Tropical Garden #83

Please feel free to share your tropical plants and garden with us!!


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This message was edited Sep 18, 2010 3:51 PM

RachelLF, I will get back to you with the name of the Philo. The name escapes me at the moment.


This message was edited Sep 18, 2010 3:45 PM

Wow rita really love that fern!!

A croton that is happy at tropicmans place..

mjsponies, that is a very nice Meowus Varigata.

pensacolagarden, thanks, I thought that it looked quite pretty waiting for its turn to get planted.

I am sorry for all the edits, I still get very nervous when starting a new thread, and mess up.

Joeswife, Love the Croton, they are my next favorite tropical plant.

Rachel, we have a new leaf on the batwing you sent me!!

Rachel, I forgot to post the photo of the leaves on my hamabo but they are very different than those you show.

I have replaced the St.Augustine grass with gravel in the back section of the front yard, cutting my mowing duties in half.
I have flagstones that make a nice border in the front but couldn't get them in the picture. I also am waiting for a new shipment of some rainbow gravel to come in. It is much prettier than the first layer of gravel shown.

Prita-What USDA zone are you in?

Rachel, your flower in the previous thread definitely looks like an Abelmoschus. This is my Abelmoschus moschatus.

My Gardenia "Vietnam Star" that flowered a couple of months back with 6 petal flowers is now flowering with 7 petals. Got some seeds from it so will give them a try.

The purple banana that I mentioned previously would be flowering soon has indeed started flowering.

My Giraffe's Knees, Gonatopus boivinii, has come out of dormancy producing a leaf and a flower. Unfortunately, I'm back at work tomorrow (for a fortnight) so won't see it open.

Morning light at my place the other day. (At least I can look at my photos while I'm away.)

I will answer for Rita as we are only about 10 miles or less apart, as the bird flies. 8A. However, there is no comparison whatever. She has hoop house and I think she is on a well for water, not sure about that. She also amends her soil like no one I have ever seen. We live just south of Dallas, Texas on the Grand Prairie. Black gumbo clay. She is magic is all I can say.

1lisac, thanks for viewing. I am in zone 8a


tropicbreeze, those are some very interesting plants. I would hate to miss them blooming as well but like the majority of us, we have to work to support our plant addiction!!

LouC, thanks, you are a very sweet lady!!
No well here, just outrageously high water bills, that is another good reason to eliminate some of this grass. We were fortunate to get another 1/4" of rain a few days ago.

We are experiencing terrible shrinkage this year with the Thai-Giant. Last year it was humungus, this year it is struggling to make 3'.

These were left at the door from a anonymous person, who probably saw me going through the trash rescuing discarded plants.lol

rita, I don't know what that plant is in the two front pots but I was given a start early this season. It has grown like mad and puts out shoots to start new plants much like an airplane plant. I have gambled and planted it in the ground just yesterday after letting it grow in a pot all summer. Hope it comes back.

whoever left you the gifts knows you will take extra good care of them.

I agree..
Rita, this is Salvia Omaha Gold bloom..
This plant grows to five feet in full sun.

Debra,

That is a beautiful plant.

One of my brugs is going to flower soon and so is one of my plummies. I will take pictures as soon as they bloom.

More of tropicmans croton collection.. these are huge.

RIta, I asked Tony Avant about EE's that became smaller each year and he told me he uses large amounts of compost and water on his. This is one of his Thai Giants. He uses no chemical fertilizers on his plants that are in the ground.

uhm.. I want mine to get that big! lol

Great pictures everyone.

Tropic, thank you and I agree after viewing your picture my plant is definitely a Abelmoschus. Ardesia, if you want some seeds just d-mail me your address and I will gladly send you some.

Rita, you have that batwing looking great and the leaves on your Thai Giant are huge and very healthy regardless of it's heighth this year.

Cute little new Aroid. Stylochaeton bogneri.

LouC, those plants are basket plants, I did a little research on them and found that they can not survive in our zone. I will probably put mine in a hanging basket. They had one negative comment.

blue ginger

Joeswife I will be searching for that Salvia. It is very pretty!!
I enjoy pictures of Tropicmans garden, do you have others?

If you ever find his caladium, buy it!! It's performance was excellent this year. Most of the others, have disapeared already.

Tina_A, It will be a treat to see your new blooms!! What are you favorite tropical plants?

ardesia, thanks, maybe next year I will have a bigger and better Colocasias.
The name Tony Avant looked very familiar to me, so I googled it. I am quite familiar with his mail order business. I bought my first two colocasia from him.

C Lime Aide

RachelLF, I love that foliage on your new plant!! That batwing leaf shot up to 4'. It is a beauty, the other babies are looking great as well. It is amazing how much a little rain will accomplish.

Hanging basket Philo. caladium and anthurium.

Thanks, Rita. Looks like I will be repotting it tomorrow. Glad I asked.

I have been waiting all year to see this bloom.. it was so heavy as a bud I didn't think it would ever open.. I kept holding it up for a few minutes crooning to it and here she is tonight..
Cajun Hibiscus Pink Sensation She performed well last year, and even bloomed in the basement garden.. I love her alot.

All my hibiscus have been blooming like crazy..
Rita, please don't buy that salvia, I am sending it to you.. It will be cut down, but the root ball will spring forth another batch of varigated leaves for you..

Mj and GA girl, you are getting some of the Salvias too, since you volunteered.. got my seeds, can't wait to start some..
this Cassia Alata is blooming now.. or candle bush or whatever it is called

All the lobatas are blooming now, they are everywhere ..

I planted three kinds of lobata, and can't tell the difference from any of them.. learned a lesson there..

I brought in the varigated EE? or is it a philo or ? ( can't remember now)
Somehow I have a Goji berry plant in one of the jmg hanging planters.. I have no clue how it got there, but I am keeping it. PF says zone 6, but I don't trust that. I have never seen a Goji Berry in Kansas.

I love those blue gingers, I have yet to see a Ginger bloom in real life, but I have lots of gingers. Maybe next year?
This little philo is all the way up into the honeysuckle here, I am bringing it in this coming weekend. It is in a basket,

Thank you Debra, that would be great. I have a weeping blue ginger. I will have to send you a small one in the spring. I keep mine in the GH so it should bloom for you next summer.

Joeswife, you are too good to me!! But I will gladly accept whatever you have to share.
Those are all keepers!! I love the pink hibiscus, that is phughes favorite color. The Goji berry is a new one for me.

Your MG's

These pink lochroma has been blooming since spring! I am very grateful for them , the red died and the blue one is in distress from spidermites.

This is a new Bromeliad, 'Billbergia Rosea'. Hopefully, I will get you all to like Broms before it is over with. lol