This just blooms, and DH swore that I must have camped next to it! Tho' not as fragrant as the Peach, IMO a glorious beauty. (Actually all flora n fauna are beauties!)
The late freeze here has delayed the flowering of some of my gingers. So now I pray that Lord delays cool weather for at least another month to give the others a chance to show off their glory! I know...His will :)
~Jayesri
Cool, I have one that's about 5 feet tall now, no blooms yet, but it's pretty sturdy given the height
the bloom is nice, can't wait to see one in person
Don't give up. I still have the Salmon, Orange and Raspberry to show some buds. Strangely enough, it's my Peach that's a prolific bloomer this year. The white butterfly has very few blooms. I wish there are more gingers in this area than Bradford pear trees.
Lol...don't take offense at the above comment, those that are Bradford Pear lovers!
my white butterfly is budding, so far it's the only one. Many of my hedychiums are in at least part shade though
I can't follow the text book rule for all my plants. Where I am now, all my plants are expose to full sun. I left behind some hedychiums in Louisiana, planted in part shade. The ones here did better than those in Cajun country.
Hold on! I do have a mature oak tree, I use it's shade for my hostas.
~~Jayesri
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More blooms!
Very pretty, it is a nice girly-like flower!
Lol...I can see you now thinking of dressing the flowers!! The petals do have a beautiful wavy edge. Hmm...flowers are given the masculine gender "le" by the French. Wonder what flowers are masculine looking?
sauromatum.....amorphophallus...knifophia....
Yes...Tropicanna...lol...how soon can I forget about the voodoo plants! TY! TY!
Equal opportunity gardener you are!
Just observe a man in a garden center or nursery...they always gravitate towards those forms...lol
Tropicanna,
DH just says he's not about to stand next to sumthin that will upstage him!! Rofl!
I was trying to think of a few more...my old man likes yuccas when they flower...ours get really tall
lol @ about men gravitating to those forms. My dh has been saying that he wants the amorphophallus titan for a while now LMAO.....
hmmm...I think the pink V would look nice in a tiara and tutu lol .. never gonna live down the bruggie horror..
my pink v is towering and no blooms at all-my white butterfly and dr. moy finally have buds but that's it
you should get that a. titan for him ;) I started picking up knifophias when I can cause the old man likes them...he hasn't seen the amorphophallus (es, i?) bloom yet
Tropicanna, this year it's just Dave Weeks, Peach, Pink V and White that bloom. Must the late approach of summer?
I had heard that the stench comes along with its' phallic display? There's a lady in this county whose voodoo plant did a notorious showing!! She had hers growing in her garage for years.
By the way, Tropicanna, have you ever tried fried yucca root?
Go on and grant him the Titan, Angel. But please don't dress it up once it blooms..au naturale is the way to go!! ;=>
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ooohhh---you have Daniel Weeks? mega droool, I want that one bad for the long flowering tendencies....hmmm...so, anything you're loking for besides that pretty hibiscus I'll never find around here on your wants list?
Fried yucca is heaven with that awesome green Jamaican sauce I can't pronouce (or spell)--only have had it at a Carribean place in Atlanta, but yum!
Lol Tropicanna...your name itself makes me think of the myriad of colors the canna world has!!! Dang! Got to ask Kel (my wiser half) how that hibiscus got posted in that want list. Smart man, not to ask for a titan!
Thanks for correcting me on that name....Dave...Daniel!! My memory is full of cobwebs these days. This is its' second year inground, and it blooms! Not for a long period tho'. Will keep you in mind when it comes for me to divy it up in spring. Anyway, temporarily steering you away from gingers, here's one that I truly enjoy this year. Autumn Gold.
Another beauty. Canna Jhivago.
heavenscape!!....rotfl...I am soooo gonna dress up the amorphophallous!! Then I will post it on the plant files :P I told dh what you wrote and he laughed. It would have to go far far away from the house though.
I been looking at all kinds of gingers on ebay, then brugs....then at heliconia (only have yellow x-mas now), then ..... lol I gotta stop or else get a bigger yard!
Dang Angel.....you want a bigger yard? It's because of my big yard (about 2 acres) I am now committed to fill it up!!!! Imagine the cost to fill it, cause I want one of everything!! And the fool that I am, the stranger the plants, the happier I am. No garden design mind you, just like a crazy quilt! Even our Lola grows daisies on her back!
I too must at one time bid against you on eBay. Goodness, thank God He gives us winter. If not my sewing machines will look like something off the pyramids' dust.
DH says he would hate to know he got "penus envius plantus". (Did I just keyed that in here?) Laughing so hard here! Must wake Tropicanna up..her fault!
Say goodnite Gracie! Lolol!
wow, you kids were partying last night...I needed a sleeping pill, myself..lol..just got up. if you get a chance check out this picture of amrphophallus symonianus : http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Fall/Detail/06854.html
not the biggest but prob. the most life like
heavenscape, gorgeous cannas, I'll have to send you a dmail and start offering the garden for some of those goodies in the spring...don't tempt me too much, Tabor City isn't too far of a drive! I have a few pictures of some things in my journal...but I'm not finished adding everything to it--thought it would be a great winter project. So Daniel Weeks blooms early but not for long? well that's cool, the early part is what I'm into at the moment....heavenscape, in zone 8 you can grow kaempferia in the ground! you need me to send you some...lol
heavenscape,
Awww your little doggy is so cute! I think pink is her color. I used to do a lot of quilting but haven't done any in the last few years. That is about the limit of my sewing except repairing/hemming or a halloween costume or two lol. lol@"penius envious"
Tropicanna,
Peeked at the link. Ummm the tip of that flower is well..just perverted looking!! Rotfl.........
Actually they are really cool, but now, I'm never gonna think of certain aroids the same way again :P
...lol...I love that particular one, I'm trying to get some at the moment, hopefully at the end of the month they'll come thru. Can you imagine a little colony of those blooming at once?
Tropicanna, are wild gingers the ones with lil blue flowers?? I think I have lots of them growing here in spring and well into mid-summer. They love damp areas and of course shade. I noticed a bunch being auctioned on eBay. If you want, I'll send you some. I don't know that kaempferia tolerates zone 8, but had them before in zone 9. Killed a costus barbatus my first year here, but costus "crepe" survive, but no blooms!!!! Dang those costus need longer summers maybe. I will have to make a listing of what I have... trouble is, when I started planting, I failed to note their names, except for the gingers.
Angel, quit going to that link...for modesty sake, avert your eyes!!! Brave you Tropicanna, I think for Kel's ego sake, I'll stick to the collection of spathe lilies!!! Lolol!!!! Now now, you both are disproving the theory that only men think with their appendage. Lolol...look at your vegetating minds!!
Wow!! Thanks ladies..I had never laughed this hard!
I am wandering what you have..sounds interesting...asarums usually have little tiny purple flowers at the base. I have a few costus but they are all in the GH --either not hardy or I got them too late to plant. Kaempferias are hardy to zone 8, I'm actually trialing a couple here this year...wish me luck. Glad to make you laugh, I couldn't help myself...lol...there are lots of other great forms, but no gingers
