I wanted to post these photo links of my plumie pen as it has progressed in '06
I know I did start this somewherelse but thought a fresh start would be better than a long thread.
These links show from the beginning in 4-06 to now 8-06
All plumeria containers are screwed together and to whatever structure they are on.
The winds frequently blew them off and I had to learn to graft all the lil broken pieces lol!!
Ill add photos as im able sooo heres the start!! ;^)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/PlumiePen1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/BugPond2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/BugPond.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/PlumiePen2.jpg
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/PlumiePen5.jpg[/IMG]
This is me after a few hours lol!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/Pooped.jpg
After moving in a few plants
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/05150007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/05150006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/05150005.jpg
This is the bug pond prior to the Lilliy my dear friend bought me.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/05150008.jpg
O.K. All those photos were from May this year
Here is today 8-02-2006
Ill start with the outside
Yes those are plumies on top of my shed about 45 of them lol!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/PlumiePenOutside-a8-06.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/PlumiePenOutside-b8-06.jpg
Here is my lil table with various plants on it
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/TableTop8-06.jpg
Here is a large bucket of Canna and Banana mixed together for a wonderful variegation display
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/CanaBananaBucket8-06.jpg
Canna bloom close up
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/VarCanaBlossom-b8-06.jpg
Canna leaf
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/VarCanna8-06.jpg
Banana leaf
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/VarBanana8-06.jpg
Left inside bottom of Plumie pen is all Caladiums and Hawaiin Tai plants
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/Caladiums8-2-06.jpg
Here is from my back door looking up at the Plumie Pen
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020002.jpg
Here is the left side
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020005.jpg
Center view
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020006.jpg
Right Side
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020007.jpg
Bug Pond Today LOL!! 1 Lilly and 60 days = 30 Lillies HAHA!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020014.jpg
Shed roof
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020012.jpg
I always try to consider my nieghbors view of things
Here is thier view from the rear
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020010.jpg
This is the top of my trash bin, heck why not make it purdy too?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020009.jpg
This is the center of the small pie shaped deck which preceeds the Plumie Pen
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Property/Plumie%20Pen/08020008.jpg
Not too bad for now eh?
Malestroms Plumie Pen
Michael,
SO beautiful...just like being in the tropics!!! Love it, love it!! Sadly I just recently started planting things in my back yard...always thought of it more as the dogs bathroom, ya know? Love that Canna's leaves...someone was kind enough to send me one...and it's shooting up leaves now!!! Very pretty colors in your pic!
I let my dog go onthe nieghbors lawn hahahahaaaa JUUUst Kiiiding!!
She uses the front and we pick up right away.
I guess it would be nice to see pics of blooming plumies too lol!!
Giant Aussie Orange
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/GAO2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/06250002.jpg
Thai Rose
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/FirstBlooms06.jpg
Princess Victoria
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/PrincessVictoria.jpg
Tillie Hughes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/TillieHughes2.jpg
Tillie Hughes close up
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/TillieHughes.jpg
Inspiration, a lanna seedling Im naming after a friend (Suki) ;^)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/Seedlings/Lanna%207-06/Inspiration8-2-06b.jpg
This is Paulas Slaughter Pink a non stop prolific show of gorgeous pink white flowers
She bloomed continually untill a larger plant blew over onto her and broke the inflo in half :^(
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/PaulasSlaughterPink6-27-06.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/06260018.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Malestrom22/My%20Plumies/2006/06260019.jpg
This message was edited Aug 2, 2006 8:23 PM
Love your plumie jungle, Michael! Thanks for sharing all those pics!
Ouch! Sorry about your inflo breaking in half, Michael! If you stick it in water, will it continue to bloom if you put the vase outside?
Im over it lol!!
All the little stems broke off, it was a heavy hit.
I cant wait for all my Slaughter pink varieties to bloom.
They are terrific!!
So what do you do come winter? Being from WV I know how brutal the winters can be back east. Do you have a greenhouse? Or do you bring them into the garage or house and let them go dormant?
I have always turned the basement into a greenhouse.
My son has that area now for a bedroom.
The home shall look like a botanical garden this winter heh.....
Mike lol how do you find the time and energy for all that..
Great job!!
Thanks man,
BUT ...Please don ask that!! LOL!!
Im returning to college in Sept and I wont have time to spit.
Im an A+ student and very hard on myself to succeed.
The winter conversion comes at a very inconvenient time.
Thank God my wife and 2 boys are very helpful.
My best friend Micah also helps me.
Edited to add:
BTW Lopaka,
It was your request for pics that inspired my doing this thread lol!
I also have one in the cactus and succulent forum showing all my cacti
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/634769/
Enjoy!!
This message was edited Aug 3, 2006 8:10 AM
Great pictures. Shows how you can still have plants even without a yard. Very creative.
Tami
Thanks Tami! ;^)
In past years I would put up to 60 pots on top of my flat kitchen roof and do peppers and tomatoes there.
My health over the last 2 years made this impossible.
Im on the mend so I may need to retruss the roof like a deck lol!!
WOW!! Love your plumie haven!! Great bloom pics too!!
You are a great gardener, Michael, and very creative and hard-working. I know you will make it work this winter, even without the full use of your basement! Your son may have to share his new room!
Hey Mike what do your neighbors say?
I wish the neighbor across from me would do that all i see is weeds and they still have the shutters up from wilma not to mention debris is still on their roof..
I wish they move i am getting tired of looking at sanford and son...
Great job again man..
Most folks admire it all
My next door nieghbor is an @$$hole supreme
I literally hate the guy.
He is a miserable, mean, spiteful, rotten, S.O.B
Twice he has broken a plumie on me.
My plants dont hang over onto his property or onto the common strip
But he shows no concern with the fact that these are my property
Once decided he didnt like where one was out front and slid it hard across the patio, it broke a branch off.
Today He is moving to another home YAY!!
In his hurry to empty the house he scraped a washing machine up against one of my prize seedlings from Noams India Nursery seed collection, broke another branch.....
I hope he slips and breaks an ankle
What a total jerk...
I saw the branch and went out to tie them all back so thered be more room for him.
He asked me to wait till he was done....
I said " im tying them back so you dont break any more of them, this is a new cultivar worth more than $500.- and you broke it"
He responds with "oh well what do you want me to do?"
Id like to tell him oh yeah.... a fights brewing here man...
If im patient senoir peckerhead will become someonelses problem soon and be gone from my life.
I cant stand inconsiderate people, he is this way about everything.
He actually complained to my wife when got a handicaped parking spot out front!
He parks right up on my bumper when he can.
I have 3 vehicles and could easily park one in front of him when he does this so he is trapped
Im just not a prick like this waste of space is.
OOPS am I venting? Sorry..... a lil off topic eh? Or maybe no, I was responding to a question.
It all makes me want a nice piece of property where the nieghbors wont be near my trees dangit!!
Michael,
I'm so sorry...that's beyond frustrating!! You wonder about some folks, don't you? The only way I console myself about people like that is to remind myself they have to live with their ugly selves 24/7!!! How miserable would that be?!!! Still never nice to damage other folks property!! I know how annoyed I get with my neighbor's dog when she's tied out front and dig and/or chews on my plants...another reason to put the agave and cacti out there...LOL
Oh, Chantell! Think about the poor dog that's tied up. That's surely not fun for a dog. Get mad at the neighbor, not the dog:-( Maybe you could ask the neighbor to put up a fence to make both you and the dog happy.
Clare,
You know I'm an animal person. The dog's wasn't left out there for more then 15 -20 min at a time and honestly hasn't been for months. We're in townhouses...neighbor's BACK yard is fenced in, I have no earthly idea why they were putting her out front for bits of time during the spring!! Believe me...I WAS annoyed with the neighbor - not so much the dog...this had been a repeat happening. I made it clear to her that cactus and agave/yucca were replacing my grass in front and it was not animal/kid friendly. Plus my 14 year old son is friends with her son...and I think, with all the tact of a 14 year old male, he told her son that I was not pleased about the plants/bulbs being chewed/dug up. As I've said...it's not been an issue for a few months.
;-)