Tropical Plants #105

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http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1191989/#new

Found this Sunflower Bird Feeder at the thrift shop for .69 cents.
Stuffed it with Sphagnum moss and a bit of orchid bark mix and put a little Noid Dischidia on it.

mj's now i love that. I turned a squirrel proof feeder into a jmg holder, it is going good. all the noises arond us are vry loud, so weird not to have the kids outside doing snakes.

Hi MOM! I am still alive here.. but it is so hot now!

another Hi MOM! we are recovering from a brutal move, but I think we might like it here, well, maybe?

another few blooms have made me smile..

my alien space plant.. LOL

Elaine

Did you get rain yesterday, we were down at Turtle beach and had to leave due to the thunderstorm and rain that came.

I loved everything you have, what a wonderful garden you have. You are the best.

Jan

White and Blue Sky Vines are blooming. Last weeks rain seemed to perk everything up, Now it needs to do it again !

MJ, don't forget to try to root me one of the white,...pluuuuese!!

Ugggghhh! The fires have started back up and smokey!!! I will be glad when those things are out. I can't even work outside. Sorry, complain, complain!

I will try to get some pictures today....all my things are so neglected, I don;t think there is much to show, but I'll look.

Rita,
That varg. crinum is beeeutiful!! And I would steal it if I lived closer, even though you were kind enough to send me one (doing good), I still want that one...LOL! Oh heck, I want all your plants, you take such good care of them. Debra and I are going to raid your house one day.....you up for it Debra, MJ, anyone???

Hi everyone ... Great Growing! I've been trying to catch up on the older threads and have really enjoyed viewing everyone's photo's.

I used to have quite a few Philodendron's and seeing the gorgeous specimens some of y'all grow makes me think I could get addicted again ... aaah, but I'd just need to move to a more tropical location with an acre or so where I could have my very own outdoor botanical garden!

MJ: Great idea with that feeder! I sure wish I had such a creative brain because I recently threw an identical feeder in the trash, the interior plastic was broken and it had been hanging in the shed for a year! I really love your Yellow Gloriosa photo from the last thread. I had no idea there was a yellow variety, and that is one really gorgeous bloom! I have the Gloriosa rothschildiana from tubers I purchased on a DG co-op a couple of years ago. The beauty in Debra's photo looks just my plant which has been blooming for a couple of months now but needs a taller trellis.

Debra: Your alien plant looks like this Kalanchoe: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/594/#b It can be an invasive one down here in Florida but isn't it interesting how the little "teardrop" babies hang on the edge of the leaves? Once those babies fall off and hit the soil, they take root and grow on.
Love the Gloriosa Lily bloom, one of my favorites! Yours looks just like my G. rothschildiana:

I received seed from Debra for this Scarlet Milkweed which is blooming away, but it's sad because I haven't seen many Butterflies yet this year.

Loved the Caladium photo's y'all posted on the last thread ... I've got a few popping up:

I have a habit of buying seeds/bulbs and then can't decide where I want to plant them. I end up sowing/planting them here, there and everywhere. This Calla Lily popped up in a container beneath a little Banana tree:

Miniature Cattleya Orchid, Broughtonia sanguinea (Splash Petal Form):

I'm off to run some errands so this is the last one from me. Have a great week everyone!

Knock Out Rose 'Sunny':

Paula, I'm up for a raid on Rita's garden . . . got a pickup and a big flatbed trailer, too. Bet if we all showed up right about when she's having to move all her tender plants into the greenhouse . . . she'd let some go quietly? (plus we could all help her with The Move)

Lin, lovely photos as usual, and it's good to see you again. I have the 'Sunny' Knock out rose, too. It has a nice fragrance that the other Knock Outs don't. Up until a week ago it was the only rose I've taken a chance on, but since it's doing fine I went for an 'own root' version of "Easy Does it" too. If you're still moving, move over here, why don'tcha? We have three wonderful Community Gardens with plots available - and of course you could 'board' some plants at my house . .

Jan, yes we got two good squirts of rain last night, but neither of them lasted very long. That was a dandy, noisy thunderstorm though! The cat never came out from under the bed until 4am, what with that and the fireworks.

One more pic - 'Baby Doll' lotus about to open. Bud is only about 1 1/2" tall but . . . it's an event nonetheless

dyzzy,
I'm ready when you are..LOL..LOVE the peach rose. Do you know the name of it? It looks like orange sherbert. I got some lotus seed the other day and I am going to try my luck with growing them.

Lin, beautiful knockout.

msj,
Creative idea using that feeder. I believe that I will do the same.
Thanks!
Johanna

Paula, the little rose is 'Easy Does It'. It's another landscape rose like the Knock Outs that are very disease resistant - yay! This one is on it's own rootstock, so it's fairly small and a sprawling habit.Its buds are orangey with a pink blush. I'll try to get a better pic of a bloom that's not so far gone.The blooms are small, but it seems to bloom all the time,

Lotus, give 'em sun, warm water and lots of fert and they're very rewarding! I know a fellow who keeps his lotus tub warm far into the fall with a waterbed heater to keep them growing and blooming.

My plumeria is just a bloomin' machine, even though it's in 'way too small a pot and keeps falling over on it's face.

Hello Everyone!

mjsponies, thank you very much for starting the new thread!
I like your new bird feeder idea, but your colander hanging basket will get first prize. Pretty soon, I will have some white sky vine to show off. (grin)

plantladylin, I enjoyed your sunny cheerful pictures but best of all, to have you back.

White Duranta blooming.

joeswife, your ipomoea batatas is going crazy, has it ever bloomed for you? I'm happy to know that your garden is putting that smile back on your face.

GAgirl1066, dyzzy, my garden will not be worth the trouble, it will be a better idea to raid GAgirl's Greenhouse. She has so many interesting plants and also a pool to keep us cool. We could all meet there and make her move a little easier. lol

Dyzzy, I can't wait to see that Baby Doll Bloom. Ahaaaaaa Love your plumeria.

GAGirl, that was a Furcrea Foetida, variegated False Agave plant. This is the variegated Crinum

Flicker, welcome to the thread! We would love to see your feeder planter when finished.

Florida Beauty

evening all, well I took some pictures at one of the houses I am plant sitting at.. I had these seeds and here is her bloom bud from the three small plants I gave her..she has a pool and the perfect yard for tropicals and a hubby that supports her gardening addiciton, and the squirrells had dug up all her pots, so I re-did them with rocks on top.. HA!
Ya'all come down and git me if yer going somewhere like ritas or marthas or anywhere non kansas.. LOL

Love that variegated crinum,lotus, plumeria and all these other beautiful plants and flowers!

New leaf from Mr. Borneo should be totally out by Saturday-Sunday!

I throw seeds everywhere too, and unfortunately, I miss alot as a result of that.. I found something peel
king up in the "rooting pile" over by the rain barrells on the north side, but it was too dark for me to undo it all, it looked like my anthurium..
anyway.... 103 today.. brutal.. but the gloriosa lilly that is showing up there is a trooper, it is from KayJones, and the others that ya all sent me are climbing..
anyone in here know who this is? it sorta popped up.. *blush&hang head*

homer, I am with ya on the beauty of the pictures shown in here.. most of them I have never heard of until I came to Daves Garden because of a brugmansia..

Paula,
I'm working on your White Sky ! Should be ready to go soon.

Debra, you can come visit any time...but I might put you to work !!

Joanna, I have so many Creepy Crawley like to climb plants I'm always on the look out for easy inexpensive "homes" for them.
If it will hold growing media, drain well ( or can have holes drilled in it) it's fair game.

Gingers don't like me much more than Brugs do...they never bloom...
But Milk N Honey must be taking pity on me...she has buds.

oh u are gonna love that milk n honey.. and I would work in a garde 24/7 if I could..
what is wrong with my nanas? I thought they wanted full sun? I sunk him( the one rita sent me) in the garden by the pond, and it is barely making it..
I swear most of my tropicals did better inside in the basement than they are doing here..

I love to use shower caddys for vines, they are great.. LOL
here is my bird feeder planter for vines, on the new bare fence on the south non tropical side.. *sigh* I aM GONNA PARADE IN MY BIKINI i HAVN'T WORN FOR FOUR YEARS AS SOON AS SHE MOVES IN, SO SHE WILL want TO HAVE SOME KIND PRIVACY FENCE OF SOME KIND.. LOL oopsoe caps lock

Debra, That is some sort os Alocasia ...it is not big enough to tell!

Debra, watch out! My squirrels have developed a taste for my spiral ginger flowers! I have to keep the pots well away from the tree trunks and the fence or they get munched. I finally sprayed them with some stuff called 'Critter Ridder' that is a non-toxic scent deterrent with black pepper in it. Makes me sneeze when I'm spraying it if I get downwind.

I'm using it like crazy all around my Mango tree right now, too. Score so far is 6 to 2 i.e. I've harvested 6 mangoes to only 2 for the squirrels.

Mj, put some composted manure in the potting mix for your gingers, they love it! Brugs like it, too. Isn't that why you keep those big ol' furry 4-legged composters around?

Dyzzy, I agree with you, manure really does the trick, I make a compost tea with buffalo manure and feed everything. Gingers here at this house are fried crisp, with new growth at the bottoms.. this is her( the person whose house I am plant sitting) flowering maple pot.. I am jealous LOL Homer, thanks, it popped out of no where I swear, in this little shower caddy..

One more.. the bonus I get for plant sitting, is use of the pool..all of my daughters met me over there the 4th, after I went fishing and caught some nice bass at my sons.. ( now I have sunburned knees )

Debra, move ALL your garbage cans near the fence, hang rags over the fence, pile old junk such as wheelbarrows, trash bags of leaves - anything you can think of - she'll put up the fence in a hurry!!!!

I have always felt gingers needed a year or two to get established then watch out, they will bloom and run like crazy. Mine are blooming late this year, they are just setting buds now. Had to be that weird winter we just had.

Being that Paula will be moving sometime soon, I think we all need to go and help her transfer the plants, maybe a few will fall off the truck or something along the way. :-)

Putting the rocks on the plants to keep the squirrels out made me laugh, we have this silly toad that is excellent at catching the bugs that hang around our front door. Unfortunately, he was killing the plants where he liked to sit and hide. He would dig into a container and since he is so large, about 4" now, he was tearing up the roots. I thought I would outsmart him by putting river rocks in the pots and one night I kept hearing plop, plop, and discovered that darn toad was tossing the rocks down the front steps. I made him a little toad house which he ignored until I put some crumbs there to attract bugs, now he is happily ensconced in his own place. The grandkids got a kick out of granny's new pet.

Alice,what a good hearted person you are!

Musa velutina

LOL, Drew, we have an all glass front door and the lights from the house at night attract hundreds of flying insects. You can't imagine what a godsend this toad has been, I feel like I can finally let the dog out without a can of Raid in my hand. It was touch and go for a while when he was killing my plants but we worked it out.

Cheesecake monstera