Everyone is welcome to share pictures of their Tropical plants and gardens.
Tropical Garden # 81
I seem to be having computer problems, I will try again tomorrow.
prita, your posts are fine ?!......I cannot even fathom what our "water" bill would have been w/o the pump, as I know what running it did to the electric bill !!!! And I can't afford all that !...Animal's come first, and horse's cannot be Water deprived......
Beautiful pictures on the other thread and this one.. We finally got some rain, and all my barrels are full, so now to move the rain water to milk jugs for the basement garden this winter.
Saving seeds from this one for people.
Debra,
That is beautiful! I would like some seed, if you have extras.
Prita, what is the plant in the first post?
My Morning Glorys this morning.
Mexican Morning Glories!
Turbina corymbosa
mjsponies, thanks for your kind offer, hopefully by then, I will have something to send in return. Sunshinesw, a DG introduced me to hoyas, and I have been hooked ever since.
I agree the animals come first. I only have one little blind dog to care for. She is always swimming and drinking from my pond.
LiliMerci, some crinums often take years to start blooming. I have a C. Amabile, now going on 5 years without a bloom. Most will recommend full sun for them, but I find that mine do better with some shade. The leaves get bleached out and burnt.
Joeswife, you are so organized! I do not want to start thinking about winter already. I am still waiting for a few plants to recover from the last one.
Please put me on your list for those MG seeds. I just love the bright colors. I have been enjoying the new MGs from you and Emma Grace, I have never seen blooms that big before.
Dirtygirl71, I am wondering if you are a hand model, if not, you shoud be, they are just lovely! So are the mgs thanks.
Yellow Bauhinia, still blooming
GAgirl1066, the flower is a Meguskepasma erythrochlamys (Brazilian red cloak). I noticed them blooming for the second time this year, after the wind and rain flattened the branches yesterday. The foliage is nice as well.
Metrosideros, very nice plant, I will have to look it up. thanks!
Thanks prita, I was wondering if that was it. I have one, but has not bloomed. Where do you have yours located?
Well, turns out this is Hoya polyneura "Broget" kept looking at the pictures and just didn't think it looked right for lacunosa, so went to the Hoya forum, and they id'd it for me. That's why when I buy these things I go hunting to see if it's what they say it is !!
Nice pictures, everyone. I have the turbina corymbosa and I love it. Waiting on blooms right now.
Rita, the blooms I have this year a far diferrent from last year, you will enjoy the nice selection I send you.
MJ, that is a nice Hoya. My one and only hoya from Cannagirl is starting to do something. ( Make new vines?) It is now two years old.
My criniums have not bloomed either. I have three.. one from Bonnie, one from Tropicman, and one from Rita. They sure remind me of Amarillys, which I have never had bloom either. UGH.
I am so excited.. last year I did some crossings of 4 o clocks.. here is one I crossed a white with a pink..
This one was a yellow and fuschia match.. It turned almost salmon
I adore this one..
I used the white and Yellow because they have the heaviest fragrance, and they give good results. New Neon Red two tone.
This was a bare stick when I put it out, I thought I had lost it during winter.. It is still small, but it is very happy right now.
Debra,
If that pretty white/pink striped 4:00 makes seeds I'd love to grow out some to see if it will come back ! ( how's that for a hint !!lol)...
A bunch of our Hoya's are blooming their vines off, mostly the 2+ year old ones. One has had 15 blooms at one time on it. The newer ones have been putting on some really good growth tho, so we might get some bloom from them this year yet.
What is that last little plant Debra ?
Passion flower Incense bloom
Debra, did you just buy that or did you winter it over? mjs, it is varigated tapioca. one of my favorite plants. I have had mine for 3 years now, but almost lost it this past winter. It took forever for it to come back, and then only half of it did. I want to take cuttings but I have tried in the past and they don't make it. Once I broke a limb off so I just stuck it back in the ground and the thing rooted, but trying to root them has brought no success.
Here is mine last year...
ahhh, well I've heard of that, when I did a post a while back (somewhere on some forum) about needing more things that could "really" take full sun Here. Someone suggested it.
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Rita, you make me feel better. I have 5 criniums that I inherited from Mitch when he moved to Oklahoma. The foliage is beautiful but so far not a hint of bloom. Since early have been chopping and pulling dead plants that were killed in the furnace. Can you believe it? Monday set a record for that date of 107. Today the high is to be lower 90's. Odd that it is more tolerable.
Out to clear out more damage.
well shucks...thanks prita....but no... I don't model anything anymore....
I've posted this pix in the Plumeria Forum, and I just have to repeat it here in the Tropicals... this is my 7 year old sons plant...'Kanohe Sunburst'
It is his plant (((and he's nto shy about letting everyone know that comes up our driveway to look at it)))!!!! He earned this tree for helping me unload my plants, and helping to store them before our "winter"...and he also helps me take them back out and replant. I let him pick a Plumeria plant the day we brought them home, and THIS ONE is the one he chose, and it also happens to be the ONLY ONE that has given blooms so far!!!!
He sounds like an adorable little boy with a very good mommy for letting him help and develop a sense of ownership and responsibility.
mjsponies, glad to hear that you got the correct name for your new Hoya.
Spider mites killed my tapioca, I will not replace it until I can get these darn bugs under control. Dh suggested that I slash and burn my garden like the Mayas did, and go on a vacation.
GAgirl1066, I have my Brazilian Red Cloak planted on the east side of my house. I find that they are very easy to start from cuttings.
LouC, I do hope tht you get those crinums to bloom for you soon, Mitch has been gone now for a couple of years. I bet he had them a couple of years before he gave them to you.
I have been doing the same over here, cutting back all the dried up foliage, hoping for a good fall to recooperate.
New Anthurium
Joeswife, I have never seen such vibrant colors on Four O'Clocks, they are just awesome!!
The green eyed monster is out again. Where did you get the Turbina corymbosa? I sure would like to have one.
This is a Hibiscus from the seeds you sent last year.
Dirtygirl71, He sure did pick a winner, it is just beautiful!!
I hope that he keeps his love of gardening. I have never met a garderner that I did not like!!
Yoda
Great photos!
I like gardeners too!
Oh mannnnnnn, I really want a pond garden.......but I have soooo much to take care of now...animals, plants, more animals, more plants....LOL...I'm a glutten for punishement ! Holy Cow if we ever want to take a vacation, it is a hugh production, then I worry the whole time !
Datura's ( I have the same love/hate relationship with them that I do Hibiscus !) and Angle Wing Begonia.
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Debra, you have a very nice collection of 4'oclock plants. They are all so pretty and I am still admiring the one you sent to me. This is a morning glory from you. Thank you again.
Mjsponies, I have that same Datura but mine has never looked that good. You sure are doing something right regardless of your love/hate relationship with it;-)
Rachel,
It's sheer luck with them, and timing, give it a week and it will look terrible !
LOL...
here's another one........This one has been a bit less temperamental.
All my daturas except two have been stinted I think. They look like seedlings. Last year my triple datura purple stole the show in the back yard and grew to almost 5 ft. The tatulas and La fleurs have been good as well as the inoxia.. gee.. I wonder where all those seeds went that I planted of the white ballerina, the yellow double and the triple purple?
Beautiful plumeria there I bet your son will be into plants alot when he grows up.
Rachel I see either an Alba moon vine or a turbina with that Morning glory.
Finally a speckled one.
Rita, I just sent off a turbina to someone, I had to cut it back.. It was just budding too.. I will send you seeds and a vine this fall, but you will have to keep it from freezing.
It was so cool out this am when I went out to feed the critters before work, I turned back for a jacket.. it was down to 60!
Good grief, I feel pressure about what to bring in first now..
Metros, plz send that last plant to me will ya?
The tapioca plant was on the close out shelf last year, I bought it it was about ten inches tall and full of leaves, but was wilted. I kept it going for most of winter, then it lost its leaves. I decided to plant it and let it either die or try.. it tried. I guess we will bring it in, or send it away to someone who can keep it better than me..
None of my Louisiana Cajuns have bloomed yet. I moved them to the patio, they better get going.. Last year they bloomed in the basement Garden all winter.
Rita, that is great you got blooms. I rooted a peony style bloom lavender and a pink one from my sis in laws house, and grew a purple one from seed it is blooming on the southeast part of the front already. I am moving them to the south east fence out back and will dig up the loniceras and put somewhere else.
