We have a road thru 6 acres that we are planting. This is adjacent to our property where we live...and while we call it our "park" it is really our meal ticket to a Nursing Home one day!!! LOL Bob has planted tons of palms, bamboos, fruit trees. Here is the updated link: http://www.bigislandgrowers.com/ghp/AHmap.php
I would like more "trees"...ya' know...the kinds with flowers? LOL So far we have Jacaranda, Breadfruit, Shower Tree (Rainbow cv. Watermelon), Bauhinia, variegated Rubber Tree, Variegated Schfellera, Amherstia nobilis, Posoqueria maxima. So far I have about 35 Brugmansias planted out...more in line.
Help? Any great ideas out there...? Please...'Your Favorite Tropical Tree'... my mind is stuck!!
Thanks, and Aloha,
Carol
Your Favorite Tropical Tree
Hi there! At present my absolute most favorite is Michelia champaca.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/53529/index.html
So pretty even without the flowers. And the fragrance is simply to die for!
Of course the alba with white flowers is pretty, too...
Delonix regia http://images.google.com/images?q=delonix+regia&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
Tabebuia caraiba http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=tabebuia+caraiba&btnG=Search
Chorisia speciosa http://images.google.com/images?q=chorisia+speciosa&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
Montezuma Speciosissima. http://www.tfts.org/montezumaspeciosissima.htm
Bombax ceiba http://www.tfts.org/bombax_ceiba.htm
Plumeria
Thanks so much...keep em coming!! I have the Michelia alba...called Pak Lan here. I will look into the others...I know the Chorisia needs dry and we get TOO much rain (about 150" per year)...Hibiscus have a problem with it...and mites are a problem...but I have some beautiful ones.
My MOST favorite tree in the world.....Royal Poinciana, they are called Flamboyant trees in the Caribbean, for good reason!
Pati
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2755%3b%20http://wpsm.net
Erythrina variegata..."sunshine coral tree" I have seeds!!!!! Auntie.Kalola
YES! Kyle...what a good suggestion! I would love some seeds! Here they are called Samoan Sunshine Tree! Mahalo!
Isn't the Royal Poinciana the Delonix regia? I had forgotten about that one...YES...I am looking that one up now.
Auntie Kalola I will send some seeds.The supplier said very slow germination..they were up in less than a week in the greenhouse.Real slow..HUH?? LOL
Carol...it just makes me soooo jealous that you have all those tropical trees growing along your property......I have to scatter like a madwoman just to protect mine from a light frost...I'm a tropical loving plant nut...and yours you just plant in the ground, and go on to the next tropical....I can only dream of having such tropicals growing in my yard~ I can only imagine at the beauty of your yard....what I would do to live in zone 10 and higher...lol, I think it's so funny you say "your mind is stuck"...heck I'd drool if I had just one growing in the ground here, you have so many great ones already~ Debra~
You are so spoiled Carol. I just can't imagine indulging my every desire. So much land. I am such a jealous person!! You need to take lots of pictures for us.
I have the common purple Jacaranda but did you know it also comes in white? Very pretty.
How about an AeAe section. I can just imagine that. I had one last year for all of a month before it died a terrible death. It was sick when I got it. I was so very sad. I would just go nuts to be able to have a line of them. Heck, I would happily settle for one. LOL
This is a beautiful tree, and it does not have those spikes on the trunk.
Floss Silk Tree 'Majestic Beauty' (Chorisia speciosa)
AeAe are difficult to ship (by the time the Mom dies and the keiki is ready to cut it is HUGE). Tissue culture is the best way to get them...
That Floss Silk Tree is another beauty....on the list it goes.
Yes...I know I am a very lucky person...DH and I tell eachother how blessed we are all the time. This life is like living in a dream. It is so darn much fun. However...the chocolate side of the vanilla cookie is always there....schlepping water out to the plantings when it gets too dry... Doesn't seem like a hardship, but one pays a price.
OK...here is a little bed I made next to an existing one near the house...planted a bunch of Alocasia, Anthurium and Dianella... I love that lime green Alocasia...The yellow towards the top is a 5' long orchid spike blooming...
Today I am calling around to nursery friends to see who has the trees....
Aloha
How do your elephant ears do in your zone? do they ever die back? I think the lime alocasia is Xanthosoma Lime zinger.
ely
You are right...I forgot that.
The Xanthosmas do especially well - even naturalizing in the bush...drop a tuber of the X. robustus and you soon have a clatch of them.
Some of the alocasias (Taro) have a short life...then they must be dug up, trimmed and the 'hulis' replanted. But other than that...they all just grow. I am really enjoying the Anthuriums ... many of them look like 'ears'...but more 'decorative'.
Carol
I love anthriums too. I only have the cheep ones though,
now what about colocasia? I have read articals about the university of HI or HI EDU about breeding them. and people eat the "poi" is that right? have you ever choped up the hulis 'I am guessing is what is made when the leaves die off' and planted it. I have some foot long alocasia california that are too long for me. and I was wondering if I could do that to make more pups I dont need...
ely
Let me try to get some info for you, ely...I get confused about alocasia/colocasia...one is edible...some do need to be dug up when they are mature at about 8 months, then the main tuber is taken off (as Taro for chips, or poi or.....?) and the stems are carefully pruned and replanted. The Big leaves are cut off, just one young leaf left when a huli is made. If not, the plant will come back, but each time it does, the leaves are smaller and smaller.
Carol