First buy of the new year!
Bright Light
About 4 ft tall,and only $12.99.
Hope all my plant buying is this good for 2007!
kansas people,check your Homeland Grocery stores!
This is a great addition to my deffinbauchia collection.
That is a beautiful Deff .... sure wish we had Homeland Grocery Strores down here in Florida! WOW, $12.99 is a Fantastic price for one that large! Never find anything that large or that nice in our grocery stores!
Lin
Seems everywhere I go,Lowes, walmart and grocery stores,all of them are loaded with tropical plants,normally this doesn't happen until late Feb.early March,right before Easter.
Most tropical we get here come from Florida,makes you wonder how they can grow and ship them all the way to Kansas that cheap!
Seems like everyone up North is finding these GREAT buys! A few folks (I believe it was the Houseplant forum) have been finding great plants at Wal-Mart for $5.00! I have checked out our Lowe's, HD and Wal-Mart and all we have down here right now is sick looking plants beginning at $14.95 and up!! They must be shipping all the good stuff to other states! LOL
I know most of the Tropicals are grown in Florida .... they are all Wholesale Nurseries .... sure wish they would sell directly to the public. It will be around March before we see nice stuff in our stores!
Lin
That's a beauty.
Do you ever put them outside in the summer? I was wondering how much cold they can tolerate.
Someone suggested I trial them as an annual in my deer resistance study (I currently test elephant ears). I posted for information on the Tropics Forum, but no one really had any info on growing them outside as annuals or as non-hardy tropicals.
ROX
I don't think the Def's will take too much cold .... they are tropical's. I am in Florida, Zone 9a and mine are out in my screened pool enclosure most of the year. I have to keep them in bright shade because the intense sun down here would fry them! They will freeze if left outside in winter. I usually move mine inside if it gets below 40 degrees! You could probably grow them outside as annuals in your zone during the spring/summer months.
Lin
Lin-
Thanks for the info.
ROX
I bring mine out in late spring,and put on the front porch which faces dead east,gets early morning sunlight.
They do great out there,have never planted any in the ground as of yet!!!
Depending on which vareity,some like lots of water,especially those with large ears,and lots of feed too!
Smaller leaf vareities are just the opposite.
Tropicman,
Does it have a name. I bought 12 of them recently to fill an shaded area of the garden.They were a steal down here at $7.95.
They seem to be very happy so far, all have new growth.
Tag said Bright Light,first time I've seen this vareity here locally.
I have one very similar in leaf color with the darker spots,but has a much narrow leaf!
I thought that was the light conditions you were explaining, LOL. Ive been calling it camouflage for years, but thats just in my world.
LOL!
I've been there do!!!
Just gorgeous and I MUST have it! LOL I need that one in my collection, too. Yummy!
GH
I hope this one gets really big,I love big leaf plants!
Beautiful ! I need one too
That's a beauty, I totally agree!!
It bothers me, though, that different suppliers are naming (what appear to be) the same plants different names.....has anyone else noticed that?
Seems you really can't find any 'definite' Dieffenbachia ID's on the internet these days!
I had even checked the aroid.org website, and there aren't even any (well, maybe one or two) SOLID Dieff. ID's on there. I'm having trouble finding out who's who!? LOL!!
I *think* I got the same one at our PW store here a couple of months back...but mine only said 'Tropical Foliage', as usual, and didn't indicate where it came from. Did yours have a nursery name on it, Don?
You're acquiring quite the Dieff collection, there! (Ü)
Nan,
I totally agree with you!
Here's what my tags say!
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