2006 photos

Each year I take far to many photos and about this time of the year I start putting them in the correct folders. I am working on a large data base much like what we have here on Dave's garden for my photos. After adding up all the plant photos it seems I have to go through 21,000.00 photos and still more from last year. I have a huge folder of all plant family and many species made up and the photos get to be categorized in this huge folder that I have added photos to for the last 9 years. I thought I would share some of the more interesting photos here on Dave's.



This is a old photo. A friend sent me this photo years ago. The were it came from seems to be a mystery. I saw this photo about 8 years ago. Once I saw it I literally bugged Malaysian tropicals to find it. I know Peter Boyce who works over their and he was able to bring it into cultivation. It is now fairly easy to get. Of course growing it is a completely other story. Here is probably one of the best photos of it I have seen. Known for having one of if not they largest solid leaves in the world.

One of the most beautiful anthuriums I have ever seen. This is a species called Luxuriens. It won a award at the aroid show last year grow by Dennis.

This is a odd ball and I am going to give my friend a ear full about not doing something with it. She was growing it and I told her she had something nice and very odd. Sure I dont think its main stream but it is something for us hobbiest. I will see about getting a piece if she still has it. It is the only one I have ever seen.


Reminds me of the mutation of cucullata called crinkles but on a amazonica type alocasia.

This is one of my new creations. It is going to be named. Alocasia maculionens a hybrid with macrorrhiza and culionensis. This will be much like one called longloba but thicker leaves stronger growing habit one that I can throw in the ground during the summer here and take in during winter. Probably hardy zone 8 or higher.

One of the most beautiful Philodendrons on the planet. I had searched for this plant for years and a few years ago at the aroid show. Some friends from Ecuador pulls this out of a box as a unknown species. I knew right off what it was. It is called philodendron splendedum. The leaves can grow around 3 feet long or more and have no back lobes and ruffling down the leaves.

Here is a new canna I breed last year and finally will release it this coming spring if all goes well. This is Canna Aeon. It is one of the most flowering cannas I have ever seen. Once grown out it always has at least 30 flowers or more on it.

This is a new hybrid from this year will probably take me a year or longer to get stock built up to release it. I have many similar but this one seems to catch everyones eye it has a bluish silver look in the center of each leaf and under its leaves. It holds itself very up right so you see a lot of the underside of the leaf and the flowers and bright light pink colored not huge but nice around 3 to 4 inches wide medium to thin peddles.

new hybrid 2006 no name on this one yet but shows a lot of promise

I have been trying very hard with my breeding of cannas to get things that do not exactly look like cannas. I had a good friend I sent a CD of my canna work to and he first thought I was breeding cordylines. This one I have not yet named it is a taller grower with medium pink flowers but the foliage has fulled many people. Most did not believe it was a canna right off.

This cordyline canna look is easy to see in this odd form. I have a few extremely narrow forms I have been breeding with as well as some very tall forms. One tetraploid form I have grown is dark maroon to purple foliage and can reach 10 to 15 feet tall like giant purple spikes out of the ground. I would have had some photos of it but we had 80 mph winds that knocked it over once it was around 10 feet tall. It seemed to never fully recover this year. I hope to grow it out full next season. It would make an impressive back drop in a tropical display.

All are just lovely - would LOVE to have that first one - just stunning!

Amazing, as always. Thank you Brian.

Erick

Thanks Brian
Love the Canna Ti.

Great shots and beautiful plants. I also love the canna ti - so is it a canna or a ti?????

They are all cannas

Looking forward to seeing more of the Alocasia maculionens. Love the plant; but how do you pronounce the name?

ROX

Mac-U-lionense seems to be how I am saying it.

A new shorter growing canna which will soon be in my Shadow series. Grows to about 4 feet tall dark maroon to purple spear like leaves and bright neon orange flowers with large peddles.

The shorter burgundy canna is a real winner! Imagine that burgundy with some chartreuse colored plants like Xanthosoma 'Lime Zinger' . That would really pop!

ROX

I would like one of each please.......
Thay are all just amazing!

Brian - the P. Splendedum looks similar to the Philo you are currently offering on eBay. What are the differences other than the lack of ruffles on the one that is currently up for bid?

Do you have the name of the one your refering to? Personally I find philos are easy to grow and propagate for me but in more tropical zones anthuriums can be easier.

Actually Brian The one you list is Philodendron Sp.? silver blue. the leaves look simular to the ruffled one pictrured here but may actually be smaller.

Wow!! You have plenty of acreage to do this?? Such a talent!! Degree in ??? I am very impressed. Thank you, Bellie

Hopefully I will be organized enough by spring to have a good show of all the new stuff I am coming out with. I enjoy all the positive feed back if it wasn't for my own personal plant crazed addictions I would probably do it any ways for everyone's wonderful gratitude towards my breeding. THANKS

Brian, You are amazing!!!! I love all of them!!