homer your A robodora looks good !!! my 2 made it fine from digging several weeks ago
i have them in semi sunny window..60sF room.. in potting mix of my compost/leaf compost/shredded
bark.. im keeping them on drier side ..not much wilting and firm ..so far so good..
looking foward to new EE lari ann will have out next few yrs..
always on outlook for more interesting plants
your referral to durios nursery in LA much thanks !! the xanthosoma roustrums i got (and an extra plant)
did super this summer..and are doing just fine overwintering..so far...
i do plan to take off any pups next summer from my thai giants.. and i have a TON of them..LOL
i think thats why the mother plants didnt get
huge like they do other yrs..
one thai giant had 11 pups.. lol
Tropical Garden #113
Hello Everyone!!
Kay Jones, thanks for the id on the firespike!
Joeswife, I have to agree, your Philo. Giganteum is a handsome plant. It needs a closeup. I have a 6" pot of noid pink Hoya for you, I guarentee that it will bloom.
dyzzy, I will have to check Lowe's again for Hoyas, can't have too many at their markdown prices. lol
mjsponies, thanks very much for your help with everything!!! I drilled holes in the pots yesterday. The Cecestis Mirabilis came from Miller's Tropicals as well, he has one climbing up a pole. He has a few more that size that look very healthy.
And YES, you need to take some pictures before it gets too cold. lol
This is the first Duranta that I have found with thorns.
Thanks Drew and Rachel, I love when the answer you get is what you were hoping it was!!
Rachel, I could not find very much on your Stylochaeton bogneri, only that it has a very pretty pink bloom. I like it.
Rita, my Duranta has thorns.
MJ is the one who i.d.'d the firespike for me, so we can both thank HER! LOL
that duranta looks varigated! is it?
spent the evening re-arraning again, with the cold spell the furnance is running full time so I had to get the plants as far away from covered heat ducts as possible, and move the humidifiers closer in to them. Soon I will post pics of my mother of thousands in full bloom, and of the blue butterfly clerodendrum.
still have morning glorys blooming down stairs, and looks like jasmine sambuc is all budded up again.. and .. *sigh* I love gardening at night..
I almost bought a can of scrubbing bubbles, but chickened out.
wakie wakie, here I come!
Hello folks! What is this about "scrubbing bubbles"? Surely you guys are not thinking of spraying plants with this bathroom chemical? But, if it works, what the hell!
Hello folks! What is this about "scrubbing bubbles"? Surely you guys are not thinking of spraying plants with this bathroom chemical? But, if it works, what the hell! X. Lime Zingers doing well Debra.
Glad I can help out with a little info. from time to time!
Drew,
I visit a Hoya forum on another site quite frequently. Many of them use Scrubbing bubbles for pest control, fungus, etc. I've used it on my hoya's and they've done just fine. Spray it on, wash it off. I'm not real sure on other plants but it works on the Hoya's.
Sorry guys; We just bought this Apple computer and it is VERY different from Windows!
Ok. Thanks Martha!
I'm still hunting for someone with Brugs close by...anyone in a close distance to me I would be glad to come and get them...and I have lots of seeds and some rooted plants to trade...need to make a trade list. But my seeds are on my journal under, Seeds I Have.
Now another tropical question. I got this plant called Heliconia at my little nursery around the corner. I have no idea what kind it is, but reading about it, I'm not sure it will do well in my garden. One it says constantly moist soil...well I'm on a hill and have no constant moist spot in my yard...when plants say that, they never make it. So now I'm thinking I need to take it back. Anyone have experience with this tropical plant in Central FL?
Here is a photo and then the flowers...sorry they are a bit blurry it was getting dark out.
This is a close up of the flowers, they are old blooms, so not so great. But this one didn't have the orange coloring the others there did. I like different.... so picked it.
The spot I'm thinking of is ,mostly shade with some filtered sun...in mid summer could get full sun very late in the afternoon.
Well, you could trade your Heliconia with someone who has a Brug - both will do fine in the mail. We can get the Heliconia here at our box stores for about $9. No one offers Brugs for sale that I'm aware of.
Sherri, I have heliconias in my garden, in dappled shade under an oak tree. They are not particularly thirsty, although they do get water through the dry spells, and come back even after our cold winters we've had. They haven't bloomed quite as well the last two years, but they did come back and they did bloom. I'd give them a try if I were you. They're really pretty and have been easy care for me. They even spread themselves around by underground rhizomes if they like where you plant them. (you can just pull them up and transplant back to where they came from, or start a new clump) Your site sounds like it would work fine.
They make nice long-lasting cut flowers, too. Let's hope for a warmer winter this year.
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Got a picture of a cape honeysuckle in bloom at Selby Gardens today. Is this like the one you're growing in your basement, Deb?
Sherri, here's another heliconia that was blooming in a big clump at Selby Gardens. It's in deep shade, too, so I was surprised how well it was blooming!
Here's one for Drew - my niece Heather standing beneath the leaves of a giant Aroid . . . couldn't see the label for it anywhere, but those leaves over her head were at least 3ft. long. She's nearly 6ft. tall, too.
I think this was a foliage plant I posted a picture of, but didn't get the name, back in the summer last time I visited Selby.
It's Dracena goldieana, Zebra Striped Dragon Tree. Just as pretty this time around.
Last one for tonight, this could very likely be the most important plant in my universe - Theobroma cacao.
The flowers are these tiny little orchid-like things on the trunk. Stems are about 1/2in. long and flowers 3/4in across. From those develop big beautiful golden yellow pods. Chocolate (eventually) comes from the seeds in those pods . . . yum!
oh I love that Dracena goldieana!
yes Elaine, that cape honey suckle is what is blooming in my basement.. good thing it is down there too, it got dowm to 21 last night.
Oh, yuck! I don't even want to think about 21deg. My family (who were walking through the gardens at Selby with me) think I am a raving lunatic because I told them I know a lady in Kansas who grows that Cape honeysuckle in her basement all winter.
They looked from me to this towering 8ft. shrub covered with blazing orange flowers . . . well, they just couldn't process it. Too funny.
How 'bout these lovely things Eucharis Grandiflora
Love that Eucharis! That is one of those plants I always mean to acquire but never get around to it. Maybe I will find one this weekend.
DH and I spent the night in the prettiest little town, Dahlonega, GA, it is cold, we are on the edge of the Applachians, but such a beautiful place. It is the site of the first gold rush in the US. On our way to visit our son in TN and he tells me he has found a special nursery for me to visit. WooHoo!
Elaine, please keep posting pictures of Selby, I could easily live there. LOL Logees sells Theobroma for indoor culture, Carol Noel was growing it in HI, her husband just wanted enough to make one chocolate bar for the grandkids, apparently it is not so easy to process into the good stuff.
Paula, hoping the move is going well.
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Don't have to convince me, Alice. I need to go to Selby more often in the fall and winter when my garden gets a bit sad. All the tropical divas - except the brugs! - are done, and the winter fillers haven't come to blooming just yet.
Here's the old noid pink faithfully flowering. That left hand flower is right at nose level, too.
wow that Dracena goldieana is pretty cool ! I have to get down there one of these days. It's hard to get away much tho.
I tried to get some pics today but it's windy and a bunch came out pretty blurry so not that much to show........but a bunch to delete from the camera !! LOL...
tillandsia xerographica
White Empress canna ( I think) from Rita
Petunia's from the Lowes Haul..
Cape Honeysuckle...out in the middle of the yard...
Hibiscus acetosella.....
Begonia Sophie Cecile and Colombia Ivy sage...
Red shrimp plant
Cissus amazonica....took it in the greenhouse when we had the cold snap last week, had to tie the bottom up in circles with a Butterfly clip...
last one for now...
Hoya imperialis var. Rauchii. this one get's HUGE....I got it as a tiny cutting last spring. Hopefully blooms this summer...it's a heat lover.
Cissus discolor, other hoya's and orchids.
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I see you have plants everywhere also Martha!!! Beautiful job!
a nice trip thru your gardens everyone, thank you!
oh, Marthaaaaa... look out for a package please..
LOL...ok Debra, I will, I'm trying to get stuff out to everyone...horses, plants, an a poor Turkey Hen that I've discovered cannot fly, so she's stuck hiding out in the palmetto's in the back pasture. ....she started following me around, and I SWORE I WAS NOT GOING TO GIVE IN. Well not I have "Trudy the Turkey" to to take care of too. I just can't help it, the other turkey's pick on her, and she comes when I call her...so she's getting fed. Sigh....the Human kids are Kidding me, the Other half is kidding me...but I just can't let her starve, drated wild turkey !!!!! I'm such a sucker !!
Martha, I woulda taken her in too... poor thing..
don't send me anything.. at least right now anyways..
Well, I have several Canna beds that need thinning, Salvia's that I can get cuttings of, or are setting seeds faster than I can get to collecting, a self full of seeds drying, and etc, etc, so as I get to each area, I'm doing cuttings and potting/bagging up. But that is why I've asked some folks what do you "Really want ' No sense in sending duplicates, or things someone doesn't really care to grow. I just found two more pods of Gordon's Picotee Datura today split open, boy I sure don't need them popping up every where. Soooo, I'll get things out, some maybe just in time for spring !!
do you have a picture of Gordons Picotee Datura? I planted so,me of his seeds, now I just don't know what they look like..