How could I have missed this!
i posted this last month....once again on another forum!!! and here's where she belongs!!!
this was last month....the plant continues to produce cool lookin various combos of colors!!
PLEASE show me your MOST Coolest Variegatied Plant!!
usually i don't get this much "yellowish white" on the Xanthosoma.....i think it odd that the same plant can produce both yellow or white variegation?? cool
ooopppppppppss forgot the picture!!
while i understand this poor stuttgart failed to photosynthesize properly....i still enjoyed it for the afternoon... but that entire rhizome seems to produce very little green...
the same plant...some nice variegation ...i think
Ae Ae banana
another view
Ag. picta
Philo Fl Beauty variegated
I'M INVITING MYSELF to YOUR house!!! my ae ae is just a couple months old...i am in SUCH AWE!!!!!!!!!!!!
makes my tiny one cringe!! poor baby....LOL
o...and goth PLEASE MORE!! i could most likely just live in your greenhouse!
well ok...here's philo Pink Princess
variegated monstera
Calathea louisiae I think this is a cultivar called White Tiger but I can't really remember
Cercestes mirabilis
i'm NOT even showing you my pink princess!! LOL...u put me to shame!
the Calathea louisiae is incredible! so is your greenhouse....do you take the ae ae out for the summer or just open the greenhouse???
ok...i'm usually NOT the jealous type...but you got me!!
I originally had the Ae Ae planted in the ground in a different spot in the greenhouse. It was a spot where the roof was too low and the plant got so tall it hit the roof (my greenhouse ceiling is 20 ft at the apex of the gable and slopes down to a sidewall height of 12 ft.) So I topped the plant, dug it up and transplanted it outside in the yard for a season. Then I brought it back inside and replanted it into the ground inside the greenhouse in the very center, under the 20 ft part. (I should say here that Ihad had the banana for about 4 years by that time). It liked the spot so much it grew up again and hit the roof at 20ft. I had 8-9 ft long leaves laying on the roof. They were burning. Then the plant decided to flower and set fruit. The Ae Ae in the above photos is that plant, before it got that tall and set fruit.
During this process it made about 7 pups. Two were all albino and had to be removed and sacrificed. Of the other 5, one took the lead and started growing like a madman. As the mother plant died back, the other 4 pups were resorbed, and it left me with a single very nice sized banana, which is about 12 ft tall at the moment.
That particular specimen of Pink Princess is also several years old. I have a few scattered about the place, crawling up walls.
This is one of my fave variegated plants, a variegated Pony Tail Palm
Here's a few Xanthosoma Mickey Mouse that live out in the yard, come back every year as long as the wild pigs don't dig them up. That is another reason I have a greenhouse, to keep animals away from my stuff.
so impressive!! i find it interesting that one of your FAVORITEs is the Pony Tail Palm!!
why is that??
i also have the Xanthosoma Mickey Mouse and find them fun since one comes out yellowish and the other white....just like in your picture!! ( i think i pictured on lone leaf which yours just put to shame again!! LOL!!). HOW I LOVE IT!!
the wild PIGS!!! excuse meeeeeee?? LOL!! now...a pig roast could sound interesting....while we r touring your MOST outstanding greenhouse and gardens!!! i'll cook em if you can catch em!!
i must tell you although i designed up north for all these years i never wandered into the tropical zone forums and i have say yours is some of the BEST i have ever seen north or south girlfriend!!
I LOVE your pixs....so when you get bored or anything...please kindly keep em coming!!!
sue
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and ok...gothqueen....i posted this on another thread...just in case you don't see it
"but i want to go move in with gothqueen...actually into her greenhouse and hunt wild pig...LOL!!! and eat it under her ae ae musa...after all i do where black nail polish on my toes...but not to be goth...just because i spend too much time in the garden bare footed and that way it's easy to clean up fast...i know WAY to much info!! LOL!!!"
just had to let you know!!
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LOL you are too funny I don;t have any clothes including shorts or T shirts for gardening that aren't black its the only color I wear. Been that way for many many years
well...then my toes will go quite well with your clothes!!! LOL!!
wow...u must get hot in all black!
although....this morning I WAS so excited about my ONE new little leaf on my ae ae.....everything has changed!!
these gardens are only about 12 weeks old......my last ones took over 30 years!!! next year we do the back gardens!!
Beautiful banana. Your gardens look fab.
goth...want to trade gardens??? how many years of hard work went into yours???
we purchased this house site unseen...i was sooooooo disappointed it wasn't all concrete....my hort friends said...you r just meant to have earth...right...thanks...
anyway...i'm in a sub division...much different that 3 acres in woods...i have a fence...so i'm going to do little corners of like a zen garden...a butterfly garden etc....which will take me the REST of my life!! i thought i was done with all this....then i see your greenhouse and it gets my juices running!! LOL!!!
We are on 5 acres, but its largely wooded (its officially termed a Florida Hardwood Hammock with associated adjacent wetlands, LOL). The only areas able to be under cultivation are the fairly extensive flowerbed system around the house, a side yard and a small front yard, the pool area and the area where we sited the greenhouse. We moved here in March of 2002 from a house in town that was located in the Historic District. They didn't tell you what you could and couldn't do with your plants/yard like gated sub-d's with home owners assoc do, so I had a very tropical yard there with ponds and all sorts of stuff, and a very very small 14 x 9 Juliana hobby greenhouse.
We found this house on the internet, and decided it was a good place for us. We built the greenhouse as soon as we moved in. I had a small mail order nursery business for a while, well, several years, but we decided to close it.
We only live 3 miles out of the city limit but our road is private and there are only 3 other families on it, we all have either 5 acre, 10 ac or 15 ac properties so its nice and private out here and I can experiment with whatever I want as far as plants go.
well you have done a remarkable job! that's for certain. sounds and looks ridiculously BEAUTEOUS!!
ok story time...just what you wanted.... i know....
it's nice to be out in the woods.....but after we got older i was really tired of 1/2 hour to the post office and grocery store! people asked what???? you were in nj ....i thought nj had NO woods?????...LOL! well it most certainly does...our first house we brought ,we had to bring groceries up by sled in the winter!!!! when i was pregnant i had to go down the mountain to our car by using the top of the garbage can lid and sliding on down the mountain!!! i am sooooooooo DONE! LOL...in that house or really it was a little cabin in the woods with a sassafras tree in the back....when i asked visitors if they wanted a cup of tea ...they became puzzled when there response was "yes" i'd love a cup; and i would proceed to excuse myself ....go to the back woods....chop a sassafras root, bring it in and boil it down...it was usually the last time that person said YES to a cup of tea!! hehehe
i recall that the day i brought my son home from the hospital which was located 1 and 1/2 away...that the little cabin we lived in only had two small bedrooms....both....7 X 11...one which was housing 14 golden retriever puppies....(she actually had 15 we lost 1 ;(..but it was r vets record for a golden puppies)......which my doggie decided she was going to deliver before me...although she due AFTER me....so unfortunately for my son...his nursery had to become the doggie nursery....and he went into my room...which was housing two liters of kittens....in our drawers which we had to empty out....all being deep in the woods....with the sassafras tree..LOL!!
we then moved from there to a HUGE piece of land with HUGE gardens that took 30 years to complete....and now...
well..i'm tired of taking care of acres of land....i'll have to get out some pics from somewhere....but for now.... i want to SEE people..i use to hate them....but now i want BLACKTOP.....SIDEWALKS...STORES....CONCRETE!! LOL!!!
you have made a haven!!! tho...and it's truly something to behold!
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var amazonica
Borneo Giant
Yellow var amazonica
frydek Var
Probably the most rare of the Monstera Deliciosa variegated plants. This spotted form is very stable for more mature grown plants. Both the yellow and the white blotched forms will revert back to green if left alone for a few years or not cut regularly. This form does not.
I have that Monstera. Its the slowest growing of all the different ones that I have.
hey...brian!!!!...nice to see you coming out of the wood work.....
remember this??? it's your's...zulu warrior???
sue...formerly from nj
now in fl!
Tobee that looks more like Amazon Butterfly. Zulu Warrior has bright orange flowers and dark leaves. I have a few new cannas coming out hopefully this coming spring. I have been working on some a long time. I hope to see them on the market soon.
brian....well when you sent it, it was a zulu warrior?? LOL!!
i have had it a couple of years...it's the only one i have left from yours, actually the only one i was EVER able to get...:((( and i had to wait two years to get just that one at that from you!!
this one bloomed in complete shade, if that makes any difference in the bloom color...but it was the only one i got from you....and it's my lousy camera...because it's more "pinkish orange". and beautiful...
coming out with more?????
i had posted this one in the canna forum when it bloomed this year. with r move from nj to fl we lost tons of items...we were happy to see one or two of the more unusual made it down here with us..:)
i have to get a close up of the picture of the leaf....maybe that can help id better???
it really is lovely in person!
This is one of my fave variegated plants...its the super variegated version of Hedychium Dr. Moy. I had one sport into this 3 seasons ago, it has maintained the higher degree of variegation ever since even after freezing to the ground every winter and sometimes even puts out all white canes. So I hope it doesn't revert back. I also traded for some more of it, I can't remember what its called...Tahitian Flame possibly?
goth....really nice...one....i know the hedychium is a rhizomatous in it's growth habit, isn't it????....like you can dig a few out...LOL... mainly isn't this one known to be more tropical genus in the zingiberaceae or (ginger family) right??? so do you grow it in the greenhouse or outside year round?
it's really gorgeous....
brian... o....and if that's a amazon butterfly...then you owe me a zulu warrior...LOL!!!!
No its just a regular old hedychium like every other hedychium. You are thinking of Alpinia sanderiana probably, which is much more tropical but looks very much like this Hedychium (until it blooms, anyway LOL). This is just a super-variegated sport of H. Dr. Moy and carries all the qualities of Moy, including bloom color
it's not looking like a old regular one to me...at richards i saw a couple of the variegated ones...i have one as well...and it certainly looks nothing like that beauty.
your's has to me what appears to be an unusual amount of variegation for it's type??