Or maybe the white flower in Dale's pic is a white plumbago? They look a bit too big for lantana to me. It's a really pretty combo anyway!
We got some good rain here this afternoon, Phew! My rain barrels were getting pretty empty!
Tropical garden #125
Kay Jones, there is a waiting list to get a piece of that Heliconia and I have put you on it.
dyzzy, how nice that your brother loves plants, those are two of my favorite annuals. The Chalice vine looks good, you are going to love this plant!! You will need a stake for it and don't trim it back until after it blooms in the fall. There is also a variegated version of it.
Dale, that is a great idea planting the Ruella and plumbago together. There are three colors of each plant, the wheels are already spinning in my head for next year's color combo. thanks!
passion vine from Rachel
Lowe's mark down bromeliad
Foliage
Ginger
Ugly coleus
joeswife, Are you Brugs blooming? This is the time of year for a show. Mine are sparse this year but the snail vine is making up for it with their fragrance.
Rita, thanks, but ONLY if you have one large enough to share - I wouldn't want the plant harmed just to satisfy my lust, which is ever-ongoing!
Rita, I JUST sent Deb a box of plants in a box YOU sent ME plants in - trading is SO much fun!
Could everyone PLEASE take a couple of minutes and UPDATE your haves and wants lists on the sticky, here on the Tropicals forums?
I would bet we've all acquired some new 'haves' and 'wants', and who knows - maybe some of us could fill another's wish!!!
Edited to add a link to the sticky, so you can update your lists:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1157132/
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KayJones, is this the heliconia you wanted from Rita? I have lots of it, (got a deal on 6 of them) and I'm gathering plants to send to you next week anyway. Let me know and I can put a start of it in there for you. I am going to update my 'Wants' list by removing everything on it. I have way too many plants right now and trades lined up with you and Mj.
Rita, aren't those Coleus a puzzle? You buy them one color, and they change on you. I also love that ginger. Such big flowers, and so many open at once! If I can ever afford to hire someone to remove a couple of my humungous white birds of paradise I'll have good places for more wonderful gingers.
I am lusting after a start of her VARIEGATED Heliconia!
Edited to add: I have the small orange Heliconia that I got from Home Depot - is yours a different color?
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ok i updated my lists... uhm, KayJones.. you need to update yours! hehehe...
welp, so far, no losses over night here.. sure love those gingers and passies, rita.
my chalice vine is still lazily loping all over the basement area, no buds yet.
Kaitlyn, Betty Marshal and Isabella are the only brugs with a few blooms so far.
night blooming jessimine ( cestrum nocturn?) is in full bloom. smells so good outside with the four o clocks, moon flowers , jasmines, night blooming phlox, sweet autumn clematis and now the other nite jasmines..
Isn't this gorgeous...of course the photo does not capture the true color....almost blue
Hibiscus Azurri
That's the same exact flower and look at the difference ...photo taken 2 seconds apart.
First one is more true to the color.
Isn't this the cutest calicarpa beauty berry? The berries are very small.
And this Rose of Sharon/Hib....the flower is only about an inch.
anyone know the names of these two?
Pretty and Beautiful are their names!
love that blue it is very pretty.. my beauty berries are full and getting very big this year..
lol Kay....I got them as cutting, so I hope they will take and grow for me.
Yes, the Hib. Azurri is just a fabulous color, Paula. The color diff is probably because of the brighter background in the second pic. Camera was compensating for more light. I used to carry around a piece of gray cardboard to put behind things for pictures to prevent that.
I have a flower coming along on the blue ginger that Alice sent me this spring! So excited to see it.
Also my 'experiment' with the two Philo Gloriosums planted in my shady border this spring, one in a sunken pot, and the other straight into the ground is showing results - the one in the sunken pot has way bigger, nicer leaves than the one in the ground now! I'm sort of sad, because I was hoping the one in the ground would be able to hold its own against the oak tree roots in there, but I guess not. Think I'll wait until cooler weather then roust it out and give it a pot to nestle into.
Oh I gotta take pics of my p gloriosums in their little pot, so happy and content! I gotta take pics of everything you all have snt me to show you how happy everything is.
Oh my, everyone has such pretties, I am having a terrible time being good and not "acquiring" any more. I need to take better care of what I have now and get all those pots planted so there is less watering to worry about. My BIL wanted to take me to a famous nursery in NJ last week and I actually said no - first time for that! LOL
Paula, I *think* your tiny hibiscus cutting might be in the pavonia family (hibiscus cousins) but I cannot find an image of one with that fabulous coloring, most of them only have a red throat.
The "candlesticks" are opening.
New Guinea Gold seems to like sitting in water - interesting.
Diclorisandra thrysifolia I thought was dead has resurected
A favorite coleus peeking through the purple firespike
Fireworks croton with blue chip.
More from this morning.
Princess Caroline pennesetum. This one is supposed to get to 3' but mine is closer to 6'.
Red Fountains scutellaria.
Some plants have to fight for the light around here. Yellow asclepias peeking through the hib.
An old favorite Ti.
Big Red - it is in too much shade, the color is off.
Ardesia, beautiful plants. The leaves of the candlesticks are supposedly good for eczema. A guy I used to work with from the phillipines used to rub the leaves on his skin.
WOW, Alice - just beautiful!
Hi Everyone! I've been gone for the last week, my husband and I have been in St. Maarten on vacation. It is so beautiful there! They had candlesticks growing everywhere, as well as sea grape, hibiscus, and crotons.
Ardesia - your plants look great. I really like the fireworks croton and your candlesticks. After seeing these on the island I think I might have to add one of these to my yard.
GAGirl - the color on your rose of sharon is awesome! I just purchased on this year and surprisingly it is doing well.
Dyzzy - are those the Princess Di Heliconias? I just planted some heliconia a couple of weeks ago and they are blooming already.
A pic of me and my husband in St. Maarten
The vegitation around the villa where we stayed
A view from our deck of the beach (the pic does not do the water justice!)
Yes, the sticker calls those Heliconias "Lady Di" though. Guess they named them before she married the prince.
oh Alice, your gardens are beautiful.. * sigh*
welcome home florida bunnie, read the above posts and see if you want any of the things I asked you okay?
boy you two are sure purty.. what a marvelous vacation for you! Beautiful!
Kaitlyn, my faithful dependable beautiful brug is always a bloomer for me, even after her scorhing time outside in the kansas winds and heat..
pink castor
my buddah belly plant i started from seed
my youngest darling daughter has been creating hallloween wear.. ( her favorite holiday) this girl is a mini me..
inside jungle area is getting full already..
Hi Debra - I would love to try the Sweet Autumn if you have one to part with! Your pink castor is awesome! How long have you had it that it has bloomed already? You do have quite the jungle going, it looks nice! Looks like some of that Halloween wear glows in the dark! LOL
Carol, you and DH are a lovely couple - are you in your teens? LOL!
LOL Kay, I was thinking the same. Bunnie, you and your husband are a handsome couple and St. Maarten looks wonderful. And, thank you for the compliment on my plants but perhaps you notice I rarely post photos of trhe whole garden, It is just too jumbled together. I have way too many plants on way too small a lot. I need to rent a trailer and haul stuff down to Paula's acreage. LOL
Woohoo,, bring it on, Alice. I'll even come help you pack it up. LOL
You all are great!
Ha Ha - Kay and Alice - You are too nice. I will actually be 41 in Dec.
Alice - I would probably be drooling if I saw your whole lot. If you decide to head south with those plants, you can stop off at Paula's and then keep heading down to S. FL - LOL!
Take heart, Alice. My yard looks just like what you describe - a random jumble of great plants. I have a new garden helper who is making some headway against the weeds. I encourage him by saying as the weather cools off the weeds slow down and the gardeners speed up.
Purple firespike is finally putting up a bloom again. If its history holds it will now bloom all winter, if it stays warm enough.
that is beautiful, Elaine... so is the ginger behind it!
Hi Debra - I recognize the jasmine :) I just love the nighblooming ones - their scent is almost overwhelming (which I like). What is the plant in your second pic with the pink blooms? It is so different.
Deb, is that pink salvia - I think Mj calls it 'Coral Nymph' in the 4th picture? Did you raise it from seed, or did Jo give you plants when you visited her?
Bunnie, if I'm not mistaken, the second pic is the wild poinsettia that grows all over here. Don't know if it is a native, or introduced, but it sure makes itself at home in my garden! We need the days to get shorter before it will put on the color in the bracts here. Cooler nights coming next week, so the weather liars say!
Those gingers are one of my favorites, I must admit. The scent is out of this world. Although they get looking a bit sad when it rains as the blossoms go over. A fourth flower opened on my big purple Catt. Like most cats, it seems to want to lay on its side . . . this one smells like spice cookies.
beautiful. I love their faces, Elaine. Don't you think some flower blooms have little faces? LOL
I love my night blooming stuff, floridabunnie.. and you do not look a day over 29.
Sister and I will be working on boxes of plants to send out this week.
Blooming English Ivy..This vine is 60 years old and is coming down in October. It is eating our house, Cedar and all.
Oh, my word, Deb - I've had english ivy for years and years, when living in Missouri, and NEVER did I see it bloom!
Deb - thanks for your kind words. My grandmother had great genes, hopefully I have inherited some of them :) I think your blooming ivy is awesome!!! I think it looks so quaint growing on the side of homes, but understand it can cause some damage.
Dyzzy - thanks for the ID on the poinsetta, I wonder if it is the jamaican poinsetta that I have seen around here. . .it is pretty. I love anything with bright pink blooms! Your ginger is nice as well. The neighbor behind me has some ginger in their overgrown and unkempt flower bed (they have curbing all around their house and it is full of weeds knee high!) I have been so tempted to go over there and ask them if I can dig it up. . .
Yep, ivy is gorgeous, and it needs to be pretty old before it actually blooms. But it can grow right through bricks, I swear. We had it on a whole wall of our house in Utah, and it came through between the roof and top of the wall into the living room on a regular basis. Deb, I'll bet when you remove it you'll find all sorts of cracks and crevices in the house that you'll need to fill. Your heating bill this winter will be a lot less!
Bunnie, those gingers are really easy to propagate from just an end of a rhizome with maybe one stem and a bud. So next time you see your neighbor, just ask her for a start, you don't need the whole clump.Here are some starts I sent to somebody this spring, and he has a good clump going now.
Thanks guys, I am going to miss the vine.. it actually has been a good wind block and insulation with a lot of birds living in it ( mostly winged rats as Joe calls the sparrrows) We havn't used the side door over there for over 20 years, so it will be nice to use it. We are going to have the house painted, caulked and sided this fall. It will be different not having that Ivy there.
Sure would love some of your spotted leaf ginger, Elaine, Have some cool named brugs ready to send to a few of you here.. can't wait to leave,Sister is ready for me to go get her, waiting until Joe gets back from store, tho. Going to go out and water before I leave, no rain in three weeks, trying to keep things green until Sister gets here. I can't wait for her to sit on the patio with me and watch the hummers dip around.
florida, we will ne working on your box of goodies too! YAY! I have to have all stuff in and out and sent and all that stuff by October 15th. That is my deadline I set for myself. took a tour this am to see what needs to come out of the ground, not as much as I thought since I already potted up and brought in so much already. Son will be over to help us.. he is just a darling man, I wish he would find a nice girl that likes to garden like he does. *sigh*
Asters are all blooming now..so are the cosmos
chinese beans are JUST now blooming.. dang it
Debra - I'm sure your sister will really enjoy seeing all of your flowers. Your flowers always look so nice. Can't wait to get by box of goodies! If there is anything you are looking for that I can help with please let me know :) It has done nothing but rain here - wish I could send some your way. In fact, it is raining at a good clip now. . .
Yup, somebody's wringing out a wet sponge over us this afternoon, too. Ick. I'm really looking forward to the dry air they keep promising us.
Did the rain scare everyone away - LOL! Worked out in the heat yesterday, whew! Got a little overheated and almost passed out - it was so humid. . .
Thought I would share a few pics.
Mexican flame vine in bloom
Ground Orchids - been waiting for these to bloom!
New Heliconia - blooming already, hope this is a good sign.
Sweet Almond - smelling up the back yard :)
Not sure what the last one is - weed? flower? I have seen this is a couple of spots. (please disregard the other weeds in the picture - LOL
Can't see much detail on the flower in that last shot, but it might be a yellow Caesalpinia pulcherimma. They do seed themselves sometimes. Mine is the red/orange one, and I've collected a bunch of seeds from it this summer. The pods explode and shoot the seeds all over the place. So look around within about 20ft. of where that little plant is, and see if there's something similar?