Monstera Deliciosa Marmorata
Tropical Garden #102
P. McDowell
Variegated P. Giganteum
P. Maximum
A. Variegated Lutea
A. Variegated Macrorrhizos
Monstera Deliciosa Albo Variegata
ok homer you are now making me tried. how in the world do yall keep up with taking care of this many plants... please share you secret.....
Jan
light and water requirements are placed together basically Meadowyck.
LOL, It is definately a full time job. It usually takes me 2-3 hours to water all mine and that's with alot of them in the sprinkler zone. I have a lot in pots though since I will be moving in a couple of months. I am looking forward to the day when I can put most of them in the ground and not have to water so much.
Schefflera
Colocasia Gigantea... non Thai Type!
Hosta- Sum and Substance
GAgirl
I had to leave all my beautiful plants when we moved as most of mine I didn't think would make it here in the zone.... and I couldn't bare to bring them and watch them die, so I had some wonderful garden buddies who came over and dug plants and had a sale for me after I left, so many of my pants to went to a lot of my garden club members so I feel good about that....
so I'm starting over and learning about new plants that love the sun and heat down here.
Jan
Sago Palm
Ensete Maurelii
A. Variegated Odora
aww, Jan, that must have been hard. Thankfully I am only moving 15 miles so all mine are going with me, even most of the ones already planted. Some are hard to find, so I'm not leaving them. Anything you would especially want? I have extras of some things and I would be glad to share.
X. Lime Zinger
homer,
do you dig all those up before winter or leave them in the ground?
I dig most of them Ga. Girl! However this year I have a lot of duplicates that I will try to overwinter in the ground! I am going to see if I can "push it". Most of these guys are zone 9 up!
wow!
Gorgeous foliage, Drew. I just love that Variegated Macrorrhizos. Absolutely elegant.
I have big clumps of Monstera that are not fazed by the cold, and even my one Alocasia 'Hilo Beauty' have survived two cold winters unprotected both in the ground, and in a pot. Come to think of it, I need to go rescue that pot . . . it's under the mango tree and mango bombs will be falling soon!
Here's my pot of 'Hilo Beauty' I rescued just now. Looks like it's making baby plants. This is about a 10" pot and there are at least 5 plant crowns in there.
Anybody think I should divide it, or should I wait until the weather cools in the fall?
The one plant that's in the ground has much bigger leaves and is taller.
My favorite filler plant for interplanting with milkweed. Turnera ulmifolia - aka Beach Buttercup. I stuck a cutting of it in the pot with the cannas in Feb and here we are!
Too hot now definitely Elaine! I would wait until late winter or early spring when they are ready to take off and have all summer to grow.
It is amazing how fast things grow; good job Elaine.
Thanks, Drew. I'll wait to divide these. You're so right about everything growing so fast once the weather heats up. It's like you plant something and then jump back. But I can't take any credit for that pot of Alo's. They've been quietly growing under the mango tree since last summer, and although the tree is getting lots of water right now because the fruit is sizing up, the alo very likely only got a few grains of fertilizer when I fertilized the tree in . . . let's see . . . March?
I've never grown these cannas with the dark red foliage before. Not quite sure where to put them to show them off to advantage. This pot was a 'rescue' from a clearance rack at Lowe's. As previously discussed, you just can't kill a canna. Lots of water and a little fert, and in 2 weeks we have flowers! Yay.
Elaine,They look fabulous! I like the bamboo screening effect also.
How did you get your red-leafed Cannas to grow that large - mine are 3 years old and just don't get over a foot tall.
Tose red leaved cannas get about 6' up here!
ooo Elaine, I love the turnera. I have one here but it is yellow and I love it. Blooms all summer. Do you have any seed from that one that you could share?
I love that turnera also but the leaves look like so much like wedelia which is invasive here. Do you have to keep the Turnera in check?
The turnera has seeded itself but very sparingly. I just get the odd seedling popping up around the yard but I've never seen a seed pod. I'll start looking more carefully. Mostly started it from cuttings, as I did the one in the picture. It died right back to the ground in the winter of '09 but came back beautifully. Don't think it's an invasive problem.
I need to trim it back from the pathways this week, so I'll start some cuttings, and maybe by the time you're into your new house I can send you some starts, or seeds. Otherwise, I originally bought it in 1 gal pots at Lowe's a few years ago, and usually see it some time during the summer there.
The red-leaf canna just jumped up to that height and flowered. I only got it 2 weeks or so ago, so can't take credit. I believe there might be a dwarf variety - one of the Futurity series - so maybe that's what you have
Drew, if you only could see - that bamboo clump is 40' high and 15 feet across! It does make a fabulous screen. One day I'll walk across the street so I can take a picture of it for you.
great pics homer .. thanks !!
just got my robusta's from lari ann today.. yea !!
they were good sized plants.. potted them up in gal pots.. think i'll give them
extra special treatment for most of the summer..
hope to get them big this yr>>>> i hope.. :)
WOW homer gorgeous plants. especially the ae ae.
off to puerto rico for a week. i will try to take some pictures of my mother in laws house. she built a house there about seven years ago and every year we go i buy tons of plants for her. i am sure it is a jungle by now. this a bismark palm we planted a few years ago.
Bismark = Beautiful, Wish I could grow here!
Thanks 777
Elaine when you get a chance...
Candela, I came this close.. to loosing it in April. Overwatered once and the roots start turning to mush... It took about 6 weeks for the 3rd to the last leaf to come out... since then, starting on the 3rd new leaf. I placed it in my vegetable garden... I figure it had the best soil and it did... saved my A#S.
Note to self! never overwater aeae in pot! PERIOD.
My biggest plant . . not counting the live oaks. Drew, that is the 'geek cave' aka the Garage Mahal nicely screened behind the clump. Thank goodness for really big plants. It's on the south side of the building so keeps it nice and cool in there, too.
We built the shop about a year ago, and had to dig out about 1/4 of the bamboo clump to put in the foundation. You should have seen the guy with the backhoe cursing that bamboo. It is lovely, easy care, and makes the best sounds in the wind. All I do to it is rake up the leaves occasionally, and in spring we prune out the stalks that have 'flopped' out of the clump.
I really like it Elaine! I would like to listen to that sound .... kinda like chimes maybe; with different sizes of bamboo (with that hollow sound) knocking in to each other?