Thanks for your help! Joelle
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This looks to be what was called Alocasia sinuata from a TC lab. The species sinuata though looks nothing like this. So then no one was for sure what it was. I believe it is a different seedling from Odora portei hybrid. The most common form Portdora. Though this form usually a bit smaller and the leaves are much narrower. If anyone has more info I am all ears.
That's pretty, the leaves look thick, very nice! Do you suffer zone denial, Joelle? 3a and I whine about living in 5b! Nice pic, lots of other interesting stuff to see in it, too. (lol- "I am all ears" - bw)
Thank you Brian, as always you are so helpful.
Hi AuntB! ZD....yes I believe I may suffer the condition and that it has effected my reality!!! So you have an ear addiction also??? I understand. lol
Heres a couple pics of one of the tropical beds and where those plants have to spend the next 8 months!!! I will be starting to move them in this week our overnight temps a few nights ago was 36 F!!! EEK! Joelle
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Bleached GH, plumies are already in!
Ooooo, That's what I want, it's attached to the house, no bundling up to trudge through the snow-a sunroom! Aw, I would even trudge through the snow, IF I had a greenhouse..... NICE winter place for them! I've several horticultural addictions....ears, hibiscus, brugs, passion & pipe vines, voodoo lilies & some kimberly queen ferns, cactus I winter over in the basement. I've had banana's but for some reason, they didn't do get me excited.....My dream is a greenhouse..someday....... Beautiful beds, so your greenhouse, it's right there, you just lug in the pots? I have to have mine hauled around the house to the basement/garage entry, but I do have a couple people help, cause I can't lug, anymore (youth-impairment thingy) lol.
IMCANADIAN, you may suffer zone denial, but I suffer GH denial. I have a GH but nothing like yours it is nice.
Your pictures are great and all your plants look so healthy. In your first picture you posted what is the variegated plant in the lower left hand corner, just opposite of the moss?
HI!!
AuntB,yes the GH is attached to the house and has its own furnace and water line. Because the plants spend roughly 8 months a year inside I consider myself a GH gardener primarily. I love being in the tropical blooms in the dead of winter and look out the window at a few feet of snow. Bringing the plants in this time of year is a huge job, they have to be debugged, trimmed and labelled. It is fun though to see the GH fresh and clean ready for another winter.
2pugdogs, I believe that is a Ctenanthe Oppenheimiana 'tricolor'. Heres a better pic of it now that it has been dug up and trimmed back.
Update on the progress!! I'm getting there!
Ctenanthe Oppenheimiana 'tricolor'
Will that is going on my want list.
I will have to start thinking about loading up the GH in about a month and a half. It is a chore. But first I need to empty the GH and get it all cleaned out. Now that is where the hard work comes in. I have a mamma cat and her 5 babies in there now. Babies are only about 2 1/2 weeks old.
So your GH has two definitions as Nursery now! lol Boy I don't envy you having to clean it out- lotsa work! Yes that is a nice little plant, the bugs left it alone but it doesn't like full sun.
Oh, Joelle, how clever! (dbl nursery) lol! They'll be ready to move out, about the time you want to move stuff in, right Linda? I STILL want a greenhouse, even IF they are a lot of work, cause I have this addiction, ya know? And I do need a little room in my basement for storage of household stuff! Seems the winter plant area gets bigger down there every year!
A GH may be a little extra work, but come spring you will find out how little work it really was. Cause if you had to go and replace all your plants that would be work shopping for them.
The hard work on cleaning the gh is moving out the cement blocks I have them to hold the racks. I put a skinny one on the floor then a rack and then stack 4 more on top and put another rack. Sending a picture to show my racks in the gh. Thats heavy work.
Very nice! I have an 18 yr old K-state Wildcat to do my heavy lifting, so see, not TOO much work for me! lol - (actually, might be harder to get him to do it than if I did it myself, but I can't lift heavy stuff, so I'd just be the nagging mother, if I needed to) The little caladium, does it have black stems? I LOVE that one, just picked one up at Arnolds, hope I can keep it dormant over winter and restart in spring, the one I had last year, didn't return for me. Your greenhouse looks so nice, Linda, is it a kit? I haven't decided exactly what I want, but I do want a sturdy, even permanent one.
My GH is a 8 x 12 Rion.