OOhh, Debra! So sorry you're a sickie. That red hibiscus I sent you has Vit.C in the leaves and makes a nice tea (with some honey in it for fighting viruses).
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Poor Debra, can you take the day off and just sit downstairs and inhale all the humidity and the beauty from your basement bounty? Feel better soon.
I took clippings last year of the Russelia sarmentosa and lost them all to an unexpected freeze while out of town. I have some clipping this year I took in mid September, so far they haven't perished but two don't look so great. I may need to start them earlier next year. I'm working on it.
I also have the Russelia equisetiformis in red and it hardly bloomed this past year and just doesn't look very well. I see huge bushes of it a bit more south of my zone...I think just doesn't like freezing down each winter, by the time it starts looking good again...it is winter again.
Got down to 44 last night...our coldest night yet...but thank goodness no frost...but has me now in the mood to put up the Christmas tree.
Sorry you're sick Deb...I guess it is that time of year...take every break you can and rest up. Christmas is only 24 days away. ☺
Hello Everyone!
It is a pleasure to have phughes and Rj back on the same thread!! Many thanks to phughes for starting the new thread. I am always in hopes that she will have the time to post directions in starting a new thread and attaching a link. She gave me directions and I got it on the the first try. She is a very good teacher!!
Rj, I am keeping my fingers crossed for you to find a job in Houston, and won't have to move. I'm glad to see how well your prized Fern is thriving. I bet he puts a smile on your face every time you sit on your deck.
Here is one of your plants blooming.
Sorry,wrong picture.
Rj's plant
sunkissed, I am totally enjoying your posts and pictures!! The firepit was a great idea, I know it will bring you lots of pleasure.
This is the last flower on my Telosum cordata vine, I missed a lot being sick last week.
Here is a better picture of the flower.
http://www.logees.com/Telosma-cordata-Chinese-Violet/productinfo/R1584-2/
mjsponies, It seems from your pictures as if it is spring in Florida. The white sky vine you sent, is doing fine, I will definately take very good care of it after seeing the picture of your mature plant. I am also real proud of my dancing bones.
dyzzy, nice color on your barleria. You made me go check to see if I had any buds on those cutting of the red hibiscus plants, those are so pretty.
Here is a Bromeliad blooming, I hope you can see the tiny blue flowers.
ardesia, I am glad that dizzy was able to ID your palm, I will have to find one !!
That is quite an accomplishment growing a plam to that size from a seed. I know that I would be proud of it.
I have a tangarine tree that is about 6 ft. tall that fruited for the first time this year. Mind you, it bore only two but I am so very proud!!
Joeswife, I hope that you feel better soon, I missed you!!
This crud is the worst, somedays I feel like a million bucks, others, like a Belizian shilling.
homer1958, this is a new Philo. squamiferum from Millers Tropicals with it's cool hairy petioles.
Lovely, Rita!!!
Rita
Was in behind RJ's abutilon? I see something pink but can't tell what it is.
Debra, Sure hope you feel better soon, your Brug cutting you sent has already got roots on it. I put it on the heat mat...bada bing bada boom !!
Rita,
I have that same abutilon, but mine did not bloom yet. All the others did so I'm thinking I might have missed feeding it enough. Sometimes things get lost around here.
I've got a couple of Hoya's setting buds I hope they don't blast with this cool down we've had. They are in the Greenhouse but it's gotten a bit cooler in there at night even with the heat on.
this is a little wild green orchid blooming here now...Greenfly Orchid ( Epidendrum magnoliae )
it's smaller than my little pinky finger nail !
Cute Orchid, Martha!
Hello Everyone!!
Thanks very much, Kay Jones!
phughes, that is a Cherries Jubilee Allamanda, I now have two nice size plants that bloomed throughout the summer. One was bought as a chocolate swirl, only to find out after it bloomed that it was the same plant I already had.
Is your A. Chocholate swirl still blooming?
mjsponies, that is a cute little orchid! I also hope that the chilly weather did not hurt your Hoya's. We need a few blooms to get us back into the swing of tropical gardening.
This is a Bromeliad Aechmea Malva that I thought I had lost in our last bad winter. The two pups did survive, maybe next summer I will see them bloom. It is a beautiful purple color given more light.
This is a new Bromeliad Aechmea Imperialis Rubra, I got from e-bay. It is a very nice plant and kept me occupied all day trying to find the right location for this Diva.
Does anyone else have a Christmas cactus coming into bloom? This one is from Rachel.
Oh, yes - all of my c.c. are in bud and should bloom in the next two or three days - they are SO beautiful - can't wait! Then it will be time for the sunrise cactus aka Easter cactus - oh, so GORGEOUS!
Thanks giving cactus still blooming...Christmas Cactus all loaded and starting to open...pic today hopefully.
Rita I have the A. Cherries Jubilee also and when was looking at others saw the Chocolate one and thought the blooms looked too similar so passed. I'm wondering if it was a marketing ploy.
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All of my Christmas Cactus are very happy-- still setting buds and several weeks away from blooming. I have them under a hibiscus on the east side of the house and they are all wedged in together. Always fun to fish them out and see what they have done over the summer. The dead Royal Palm was taken down yesterday and we kept a piece for a plant stand in one of the outdoor "rooms" .
Debi
Anyone else growing Salvia involucrata? Mine always starts blooming in November and keeps it up until spring. The cold rarely touches it. This clump is about 8' across.
Alice, that's a gorgeous Salvia, they are one of my favorites !!
Thanks, this is a close up of the flowers. I understand there are about 5 different varieties of the S. involuctata, I am not sure which one this is.
This billbergia is blooming again. I don't know which one this is either.
beautiful pictures, everyone..
Hello Everyone!!
We will be hunkering down for the next couple of days, expecting cold and lots of rain.
Kay Jones, I was not familiar with the Easter cactus, I had to look it up. I agree they are gorgeous, please remember to take a few shots to share.
mjsponies, I felt cheated by the nurseryman, he assured me that it was a chocolate swirl. We purchased this one from them the previous year and it had a little yellow and brown in the flowers.
Welcome Debijaynes!!
It is nice to see a new name, I hope that you visit often. We are good at recycling stuff on this thread. mjsponies made an awesome display from tree stumps she rescued from the trash, joeswife is so creative using purses and light fixtures for containers. It would be nice to see the finished plant stand in your outdoor room.
ardesia, thanks for showing your salvia, I will have to do a little research to see if it is cold hardy in my zone. I need to replace a lot of perennials that died this past summer. I love that color!
I have a several clumps of these still blooming in my yard.
This is another keeper, they are much prettier in person, and looks very good with the iceberg white roses.
Joeswife, I hope that you are feeling much better. I know seeing that big beautiful flower cheered you up. I appreciated seeing it.
ID please
RachelLF, WoW, that is as good as it gets!! That is the biggest leaf on a Phio. Joepii that I have seen. Good growing!!!
Rita, your plants always look so healthy even with all they went throught this past summer. PF says that Salvia involuctata is good to 7b so you should be OK with it. I'll start lots of little ones in the spring and share. I should have added before - that plant has never had any fertilizer or supplimental water, it is growing all on its own at the edge of our property and it is huge.
Rita--love the yellow x-mas cc; I have never seen a yellow one; it is so pretty. I no longer have a christmas cactus but saw that WM had some so I may need to go pick me up one. Not sure what colors they had.
My CC alamanda is no longer blooming; it only had one bloom this year. The drought slowed down blooming. By the time it started blooming, we started getting cool blasts and that took care of any more blooms. I hope I can keep them alive this winter.
Shame it has to die!
Drew, that looks like some type of Aloe saponaria, just give that baby lots of neglect and sunshine and it should bloom again and again and again.
why would it die, anyway?
It was sold to me as an Agave! Once an Agave blooms they are toast! That would be wonderful if it is an Aloe!