In Kansas,begining to feel like it looks, rain everyday for a week now,very humid and damp feeling.
Amazon Rainforest
How in the WORLD do you do it? I am most impressed...Zone 6...? Heck, it looks like Zone 11. Congratulations!
do you cover your pots with mulch or burry them in the ground?
ely....
ely,I plant them directly in the ground,for stronger and faster growth.
Aloha,thanks,well mother nature helps a lot too!LOL!
Lookin' great Tropicman!!! I still shake my head in wonderment over your piece of the tropics in Kansas! ;)
Sometimes, I grab photos that I especially like and store them in my "Ideas for my Garden" folder.
Tropic, my DH wants you to stop posting pictues :D
Because of you, he now has several honey-do projects lined up.
(Psssst -- don't stop -- your garden is beautiful)!
Beautiful, Don! Well, at least you don't have to water when it is raining!
It sure looks like rainforest, hehehe. You have done great job with your yard Tman.
Thanks all!
LSP,tell your husband that your spending good quality time together bonding with nature,and he doesn't want to see mother nature whens she's angry!!!LOL!
Here's pic I took this morning,from the sidewalk out front,about the only placwe you can actually see the house from.but not sure how long that will be,if it don't stop raining.
Tropic, do you still have that rectangular, plant-filled pond?
Yes I do,and just posted some pics in the water garden forum,of a swamp lilly coming into flower bud.
Do you take everything inside in the winter? Or rig a heated greenhouse over the entire yard?...I can't believe your garden...it is gorgeous.
The CHinese Garden in Portland, Or. grows Hedechium Coronarium outdoors all year round...but it is protected and they mulch heavily. Want some...you pay postage?
Show us a picture Aloha,we are nuts here in the Midwest!
Yes I do!And yes I will be glad to pay postage!
Say how much and will send.
tropicman,
do you take all those small trees, etc, from the tropics in during the winter.....that is a little slice of heaen.
Lynette
(nicerfarm@mchsi.com)
Yes I dig everything up repot,and bring back in for the winter,my greenhouse is full of empty pots as we speak!
I take a week off in October to do all this and still have to all month long on the weekends,believe me its a job,I cut everything back to half way or more.
Last year I gave away at least a dozen 12ft tall banana trees and large brugs,and a plumeria that was 8ft tall,just didn't have the room,plus a lot of regular houseplants as well,its even gonna be worse this year with all the new plants I have.
I do the same,LOL,we must be nuts.
http://davesgarden.com/t/405200/
We are!!!!
But we enjoy it!!!
I just saw your thread in containers,I will get a pic tomorrow,is that a varigated snake plant? I have not seen one before.
Not sure which plant your talking about,you mean the mother-in-law plant.or the varigated fatshea ivy,ot the varigated devils tongue?
Mother in Law plant I think?
Yeah they call that a varigated one,at the nursery.
I sure like the looks,it is the center plant in your second photo.