It would be interesting to see what we are all growing.
I have gingers, passifloras, brugs and orchids. I also have some tender cannas that I keep inside so they will multiply faster and several varieties of taro.
List your tropicals
Brugs, one tiny blue ginger and butterflies, passionflowers, clerodendrums (thinking they are tropical, I have them inside for the winter)
One pitiful orchid that is starting to turn yellow.
I forgot some...clerodendrons (thanks TiG for reminding me) mandevillas and jasmines.
i have brugs, plumeria, bird of paradise, banana, canna, and tangerine.
oh, I have a plumeria cutting just starting out. Killed the other one :(
Holy cow! list them??????yikes. I tend to favor the Orchid cacti. Any flowering vines(Mandevillas, passifloras, annual seeded vines(I love these the challenge????), Euphorbias(these, I truly find fascinating!), hibiscus, jasmines, the very exotic..Bird of Paradise, Callistemon, Calliandra, and many sedums and succulents.(anew one the South African daisies indoors) Elaine
Oh, boy, almost forgot the Brugs, Liz gave me!!! and the abutilons, which are up there also!
Phalaenopsis, Epidendrum, Theobroma cacao, Coffea arabica, Passiflora caeruela, Anthurium scherzerianum, Dracaena (2 different), Clivia miniata, Clivia miniata var. citrina 'Col Pitman' X C. m. var. citrina 'Aurea', Clerodendrum, Hoya bella, Erythrina caffra, Neomarica gracilis, Bauhinia variegata, Curculigo capitulata, Colocasia, Billbergia, Strelitzia, Spathodea campanulata, Manilkara, Pancratium maritimum, Mandragora officinalis, Peperomia, Curcuma, Plumeria, Costus, and.... :)
abutilon, clitoria, clivia minata, allamanda. Okay, I see I'm going to have to make one whole new list after y'all remind me of all the things I have.
Plumeria, brugs, clerodendruns,thunbergias, hybiscus, passifloras, orchid trees, abutilon, ferns, mandevillas, allamandas, jasamine, stephanotis, morning glory bushes, Ixora, Vigna Caracalla, and some I'm sure I've missed. Just about anything is tropical when you live in Iowa so I didn't list all the things I grow annually from cuttings.
Everything that I can't grow outside!BRUGS(imagine that),passiflora,hibiscus,taros,begonias,cliva seedlings,bougenvillia,pulmaria,2 BOP's that I started from seed,bananas that I started from seed,2 orchids(1 cymbidium,1 half dead something)cacti,succulents,abutilon,gingers and all my house plants....'course all my plants are houseplants......
This message was edited Tuesday, Jan 8th 3:05 PM
I see more I forgot....clivia, bird of paradise, (abutilons, brugs and taros are hardy for us here, but I do bring some in just in case)vigna and clitoria, I completely forgot about any cacti and succulents.
CC, I have a few orchids that could be described as "half-dead" wonder if that's a new variety?
BTW, only tropicals I have bought are the Dracaenas, Anthurium, and cacao tree (Theobroma). Others I have grown from seeds which I have collected, gotten in a trade, or from cuttings which I have gotten :)
(show-off) :)
This message was edited Friday, Jan 25th 5:47 PM
Ok here goes....brugs, passifloras-incarnata, herbertianna, foetida, unknown one?, mandevilla, citrus- clementines, red grapefruit, lemons, jamiacan ugly fruit (don't let the name turn you off, the fruit is really ugly but exceptionally sweet!!) ficus, palms, butterfly gingers, cannas, hibiscus, taros, epidendrum, gerbera, stephanotis, calla lilies, and some others too...have to wade through the back room...oh almost forgot...about 15 different cactus.
Brugs and more brugs--can't have enough. Canna,banana,gingers and more gingers--can't have enough. taros. Lots of other stuff but I listed the most important to me.
Brugs, canna, colocasia, alocasia, banana, anthurium, bird of paradise, allamanda, hibiscus, fatsia japonica, mandevilla, water hyacinths, frogbit, azolla, unbrella palm. Oh, and my plumeria stick.
Jean
What is a frogbit?
In North Dakota it's really hard to have tropicals, but I have one Canna that's in a pot in my mother in law's basement that I'm hoping will survive and come back next year. Does that count? LOL!
Brugie, frog bit looks like a miniature floating waterlily.
JoanJ, of course that counts!!
is frogbit hardy?? how bout duckweed??
Duck weed is WAY hardy!!Don't know about frogbit,I'll know in the spring,it took over my mud pond,ooppss,I mean duck pond,it was nicer looking than algea. Calla,I think it is a variety(half dead) wonder what it is in latin?
Well, now I have to go on a search. Can't stand it when I can't visualize something. Thanks for the info.
Just did a search...that stuff looks like it could be invasive. Did you know that there is software called Frogbit also?
This message was edited Friday, Jan 11th 3:13 PM
Brugie, you have to be careful doing those searches. You won't believe what I found when I typed in "coleus".
Sounds like maybe something I don't want to know about. I did a search on cybermom once and that was a bad idea too. One of my kids had told me there would be some great sites for me and yeah,there were great sites, but when I start seeing 4 letter words like the ones on the site lists, I backed out really quick. I'm not a prude, but I don't need that.
Yeah, some things we just don't want to see. I'm not a prude either, but I don't write like that, don't use those words in everyday speach and don't care to read them!! Some of the sites for plants were promoting drugs and other illegal activites. One site was a porno site!! I don't need that and neither does my daughter need to come into the room and see something like that on the screen.
I found the same type of junk when I was looking for seeds from Hawaii.I typed a search for hawiain plants and was shocked at the type of things that came up.
Ok, I don't have much of each, but here we are: Brugs, of course (cuttings which I received from some of you), passiflora, cleredendron, WBP, bottlebrush, allamanda - 3 different colors, mandavilla including a variegated one, heliconia, gingers, 1 baby blue ginger, justicea (if anyone has seen a yellow one I would like to know where if you don't mind), Jacaranda (purple), royal poinciana both red and yellow, bougainvillea's, assortment of vines, solandra maxima, tibouchina, thunbergia's, abutilon, agapanthus both white and blue, crinum, akebia, canna, amaryllis, clematis, clitoria ternatea, Clivia miniata red and yellow, Erythrina, I think that's it. Orchids and Anthruium I have tried but they don't like me, or I forgot, Confederated Rose. Dee
My main plants I take the best care of are:
Brugs, P. Flwrs. Cannas, Abutilon, hibiscuss(all colors), also have hardy hibiscus, Lord & Lady Baltimore, Turn of the Century.
All kinds of houseplants, A. Violets, Epicia, plain and Chocolate soldier, Chenille Pl. Am I getting out of bounds here? You wanted tropicals. Sorry.
Hibiscus, I don't think there are bounds:) If you ever get an extra L&L Baltimore, maybe we can make a trade.
I have hibiscus, mandevillas {probably dead}, cannas, agapanthus, bouganvillia, brugs, cabbage palms, other palms, alamanda.
tiG
I grew some last year in pots, then planted in the ground in the fall, I see sticks out there. So far, we have had a real nice winter, waiting for the shoe to drop. They should make it through winter ok.
LMK
Gloria
Hibiscus, the hardy hibiscus are very hardy, just slow to come up in the spring. They are one of the last things to put on new growth. If you don't see anything coming up at first, don't panic they're late sleepers.
Gosh! I seemed to have collected quite a few tropicals this past year. Last year all I really had were a couple of houseplants, LOL.
In the greenhouse: Abutilon, clitoria, cane begonia, brugs, gingers, passiflora's, plumeria, several different sedums, taro's.
Of course in the house I have houseplants pothos, hawiian spider plants, cactus, christmas cactus, ficus, rhoeo, patchouli, several different aloe's.
I'm sure there are others that I'm not thinking of this early. :)
I have palms(5 kinds)Bird of paradise, agaves(35 kinds), plumerias, brugmansias, lantanas, stephanotis, colocasias, alocasias, Xanthosomas, cannas (23 of my own hybrids), hibiscus(15 kinds), coleus, passifloras, euphorbias, Philodendrons, Juanoloa, bouganvillieas, gingers, ferns, cactus, and so on and so on.....LOL
I have bananas, alocasias, plumeria, gingers, papayas, epiphyllums, ferns, cactus, lemon grass, lemon verbena, passifloras, asst succulents, BRUGS, daturas, begonias (mainly large growing stalk types), walking iris, ti plants, hibiscus, sugar cane, bamboo, pony tail palm, orchids (a few), pino dulce, butterfly (buddelia) bushes, must be something I missed :)
Suzy
Just want to be a "show off", forgot to mention: have yellow,orange and red clivia.
How did all these get on here? Wrote back in mid-January, good to see it come up again.
:)
So I finally joined Dave's Garden and I find all these friendly people who've already traded with me! Just to add my two cents, or several plants...I have many Passiflora, many orchids, various citrus trees, two Thanksgiving cactus, jasmine, Hibiscus, Clerodendrum, Plumbago, Hoya, and probably more I can't remember. Being in Ohio, the house is pretty full right now!
Welcome, Dawn
We traded Coccinea for Violacea Form #3. I now have (5) V. Fm. #3. I am trying to get a good supply of Coccinea rooted, Vitifolia, Star of Clevedon, Alata Ruby Glo, Incense, Indigo Dreams, Purple Haze, Caerulea.
Gloria