Thank Terry,
Yes, it still says the same....I have never had any problems before. I'll try that..Thanks
Tropical Garden #124
Ok...don't have the BROWSE button, but I do see CHOOSE A FILE...so I'll try that.
That's perfect - that is the button you're looking for :-)
Hello Everyone!
Kay Jones and everyone in the path of Isaac, please stay safe, especially Jeri11 in Lousiana.
GAgirl1066, I think you found your solution, you will love this new improvement!
LouC, nice to see you posting! I'm wishing your DH good luck with his surgery tomorrow.
ardesia that is a Great looking place your son bought. It seems to be landscaped already but I know you will find an empty places for more plants. lol
A few old favorites, Single Rangoon Creeper just started blooming
Double creeper on it's second flush
Devil's backbone
noid Begonia
dyzzy, I would have loved to see you getting that mast down in the storm, you are my kind of girl! Great looking Peruvian flowers, it's a shame that their bloom is short lived.
Mjsponies, you are fortunate that you work with things you love. There is no need to retire from them, they will keep you going. I was so taken and focused that everything except the Johnstonii went blurry after viewing the picture, not because I lost my good glasses. It seems to be very happy where it is. lol
Joeswife, if you would like, I can include some candlestick seeds in my next package. They are easy to get going in early spring, the ones I started are about to bloom. The plant in the picture is the one I overwintered. You must have gotten quite a lot of rain, your garden is bursting with beauty. It has been raining in Texas but not at my house, I got a sprinkle last night.
From joeswife ?
A few Texas Native
Homer1958, Great Growing!!!!
Tropicalnut777. Glad to hear that you are having a great growing season. It seems as if Drew is too, the plants he has shown are monsters. I, on the other hand am not having any luck this year with EEsbut my flowering tropicals are blooming their heads off.
floridabunnie, I have a little variegated heliconia that is doing very well, do you have a picture of the mother plant? I hope you survive Isaac without any damage.
Bromeliad with lots of pups
Thanks Rita!
As you have all noticed... if it doesn't get big, I really don't want to grow it!
Safe Labor Day to all!
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Rita,
Your begonia looks like 'withaloochee'. to me. What is the bloom in your last photo next to the begonia. Very unusual!
Rita, I'd like to know what the pretty dark red flowered vine climbing up your pine tree is?
I just had to rescue my big EE - it went for a swim in the pool. Still pretty gusty around here at times, and a few fast showers flying by, but for the most part, the storm has passed. Phew!
Good morning, everyone! We didn't get anything more than a few gusts of wind and sprinkles - it passed us by, too.
yay! DO YOU FEEL LUCKY? OR BLESSED? I am so relieved. Beautiful bloms and gardens, Rita. Everyone here has such wonderful green hearts, erm.. thumbs... yeal that.
Hi all!!
Good news from Kay and dyzzy, lets hope that Isaac is as gentle to Louisiana as he was to Florida.
GAgirl1066 thanks for the begonia id. The plant in the picture is a Desert Bird of Paradise. Caesalpinia gilliesii.
dyzzy that is a Evergreen Wisteria. Millettia reticulata.
cactus plants
Japanese blood grass
Bauhinia, yellow orchid tree
Philo.
I forgot the name of this little red hibiscus plant
My M. reticulata has been in the ground for 3 years and never gets over 8" tall - it doesn't like my soil.
love them all.. here is a tropical from a friend in southern florida, I need to ask what it is ..
leaves in first pic, bloom in second pic
more tropicals from another friend in florida.. love you guys so much for sharing with me..
some red white and blue
my thunberiga? is blooming!
Debra,
That is Pseuderanthemum alatum - chocolate plant. I have one...I love it. It does reseed and you will probably find them coming up in other plants next year. I have a couple left and I have been trying to catch the seed, so I can have a controlled environment for them. That is one of those plants that's very hard to find.
Here's info. on your first plant, who's common name is chocolate plant and it's botanical name is Pseuderanthemum alatum. This plant came to us from Floridaheat aka Patti. It will spread like wildfire, via seeds.
http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week224.shtml
The second picture has red shrimp plant and mexican flame vine in it.
The last picture is of Thunbergia 'erecta'.
The second picture has red shrimp plant and mexican flame vine in it.
The last picture is of Thunbergia 'erecta'.
thank you for help! Do they look okay?
back to heat now.. oh, btw, I have told all the passions and all the other tropicals that are supposed to bloom and have not yet, that they have exactly 30 days left to perform outside. LOL
Deb, your plants look a great deal MORE than o.k. - they are gorgeous!
Hi Rita - I have attached the pic of the mother plant of the heliconia I sent. No blooms yet, but I am still hoping I might see a glimpse of one this year. Your japanese blood grass is very cool, I will have to look for this. I think ornamental grass is so under-utilized.
Debra - I love your thumbergia pic.
GAGirl - the chocolate plant is cool as well. I will have to look for some of this. I kind of like plants that reseed themselves and show up in other places around the garden - kind of gives the yard that natural look.
Heliconia
Polynesian Orchid
Chinese Hat
White Chocolate Jasmine (it does smell just like white chocolate)
Bonnie, I'm sure one of us can get you a start of the chocolate plant.
What is the botanical name of your 'Polynesian Orchid'?
Bunnie,
I love the chinese hat...too cute! The third one is a medinilla (if you don't know already)...its beautiful. i have one but it hasn't bloomed yet. It needs repotting badly!
Hi Kay - If someone has a chocolate plant that they want to part with - I will gladly take it!
Thanks GAGirl - the link to the plant is http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/62134/
I planted mine in the ground this last weekend, I think all of the rain helped it as it has new leaves.
love the chinese hat, too florida bunny. I just planted some of the seeds from my little choclate plant, so if one pops up, I will send it your way.. I also like things that pop up around the yard.. gotta have that white choclate jasmine.. I love jasmine.
KayJones, the 4th pic is a baby setosa, I started it from seed for you.. ipomoea setosa it gets big soft thorny looking stems and nice lav pink blooms ... the leaves are HUGE...3rd pic is lav moon vine, the stems look like rose thorns, but are soft, and it blooms at night. Started one of those for you as well, both are prennials in your zone ( I think) f anyone wants seeds of these two lanky beautiful vines, ( they do get beefy) let me know..
last pic is of the native blue day flower, wanders like a jew, blooms one day, posp seeds everywhere and roots in the wierdest places, also a good filler. I pull them out when they are overtaking an area. easy peasy.
I brought the Varigated ginger in to debug, clean up and stop sufferRing in the heat.. the hibiscus downstairs is all flushed out, so tall and big
( TREE ) i KNOW i WILL HAVE TO CUT IT SOON, i AM WAITING UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE, i HAVE SLOWLY BEEN BENDING THE BRANCHES DOWN. i USE WOOLLEY LIONS YARN TO TIE AND BEND AND SHAPE AND FORM LIVING WALLS AND THINGS.
oops caps lock and too lazy to re-do...
floridabunnie, , I am getting your mg seeds together.. should be okay to send stuff in another couple of weeks. My white knight brugmasnia from Tropicman has a bloom on it downstairs, after two years finally. it had 6 buds, but 4 fell off out side so I brought it in a couple weeks ago. I was just hoping for a double, but it is a single small white.
here is I. setosa...passion vine from KayJones is vining ( off the patio living wall north east side) I build my living walls with the woolley yarn and bamboo stakes and sunflowers to hold the morning glorys and other vines..I had to bend the sunflowers down to keep them from knocking the power lines, so now I have arches of sun flowers and morning glorys as part of my outside patio room, forming my living walls.. here is one view tonight..3rd pic is the morning before I did the arching..here is the sunflower right behind where I sit now.. ready for the vines all around the patio to join up on the yarn..last pic is how it looks right now...
Amazing and beautiful, Debra!!!!!
Rita how old is that Evergreen Wisteria ? I didn't realize they got that big. I got mine because I'd heard they stay small...I might need to move it...it's on a wooden fence.
Elaine, maybe get that EE a lifejacket ?
Bunnie add me to the list that thinks that Chinese hat is pretty cool.
Deb, only MG's I have this year are volunteers from last year. Maybe I'll do some again next year.
Passion flower Nephrodes, Clerodendrum Musical notes, Clerodendrum Blue Butterfly
Family of Sandhill Cranes in the pasture
Variegated Brom ----Rita I think you sent it last year...
Martha, the evergreen wisteria can be pruned into anything you want it to be like a shrub or evena hedge. It is the most accomodating of plants. This is one is vining on a pergola in my neighborhood.
KayJones, thanks!
Gosh, can someone save me some seeds of that wisteria? I would be curious to see if I can keep it growing over winter inside.
Debra, it spreads by underground roots - let me see if I have any pups around the mother plant - THEN, you will have to remind me to send it to you! LOL
Beautiful pictures everyone! Deb, the little dayflower is just heavenly. I love that wisteria, too, but can't think of anywhere I have room for it.
Come to think if it, . . . if I can rent a suit of armor and get somebody to remove one of my huge bougainvilleas, that would be a great spot for a wisteria like that.
Thereby hangs a tale - I was backing my car out of the garage last night and I hear this terrible "nails on the chalkboard" sound. The big bougie beside the driveway has suddenly claimed that whole side, flopping down to about 2ft. off the ground and is screeching along the body of the car! I had to get to a meeting, so when I got back and it was still light, I parked outside the thorny mess- for those of you who "love" bougainvillea from afar, yes it IS beautiful but it has many huge nasty thorns! Got my loppers and proceeded to do "a little trimming". About an hour after dark and a gallon of sweat later, I had mound of prickly branches the size of a volkswagen. I can now drive my car into the garage again without scratching the paint off it. Also can open the front gate, which come to think of it may be why the package I've been expecting hasn't been delivered yet . . .
So, there's a down side to tropical gardening, going from zero to Sleeping Beauty's castle in one rain storm! Oh, and of course pruning bougies just makes them grow all the more, so it's an ongoing battle. )) big sigh (( I just went out to get these pictures and spent another 20 minutes adding to the pile. Reward was the pretty little water lily. First pic is my variegated bromeliad, Mj, I think the one you showed above is from me. Glad it's finally blooming for you!
Elaine, Great Thank You for letting me know. There "used' to be a tag in the pot...I tipped it out to see and it is long gone to where ever it is tags on plants go off too.
I now have those slip thru tags and they seem to be working much better so I'll make a proper tag for it now.
I've given up on bougies, they freeze in the ground here and don't come back, and I'm not gonna deal with one in a pot.
Your pond looks so cool and inviting !
Alice...gonna show SO that Arbor....hint hint...LOL..
Thanks all for the comments about the Chinese Hat. I thought it was so unique when I saw it.
Deb - thanks again for the MG seeds! I love, love, love your sunflowers. Is that night blooming Jasmine I see in your middle pic? I finally got the lubbers to stop chewing on mine this year. I have a small obsession with jasmine. I found a jasmine tree this year and the blooms smell so unique! I can't wait until it gets bigger.
MJ - very cool passie! I have a few seedlings and am hoping that they continue to do well.
Dyzzy - I have the same love/hate relationship with bougainvillea. I had the pink/white one and had it on one end of the house. I got tired of bandaging my husband (and hearing the complaints) every time he mowed the front yard - so out it came. I looked like I got in a fight with a badger by the time I was done - LOL!
Ardesia - your wisteria is to die for!
One more bougainvillea story - we had a low hedge of dwarf bougies at our other house that the previous owners had planted. They never did very well, and weeds would grow up under, around and through them. When we would go out to weed those things, my DH would say "hm, another session of Weed 'n Bleed, huh?" Even with thick leather gloves with gauntlets, we'd both give blood over that exercise.
At least these ones are huge, and (usually) up out of the way.
Dyzzy - If my bougie looked like that I might not have ripped it out. I agree with your husband about the Weed n' Bleed!
o my gosh.. LOL I had NO CLUE they got that big! I have to show my sis in law this photo.. she clips hers in pots and brings them in every winter, and then takes them out and clips them again and off they grow.
Florida bunny, I have jasmine sambuc, night blooming jasmine, and did have a yellow one, but it didn't make it. I have had my other two for three years now and they just bloom all winter inside the basement gardens.
lavender moon vine
assorted morning glories
That pic was taken back in Feb. There's another bougie just as big at the other corner of the fence, and they both bloomed again in May. The other one is closer to one of the big oak trees, so it's not quite as vigorous as this one by the gate, though. Thank goodness!
There's a big old house along the street from us that has several quite a bit bigger than mine, too. Probably near 20ft. tall and wide. I'll have to try to snap a picture of them from the car next time I'm driving by.
One thing I can tell you for sure, nothing but snakes and birds get through a bougainvillea hedge!
Deb, your morning glories are really just beautiful. I like the shot with the windmill.
Beach buttercup, the white version, in bloom at last. It's another thing that has taken all summer to get going.
Here's my pot of purple Achimenes - I think I posted one up above that was dark purple vinca, and named it wrong. Sorry!
More flowers coming on the variegated Costus - and more variegation, too! It needs a bigger pot, again already.
My big EE that went swimming - I think maybe he didn't like the chlorine much.
Elaine, I can relate to having to re-pot plants - it will be an all-day event!
Elaine, maybe EE wants to be a Blonde ?
Black Bat Plant blooming and Hoya cummingina
Now Martha - that TEARS IT! I have wanted a black bat plant!!! It is just beautiful!!!!