Heres a new pic looking east along the front fence at my new tropic garden.All kinds of things from Caladiums to Papayas. :-)
Kyles new tropic garden at home.
Great picture!! Just wondering if people walk by and smell the brugs when they bloom. I would. Love all the tropicals in there.
I love it Kyle. finally talked my DH (you know, that good looking one?) into giving up the front bed for tropicals. Making it oval and trying to come up with a plant design, unfortunately we won't get much in in time for this year. How big is this bed, and what do you do with it in winter?
Wow Kyle. Love the colors combination down on the ground. Very very nice. I bet the neighbors have a beautiful site to feast their eyes upon of they are driving / walking by.
tiG all the plants are tender so they either get brought in for winter or freeze. the bed is about 40 feet long total length and about 4 feet wide. Next year it will be deeper..about 6 foot.
do you put in anything for winter bloom?
Wonderful picture of leaf textures and colors dominating the foreground. I love your use of dark and lime green coleus contrasting each other, as well as, tropical palms, bird-of-paradise (??? are you growing that to ???), sedges, caladium and some that I can't identify. The tropics have come to Iowa!!!
Absolutely wonderful! Please don't tell me that all of these are being wintered elsewhere. They're going into your home GH?? Can I please,please,please see a picture of your winter quarters????
Shirley1... I do have giant Bird of para. in this bed a little farther down the fence and to the street side they are about 3 feet high now..Liz I have no greenhouse..I put my tropicals in the basement for winter and they go semi dormant..Very little light and low temps.
It's gorgeous. What is that variegated EE on the right end? I like it.
very pretty...saw that huh cala..I love it!
that's Mickey Mouse, and arlene shared hers with us, even though it isn't very big yet. isn't it gorgeous!!!
ooooo Lisa has Mickey Mouse envey..ok..who wants to trade, I have Dancing Lady Ginger http://plantsdatabase.com/go/1901/ - white or purple.
Kyle, I love the color combinations, especially the blackie by the colorful coleus. Another idea I'm gonna have to steal from you. Really, really pretty.
calalily the EE is Alocasia macrorhizza variegata..this one doesn't curl at the edges like Mickey Mouse does.
very nice Kyle.
Kyle, At the risk of sounding stupid, which one is the papaya? Is that it on the left back?
Do you move your Bird of Paradise inside for the winter and then back out in the summer? If it is as big as mine, I definitely can't move that sucker! Mine has to remain a permanent indoor resident:~)
sorry, Kyle, but they do look the same otherwise, am I right?
Absolutely wonderful!! You have done an excellent job in you show of plants.
The papaya is behind the banana..its small but setting buds at the tip....tiG they are similar in coloration.
Shirley1 I will bring the paradise (birds) in and plant in 10 gal pots later this fall.
Have you ever got the Bird of Paradise to bloom for you?
Mine hasn't since it is an "indoor" plant.
Shirley1..I have the regular bird of paradise in a pot that goes outside in summer and is indoors in winter..it bloomed last winter.The giant birds won't bloom until they get very tall 8 feet or more.
Eight feet tall?? Let me see now, maybe my BOP will bloom in about 5 more years or so...lol.
Kyle, what is the very colorful plant on the bottom left beside the blackie? is that coleus or something else??
tiG, do you have Ace of Spades? I'm going to root some of them if you need any.
tiG the dark plants are a coleus Black Knight with coleus sparkler between them.
yes Brugie, I have Ace of Spades, thanks. Thanks Kyle, I'll have to find that sparkler coleus, I like it!
tiG I'll have a few cuttings later on..
cool, maybe I should go ahead and send postage so you will have it when you're ready! thank you
tig wait till I'm ready..or I'll forget what goes to who..when I get several cuttings rooted I'll let everyone know so we all get something new. EVEN me!!LOL Like I need more plants!!!!!!LMAO
sounds good to me!! I've started cuttings of all mine, might even have something you don't!! (maybe I'll get lucky, since we are in different parts of the country)
and we all need more plants, don't we??
Very nice Kyle. You would die if you saw my garden. I have everything mixed in with everything.