I come from a different time and don't know how to use the camera on my phone. Guess it is really because I didn't WANT to learn. No plants. The family had already had first choice.
Tropical Garden #110
What size Christi?
Hello Everyone!
I'm jazzed with this beautiful weather we are having, trying hard to clean and replant my Aroid garden. Rj's gift of plants came at the right time and I totally enjoy finding the right place for each and every one of them.
homer1958, your advice is on Tropical garden #92, last post. I was sucessful in dividing the A lauterbachiana and applied the same to the Borneo Giants.
Golden Crinum
GAgirl1066, the Plumeria will not be heavy but it is about 4ft. I would rather not cut the top off, as I am sure it will flower next spring. I will d-mail as to cost of postage. I do have another about 1ft., if you do not want to pay that much for postage.
dyzzy, I hope that you will like what I sent, they are small but in your yard they will be giants in no time at all. I am sure by next spring I will have a list a mile long of "must have" plants. lol
ardesia, you are so good at getting the right pot for you plants, I remember how pretty your lotus pot was last summer.
Joeswife, it is scary, seeing you get ready for winter, I am trying not to think about it so soon. My tropicals are just now starting to bloom but I am glad that you are going to entertain us once again in the dead of winter with your basement garden. It would be a long and boring winter without your pictures!
I agree with everyone, leave your cannas in the ground. If they die, we will replace them.
Purple Allamanda, from phughes
mjsponies, you are getting so good with your yard art! The bromeliad you have at the bottom of the trunk would look excellent in the cissus' new digs, as well.
These are front yard pots and not very good pictures. I did not want my neighbors to see me supine, taking pictures, they think I am goofy enough. This pot is actually very pretty ( I said "I like photography" not that I am good at it ).
The blue duranta on the top, is hardly visable but the plumbago on the bottom shows up nicely.
My computer is locking up hope that KW can repair it.
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potted Shooting Stars from RJ
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Pseuderanthemum laxiflorum. "Shooting Stars"
Rita; You ever heard of Drewsheimers? Glad to know what I told you worked!
Beautiful Plants Rita and Everyone else! A.Red Portora is rockin!
Don't really know the size. A guesstimate would be 15x20x10h. Lots of space.
Too small for your giant plants, Drew! lol. Not enough room for the elephant either.
My greenhouse is 90x90 or so, and there's still no room for the elephant. Not even his ears!
Hadn't heard about Drewsheimers, but I sure get Sometimers a lot.
I've got CRS disease really bad - just ask Deb!
ya know, I am going to take ya alls advice on the caladiums. Honey erm, Joe is questioning me leaving the cannas in the ground, he really doesn't want me to lose them, so I can say he will lift them and we will stash them with the caladiums.
already have the voodoo bulbs sleeping, they need company. Any brug that is not about to bloom is going to be whacked, root ball stashed, tops sent out.
not bringing in the annuals this year ( well I say that, but ya know an annual here is like a tropical to me in winter) I do love to see my begonias and impatiens waking up each spring, after keeping them going in winter. I HATE buying new annuals every year. KayJones is right, I need to go and love with her .. LOL
Didn't ya all know I have to Garden in winter? I HATE football, and this year, the Chiefs are uhm,,,,, well never mind.
New! Tropical! 4 O clock! isn't it pretty?
( Love the Pseuderanthemum laxiflorum. "Shooting Stars") I saw a plant named shooting star at the nursery I go to, only the foliage was red?
MJ, you are so funny.. you know I go kinda crazy in the basement in winter, putting googlie eyes on my plants and such.. and Rita is afraid her neighbors think she is crazy? LOL
Gordons Picotee Datura..
I never had white fly before, this is new, and now before anyting comes in, it gets drenched , blasted, and shot with soap and neem. ugh.
this thing is growing in the firespike pot...... RITA? do you have these growing around there? LOL
KayJones, this thing is HUGE.
Elaine, I love the last shot you posted, it is so TROPICAL ...
here is my tropical shot
wish my sister would use her camera and send me pics of the triple currant datura I left at her place, but nooooooo she doesn't know howwwww she whines.
Hmmpf!
Drew, are you ready for some brugs, I am sending yours this coming Monday.. Kaitlyn is gonna bust out before she comes in, she is so tall, thinking about cutting her down, keeping the top and sending her rootball out.. *hint hint* Son says no problem getting her down the stairs tho, he moves people and buisnesses every day, that is his job.. he might think twice about the big mamma portera out back in the dog run, it is huge and I can't even shove it or pull it an inch.. maybe I should just uproot it and re-pot it down for the winter?
dyzz...........you have a 90 x 90 greehouse ? really..........dang.......my poor little 12 x 10 is going to be soooooooooo stuffed this winter..
I don't bring in canna's, caladiums, brugs, ( except what is in pots and that's only one, but I might dig up the one Deb sent since I think I should move it anyway, and stick it in a pot for the winter...maybe it will bloom for me next summer)
Saw my noid brug has got buds, bout time...I've feed watered and petted all summer, I take cuttings of some salvia's but most are hardy for me here. but I let a lot go dormant any more. But I have bunch of tropicals to take in. and the Orchids...Hoya's..but alot of that never goes in till we get threat of frost or freeze.
Ok ladies....drum rolll.......I went down to our house at the coast yesterday to check on my plants there and look what greeted me...
flower
plumbago
one of my favorite plant...hamellia (?) something like that..
yellow butterfly bush....does anyone elses do this...it goes everywhere.....this one is about 10-12 wide.
Beautiful!
I'm flying off to Virginia see my new Grandson this morning - my heart is happy!!!!
How exciting, I am happy for you. Give him an extra snuggle from your gardenng buddies.
Paula, that brug is awesome, it appears to be in full sun and that is amazing. The orangy plant is hamalia patens or firebush, hummers and butterflies love that one. I stopped trying to grow most butterfly bushes, buddleas, along the coast. With the exception of the new little Blue Chip, they all seem to droop all over and rarely bloom for me.
have a good trip and take lots of pictures, KayJones. Hugs and Kisses from us all here.
Paula, that is one beautiful looking Brug. Congrats!
love the firebush, it is really cool looking.
Mj, I have so many salvias right now, only the tuber producing ones come back, letting them go to seed. Didn't know you could root the annual type, except for the square stem one , I seem to do okay with it.
this lavender moon vine is all over the place and loaded with seeds.
Yeah, Deb that 'tropical' shot is looking west across the back yard towards the mango tree. In June, you could actually see the tree! I have red hibiscus acetocella that have shot up 10ft. and weeds waist high in the walkway around where the earth boxes go. It's supposed to be 'cooler' this weekend so maybe I'll be able to get them rousted out.
Mj, my 90 x 90 greenhouse is the yard . . . you know, the Great Outdoors is our greenhouse all summer here in FL.
Anybody want starts of this invasive weed that keeps popping up in my beds? I'm yanking it out constantly, too bad it's invasive 'cause it's really pretty. It is a Ruellia Tweediana or Brittoniana, Mexican Petunia, the tall variety. (the short one isn't invasive) Deb, it would very likely fill up a pot and bloom all winter for you if you want to try it. It's only hardy down to zone 8 so up north should not be a problem, but if you send starts to anyone in the South, be sure to tell them how invasive it is. It's on The List here in Florida.
This red hibiscus H. acetocella starts really easily from cuttings, too. It makes a nice shrub, hedge or screen with pretty, edible red leaves. I pick the smallest leaves while they're still shiny, and put them in salad for a tangy taste. My (Canadian) brother calls it Canadian Salad. The leaves are high in vitamin C, and quite tasty. It's the leaf they use to make hibiscus tea. The flowers are small-ish as hibiscus go, about 2in. across but a subtle rosy color that looks fabulous with the red leaves. I have no flowers right now, but as soon as the weather cools off and drys up they will bloom.
I'll have lots of it 'to go' after the weekend! Speak up or it's going to the County composter on Tuesday.
I love to Elaine, but Manatee Co is having their annual wildflower plant sale and I've been waiting for that one it starts at 8, then I might hit Tropiflora's Fall Festival, you go on Friday as you planned but thanks for being willing to change your plans for me.
Paula there is a mesh (not the landscape that folks use) this just works into the topsoil and good for after you have seeded. I'm with Elaine, hope you don't have to plant to much sod, waste of time and resources, unless of course it is for feed for livestock.
Great pictures everyone.
Jan
What beautiful flowers and plants you guys have been showing this month. I really missed being a part of this thread since you were so nice about having my houseplants included, but on Sept. 9th I had to put my 14 year old Jack Russell Barney to sleep. Some of you may already know what that did to me, for the others, I will just say, as many animals that I put to sleep over my 83 years, this one did me in. I cried for two days , left my business go to blazes, got a sinus infection that is still not completely over, and the good thing was, I lost 6 pounds. LOL I can laugh now, but at the time I was one miserable old lady. In the meantime, the greenhouse and plants suffered but the plants must have enjoyed my absence because they came up with some beautiful blooms. I am back with some pictures I took with my cell phone when I was doing the daily watering.
First is Radermachera kunming "Dwarf Tree".
Enjoy! JB
Here is theMandevilla amabilis 'Alice Du Pont'
This is her first year blooming for me and she just keeps going like that little pink bunny with the drum. LOL . JB
JB, You should not apologize for feeling the lose of a loved pet. My animals and plants are my world to me...my family knows I love them beyond words. I go nuts when a horse, doggie, kitty is ill, and am even more protective of my human children. Never Ever feel like you should apologize. The love they give us is soooo un-conditional. I could not live w/o out them. One reason I'll be AWOL on this tread is when my human/animal family needs me more. They come first ALWAYS.
D_I_T_T_O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me too! Just last week, my little cocker spaniel (third child) was eating her dinner and I looked down and she was acting wierd. She kept her head down and just stumbling around. I grabbed the phone and called the vet, of course not there (5:15.really?) So I start yelling for my daughter, meanwhile Annie (dog) was still stumbling and acting weird and then finally just fell down. I grabbed her up and started kinda squeezing her chest, I could tell she wasn't breathing. Grabbed her and took off out the door to another vet and as I was taking her to the car, stuck my finger down her throat a couple of times...gave her to my daughter and by the time I cranked up the car she was sitting over there panting and wagging her tail...so excited to be 'going for a ride". Scared me to death!!!
God bless all of you.
losing a pet is a hard thing to go thru.
I have lots of the ruella in pink and purple, looking for the white, elaine, but I planted a million seeds of the red hibiscus and didn't get even one plant. if you have cuttings or roots, I would love to give it a try.
I must have been tired after work, I just woke up in my chair. I think I missed the new datura, and have to go to work at 7 tommorrow so will miss the new Hige blooms I saw budding this am too. boo hoo.
come on weekend and plz send us some rain!
who sent me the loquat tree? found it this am tangeled inside the corner of the arbor, poor thing, but , it is still alve.
Paula!!! Sounds like you have been really busy! You need a vacation down in the islands when you get through with the house!
Drew....are you paying? LOL We are so over budget on this house it is not funny!! Thought my husband was going to have a heartattack the other day when he totaled everything up (so far). And we still arent finished. I may just have a dirt yard for awhile.