I saw them yesterday.
Do you think these are real?
And does anyone remember these bells?
#1 Yes- real because I just spent the NIGHT at the Baltimore Aquarium and the poison frog exhibits were my favorite. http://www.aqua.org/animals_bluepoisondartfrog.html
#2 I remember them but not sure who grew them.
Yes, those bells are Osa pulchra. You had started a thread about them a while back.
I remember the bells of St. Osa , and I lust after them still. LOL
(I can't get the froggies to enlarge.)
Oh you guys are too good. I had the best day yesterday. I went to the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory with Lali girl to a bot sale. Oh how I do love those. LOL. I walked in with my love affair with amorphophallus and my also my newest heart's desire for Arisaema which I just focused since seeing one on the last Saturday while visiting at the Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco. I had spent all last week reading about this great genus.
So we walk into this sale, or rather run in and what do I find on the first table I focus on but 4 kinds of arisaema. Do you believe how lucky it is to be me??? I was thrilled beyond words.
And not only did I get to buy these but later that day we both were invited to a personal tour of their conservatory by the curator. Well, Lali was really invited and I was a happy tag along. So I got to see their collection of them and their amorphophallus. And.................... this so nice curator gave me some plants including an amorphophallus bulb that filled a 3 gallon can. It sometimes pays to be such an enthusiastic but needy admirer. Or perhaps he was just sick of hearing me say, OH I WANT THAT ONE on every plant I saw. LOL
I saw great sights. And they had a Osa Pulchra in full bloom so I got to see one in real life which I think I wished for in the thread I started on them a while back. LOL.
My latest fascination is anything that has mottled stems or flowers. An arisaema they had.
I wonder why Jackie. It is enlarging for me. Maybe exit Dave's and come on back in.
The frogs were just amazing. Tiny things and so active. It is a married pair too. The conservatory has a big terrarium and is encouraging them to have babies. Here is one of their babies. I actually took these pics for Trish, a friend of mine who just loves frogs. This baby frog was the size of a dime.
Aw, I tried to log in , out, in, out etc...lol, but still no bigger froggies. Now, the arisaema I can view close up, but can't expand the newest froggie pic either. It's not meant to be for me.
Glad you were able to get some goodies!
They are so adorable! How anything that tiny survives I'll never understand:) It's a dangerous world:LOL:
I love the bells, Lucky you what great plant finds.
The frogs are cute, almost too cute to be real.
Betty
Marvelous frogs, Kell. I've never seen this type and now must do some research on them. Arisaemas have been a love of mine for years and I add them to the garden whenever I kind a new variety hardy in my zone. I particularly love the tall ones are they are so majestic and powerful in presence.
Tussee
Oh WOW Tussee, you will have to send me the names of your favorites so I can be on the look out. Funny, I thought they were uncommon but suddenly in just half a day 2 people I know collect them. Another friend's husband I just found out has tons of them too. I so hope they like me and like it here. Do you plant yours then out in your yard and they winter outside?
I agree Dmac! The baby was so small we didn't even see it the first time we looked for it. Such beautiful creatures.
Oh Betty, I did find such fun plants. I got another called Gonatopus boivinii or Giraffe's Knees. I jumped on it thinking it was an amorphophallus with an odd bulge midtrunk. But though an aroid, not an amorphophallus. I just loved the mottled stem and there is a flower about to pop up.
See the little bud and the giraffe's knee? LOL
PS Jackie I will email you both of them. Worth a close up look.
Kell I think you have plant ADD LOL but at least these don't take up much room. I was big into Arisaema's until I found out that my local vole population is too. I think I only have a few types out back now :( .... A very expensive lesson learned.
Sounds like you too had a wonderful day!
I do have Plant ADD!! I keep finding all new things to occupy my dreams. It is just great. Of course my husband does not think so. LOL I am skirting a generalized aroid craze I fear. God help us then, some are so huge.
Oh too bad! And the voles do not go after the hosta? You would think that would taste like a great crisp salad to them. I remember my Father setting traps in the lawn when he would find tunnels when I grew up in NJ.
So where was I not to have a clue about them? The sighting of this one is what got me going. Itis growing at the Strybing Arboretum and just admired that it would spring out of the ground like magic and look like this. I have had a life long addiction to bulbs and these just take bulbs one step further.
I still haven't IDed this one.
Your Arisaema may be A. iyoanum var. nakaianum. I am still debating the purchase of A. triphylium 'Black Jack' as it is zoned for 6-9, but what gorgeous very dark leaves. At $35.00, I would hate to bring it to my garden only to be killed by an extreme winter, but it would sure work for you.
Tussee
Where do you get yours, Tussee?
Helobebe
try this link
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Kell_1174250942_815.jpg
Kell you are incorrigibly depraved
i do not believe you have ever seen a plant you didn't love at first sight :-)
Dick
Hi Dick, thanks! Uh oh, when I click the link, all I get is another red x. Good thing I have a good sense of humor, or I'd be thinking conspiracy. This has never happened to me before here, although once in a great while on the evil Ebay.
I guess I am not meant to see the little froggies up close and personal.
You mean lusting after almost any plant one sees is not normal?
When I joined Dave's I thought I found Plantaholics Anonymous.
These two nurseries should satisfy your needs Kell. Asiatica Nursery and Tony Avent's Plant Delights Nursery.
Tussee