I have been looking at these online since last summer and was so shocked when I walked into a nursey today and they had 3 different ones. I wanted all 3 but I bought just one!!
I said, "Beautiful Baby, you want to come home with me??"
EXOTICA
Here is one that is calling my name to come back for it!!
PASTEL
And the 3rd one was RED SISTER.
OH MY... those are stunning!
I just Love the pink colors!
MsC
Very nice. I have a friend in Hawaii who had a nice collection of them also Dr Brown I visited a few years ago in Florida he wrote a wonderful book with great pictures of them. He had quite a few nice forms as well. I got a very nice pastel colored form from a freind a few years ago. It was extremely rare but I think it has sense been put into TC and will soon be easy to find. It is manly a light pink and blue color.
Beautiful. Kell
Beautiful Kell. I like the first one best of all. Tell us, how did you manage to walk out with only one???
Wow!!!!!! these are beautiful, what is the price of these?
Kaleem
Oh man I'd be asking them to come home w/ me too! Gorgeous!
Kell! you did excellent. what are they? ti plants?
Only one? Are you ill? Will you be okay? You did go get it some playmates didn't you???
What pretties!
Kell, they are georgeous. Know you, I can hardly believe that you came home with only one.
Kell, You must be a really strong women to walk away with only one. LOL
Gosh, I am going to run back and get the pastel one. I have no clue what I was thinking!!! I must have had rain stroke. LOL. Thanks for bringing me back to my senses.
I was looking again online last night and to buy just cuttings of the stalk, it would cost me more than to buy these. I need to explain this to my DH how he is saving so much money because I bought these.
The Red Sister was a lot like the one I bought at Home Depot last week for half the price. So I really only need Pastel now. LOL
Susie, do they grow well where you are? Do they have them in nurseries?
My HD find. 2 gallon can.
I see the varieties listed, but varieties of what? What are they?
Kell, yes they have a few here, mostly the one like you got at HD. I have two of those. They do well in part shade for me.
Of course you have to go back and get "Pastel"! After all, it would fit perfectly in your PINK garden!
Kell.Hmm,when I say beautiful baby you want to come home with me,
I get slapped!!!!LOL!
Exotica is gorgeous,I hope they migrate to the middle of the country!!
I'm glad you came to your senses,and went back and bought the pastel
one also,they look good together!!!
LOL Kell where are you putting all these??? They are beautiful.
yohoo, here! what are they?
LOL Tropicman!
Cordyline.............Ti plants. They come in such colors, I can't believe it. Hey Vossner, great gaud or what??? LOL
Carol hopefully will come by and show us hers. She has some beauties. I bet we see more and more of them!!
This nursery is my downfall lately. I also bought a new phormium for me there. It is a small one but intensely pink!!
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they are all stunning Kell... what a nice color combo!!
Kell...they are gorgeous!!!! Tonight I will put some pics up....I took a bunch the other day, but haven't sized them yet. For a carefree spot of rich color they are perfect!!!!
Carol
Silly me...I had already sized them....so here are some planted on the property. This one is Lipstick.
This tall one is a seedling...and the sun thru the leaves makes it look like it is on fire. The smaller bushy Ti to the right are Olaa Beauty.
This is one I use for backgrounds in plantings as they grow really tall and full. Hawaiian Boy
The Orange/Rust colors in this one, Orange Sister, is almost unique to this very old Ti....
Boy, they really liven up a border. The sun loves to play witheir colors, I see. Lipstick is calling my name. LOL
THANKS Carol!!! All are just stunning. Is that seedling from you cross pollinating??
Carol does! She even sells Ti plants which are 10 inch stem cuttings, no roots. I have her online site on my to buy list now for spring. Though it may be spring now, I can't decide.
Carol, what is the best way to grow these from cuttings? I have 3 small ones under lights I got from ebay which have not died but have not budged either.
o u t s t a n d i n g. I have one that I bought last fall, can't remember name out, planted inground, part sun. It's a little ratty right now, hope it recuperates. Compared to y'all's beauties, mine rates very very very low. hee hee.
edited to correct myself. not planted inground, rather buried in a pot for easy retrieval in case of cold temps
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Kell and Dutchlady1 - Ti grow very much like Brugs....but they are a bit slower.
1. lay the cut stem (trunk) horizontally on the soil and push it in to reach about half way up. Soil should be loose...I plant them in lava cinders with some peatmoss and orchid bark. Drainage is VERY important. All of those rings around the stem are growing points for roots/eyes-shoots. They will appear...fear not. Keep them warm.
2. stick the cut stem about 1-2" into the soil/potting mix. You definitely will get one stem growing out of the top....sometimes more.
The smallest I ever cut is 4". Horizontally can be slower, but you get multiple plants.
If you have a Top with all the leaves, you need about 3" below the leaf growth to stick into the ground.
Slug LOVE young Ti...so take precautions with alum. strips around the trunks.
Alas...that seedling just appeared for someone who had the wit to save it. Ti seeds are seldom very viable and produce uglies (I am told) ----. I love to cut the 'flowers'...they make very interesting arrangements with their purple, red, pink stems...
MOST of the Ti with cream in the leaves like shade better than sun...some of the deeper red leaves can grow in the sun, as well as the all green ones. Filtered sun works great for all of them...even my tender ones that get an hour or two of early or late sun don't gripe about it.
HTH
Here is my baby, planted in part sun, inground. I do hope new leaves soon grow over the ugly ones
Looks like it got cold or dry. No worries... You might want to give it more shade.
Thanks for all the info, Carol. I really appreciate it!!
Gee Vossner, yours lived all winter in zone 9A outside with no protection? Must be tougher than I thought.
Oh my, I need to move to Hawaii! sigh...
So Kell, will I have to sell several of my prized daylilies to afford one of those in the first pic? Need to know this before I head over the hill to take a tour of Armstrongs. And only plant in shade right?
I love Exotica, too!
I've tried a few of these indoors....they just plain don't like it there!!
LOL Sue. I t was $23 in a 2 gallon pot but listen. I was at Walmart the other day and they had this one also!! I bet much cheaper; I coudldn't find a price on it. . Now I will say it was half dead but I notice HD is carrying some different ones for $12, the same size or bigger. So this is my take, a local grower must be growing these and I bet we will gets lots of kinds by summer around here. In your heat it probably will only want early morning sun, but here I bet it can take more.
Oh Nan, too bad. I have high hopes for mine but watch me kill them. They get mites so easily!!
Mites? Here the only pest is slugs...I will bet you can keep them clean with good aircirculation and lots of water. By the way....they LOVE water and fast draining soil.
