the flowers
Tropical Garden #72
figs
matchsticks bromeliads
rescued from a garbage last year. amazing what people throw away
so excited that my giant potatoe tree made it throught the cold
candela, those are awsome plants. I love those orchids... how wonderful you can grow them like that!
Rita: " I thought that it might be Autumn in Australia, therefore nothing would be blooming."
Technically it's autumn here now (winter starts 1st June) but most of the country stays warm enough for flowering right through the year. Where I am it's equatorial (or sub-equatorial depending on reference) and the southern (coldest) parts of the country are USDA zone 9 or 10.
I took these photos around the garden today.
Cat's Whiskers
Can't remember the ID of this small herbaceous shrub.
Colocasia esculenta flower.
A Vinca
Another Vinca. I used to have more colours but the others seem to have disappeared.
Mussaenda.
Yellow Allamanda
Bougainvillea
Not really flowering but coning, Zamia furfuracea.
Psittacorum Heliconia
Another Psittacorum Heliconia
Singapore Daisy (actually an invasive weed)
Turnera species
Another Turnera species
Hoya densifolia. Has a sweet/spicy fragrance that wafts through the whole garden.
Hoya "Kapit Borneo" buds about to open (maybe tomorrow). They open in the morning, close in the afternoon, flowers fall off the next morning. And no fragrance.
Ixora (also has tendency to become a weed).
Spathoglottis plicata
Another Spathoglottis plicata
Epidendrum nocturnum, has a sweet fragrance during the night.
Dendrobium affine. Not sure if you'll be able tyo see it clearly but there's a couple of flowers open and several spikes. When all the blooms come out it looks quite spectacular.
Dutchlady1, I knew someone would suggest it was a Thunbergia but that wasn't what was on the label (unless the label was wrong). The white Mussaenda seems fairly common here. I have a gold one (Calcutta Sunset, I think) which just doesn't seem to want to flower. Another different sort of Mussaenda was out of focus so I haven't uploaded it.
Another NOID given to me by someone who had no idea what it was.
Lantana species. (Some lantanas are disasterous weeds)
Cuphea species, a small ground cover (now I've got to go to bed, it's tomorrow already. Goodnight all).
Cass,
Glad your potato tree made it, for mine did too. It lost a few leaves, stopped flowering, but held in there. I would have been devastated if it were gone, for it is from Armando. Out this am and noticed that it was flowering it's socks off. Never have there been so many blooms or as large as they are now. Maybe it liked the winter!
Take care.
Nancy
nice hoyas tropic breezes. you must have a huge property to have all those gorgeous plants. keep the pictures coming.
nancy what did you guys end up getting at mounts? i just picked up a jabuticaba, all spice tree, gold finger banana, and a haleys comet dragonfruit
this one is physical graffitti
Dutchlady
Joeswife, Thanks, I have to say that is a very beautiful Plumeria, My dh said that it was glowing.
candela it is always so good to see you and what is blooming in your garden. I looked up the Potato tree, another beauty!
Ti plant with a few new leaves.
tropicbreeze, I can see how wrong I was, with all the those beautiful colorful flowers.
Thanks for the enlightenment about Australia, I need all the education that I can get.
Colocasia 'Royal Hilo'
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Candela, the garden is a small part of the property, but I'm working hard to change that. A "haleys comet dragonfruit"? Don't tell me, it fruits once every 76 years! ;O)
Rita, there's lots of wildflowers in bloom now as well. Some like to flower in the rainy season. Some wait until the heavy rains are over but there's still a lot of moisture around. Others, especially epiphytic orchids, like to flower in the dry season.
Cass,
I got nothing.
Alena got a couple of things but I don't know what they were.
Sorta tired about things dying....getting my garden smaller.
Nancy
Not a bad thing........
Good Evening All!
tropicbreeze, That sounds like a gardeners paradise. I am always watching show on the Australian Reef (dh loves marine life). I wish that they had shows on the plants of Australia and surounding Islands.
Xanthosoma Sagittifolium variegated
The stems
