This was the second day it was open, so not the best photo. I love the brightness of it's colors and the blooms are huge.
Hibiscus "The Path"
gorgeous!!!!!
Really beautiful!
Beautiful
Cala I saw this one at a shop one time..and didn't buy it..***KICKING MYSELF** next time I will. I like the orangey ones about the best.
:-)
Eclipse, the orange really sets off the pink really well. I think these are really hard to root and actually need to be grafted, but I will try.
OOOHHHHH!!!!
Oh I'm drooling...I love peach, orange colors the best. this one is to die for...Cala if anyone can get cuttings to root of this one you certainly can...here's ROOTING for you..oh my was that a "pun"?
LOL, Joydie
Drooling in Michigan... That is a dandy.
Joydie, I sent Eclipse a rooted cutting(no, I didn't root it) and I figured if anyone could get them to root, he could, lol. I'm going to give it a try, but I hate to cut off the buds right now.
Cala,
Hand pollinate those beauties to increase the number of plants you can propogate. I have a number of hibiscus seeds that I just soaked to pot up...I told you I was bored...lol.
Joydie
Joydie, I would love to hand pollinate, but how?? Their parts are confusing to me, but I think I know where the stigma and anthers are. Do I need pollen from a different plant? Must it be a tetraploid also?
Cala... check the following sites
hibiscus propagation:
rooting tropical hibiscus ... http://www.trop-hibiscus.com/rooting.html
grafting ... http://www.satcom.net.au/ganmor/graft.htm
hand polination diagram... http://bio.fsu.edu/~winn/3402L/WinnCH12.html
Cala,
You don't need pollen from another plant. Now if you want to try for some new hybrids then cross pollinate. As far as I know they do not come true to seed, but you would get some interesting plants from the original parents of "The Path...either way I think it would be fun to do.
I saw a Hibiscus the other day at the florist shop. It was a very pretty pink, but when I checked the plant there was only one bud and looked like nothing else was going send a bud. He wanted way too much money for it so I just let it go.
Off topic-I'm still bored so I did a bunch of leaf cuttings of begonias. Its finally getting a little milder here and the daffodils are now in bloom.
Joydie
This message was edited Monday, Apr 15th 10:20 AM
The early daffodils are finished, but the late blooming ones are still pretty. I have some "Pheasant's Eyes" blooming. They are the most fragrant.
Cala,
I have a wonderful collection of daffodils...about 23 varieties now. I also collect rare varieties of tulips. The neighborhood thief sometimes comes at night and digs them up. I often look around when I go for walks to see if I can find who it is that is taking them. All my pink and peach daffodils were dug up one night and all that was left in the morning were great big shovel holes.
Joydie
Joydie1,
I would be getting a dog. A big dog. A supposedly "friend" on mine dug up a lot of my plants and bulbs when we were gone. A truck driver`s life is no good for plants. Now I have a big Calahoula ? sp. He will not let anyone in the yard unless I say so. I hope it will be a little harder for them to steel him, and I hope he is too smart to eat anything poisoned.
Joydie, my cousin has that problem. There is someone who sneaks into neighborhood yards and steals plants. Sometimes he/she just cuts them off at the ground and leaves them laying there.
I had gone to the school one evening(it's right across the street from the garden center) and looked across the highway and there was a woman digging my flowers up!! In broad daylight, by the side of a main highway!! When I drove up and asked what the H@@@ she was doing she said "I was weeding your flowers for you".
Boy, that would take a lot of nerve to dig someone's flowers up and then lie to your face to boot. I hope she didn't leave with any of them. We don't have any trouble around here with people taking the flowers, but they are bad at taking yard ornaments. My MIL lost a huge cement angel last fall. It was a gift to her and she really felt bad. Bet someone's mom got an angel for Christmas.
Brugie, we have people steal plants at work all the time..from inside the greenhouses and from on the grounds..last Memorial day weekend someone came in and had about 200 plants from one garden all dug up ready to take..but someone scared them first..I have a plant collector that only staels rare things I plant on the riverfront gardens.They know just what is valuable..Wait till I catch em!! >:-)
Boy, that would frost my you know what.......200 plants represents a lot of time and money. Do you have a night watchman for the grounds or just take your chances?
See that is exactly the problem. They only take the rare and unusual things, so its a person who is knowledgeable and knows what to look for. Once they have been to your grounds or property they keep coming back.
I'm going to put up a special security camera this year to monitor my yard. You hook it up to a television and it records on VHS. Years ago I did mind because I was working and making really good money so I just replaced them, but now I'm on a pension so I can't afford them or sometimes I can't find those things again. So when I catch them I'm going to charge them so they WON'T EVER COME BACK!!
I have another friend in Miss. that collects rare plants. Sometimes people come to "visit" the gardens then come back when she's not home and take what they want. She said what really frosts her is that they take her good garden soil too!!
Some people are so sick.
There is a lot of flowers that I want but I could never steal them. I am not going to die if I don`t get them. Eventually they will be in the garden centers or someone will share a cutting. I don`t know how they could like a flower after they stole it from someone.
These kind of people don't care that the plants are stolen..they just figure it saves them that much more time and money because they don't have to buy the plants.
Eclipse, I agree and think too that some collectors will stop at nothing to "own" the one plant they can't get any other way.
I'm thinking about moving the dog pen to surround the GH now.I don't think I have anything anyone wants ,but.....You guys have me scared!
I put a padlock on my greenhouse at night, but if someone wanted in there, a good kick on the door would break the glass and they could be in easily. I just thought it might deter anyone from just walking in and helping themselves. Would be a little harder to carry all that stuff through the glass area of a door instead of an open door. I doubt that most of us would have any trouble. The guys with the commercial greenhouses would have more problems and with Calla not living right there to see things, people would know and be ready to shop at midnight.
Brugie, we had someone take the screws out of the door once to get it open. I couldn't believe that when I saw it!! We also have to turn the water off at the meter at night because people will come turn the outside faucets on and let them run.
Glory
May 30, 2002
We don't have that problem only because of the Blue Heeler dog....she is the one that bites the bumper of the UPS truck. She has the run of the yard...we have that invisable fence...that keeps her in our yard.
There you go Cala. Glory has the answer. Now for a "BIG" doberman.
I don't see how anyone could enjoy the flowers after they stole them. I could never look at it in good conscience.
I think some people have no conscience, or they've bruised it so many times it has no feeling any more.
Cala..I tried all last summer to get a good seed pod on my tropical hibiscus (plural) and only got one. They are hard to do and you can self pollinate them. They usually just fall off. I have some pollen in the freezer to try again this year.
Deanne, I've been trying and thought a few were going to mature. They fell off. There were tiny immature white seeds inside, but I can't get the pods to stay on the plant.
That is what happened 99% of the time last year. They are very touchy!
We had a problem with people
stealing once and went to Lowes
and bought this motion detector
and put it out in the tree,the
light that is and it has a reciever
type device that you plug in to
a radio or light and it will
come on when the light outside
comes on. So when that radio
comes on,someones out there.
It was about 55 dollars but
well worth it,when you have
garden benches,ect. missing
the next day.
Yesterday I went outside to put out some garbage. In my back driveway was a man right up against the frost fence looking in at my pond. I have 3 cement statues by the pond, a little boy fishing, a boy peeling an orange and a little boy "taking a leak" (he's actually a fountain)into the pond. I asked the man what he was doing as he was on private property. He remarked that he was admiring my garden. I asked him to leave. In the meantime he kept arguing with me. Finally I told him I was bringing out the Rottweiler and then he left.
I moved my statues up against the kitchen side door. I can't afford to replace these and the little boy peeling the orange is over a hundred years old and came from England.
When the greenhouse is finished Rebecca my Rottwieler is going to stay inside there at night. This is the last straw!
joydie1 (joyce) since you are bored, way don't you go and make my trade ready!!!
I'm still waiting!! for my trade since a long time.
Calalily wow nice :-)