You bet...sadly...I look back in the garden and can't tell a difference!
Touring Jungle Heights, Rj's tropical garden.
Yes, and as you said, about my yard,,,,it is spacious....well I still have plenty of room left also! LOL
That's good, you can have a brug forrest. I'd like to clear out the brug nursery by spring..!
Randy,
I really enjoyed the tour of your awesome jungle. Seeing it in person in the spring, and then again this summer, was even better. Good Lord it's grown so much, even since then!
Hubby walked in the room while I was looking at your tour and asked what the spidery plant in the front yard, by the clero's was. Looks like wispy papyrus tops. He was admiring them. He said your jungle was incredible. (truly high praise from him) I can't believe he was admiring those papyrus though because they've been trying to take over one corner of my yard close to my house for 2 years now. He's chopped and chopped and yet they still keep returning. He's dug them up and he always leaves just a bit. I think he secretly loves them and leaves that last bit just to torment me!
I need to set you straight on something though. It wasn't me that made the topiary lizard, but Connie (maidentheshade). She's the topiary queen around here.
Many folks around here think Connie and I are twins. We aren't.
Just for future reference:
Janet - the YOUNGER sister! Mwahahahahahaha
Thanks Chrissy. I'd love to have some brugs blooming. I have 2 of them that are small. I doubt they'll bloom this year. But I can be thankful that my daturas are blooming. :-)
Yes I can't wait! I dearly love brugs! So RJ is a God-send. Literally answered prayer. I prayed. :"Lord, if you want me to have more flowers you'll just have to send them" and HE DID! I am so excited! And I have a mentors to help me take care of them. (Professor) R. J. Harrison, and his associates.....YEAH! LOL
Being a beginner gardener this is like a touch of heaven on earth! Thank you Lord for using RJ, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
LOL,
You know that saying ...what goes around comes around, or pay it forward? it's certainly true.
Janet..did you need brugs? I have them anywere from a foot tall to 20 feet..take your pick.
http://davesgarden.com/community/blogs/t/rjuddharrison/3651/
The ones I have came from you. They just haven't become "monsters" like yours have. One is in the ground. The other in a pot. Both have "Y's". I'm still hopeful that they will bloom for me.... some day. :-) Once these get going, maybe I'll try out another one.
Hope everything isn't gone by Nov.
LOL...ooh..ookay...just checking...feed them alot...this cooling weather is their favorite..
Just ask Jeanne..it won't be...there's lots..
Can't think of a thing I have that would be of the slightest interest.....always willing to share the bounty. I'm way, way under your caliber.
LouC
HAHAHAHA Christy, Randy is in a class all by himself. His jungle is glorious! Every gardener's dream come true. I'd imagine being friends with Wayne from Zone 9 Tropicals has lots of advantages. :-)
Oh yes...and these guys too...did you check out their places?
This is the post number i.d. that the links are at.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4062618
Checked them both out. Great sites! Looks like they belong on a whole 'nother continent!
Yes...Jerrys Jungle is having a sale in a couple of weeks..that's one of the sources of some of my plants.
The whisper of things to come is in the air, silently the winds begin to lightly blow from the north, the sun sets early and the heavy humidity lightens. Potted plants no longer need watering everyday, and the bee's and squirrells have reached a frantic level of activity. I'm beginning to feel the same urgency as I feel the hourglass has tipped, that unsaid change of seasons that no calendar can measure. I look towards the greenhouse that has become summers storage of this and thats and begin to plot it's return to a habitable place for the orchids and other tender tropicals.
Even so, the presents of blooms unwrapped still greet me, and urge a moment of pause amongst the feelings of frantic perparedness to follow.
I am not sure the name of this canna, it appeared in my garden a couple of years ago from one of the trades. The closest I've been able to I.D. this is a Bananna Canna. They reach about 12 feet tall or so, and indeed have very like bananna leaves.
This is as close to the i.d. as I've gotten so far
Canna indica L.
'musafolia'
Hybrid
The Banana Leaf Canna
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Gardenia scented Butterfly gingers...
Passion flower C
sahelangii
You're also a very poetic writer.
Solanum and the sahelangii
The new addition from Jeanne
Majesty Palm...
after reading up on this palm, this is one of the few palms that like alot of water and are often found in boggy areas or along rivers with their roots seeking water
An artistic gardener, and the heart of a natural world admirer from a time gone by. You make me look at my own garden with new eyes. Thank you Randy.
Spring and fall seem to be the time when height is added to the australian fern tree. Once again, the tree is gaining height. When april started in 2007, there was NO trunk on this tree.!!
Daturas and Brugs love this time of the year. The daturas greeted me in the early morning, The daturas I grew from seeds years ago, had "Datura Tree" marked on the packet, and some of the daturas tower over my head. This one is a smaller one set against the Dark alocasias and plumbeas
It's fun having two entrances to the garden from the house. This entrance is from the living room and full of potted plants. Durantas and plumerias greet me often with accompanying butterflys.
Duranta with aztec gold plumeria peaking through.
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Towering over the westside of the deck is the coconut ladder from Thailand drapped with black eyed susan vine and..the Beaumontia Murtonni...will it bloom? The vine is 2 years old now and has over reached the top of the 40 foot ladder seeking refuge in the neighboring pear tree.
The new orchid opened.. dainty flowers. This is the first time it bloomed since it's owner sent it to the Jungle for rehabilitation.
This is a mystery tree given to me by a neighbor. Anyone have a guess.?
Boy, am I ever showing my ignorance. Because my shampoo ginger is less than 24 inches from my nose in the garden, I'm thinking that sure looks familiar. It does look exactly like it but I know full well that is way too simplistic. Sure that a ginger is way far back in your experience and that would be like id white milk.
you mean the mystery tree?
Which one for shampoo ginger?
Were you speaking of the plant in the foreground? Long, shiny leaves?
yes...I've no idea what it is...neither did the person who gave it to me
That's the one that looks like my shampoo ginger. Sure there are lots of look alikes in the garden.
Do you have a shampoo/pinecone ginger?
No, I sure don't...let me look that one up..
Here are some closer pictures...doesn't have the ginnger patter...waxy long leaves
another...anyone see a guava tree before?
