Mj, do not give up on brugs. The leaves getting chewed up is like BS in roses, a fact of nature. I can understand if your brug is the primary plant in your front yard, how it'd be frustrating to have it look ugly, but if it's just part of the garden somewhere, let it be. The foliage recovers and the reward of fragrant blooms more than makes up for the chewed up part. Just my opinion.
Rita, I had looked at that banana b/c I love chartreuse foliage. Great score! I've said it b4 and i'll say it again, north texas gets the BEST tropical foliage at the best prices (grumbling in jealousy)
Tropical Garden #77
Here is a cheap colocasia I bought them for $10 for 5 bulbs and they are finally growing!!!
Oooops wrong picture. this one is my morning glories..............
Tropicbreeze, Awesome pics! Especially of the monitor. Did you take that pic yourself?
Here it is I had to go out and take another picture!!!
Posoqueria latifolia 'Belize' is beautiful, is it fragrant?
voss, the brugs aren't out front. I have them in the back on the east side of the house, where they get some relief from the sun...I do love the blooms, and last year I didn't seem to have so much of this problem with them.
RachelLF- I love the Pipevines and Passionflowers...well vines in general......got some climbing all over the place...I have 3 other pipevine also,
I'm heading to the farmers market this week, hope I can find a few more Alstroemeria ( I call them 'Asto" plants cause I can never remember how to pronounce or spell !
I love Tropicbreeze's monsoon forest picture, looks very peaceful and "cool" !
Prita you love the Dianthera, it's very easy too !
It's raining here today...We've been outside working on the beds...expanding this one...I couldn't fit the far right hand edge of it in. There are calidums, Purple Phillipine violet, several japanese sages and chinese sages, hardy rex type begonias, flowering maple tree ( right in a spot between the oaks that gets high dappled sun, Obediant plant, coleus, jacobina, dianthera nodesa. I'd like to find some very "flat" pretty foliage plants for the front, whatever goes in there needs to be happy with only a bit of "hardly full sun" high dappled sun/shade. Since I have my favorite sages in there is pretty sharp well drained soil also.
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Great pics Tropicbreeze. I enjoyed them very much as I will never get to
the land down under. Seeing those pics is the next best thing.
My colocasia Illustrus is getting ready to bloom. Will it hurt the plant?
peony, not it won't hurt the plant. I'm wondering if our past winter had something to do w/ bulbs like caladium, EEs, blooming. Almost all my caladiums have bloom, where in past yrs is one in a bunch, a novelty of sorts.
Mjponies, all that rain will exacerbate the brug chewing that you're experiencing. I don't know what organic potions there are to control, ( I don't bother) but I'm sure someone here knows.
mjsponies, that is a very nice shot of your cuphea micropetala, It look like it might be a hummingbird magnet with it's tubular flowers.
How exciting for you with a new flower bed in Florida. The first plant that comes to mind are Bromeliads, there are so many beauties to choose from. You could even attach them to the trees like candela does in her garden.
Hostas would be very pretty as well. There are so many cultivars of Hostas with unique foliage, color and textures but I have no idea what varieties will do well in the heat. I have one left growing in a pot.
I hope someone else has a few more suggestions for you, I bet by next spring that flower bed will be fabulous!!
This is a bloom from my Aechmea Alvarez.
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vossner, I will try to find you a Musa Margarita, there are a few other Lowe's in my area that I can check. It will look very good next to your black banana plant!
LiliMerci, The needle flower is listed as extremely fragrant, but I have not detcted any fragrance so far.
This is Siphonochilus Decora 'Yellow Trumpet' Ginger
pensacolagarden, it is amazing how healthy everything looks in your garden, I have grasshoppers and mealybugs that I am fighting.
peony1066, like everyone mentioned before, the bloom will not hurt your plant, but after enjoying a few blooms I will pinch them off. The blooms draw strength from the plant, which could be better used growing bigger leaves.
Where is Texasbiglaves? this noid plumeria was a present from him.
RachelLF, I can't wait to see a mature leaf from your new Philo. I have forgotten the name of this one, but it could be Philo. Andreanum x Verrucosum. It is my favorite.
I love the pink passion flower. I have a tiny sunburst, maybe we could trade cuttings in the future, if you do not have that one already.
I hope that Everyone had a Happy Independence Day!
Brazilian Red Cloak, showing it's first bloom !!
Beautiful gardens as always.
Rita if you squeeze the ripe purple seed pods on your achmea Alvarez the seeds will come out and you can plant them. Of course it is much easier to pups though.
rita, I had that yellow flowered ginger which I planted inground but died w/o winter protection. I loved it. If I find it again I will get it but it's not a high priority must have.
on a separate subject and hoping I will have better response than in the Aroid forum, does anybody grow EE as indoor plants? I'm not talking about overwintering, I'm talking year round.
you're right, the margarita nana would look swell w/ black nana.
candela, thanks, I will try to grow a few of those seeds.
vossner, sorry, I have never tried to grow a alocasia indoors.
I did find that ginger plant at a nursery in Cleveland Texas called 'Gingers of Texas' I will be buying from them again.
Alocasia Wentii
Alocasia Briam Williams
Cactus plant
some nice people responded and say it can be done, I will just have to be disciplined about watering and spraying for mites. I think I'm gonna try. These are portoras that I took out of the ground and replaced with thai giant.
here is my var. satsuma with fruit. I'm frustrated that I cannot post in PF b/c it can't be verified. I haved called the grower and he won't give me the time of day. Too bad, it is a lovely plant and I understand the fruit is quite sweet. I will find out this winter.
a patch of MM ears
pink rain lilies that I got yrs ago from Buried Treasures.
here is acidanthera aka abyssinian glad, deliciously fragrant. I mentioned before that i have a patch elsewhere that is completely dormant and then I have this patch, which I planted in April and is now 2 ft tall.
I didn't want this crocosmia taking over the world, so I potted it and sank the pot. that little trick has worked well for me with crocs, papyrus and purple fountain grass.
All I know it's not c. Lucifer, do u recognize?
If Scotch pine, douglas fir suggest Christmas, eaten up canna screams summer..... they will be getting a haircult soon, and hopefully I'll have pretty foliage in the fall.
var. plumie Marble Gold, green, yellow and a little bit of white
wow, she is pretty, the var plumie.
Rita, I am feeling a little "dense" at the moment after viewing that gorgeous picture of your verrucosum x andreanum and thinking, wow, your plant looks so much like P.melanochrysum. Out of curiousity concerning "andreanum" I ventured over to Steve's website and low and behold andreanum is actually P. melanochrysum. You may have already known that though but that's what I learned new for the day;-). How long have you had your plant and what type of soil mixture do you grow it in?
I would enjoy sharing cuttings with you from your sunburst. I also have this white Passiflora as well
Vossner, I am glad some people chimmed in for you on the Aroid forum. I had viewed your question but I do not grow Alocasia portora. I do grow several other Alocasia plants year around and in the Winter months just do as was suggested to you but I definitely can not stress enough to watch for those darn spidermites.
Alocasia portei.
Great pictures everyone, I am still trying to decide which photos I like the best.
I have lots of passion vines growing but no blooms yet.
It has been raining off and on for three days now. Everything has grown almost a foot since last week
My I. plantesis is growing all over everything, including the sunflower and the I. purpurea
My Plumbago has bloomed but between the hummer and the rains, the first bloom plumes have disspeared.
does anyone know what this is? It must be from seed cuz it is in other parts of the backyard gardens as well
Or this? It is like a shrub. I do not remember planting a stick here, but it has a woody trunk like it came from a stick. I have a bad habit of swiping sticks from things I like and bringing them home and sticking them into the soil.
not a great picture, but my dhJoe called me out yesterday in between rains to see my returned hummer, but I am prettty sure it is the baby we had last year. I hope mom and dad are here somewhere..
I have three colours of this cleome going, but this purple is my favorite
