this croton looks like fireworks
Tropical Garden #88 - January 2011
Hello Everyone!
ilovejesus99, thanks for sharing your bloom with us, please visit often!
KayJones, your tip on keeping the COT dry will help me immensely. I have a few that lost all their leaves and look poor. From your comment, I assume that I was watering too often.
RachelLF, Your Anthrium Faustomirandae is perfect. There is nothing better than a new leaf on one of those. Maybe you will have a 4 ft. leaf to show us next winter.
GAgirl1066, I can tell that you are enjoying your Gh's and plants as much as I am. I am very worried about the cold snap predicted for next week. Hopefully they are wrong and it will not be as bad. Keep those beautiful blooms coming!!
Joeswife, I am glad that you found us!! Did you check your Chalice vine to see if you had any buds? They usually bloom in the Fall and Winter.
My Variegated chalice vine died.
Ardesia, thanks for showing your Vriesea, It is very pretty even with the few damaged leaves. Bromeliads are #2 on my list of favorite plants.
plantladylin, Thanks, I am in zone 8a. I will try to root a variegated monstera for you.
I am jealous of all your orchid plants, everyone else has beautiul blooms to show. I will have to figure out exactly where I went wrong with them.
Even though your Brassavola nodosa is not your prettiest, they are my favorite. My wedding bouquet was made of those.
I have a front loader washer and dryer made by GE. It took several times reading the manual to figure it out but I love them. Good luck with yours!
Metrosideros, I always appreciate your posts!! I would like to be under one of those Palm trees with a nice cold beer right now.
candela, it is always good to see you and enjoy what's blooming in your little piece of heaven. The praying hands bananas seem to be almost ready for harvest. I bet you will be making banana bread for everyone at work.
I am very sorry to hear about your Luna.
LiliMerci, Stay warm and show us your CC. I have these two blooming, the top plant is from Rachel.
Hi, Prita and everyone - ALL your flowers are beautiful!
Prita - yes, I keep my c of t without water in my Florida room - I take them out in April and let mother nature take care of them. When outdoors, they are situated in a portion of the yard that the lawn sprinklers don't reach.
Candela, so sorry about your loss.. I can't imagine a day without my Duke. He turned 16 this Christmas.He is with me everywhere I go, even down the stairs 20 times if needed to find me.
He sleeps when I stay put. This is the freezer room I have turned into a seed sorting room.
Your Garden will have many blooms of memories for Luna.
I finally have a picture of the main growing room east wall
Chalis vine is still growing..
I sure love all the pictures that have been posted. I loved the COT, had never heard of them until I joined DG.
I potted up the new plants, they came pretty frozen, here is hoping..
candela: If that Croton is the one I think it is, it's one of my favorites ... Codiaeum Batik: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/161140/
prita: Your tropical plants are wonderful, you have a good eye with the camera too ... lovely photo's. Those Holiday Cactus' are amazing!
Debra: Your Duke is precious. 16? My goodness, y'all are good critter keepers to have them live so long. We had a cat once that we rescued as a kitten and she lived to be 24 but our dogs have all passed around the age of 12.
Debra, you must have still been posting when I was typing. Wow, I'd love to have a growing area like that! Your new plants look great to me!
Ok .. gotta go back through the thread to read again and see what COT stands for. I'm sure I read it but have forgotten. Gee, I'm getting old!
lin, I agree, that croton is gorgeous. I am skeered of those things.
Rita does have a great eye for taking pictures.
I sure love my bower vine... and the persian shield!
here is the other new plant, which also had frost on its bottom when I unboxed it.
Aaah .. COT, Crown of Thorns! :)
This is a little better shot I hope. Hubby sure likes this one ( to the lower left)
Nancys Revenge lost her leaf, but I am sure she will rebound. this is part of the west wall main room.
You all are brave having plants shipped this time of year! I'd be so afraid they'd be totally frozen with the way the weather has been so far this winter!
Debra: I'm so glad you like the Bower Vine and Persian Shield ... I am not the best at packing plants for shipping and always worry that they won't travel well. But, you are such a great grower I bet you could bring any plant back to it's original beautiful state! Why are you skeered of Crotons? They are so colorful and fairly easy if given bright enough light and water. You could always grow them just for the summer months. I love Cyclamen but they are short lived down here with the heat so I buy a couple and enjoy them for as long as they survive, LOL. Is your newest plant the Boston Fern? If you like ferns I'll be glad to send you some Nephrolepsis cordifolia (Southern Sword Fern) in the spring! It's a beautiful fern but is so invasive down here and wants to take over the yard.
Debra: I can't see the photo clearly, is it a Microsorum (Crocodile Fern)?
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=crocodile+fern&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=nC8lTe-WCsOclgfY6eXiAQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQsAQwAQ&
biw=1280&bih=701
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/69775/
aww Lin, that fern there is a Macho Fern that came to me from Padre islands year before last a small couple of rooted sprigs, my DH loves it. He has taken a shine to ferns. I have not grown a Boston Fern ever. I would love a piece of your fern this Spring, if it is not hardy, I would bring it in. I have started the tie vine seeds inside. I am so excited.
I will go down a take close ups of the newest plants. I will have to look up their names from ebay.
Debra: I'm not sure how hardy the Southern Sword Fern is, I've heard zone 8a, it survived our freezes last winter and we had a few! I can send you a good amount of it, the stuff travels by runners and is so hard to get rid of.
I will also send you some of the Kangaroo Paw Fern:
Close view showing the"Paws":
Candela, I'm so very sorry to read about the loss of Luna. Love that name and I admire the foliage on your leopard plant.
Rita, thank you. Hopefully in a few years some of my Aroids will grow up to look just like yours...keeping my fingers crossed though. Very nice C. elepaio.
Debra, you received a very nice A. Purple Cloak and I can understand why your husband likes that Calathea. I've not seen that particular Calathea available much at all. Great find.
Candela, so sorry to hear about your dog Luna. What a sweet picture. May she runs wild in dog heaven. I have to tell you guys a secret - I was very reluctant to get a dog but the kids begged for it and my husband and daughter went out and searched and searched. We've had her for 2 years now and even though she chewed up my hearing aid, I love her to death and can't imagine how we lived w/o her before.
I will take CC pictures tomorrow and post. 2 are bloomings and 1 are budding. My Night Blooming Cereus bud is not getting any bigger. I wonder if it's too cold in the sunroom.
well, i went down there and got kinda lost... here is one of the new plants it starts with a C...
Calathea lancifolia now I need to see how to keep it growing.
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Here is the other one.. I sure hope it warms up a bit. Gee I need to get the names they said they were..
Love the ferns, Lin.
Yes, it says Purple Cloak.. rachel is right on. Thank you. The plants did not come with the names, but the invoice did.
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here is a close up of the chalice vine rita, it just seems to keep putting out more "arms" which is okay by me..
Rachel, thank you for the ID, I swear I have names for them..
My many thanks to KayJones for the Spanish Moss.. it is wonderful. My little Koala thinks so too..
Debra, try calathea lancifolia, beautiful plant.
Good Morning and Thank you..I edited my posts. I am still finding teeny tiny holes in some of my leaves on the vines and the Lantanas and the Mandevilla leaves. I can't find any bugs. Do gnats eat the leaves? I have been finding small mealey bugs here and there, and spry them and get them off asap, but they keep coming back. Do they eat foilage?
Debra, I'd bet you have tiny slugs living in the potting mix - get some Sluggo, sprinkle it on the surface of the mix, and see if you find dead slugs.
Debra, this is for you.....that's not the one I am sending...LOL
Some photos from this morning...
curly croton
bird nest fern
one of my orchids
close up
alternanthera, but forgot which one.
one brug blooming...it has had these same blooms about 4 days now.
closeup
alligator fern
Philo - autumn
