Here are some photos from today. I was gone out of town for two days came back and went a little crazy with the camera. Hope you guys like it.
Kentucky Jungle Pics
front walk
front walk 2
front walk 3
front walk 4
front walk 5
front walk 6
Keep em' comin! Amazing, the changes when you're away for a few days, huh? Just grand, Brian. I always love your pics!
front walk 7
front walk 8
front walk 9
front walk 10
front walk 11
out by the road
landscape
back walk ways
Always a pleasure to see your work Brian! Is that mostly poured concrete with brick edging? Would you say all that hardscape gives you and extra zone or so? Are you in 6 or 7?
Oh WOW WOW WOW WOW *giggle
Just how I love the gardens to look! Nice-
On front walk 6- what are the huge alocasia looking guys? Those are definately going on my garden list.
Rj
Marvelous!
Ok Brian, you're killing me! Gotta get there to see this magnificant display in person. Simply amazing!
Heck....if it were me, I'd just take a cot and live out there!!! LOL
Brian, outstanding!!! I love touring your garden...just wish I could do it in person!
Rj said "On front walk 6- what are the huge alocasia looking guys? Those are definately going on my garden list." I second that! Are they some kind of Big Dipper, coffee cup? I'm in still in awe, Brian you cease to amaze me.. just so much to see!
Those are my Colocasia coffee cups they are around 7 feet tall now. Hope to get them up a bit taller before its over.
I saw that one on Tony Avents site, it's a GOTTA HAVE..... Thanks Brian.
Brian,.............fantastic.................
Want to lost in your tropical jungle.
Kaleem
I love the purplish and green verigated leaves that sorta look like banana. what are they?
Which picture is it in? I use these beds for show the ones we have are usually much smaller so its always good to have some large ones in the ground. I also breed with many of these and most are mother plants. Though I think I am going to have to thin a few patches out next season.
the one you have labeled landscape. the tall leaves.
I think the purplish leaves are the ensete ventricosum 'Maurellii', also known as Red Abyssinian Banana. They are my favorites are all the plants in the garden!
Brian, how are you getting those so large? Are they in pots right now, or in the ground and then you dig them up in the fall? I am guessing that they don't go dormant, that they keep their leaves all winter and continue to grow in the grhouse? Are you fertilizing them thru the winter?
Your right those are ensete ventricosum 'Maurellii'. I put them in the ground till fall then remove all the leaves and pot them up and put them in the greenhouses. They are not fertilized during winter but are thrown back out in the ground come spring.
have you tried ensete ventricosum, or the snow banana-ensete glaucum? It is supposed to be hardy to zone 7
I am growing them both and have bloomed both of them. I cross pollinated Ventricosum on to Glaucum this spring. It looks to have taken and we will see what comes of it next season.
Here is glaucum blooming.
Have you thought about leaving the glaucum outside with heavy mulch, or do you think it is isn't hardy to zone 7? I like to push the zones myself.
I left ventricosum out last year with no luck. I am not sure if it was in a very good area but I have so few Glaucum to test I may try to test them next season.
So is it better to dig them up before winter or mulch them good? And remember I don't get 1/2 as much cold as you do... but we do get a couple of freezes so mine does die down. I've never seen it bloom... maybe this year? It is larger right now than it has ever been.
the maurellii is not considered hardy in zone 8b-I think its hardy to 9-maybe 10, but if you don't mind losing it, I would mulch it really heavy and have it in your most protected spot in your yard-on the south side and maybe near the house where it will get some protection from the cold winds in the winter
If you have the glaucum, then I would defintitely leave it out during the winter, but its best chance is going to be where it has been in the ground all late spring/summer.
I don't know that one I have now... here is a pic of it.
Well, thats a musa -what cultivar, I don't know. It's not an ensete though, which is what I was talking about above.
If theres a tag or you could find out what it is, it would help in determining whether it would survive the winter. Some bananas are hardier than others.