A tropical garden in Saskatchewan..... ;)

Clerodendrum thomsoniae.......thank you Flora Exotica (our own Perrynguyen) :) It's blooming on buds it formed in Moose Jaw now (I'm sure it loved our recent warm spell)

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Three different nanners (in the background)...two might look familiar to you weeds ;)

Part of other side...not the best pics but I dug most of the bed out of the grass yesterday, roto tilled, amended the soil, and fertilized, and I'm just tickled pink it's done. Ü And that some of my tropicals are *in* the ground.

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Added this beauty 'About Face' to add some tropical colour until the Cannas start blooming.

Picked up this beauty in Regina for $3.00 (and eight other varieties).....thought it was only fitting that Kansas be blooming in my garden this year. ;)

Here's Canna 'Spitfire' prior to planting (it sat for a long time but is growing quickly now)........thank you soooooooo very much Ingrid! Ü

Will update will pics as the nanners grow and the 6 different varieties of Cannas in there bloom. I also included 3 butterfly bushes that should be a nice backdrop to the Canna blooms.

looks and sounds lovely Pam.

I should be interesting to see how *much* the nanners grow Linda. Ü I'm soooo glad DH and I covered the nanners and Callas so their leaves weren't shredded by the wind we had.

Will post pics of the brugs and other tropical plants when the blooms appear. I have a brug alley of all my new ones and my old trees (bushes....some are 7 years old now) are at the other side of the house until they recover from spending 9 looooooooooooooooong months in the basement. Leaves and new growth is coming very quickly now that they are outside.

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p.s. I'm darned pleased with how those nanas look.......they spent 9 months in front of our bedroom window and the hardy one scared me silly when it went into dormancy. I thought for sure I'd lost it. The purple tropical one can grow into a monster.....weeds has the mother growing in her yard and I think it's 12 feet tall. It also produces nanners for her. I'll be doing the happy dance just to see a bloom in a couple of years! ;)

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the nanners look great. I'd be doing a happy dance if mine survives the winter. right now it's growing to beat the band, so I'm pleased.

You do so well with such a short growing season and harsh winter, just imagine what you'd be able to do out here..... yes, I'm rubbing it in. But I bet all the rain in the winter would drive you insane.

It would.....I'll take the prairie sunshine any day and will snarl about the cold and will miss Victoria in the sunshine terribly. ;)

and your growing season!!! :'(

Looking good.

translation - nanners??? Nanas?????
Inanda

Thanks Brugcrazy! Ü

Inanda.....they are Banana Trees. I've spent too much time around dem Floridian folks. ;)

One's Musa Super Dwarf Cavendish: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/60087/index.html

One's Blood Banana 'Zebrina' (Musa acuminata): http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/76708/index.html ( I think?)

Last one's: Japanese Fiber Banana, Japanese Hardy Banana (Musa basjoo) http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1251/index.html

Very nice Pam. These tropicals must really add spice and flavor to your garden. Now if you can just keep them all safe from hail etc. I think 'AboutFace' is particularly lovely.

One more night to get thro Brenda.....I'm going to be soooooooo happy to see this system head back down to the Gulf of Mexico.

My plants sure feel like they are back in Florida lately. We will be hitting 100.4F (including humidity) today......I imagine you will be having the same temperatures.

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Lookin good Pam. Talk about a "Green Thumb". You must have one on each hand. :)

It's gotta be fun to see them take off after setting inside all winter. I'd be watching them everyday for new growth. When I saw new growth, I'd grab the first person that came along and show them. (not that I might get a little too excited) lol

Darrell

Wow Lilypon....a little bit of paradise! Love your tropical bed and so glad to be a part of it, wish I could send you more stuff! Now, relax and enjoy that wonderful hot and humid weather it takes to grow them!

LOL....without air conditioning here relaxing (melting) should be pretty easy weeds! ;) The rose petals melted on the plant (new buds look fine tho) and the Musa, lotus and the other tropicals are very, very happy right now. ;) Thank you so very, very much!!! The clerodendrum bungeii's leaves fried but new growth is coming now and I'm getting very excited to see it grow.

Thanks Darrell! It just works out that my watering method suits the plants....most tropicals need less watering in the winter (they go into dormancy or near dormancy esp. by cool/cold (but not freezing) windows in a Saskatchewan winter) which works great with me since I'm a forgetful one. Exceptions being the Hoyas and I'm getting better with them (thanks to the great teachers in the Hoya forum).

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I should mention that the Golden Trumpet Allamanda overwintered http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/57126/ and new growth is coming all over it. That one I feel particularily proud of since Monocromatico didn't think it would make it here (it can be difficult to overwinter...but our cool windows prolly kept it happy).

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Way to go, Pam! Looks awesome!!
:) Donna

echoes I meant to say 'About Face' is a 2005 introduction http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/77244/index.html .......I too felt it was extremely eyecatching. There were hundreds of roses blooming and it "called out to me". ;) Even tho I knew it meant I'd be doing extra work in the fall so that it would be able to survive our lovely winter. ;)

Thanks Donna :) ....... we low zoners should have an interesting summer watching how *big* our tropicals are gonna get. It makes me groan when I see the size T. grandiflora excetra are capable of way, way, down south (and in coastal BC ;).



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