Rita,
I think your cactus is Epiphyllum chrysocardium - sharks tooth cactus.
Tropical Garden # 100- YEA !!
Ardesia, thank you, and that is a beautiful lilly you have there...
this was last night.. before it got cold, can't wait to see how it fared..
Thanks, MJ! That sure looks like my plant.
Debra, mine started making blooms after I got it into a part-sun location. Doesn't like much sun, but needs some. Even the gangly ones under the oak tree bloomed after we had the tree thinned.
It may have helped that I gave them a bit of fert and water . . .
Love your leaf pic above - is it a white caladium? Mine are hiding under the mango tree and looking great. The ones that get more light look like they're made of paper.
Hello All!!
plantladylin,and GAgirl1066 thanks for helping with the identification of the cactus plant. It was hard for me to decide betwen the E. anguliger and E chrysocardium, they are quite similar and both have white blooms. I feel like it is the E chrysocardium. I would be a bit more excited if the flower was a different color. Thanks very much!
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Bromeliad
Kimarj, it is good to see you!!
RachelLF, thanks! is that a Alocasia Mark Campbell?
joeswife, those were lovely pictures, I am a little jealous of your columbine. I will have to plant a few more this spring. I had one yellow to bloom so far.
I hope that the Queen Emma blooms for you this year.
dyz, love your caladiums, I am going out now to check mine. Both you and joeswife are showing them, I should be seeing some activity.
Thanks to ardesia, I now have the proper name for that ginger plant. I hope that I can remember the next time I need to give them a name. lol
here is another noid ginger plant
dyzzypyxxy
That is an alocasia, can't tell if it is purple cloak or coffee cup yet..
I love your photos , Rita. What is the vine up there?
Macho Fern is happy, still.. and so is everything else I am pleased to say.
ooo Rita, What is the varigated plant? That's beautiful!!
plantladylin, sorry that I missed your question yesterday, that is a Allamanda Cherry Jubilee.
African Amaryllis foliage
Joeswife, the vine is supposed to be a variegated Clerodendron thomsoniae that seems to be losing its variegation.
Good looking Macho fern, it has doubled in size.
Variegated Shampoo ginger
GAgirl1066,thanks, that is a variegated Althea.(Rose-of-Sharon), the foliage is very pretty but the blooms are not significant.
Musa Siam Ruby
Rita.
Your picture of your Variegated Hibiscus ( at least i
thank it is ). Has it bloomed and do you have a picture
of it ?
All of your plants look like they are in FL.rather than in
Red Oak!!!!!!!
All of my plants took a bad beating this winter.
Lost alot of plants this winter but so has lots of people.
Have you thought about a trip to Zone 9 and to R J's?
Jerry
First bloom on my Gloriosa rothschildiana opened today! Amazing, hardly a month since they popped out of the ground.
Rita, I love that variegated Shampoo Ginger! I see a big stem going up out of the picture, how tall does it get?
My Shooting Star hydrangea is just starting to bloom, too.
My little diva, the Peacock Ginger - Kaempferia pulchra has finally decided it is spring. Love the pretty leaf patterns, and pretty little daily flowers.
I just wish it was around for more of the year.
Rita, yes, that was Mark Campbell and your noid Ginger and Musa Siam Ruby are beauties.
Dizzy, your Gloriosa rothschildiana is so pretty. I just bought some seeds for that plant. Nice Caladiums too.
Debra, I always enjoy viewing your Philo. "Big Boy" and the cane Begonia you sent me is about to show it's first blooms;)
love that Shooting Star hydrangea , I almost got one, but decided I needed to see of other things can grow I have gotten first.
Rita my bananas all look so fried, but I do see new leaves trying to push up from the middle.
Work has had me so captive, I am good to get a shot of this Iris this am before I left..
Rachel, I am glad your cane begonia is going good, everything here is just now getting used to their new homes for the summer, unless I change their minds ..I saw my string of pearls and rosary vines are coming out fine.. need to take pictures maybe this weekend..
You know, I have never really grown Iris, *my grandma and great aunt did* but I am glad someone was kind enough to send me this one..
Good morning, everyone! Deb, that Iris is really pretty!
Hi guys I'm here...Debra I'm so sorry to hear about Duke...Here's a bloom for him.
Everyone's pics are great...been busy busy but hope to get a chance to walk around and take more pics soon.
Things are popping a bit slowly..........we've not had any rain in over a month ! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Good Morning!!
Very nice, MJ!
Good Morning Kay and GAgirl, I was already out loking for the big yellow one to open, and even thi it was kinda dark out, I think I can show this Beautiful Yellow one to you..
Kinda cloudy out, so I moved the non draining things under the table.. and while walking around to feed the critters, I saw the Pink Evening PrimRose is blooming and the yellow yarrow is about to..
Of course you have to go thru the dog run, out the gate and down the alley back there to see it.... so since I was there I took my May photo of the Back Yard Project.. as I call it.. this is the far south west corner looking East
and the head on view
one more post and off to work... This is from seed from a customer.. out back..
Have a great Tropical day!
Ohhh, I can smell that yellow Iris - beautiful!
Just beautiful Debra! So what is the project? or did I miss that?
Debra, I love that bronzy iris. Can't grow them here but I got a bunch of different colors for my daughter's garden in Salt Lake. Talk about a dazzling array of colors available. Plus they're SO easy.
I'm most impressed by all those huge pots in your yard shot. All out of the basement, huh?? It's going to be an amazing jungle there by summer.
Agapanthus have forgiven me for re-potting them - first bloom just coming.
Alpinia Zerumbet Variegated and flower.
Clematis
I have several Agapanthus plants and they have never bloomed - should I keep them in shade, under the eave where they are now, or move them to full sun - what do they want?!
Kay, my Agapanthus are in a huge pot in full sun, but inside the pool cage, so slightly less intense sun than if they were in the garden. They stay out there all year, but I do cover at night in cold weather.
They like being pot-bound and hate to be moved. Up until this spring, my big clump was in the same pot for 8 years. I would add some soil on top of the roots each spring, and a sprinkle of time release fert, then just water maybe once a week if there was no rain. The old pot finally broke so I had to re-pot this clump. When we turned it out, you could hardly see any soil for all the roots in that pot!
Whenever I have taken divisions or tried to get them going in the garden, they have died off. They also really like to dry out between waterings.
Here's a shot of the big clump in its pot. Looks like I have two varieties in there now - how'd that happen??
Here's a start I got from a friend that I've been ignoring and neglecting for about 3 years. It now has 3 fans of leaves and two flower scapes! It is outside the pool cage but right beside it, so it gets a little shade in the morning through the middle of the day. Hoping it is another color than the big clump, but I can't remember . . . sigh.
I had a number of them, this picture is from years ago, but all mine stopped blooming. When I dug them up I noticed they all had root knot nematodes and there were holes in the roots like you would see on iris rhizomes from borers.
I hope yours just need a different location.
Thanks, Alice - I'll dig them this summer and check the roots.
ensete maurelii far right of front left bed
