Heres a few of my favorites, so I don't have names for. I have about 300+ seeds just about ready to plants so otta get something nice this year, I feel like a honeybee, pollinatin everything! LOLanyway on with the show...This one is John Bender, I love the red stems and yellow foliage.
Croton "Super Star"
Crotons in Miami!
Croton "Yellow Petra"
Crotons in Tampa!
Croton "Coral Showers"
Did any of the cuttings I sent make it? they were in pretty rough shape.
Croton "Thai Hybrid"
OH Dale...I would LOVE some of that first one you put up...In Miami. BEAUTIFUL.
I love crotons, easy color.
Dale most of them rooted , the three larger ones are blooming now and one Andreanum has seeds on it.
Croton unknown hybrid
Croton collection at work
I wish I had names for my photos, but, I am lazy.
One of the places I work has a collection of about 80 different cultivars, the one above and this one are there.
Croton unknown
AlohaHoya,
If I am ever at that garden (It was the Nat'l Orchid Society HDQ's) I might get one. I only go down to Miami area about once every couple years. It is over 5 hours from here, not exactly a day trip.
Croton "Picasso's paintbrush"
Croton's get big!
croton "Madam Butterfly"
Someday I am going to get out to the Croton Club president's house to photo his collection over 350 named varieties.
I'd be runnin around the neighborhood with a sharp pair of shears and a garbage bag. :-)
I love this one.
Dale, snip snip!! :-)
I have already been granted permission.....limited permission, in return for a visual record, labeled.
Should make a nice CD.
I am guessing Kyle will want one.
I promise they won't be expensive.
Dale i can envision a lexicon of crotons with color pics of mature leaf, laid next to an immature leaf,by a small branch and finally a full bush photo to help people identify their crotons.
Kyle, do you air layer yours? At one of the societies meetings Ron (the president) showed us how, very easy and successful.
only a few of mine are big enough to air layer.
Time for bed, I am double posting.
Last one for today. This is Mamey with a sport coming out. Mamey is so unstable, genetically, that it has more sports than any other croton. There is a display of the sports of Mamey in Sarasota, I haven't found it yet, but, I will.
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the curly one looks like mammey
'Round here...you drive down the street....all of a sudden a croton you haven't seen before. Screech go the brakes....up the driveway. Knock on the door...'Oh sure, take what you want, no worries'.
It is SO much easier to airlayer them, I swear!!! Cuttings are dicey for me but airlayers take immediately and are no fuss.
Carol
Carol, I have a suggestion to improve the chances of cuttings of croton taking root that works well for me. Before you put them into water take a knife or sharp blade and scrap away a small amount of bark on the stem. This will expose the cambium, that is where the roots will form. I cut away about 50% of the bark on two sides of the bottom 1" or there abouts. I went from having 20% of my cutting root to about 90%.
OH...thanks for that!!!! Will give it a try!
Beautiful show, thanks Kyle and Dale
thanks dale,
i have never had any luck with cuttings of mine. i will have to try that
Candela your plant is called "Stop light"
Oh my, no idea there were so many beauties! Thanks to all for the lovely pictures. I do hope you'll consider adding them to plant files.
Sigh... now I want to move south, further south....
