Tropical Gardens and Plants 108

Better for getting the scale, plant is over 9', largest leaf close to 5'. Trunk less than a foot tall.

A.Boa

In comopost pile. A mayan mask

Growing nowhere fast!

Nice shiny chocolate of C. Kona Coffee

"Dr." Ginger

Looking lengthwise through banana garden.

Dwarf Variegated Odora

Lutea

AeAe, E. Ventricosum

Money tree in 12''pot

various

Mr.P.Giganteum
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Getting tired!

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A.Regale

A. Robudora

Variegated P. Giganteum

X.Sagittifolium

X. Robustum

X. Violaceum

A. Watsoniana

yer killin me ( softly) love them all, you must have a green arm, drew
this is the pod of the "foxglove" ? hmmm. look familiar to anone?

inside the house... things are happy..

They look great Debra! You probably are already, I'd keep the leaves clean to fascillitate transpiration! Where did you put the babies? In the ground ?

Please show more!

Drew, what are you doing to make that Kona Coffee look so good????? I picked one up at PDN back in June and it has not grown at all and it is very pale and sick looking. Is yours in sun or shade and what are you feeding that baby? Mine is in a container, maybe I should try it in the ground like yours is, what do you think?

They all look fantastic to me, Drew. The Kona Coffee leaves look like they're made of satin - gorgeous. But my favorite is still the big, gathered leaf with the white midrib in your pic above entitled 'various'. Again, that satiny sheen, it looks like something a fashion designer should take inspiration from.

great pictures as always. the supernova brug is flowering and with all this humidity smells so strong

this crinum smells like black licorice.

homer

yes, but also like the one in post 8786075 All I know is after walking through about 6-8 of them on each side of the path, I started looking around for the dinosaurs....LOL

Jan

Drew, excellent growing even though you have had your ups and downs with mother nature this year it is as you said, "if your not growing then your not learning" and this statement is very true.

Candela, my dh does not like 'flowery' scented flowers, but he loves black licorice. Do you know the varietal name of that pretty crinum?

I really should plant some more things he likes the fragrance of, since most of the time my garden smells like jasmine, brugmansia or ginger flowers! (it's a tough life, huh?) He does like the scent of most of the herbs, I must admit.

Pretty white brugs there! Mine are about to put on some more blooms, too. Debra's Monster White (I think that's it's new name, whaddya think?) has about a dozen buds ready to pop. The other two are in bud, as well, and the wimpy "Charles Grimaldi" has finally put on one tiny little bud.

Debra, no clue on your seed pod, except I'm durn sure it's not a foxglove. They used to grow wild in my mother's garden up in BC, and I grew up collecting the seeds and sowing them all through her flower beds. They make small, round seed cases up the flower stem, not a 'pea pod' like that.

What did the flower look like?

Alice I think you may have time to put in ground and overwinter with your native sandy blackish earth, worm poo, compost and a little pine bark fines! That should kick start it well! I would overwinter well though as you are getting such a late start in the ground.

Elaine, The Philodendron McDowell is fast becoming one of my favorites also. With a purplish iridescent look on the green, in the right light, with the white midrib is absolutely beautiful. Pictures give it no justice!

Jan, I have seen pictures on online site calling it Xanthosoma Robustum and Sagittifolium. I have many Spathe pictures and am trying to find someone who knows definitively which is which!

Rachel, I am bummed but am looking forward to next years possibilities. I can't believe this Portora that is in the ground... close to nine feet with an 8'' trunk. leaves and petioles are larger than the big guy in the 45 gallon container.

Next year I will have a few more in pots that have not done well in ground such as; Sarian,Tigrina Superba, Okinawa Silver, Wentii Variegata!

we are getting a new leaf..

I think they all want to come inside now.. up to 105 today and looking at a record for tommorrow at a possible 110

Great job Deb! Very healthy! Is that a cinder block?

New baby for me today - I've been searching for a 'Lady of the Night' orchid - brassavola nodosa - since plantladylin id'd it for me months ago.

Wanted to mount it on the fence, but the white flowers got sort of 'lost' against the light colored fence, so she gets to hang under the umbrella of the tree fern for now. Think I will shop for deals on darker colored orchids for the fence.

ooo purty! I love that white one.
Yes, Drew, it is a cinder block. one is in it and one is in its original little container sunk into the half barrell planters.
Back to work! ugh 107 and windy.. like being in a dryer..
poor lime zinger, it is trying.. it was SOOO BIG last year. if it can just hang in there until I get it up rooted and potted up..

We have the angels trumpeting in my garden tonight - my old noid pink is full of blooms. I should name it Phoenix because it has arisen from the dead (although it froze instead of burning).

Debra's Monster White has over 20 buds and blooms tonight.

I went out to sniff my dainty little new orchid, and of course all you can smell are the brugs . . it's heaven!

Cherub is loaded, too. Seems to be liking her new spot, or at least likes being out of the pot.

Too bad the flash washed out the color from the blossoms, they are the most sublime palest pink shading to cream.