanting to divide up my clump of Spider Lily, Hymenocallis littoralis, but it keeps flowering. I want to spread it around the garden. (Always have trouble with photos of white flowers)
Still haven't been able to identify this aroid and it's developed another leaf. Looks more like Alocasia portei than my A. portei seedlings.
In fact, I'm beginning to wonder whether my A. portei seedlings are really A. portei.
It's possible I might have mixed up the seeds I collected in Papua New Guinea. Perhaps the plant I collected the seeds from (A. portei) had somehow crossed with another aroid. I remember seeing a weird aroid in Kokoda Village and asked the owners if I could have some seed. Turned out there was no seed on the plant. All the other Alocasia type aroids I saw were fairly ordinary.
My Arenga hookeriana is about full size. The reflection in the background is the dam.
Zamioculcas zamiifolia has put out a new leaf.
Pot of Amorphophallus galbra seedlings
King Fern, Angiopteris evecta.
Another one that seems to produce flowers for a long, Epidendrum nocturnum.
In the last post that should have read ".... produce flowers for a long TIME,"
Rhapis excelsa, starting to send out shoots further from the plant.
Drynaria quercifolia growing on the trunk of an African Oil Palm.
When you first showed the photo of your A. portei seedlings I thought they looked like something else. Now I'm sure of it.
Could it be an Anchomanes?
Ficus benjamina growing on a smaller African Oil Palm. There's been a lot of them growing on these palms. This one I'll have to remove soon as it's getting fairly big.
What a place you have tropic. My, oh, my.
Thanks for the admonishment about S***. LOL
Hap
Hap, after your last winter I haven't been game to use such foul language on this site ;O)
Lakesidecallas, I've just been out getting a photo of the "mystery aroid" (in the middle of the night!) I remembered looking at it earlier in the day and it struck me the stems weren't like an Alocasia. And there are small prickles on them.
So that leaves me with a number of questions. Where did I come by these seeds? It was either of Papua New Guinea, or Cairns, Australia. I don't remember seeing anything like these. And secondly, what happened to the Alocasia portei seeds I collected?
These are the leaf stems.
No kidding, glad doom and gloom, freeze and tease is on the way to past memories.
Cross vine
This guy and his mate built a nest underneath the crossvine arch.
Hello everyone, thanks for the nice comments on the Ti plant.
LouC, thanks, that would be the Lowes in DeSoto on Hampton Rd.
3jsmom31, Thanks for the correct ID on The Philo. Although I did find a tag with the name Philo Gordo on it, I couldn't find any info using that name. I knew that it was wrong. When I first saw it, I thought that it was a big orchid plant. lol
