Your tropical wants

If you could have an tropicals your heart desired, what would be your top five choices?

1.more gingers
2. even more gingers
3. every kind of ginger in the world
4. gingers not even heard of
5. did I mention gingers?

Gunnera!(won't grow here)
Alocasia Plumbea indica metallica.
Alocasia Varigatta
Giant Golden Lotus
Amorphophallus gigas(giant voodoo lily)
Need my mailing address?LOL

I´d like Bananas......even seeds which would germinate.
first when I ordered seed the were too old and didn`t sprouted and second time, on seedtrade....they broke on post trip.......
and I`d want Passifloras, Aristolochias and other Caffes than Arabica..........Camelia Japonica which would live more than one week....

Red Passion Flowers and a pink red double brug.

Hibiscus,
I have a red passion vine...do you want me to start you one off of it?

My tropical wants are simple. I need a warmer climate. I'm SO over this nasty cold weather. By the way, three of the brug seeds you sent sprouted. Thanks

1 a green jade vine that you do not have to mortgage the house for

2 Mandela's Gold BOP

3 Ae Ae banana pup

4 a yellow clivia

5 nice sized macaw palm

Mitjo, did you lose your Camellia?

I can't decide, there are so many nice tropical plants... maybe cocoa tree, african tulip tree, colocasia, bananas and some vines?

Ah tropical weather would be great! I would love to be able to walk out into the yard and pick oranges, avocados, mangos etc from the trees!!

NONE
Im tired of tropicals and trying to keep them alive here in the winter!! :(

Bird of Paradise.

everything I see.......

Thank you Glory. S. is sending me hers, if she can keep it going until spring, I ordered a Coccinea from Logees'. Yours looks like it is probably Vitifolia(by leaves). I may need it, so don't throw any cuttings away.

weeds, I will bring you a BOP to FL swap .... Do you want the big white or orange? Also have allot of Florida natives just ask and I might have it! :)

WOw, that would be great. I think the orange would be nice. My problem here is we have cold winters so most tropicals won't live. Doesn't make me want them any less! Now, what are you looking for?

Evert.....yes, I said bye bye to my Camelia......it didn`t like me.......two days it lived normally, but it didn`t flowering, even it had flowerpods, then it started to lose leaves.......and then there was only one leaf left....then the stick started to die......and I took cutting of the health part......and then the cutting started to die.....

yes, there is too much tropicals.........hehheh.....
if I´d but real list.....this forum would be stuck...
here is few:
-Alocasia
-Anthurium magnificum
-Clocasia affinis
-Cyanastrum cordifolium
-Musas
-Piper ornatum
-Alpinia coccinea
-Camellia japonica
-Heliconia imbricata
-Kaempferia rotunda
-Pavonia multiflora
-Strelitzias
-Bauhinias
-Ananas comusus
-mucxh Orchids
-Amorphallus
-Anigozanthos manglesii
-Aristolochias
-Asarina erubescens
-Much Jams
-Passifloras
-Pothos scandens
-Dichidias rafflesiana
-Eichornia grassipes
-Typhonium giganteum
-Xanthosoma nigrum-

Maybe it was in too warm place and the air wasn't humid enough?

yes, probably.......we sure have pretty warm in here.....

Mitjo,Evert, what ever you get,take the buds(flowers)off.it is better for the plant.takes the stress of producing the flower off.Maybe some will argue here.JMHO!

I would enjoy having a Dicksonia fern for over my indoor pond. I remember seeing these monstrous plants in Cornwall, UK..........so unique! some of us have ordered Thunbergia Grandiflora"Blue Skies"......this is another I have tried to track down and finally found a source in Canada! So it's really worth it, hanging in there! Elaine

Thanks for the tip rootdoctor!
but I knew that Camelia will die......so...I just wanted to see flowers...

I just want the tropical plants that I'm currently growing to survive!!!

Passiflora vines would be high on my list though for more wants and one Aye Aye banana. Dare I say MORE BRUGMANSIA? I would have to get a back hoe and rip up all the remaining grass in front, put in raised beds, relandscape with rock walls, wrought iron fencing and trellis covered with vines, sit back and enjoy the summers like I like in the tropics...hehehe.

Thank you all for partcipating. I find it very interesting to see what others are interested in. Alot of these plants that you listed, I have never seen before. It gives me some interesting research to do.

Patricia

I'd have to agree with John and joydie. I want an Ae Ae banana pup too, but that will never be. and I dearly want everything here to just survive a few more weeks.

gee,wonder if we could get a good price on a Ae Ae nana co-op
We could get a lot of people wanting it..........

I'd give 50 bucks maybe 70.........or 2 for 100.......

Not to get you going again Tig.......LOL

I'd learn how to tissue culture if I got one!!!

I have orange clivia, Brugmania, if he turns out yellow he's yours !! I detest yellow. Yes I know orange is common but so am I. I thought I could name 5 trops easily as faves--but it turns out after reading all of you it is a lot tougher than I imagined. You don't really ahve to hang in to find what you want--you just have to know Roselaine.

Somebody whip me up a link on this Banana,I don't think I have seen it,what is so hot about it?Rare?

rootdoctor it has fabulous green and white striped foliage, BUT the plants are in high demand and cost about $100...ouch my wallet! Probably the most stunning banana plant ever seen!

I'll go surfing!

its a rich mans stuttgartt canna....LOL

Holy smokes,I just saw one,add that to my list above,LOL,The place I looked only wanted $210 for one?

gorgeous isn't it??

CC that's just what I was thinking...lol...in that case I better order a stuttgard canna and pretend...lol.

I'm interested in any plants that will help give my lawn a tropical look. Have so many now that I'd have to do some searching to find something that would fit in. It is getting a bit crowded around here with brugs, nanas, ears, thunbergias, justicias, and the list goes on. Many things I've received because of the great co-ops here at Daves.

i want brugs and gingers !!!!!! and a palm tree hardy in my area
moretz

I would just die for a JADE VINE!!I need to order over 300.00 US from aloha tropicals to get one!I am determined to do it though,so now I just have to save and stop ordering seeds lol!

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hi bitty1 ohh I sure wish I could order it.I dont think they will ship to canada.Im going to see now if they will .I would give anything for this the red or the green they are both very nice thanks for the site on my way now Hi I went there and cant find the site can you send me a link please

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