Brazilian Red Cloak changed, I am in love. Kyle I will be getting yours ready, Susie showed me how to! Awesome Plant!
Hey Kyle and Susie
Tracey, this is a beautiful plant. I read where it can get up to 12 ft. tall and very wide. How do you keep it from freezing?
I brought it in to my storage building, isn't it neat. Maybe I can get you one too! If you want one. I am going to let it grow up a bit. My friend brought it back for me from FL.
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This message was edited Sunday, Oct 27th 3:39 PM
What the heck is that??
It is wicked cool.....
OK where did ya get it???
Really cool plant. Yes, some time when you have enough to cut on, please do start me one. Just don't ruin your plant for your own enjoyment. Thanks.
CC a guy I know has a wholesell landscaping business. He saw this and thought of me, I just talked with him, and he is going to bring me back 2 more, and check for other colors.
Awesome!!!It just keeps getting better!
Beautiful. Can't wait till mine blooms!!
TLynn,ask him if he wants a new best freind?????
CC, you know we will share with you.(hmmm, could hold her plant for ransom, make her come see me to get it)
We will keep our finger crossed that, he comes back with a new color too! Maybe I need to call him in the morning and see if he can bring back more than two.
That is one beautiful plant. Must be from lower Florida!
WOW.......and it gets 15 feet tall and 10 feet across from what I have read.
Hey Cala.......ever hear of Palm beach Wholesale Growers?
http://www.pbwga.com/PB_CompanyDetailsCombo.asp?FIRM_ID=7551
they grow it............ LOL
Also know as Megaskepasma erythrochlamys - that's why it is called Brazilian red cloak. It is also known as Red Justicia, now the Justicia comes in colors of orange, yellow, pink and white. I have all of them. They seem to root pretty easy. Kyle this is not the same one that I sent you called "Red Justicia", but they look really close. The leaves and stems are the same, just the plumes are a little different.
Forgot to say, if you are looking for other colors, you would find them listed under Justicia Carnea
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I got a justicia carnea "Radiant" from brugie...it came from Logees..has red undersides to the leaves and a darker plume scape that the pink flower tubes come out of.
I like these for in tropical planters or beds outside...some of the newer ones bloom almost all year if kept warm.
Kell, the Palm Beach thing is an association of lots of greenhouses. I buy from some of them. I found a new tropical liner place today. They don't have EEs and Gingers, but have lots of vines and flowering tropicals. 8-tray minimum
did they have Beaumontia grandiflora ............ I am planning on this one this year..........LOL
Kell, what would you do for a Beaumontia Grandiflora???
Tracey, this one is rooted very good!!! They are doing GREAT!!!
you must go broke Cala.............. with all the nurseries you have access to..............
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So Cala, what kind of vines and tropicals do they have??
Kyle, I have the white and the yellow if you want a piece.
Nothing really unusual. They have yellow and pink mandies, several jasmines, ixoria, hibiscus-nothing new, bouganvilla, the standard stuff for nurseries to carry.
Ok David came back with 2 more, but no new colors this time will pick up this weekend....