Oh...and here is the baby you want....
Camera doesn't do the colors justice...
Tropical Plants and Gardens #119
Quick note...great pics..lot's blooming but not alot to show not great pic taking weather, we didn't get much wind at all..I moved plants around to keep from getting beat up but it really wasn't necessary. We did however get about 4 in. of rain in the between yesterday and today..puddles soaked in within minutes to hours. We need this desperately, fires are around so maybe this will help calm them down. Actually perfect for us...just need a few more inches and a little more consistancy and we might get back close to normal.
I think I need one of those Worm Plants..LOL...Elaine I have orchids about to bloom from the batch you sent...I'll try to get pics.
That's cool! I'd love to see those orchids. I think I have seedlings in the pot with the mama Worm Killer. Will know for sure by fall if they are the same thing or a weed. By then it will be cool enough to send you one, or two. Mine's in a 4gal. pot already, and went through winter with no protection at all, although it did die back to underground. You could probably keep it happily dormant in a low, cool corner of your greenhouse.
So glad you got rain - Yay! We got nuttin but a few gusts of breeze and two rumbles of thunder last night.
Beautiful A. 'Hilo Beauty' Elaine! Where did you purchase the "Worm Killer"? I am going to check e-bay and see if anyone of my vendors may have it!...Beautiful P. 'Pink Princess' there Paula; Alice, you will definitely appreciate that beauty. Hollysmama, excellent job with your tropicals.
Nice pictures everyone!
Tropiflora had the Worm Killers on their VIPP special last year in August. I think Paula, Alice and I all got one the same week. They had them again in the fall at least once when I was up there, maybe the week they had their Fall Festival. It's a great plant, very easy care and nothing seems to want to eat it . . . guess that's why it has the name, huh.
This plant did have a seed pod when I got it last summer. See the little plants in the left side of the pot in the pic above? I think they may be seedlings, but can't be sure until they make a 'real' leaf. They're the right color and texture, but not that neat wavy spade shape yet. If they are babies, I'll be glad to send you one.
Not without me paying shipping PLEASE!
Gee, I might be able to get them into a First Class envelope. Can you swing 44 cents?
Just kidding. Not more than a couple of bucks, though. Unless they take off and make it to adulthood over the summer. They do form a tuber of sorts, so I'm told. Looks like I may have 4 or 5, but I'll investigate further in the morning. I might try extracting one from the bunch there, pot it up and see if it survives. We may have to wait to move them until they make a tuber, too.
So much to learn, so little brain . .. I'm turning into a pumpkin in 3 . . 2 . . 1 . .
Yea; but, that's almost half of my weekly allowance!
Those certainly look like babies Elaine. That is cool, I hope mine will make seeds this year. They do have a small tuber which looks more like a corm. My plant went completely dormant and has come back nicely, what could be easier than a plant that goes to sleep and wakes up by itself.
LOL Elaine, I lose more gray cells every day, it is getting scary.
Drew, be thankful you have a weekly allowance. LOL
Thankful for everything Alice! Most especially, placing my feet on the floor in the morning.
LOL I was just thinking of how I try and hide my plant purchases. It is easy for a gal, we are good at these sorts of things. "Oh, that old thing? It has been in the back of the closet (or garage) forever." What do guys say?????
Help! Anyone want to come help me build an ark??? Rained all night and still raining heavy at the moment. Think I will just stay inside today and unpack some of these boxes.
Elaine, I would say babies too. I have one or two in mine also. I didn't think about seed, I just assumed it was growing more from the tuber. When do you think we should pot them up separately? I think I will let mine grow till the fall also.
Drew,
I bought five new EEs this weekend. Teacup, giant thailand, mohito, mayan mask, and either calidora or odorata(?) Can't remember. Do you have any suggestions or info on these you could share? They also have a sting ray that I wanted, but it was 5 ft tall and the leaves were a foot or so long. That thing was gorgeous....$69. I still may go back and get it. Do you think that is overpriced for that size plant?
Alice,
I am right there with you. Bought a bunch of plants this weekend and fortunately my daughter had her car, so I transferred them to her car and she came home early, so hubby never saw them. He just saw the two or three I bought the next day. I don't feel too bad, he spends $100 everytime he goes out fishing and nothing to show for it but a mess of fish.
OOPs...lost a big limb in an old oak tree. Not good!
I am so impressed with Hughesnet. Nasty weather and I still have a great signal and fast.
Sigh, we are still waiting for the rain. No matter how wet it gets, I know you appreciate it Paula, we don't want that swamp burning again this year, I am still gasping from last summer.
I see 3' stingrays here for about $10 and I think they grow pretty fast. Definitely going to have to hit the nurseries in Brunswick and St. Simons soon, you find the neatest things.
There are 3 there on St. Simons that I love. They all have different things, but the one...Flowers of Fredrica is the best for unusual. They almost always have mednilla, most times in 4 in pots, but this time only had them in 6 in. and he wanted $25. They are a little high and they don't put prices on anything. He just gives you a price when you ask and I don't like that.
News this morning on the babies - I gently rousted out 3 of the seedlings in the Worm Killer pot, and am now pretty convinced we have baby Worm Killers. Each one has a little bulbil just above where the roots branch out, so that is a good sign.
Paula, I don't know anything much about this plant, but - hope you don't mind me saying - I did think your big one needs potting up, as mine is in a 4 gal. 12in. pot since last fall, and seems to be loving it. That's about all I've done for this plant, and as Alice says, it came back from dormancy with no help at all, and bloomed immediately! Mine's been up and growing a month or so longer than yours, though, I'd think. It got warm here really early.
Elaine,
I have SOOOO many things that need potting up, repotting, and mostly fertilizing! Not enough time in the day LOL
I didn't even realize that I had this until it just started growing and then you or Alice posted a pic of yours and I was like 'hey' that looks like what is growing in the pot and then I remembered Alice and I bought them at the same time. Glad I didn't throw that pot of soil away.
The dormant tubers are smallish and without roots you wouldn't think you need a large pot but Elaine is correct and when I potted mine up it started growing larger leaves.
Two new plants I purchased this weekend
1 - a new hybrid philo....guy said he didn't know the name...anyone??
2 - alocasia?....name anyone? I thought it was sunburned to begin with but they were all like that and they were under large oak trees.
Philo Moonlight maybe? Leaves are similar colors....
hello everyone.
i took a few pictures this morning while doing some yard work. it is way too hot out today, i am going to get in the pool instead!
1. cherry jubilee allamanda, 2. swallowtails? all devouring the same aristolochia leaf 3. black anthurium 4. voodoo lily waking up 5 meyer lemon
it has rained for three weeks straight here it seems, but the garden loves it.
1. hedychiums about to flower 2. crinum lily 3. cane begonia 4. philo warswickii?(something like that)and a medinilla 5 fuschia firespike.
Wish we'd had some of your rain, Cassie. All we've had in a month is two good showers about an inch each, then spits and spats. Hope Alice got enough rain from TSBeryl, and that Drew didn't get a whole lot more? Everybody ok? Yooo Hooo )echoing(
Your garden is amazing, such beautiful flowers and fruit. Most of the cuttings you sent are doing well. I did lose a few while I was out of town. Looks like a squirrel got into the pots and dug them up, I found the cuttings laying on the ground, dried up and sad.
Scored a couple of new NoID Caladiums at Home Depot - first one might be 'Miss Muffet' - first pic. But no clue on the second, anybody? It has an amazing array of different colored leaves, everything from the one huge pale pink one to some new baby leaves that are emerald green with red centers. But seems to be all one plant . . . although with Caladiums you just never know. When they pot them up to sell they just randomly throw bulbs in the pots and see what jumps out, it seems.
hello from florida, and boy do I ever feel like I am in paradise here..
Hello Debra! You guys have fun.
Maybe a P. Moonlight cross Paula, along with an Alocasia Bambino!
Have fun in florida. If you make it to Miami let me know. You can come by and see the jungle.
Let me know if you will be down this way, too! Tropiflora, Selby, and Elaine's Jungle await.
I got that 1st NoID Caladium at HD also. I call it the "Watermellon" Caladium. The pot was so full I had to break it into 3 pots and all are doing wonderful.
OK traveling ladies, we want pictures of all these Florida adventures.
I can't decides if I want to live in Sarasota or Biscayne, you guys grow the most fabulous plants.
Mm, I love to visit over there on the 'dark side' (we call the East Coast of FL that because it gets dark there first) especially to see all the plants. But it is a lot more crowded, and traffic-y over there, especially in tourist season.
Couple of my little encyclias, two winding down, Enc. Tampensis a native to Florida (yellow), and Enc. alata X Early Bird (dark flowers on the right) Green Hornet is just starting up after a little rest.
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LOL, I know about the tourists, we have more than a few here. This time of year the Publix is mobbed with whole families buying huge quantities of soft drinks chips and hot dog buns for their week at the beach. During the spring and fall there are the snowbirds in their boats going up and down the ICW and backing up traffic for miles as the swing bridges open for them. Good thing it is pretty here, between the bugs, the tree roots and the tourists you have to have a lot of fortitude. :-)
That's funny about the dark side, I live on the dark side too.
Biscayne is soooo beautiful though and Fairchild is there.
But the sun comes up on the East side before it gets arcoss to the Gulf...........................
I'm amazed how much earlier sunrise is up North than down here. Takes a bit of getting used to.
Yes, we have shorter days in the summer down here (gets dark earlier, too), but longer days in winter. In December you'll get nearly 2 hours more daylight than I did in Salt Lake - about the same latitude as where you were, I think.
East coast gets more hurricane problems than we do, too - knock on wood. In '04 and '05 when we had 9 hurricanes make landfall in Florida, Sarasota county was one of only 4 counties in the whole state not to sustain any major damage. There are 68 counties in FL. Great that we got such a lot of rain from Beryl without much damage!
The coast curves in from Charleston down to Jacksonville, that indentation usually protects us but some of the folks in JAX may dispute that this week. The last really bad hurricane here was in 1893. Knocking on wood here too. :-)
Pinstripe ginger is blooming.
Check out the new buds on that Monster White Elaine.
One of the new begonia beds.
Woo, hoo! Great growing there Alice. That monster has doubled in size since I sent it to you, too. Stand and watch it grow?
You've got some gorgeous begonias there, too. What's the one with the orange flowers?
That is Orange Rubra and it has been a slow grower for me but I am talking nicely to it and encouraging it to reach it's full potential. It is a heavy bloomer and I think all the energy goes to the flowers rather than growth. Maybe I will remove the flower buds for a month or so and see what happens.
The new ones I ordered are supposed to arrive today, pictures later. lol
Alice, do you sing it songs?
Hmmm, maybe you have a good idea there Drew. These are NY begonias, maybe I should sing "Nothing Could be Finer Than to be in Carolina ........ " My neighbors already think I am certifiable so what the hay, its worth a try. LOL