Anybody seen this color of Bleeding Heart Vine before? Red flowers with sort of purple calyxes, overall gives a rich, dark crimson effect from a distance. So beautiful! I've been prowling around the yard trying to figure out where I could shoehorn one in.
Elaine,
That's Clerodendrum Delectum
I've had one on my pasture fence for years...hardy here, but does get knocked back by a hard frost/freeze..
Everything in my garden is sort of holding its breath after the cold we had last week. Warm days and nights keeping near 60 for the rest of this week, is the forecast, though. Maybe things will resume normal operations . . . tomatoes will resume ripening, let's hope!
Clerodendrum Delectum
is beautiful
noid cattleya rescued from Lowe's 3 yrs ago finally bloomed for me.
that is beautiful!
Here's a blaze of color to brighten your day - orchid display at the Sarasota Orchid Show.
This message was edited Jan 8, 2012 5:26 PM
Amazing range of colors, I really loved this soft peachy one.
One more, a huge basket full of fragrant pink/mauve flowers.
I'll save up a few more of these pics to get us through this dry spell.
what are the pink ones? they are loverly.
Sigh, I was in Sarasota for a day but with time constraints was unable to join Elaine for the orchid show. I did manage to fit in a quick visit to Selby though.
Musa Coccinea.
Really cool brom (I think) it was too high for me to see the label.
Typical jungle scene with a birds nest fern, etc.
This message was edited Jan 8, 2012 5:11 PM
This is a birds nest too but it is placed high up where the sun shines through the fronds. Pretty cool, it looked like a basket up there.
This message was edited Jan 8, 2012 5:12 PM
I don't know what this one is but the next photo will show how cool it looks with the sun shining through.
Same plant from underneath. Are you seeing a pattern here? LOL, slow time of year for flowers but lots of other interesting things going on.
This message was edited Jan 8, 2012 5:19 PM
Deb, those pink orchids were a Cattleya cross, I think. I tried my very darndest to take a picture of the label after I took each flower shot, but some of them were blurry because of the low light and the shaky hands of the photographer (grin). That one was unreadable, sorry.
Alice, lovely shots esp. the birds nest ferns - in that second birds nest shot it looks like you caught the back end of a fluffy bird exiting the scene stage left!
My camera didn't do justice to the color of these purple Catts - they were much more blue than the picture shows.
This message was edited Jan 8, 2012 6:22 PM
A begonia sneaking through the foliage. Got to find out which one this is.
Thanks Elaine, your orchids are beautiful too, the shots I took of the orchids at Selby all seem to be blurry, I was in too much of a hurry.
Don't know which Ti this is but I would like one of these for sure.
Another top and bottom shot, this is a Clerodendron quadriloculore 'Brandon' from the top.
...and the undersides of the leaves.
And, just because I was checking the reds on my camera a plain old anthurium. My new camera has a setting called "Happy Colors" and it is the only way I can get a real true red in the pictures. Elaine, check your camera, maybe you have something similar, I find it very hard to record the colors I actually see.
Alice, I did a search for your Cordyline and found this site, which may help you i.d. it. The closest I found was Cordyline 'White Leaf'.
http://www.cordyline.org/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=35&catid=13
Confession time - almost all the pics I post here are taken with my phone. There are no adjustments, I don't think.
Hey, it's always with me, and generally does a great job on flowers. I really have needed a new camera for ages, but when I got the 'smart phone' it took such great pics . . well, it doesn't seem such a great need any more. My digital camera is at least 5 years old, and does a great job taking pictures of sailboats with the zoom out on the water. Image stabilization etc. is great. Good for birds on the feeder, when I put it on the tripod in my window, too. But it's not good for flowers even with the macro setting.
Great pics Ladies !!
Alice, that Begonia is brevirimosa subsp. exotica. I have it and the colors are extraordinary !
I really like the foliage on the C. quadriloculore
Spent all day dragging plants back outside, giving them a drink and fresh air.
It's been beautiful here
Hoya mindensorsis is blooming...
P. speciosum I believe. These were all over the place so I am sure they are hardy. Elaine can probably grow a lot of them outdoors.
At my home in coastal SC I can grow the P. selloums outdoors, they are sort of like a weed here. The Monsteras can be touchy about the cold but they always come back.
This message was edited Jan 9, 2012 7:35 AM
Martha, Taylor's greenhouses web page says the Begonia Brevirimosa can be difficult. Have you found it to be fussy?
Another from Selby.
Alice,
My big plant does fine in the greenhouse over the winter, and fine outside in a high shade area in summer.
Cuttings inside the leaf edges dry out, so I'm thinking I'm going to have to put them under a dome. I can send you one in the spring.
It does need high humidity, but otherwise I've not found it difficult.
Here's a pic behind the big hoya in the greenhouse, it's grown since then. My greenhouse got down into the low 40's for a few hours with this last cold snap and it hasn't missed a beat.
Martha, I'm jealous of your CLEAN greenhouse! Mine is stuffed to the top and entry door - can't even get in there to clean!
My aroid 'collection' is still out in the shady border by the east fence. Here's Prince of Orange (sort of dark red these days) snuggled up with Hilo Beauty, my little polly (rescue from the grocery store) and my big mama begonia 'Looking Glass'. They all got covered with a drape of frost cloth and came through the cold nights just fine.
My 8 or 9 big P. selloums, most of them 6ft. to 8ft. tall are all along that fence under the big oak tree. They don't get covered, and have done great this year.
I love the shape of the leaves on that P. speciosum! Once I get all the begonias and broms situated in the border this spring, I'll think about filling in the gaps with that great foliage. Oh, and I have several terrestrial orchids that need a feature spot in that border once we are past the danger of cold weather. It's going to be a really pretty walk down that side this summer! Hm, I also have two little P. Gloriosums to find a spot for . .
Wow--lots going on when you miss a few days with no internet!
Elaine-- thought I had your number, was late getting out of the dentist and it was after 12 when we passed by. Got a blurb from the Naples Orchid Society that Plantio La Orquidea is having a sale this friday and saturday.
Clerodendrum Delectum-- didn't know that was what I had! Mine has not stopped blooming all year and needs to be whacked back-- Anyone between here and Ocala want any cuttings?
Debi
Hey Debi, I figured that's what happened. You have a crazy schedule, girl. Whenever you're passing here in the morning give me a call.
I am absolutely hitting Plantio La Orquidea on Friday morning, as I got a coupon/flyer from them at the orchid show yesterday. They have a couple of orchids I've had on my list for a while. Plus it's an excuse to take a look at Tropiflora as well, which is always a treat.
Kay, Hate to tell you this..but that photo was taken back in November. Now it's "In and Out" and I keep every thing close to either the Greenhouse or the barn. Cause I might have to move them back in at a moments notice, but I hate keeping anything in longer than I have too. I sweep in there daily, pick off yellow or icky looking leaves and it drives me crazy !! Some days it looks barren, some day's you smack your head on things hanging from the rafters. Just got to pick your battles !!!!
lovely lovely things to look at.
nice to meet you Debi, hello from Kansas!
begonia looking glass is beautiful!
all I have to offer are things I have already shown, the lantanas and daturas are all a blooming here, inside, not really tropicals to you all, but to me they are very tropical to me..LOL
Hello to all! Elaine I will have the dogs with me on Friday, but am planning to stop. Period. The end. That's it. Would love to have some greenery and color for the winter circuit.
On the other hand, the cattleya in the tree has 6 fowers that should be out before we leave-- otherwise the kind lady next door who is watching the plan life for two(yes TWO) months is really going to enjoy them. The tomatoes are just about ready as well. I'm giving my neighbor a load of horse manure when my friend and landscaper can get with the barn to pick it up. Garden gets moved next year--DH came up with the perfect spot!
Time to start moving some of these plants--YUCK.
Debi
Martha, that is an awesome begonia brevirimosa you have there. I would love to have one like it but I would cry if you took a cutting off such a perfect plant. I'll be patient and wait until yours grows much, much larger or I find one someplace along the way.
A nice big Calla bloom showed up today. Hard to get good pics because they are so white, and it's so windy they wouldn't stand still!
I plant more of these each year as they are so lush and tropical looking, but they love the cool winter weather.
My old pink NOID brug putting out yet another flush of blooms despite the cold weather last week. The others are all pouting, but this one has acclimated, I guess. It's the only one I didn't cover on the cold nights, too! Flowers are paler than in the summer, but they last a lot longer at this time of year, too.
