Thanks yall!!! I've never even heard of them before!! That's neat!!!
Jeri
Overwintering a few different tropicals
jeri you be welcome gal..
annette Hello..You look right at home there in Aussie...very pretty young lady..
LOL the only envious part I have about your zone is .....I would love to wear my cut off jeans all year long in comfort.
There are a few exotics I would love to have...
I think probably the closest I have to exotic in my minds eye would be my corkscrew vine that I grow on my meditation room... Among one of my favorite vines... I have a few gingers that were sent to me in trades in the last couple of months.. I want to add plumarias this next year..
I can see how very easily you would take the tropicals for granted being around them constantly...
Your shrub (morning star) is beautiful.. That color is fairly close to the color I am putting in the new sun room come spring...
Hey Lou...Yup I believe we have become addicts...I don't mind and I'm proud to be one...
Peggy
Peggy-is that corkscrew vine hardy for you? It looks like you have it in the ground? Looks so nice-makes me want one now!
It isn't hardy for me tigerlily..It is in a pot...currently in the sun room ...
Since I cut it back it is growing nicely again and I have a bud on it...only one but it tickles me...
Last year I had it in my bed room and it grew and bloomed for a long while...sure brightens a winter day..and the fragrance is out of this world...
Peggy
I never realized that the corkscrew vine had a fragrance? Learn something new at Dave's every single day!!!
Jeri
prettylady, Now I know what else I need in my backyard paradise...a meditation room. I love yours. anymore pictures?
LouC
wow-I didn't realize about the fragrance either! Thanks for showing us! Will it bloom the first year for you (me :) )?
I just started the corkscrew from seed, here in Oz we call it the snail creeper vine, the seeds have germinated well and I cant wait to see it in full colour.Your pic shows a fabulous vine.
Frangipanis are in flower everywhere here in Oz, so many colours and the fragrance is divine.Just a matter of snapping a branch off and putting it in dirt, they shoot real easy.
Showery here in the Tropics:)
A.
(Phaseolus caracalla) snail creeper vine isn't the same vine as (vigna caracalla) corkscrew vine...
I have both but the snail creeper vine doesn't have the fragrance or mine doesn't.. You can look in the search here on Daves and see the purple flower on the snail creeper vine...
I love plumarias and don't have a one....YET!!!! LOL I want one of each of them .
When I was in Hawaii the folks we rented our jungle bungalo from had me a fresh lei each morning...
That is where and when I fell in love with tropicals...The fragrance and color were divine...
Here is a pic of me in Hawaii...
Oh dear, already head over heels about tropicals. Going to HI in February. I am doomed.
prettylady24 that's Hanalei Valley on Kaua'i right? Beautiful place. I love hiking Kaua'i because of the lush surroundings.
Lou once you grow this one you will always want it...I have overwintered several for the last 4 or 5 years now... It is definitely a keeper in the gardens...
Lou I do have several different pics of my meditation room I will find another one... I meditate every day...it keeps this bi-polar balanced and only God knows how much I need balance..
.annette here is a pic of my snail vine...
jerri and tigerlily it has an unbelievable fragrance that was in the whole back yard..
Peggy
Peggy it is lovely.
You gotta have fragrance in the garden, who would be without it:)
A.
Lou: Don't go! Don't go! LOL!
Tiger: My snail vine is in the ground and very root hardy here in zone 8a. Comes back bigger every year, but it has no fragarance that I can detect. It was sold to me as corkscrew, but I realized after it bloomed that it wasn't. It is Very pretty. though.
Here's a pic.
Deb
It certainly is very close...within a mile or so keonikale...it sure is a magical place there... I loved it and wish we could have stayed longer...
Lou here is another pic of my metitation room...
Just beautiful. The plant on the left, is that a celosia? If so, what in the world do you feed it? Mine never gets more than 12".
Lou I don't mention this much but this plant was an experiment for the summer...I did energy treatments on this plant...most of the others cockscomb were 18"-24" high...at the end of the season this end up at around 5' 4"...
Peggy
You lost me there..energy?
This is angle wing begonia.
Lou I do Reike and Quantrum Touch Therapy...alternative medicine...
So I wanted to see how it would work on this plant for the summer and you can see the end result for yourself...
Everything has energy and it is really very simple..
If you would like to know more pm me..
Peggy
A bloom for the day...Sure lifted my spirit this morning...
Peggy
Peggy what flavor is that?
Jeri
LOL Jeri...don't know the flavor of any of my brugs anymore... My lil sweetie dug them up last fall while I was taking care of my dying uncle... All the names were left in the ground... After being a little bit upset I was just grateful that he helped me out and they didn't freeze to death... Here's another hibiscus in bloom..
Peggy
Here is Pineapple..
Peggy
I love seeing the bright brugs and hibiscus during this dreary weather.
Hey Deb...Hello...me too...any thing to brighten up the cold dreary days of winter...definitely not my favorite time of year...Here is another hibiscus in bloom... I wish I knew these babies names but I can't gripe since they were given to me to enjoy.... Not havin' their name doesn't make me enjoy them any less...
Peggy
her's how my tropicals are spendin their winter
and...
i know what y'all are thinking! y'all are saying "what an organized garage" Right? what can i say?.... its my talent!
PS that plumeria seedling that aredesia gave me just won't quit growing! after i cut off all the leaves and quit watering, it keeps on growing in almost no light (for the sun loving plumies) and a garage that has been to nearly 50*F already this winter (for y'all that dont grow plumerias, they quit growing at about 65* i think.
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Diehrd: They look very comfy and warm.
thnks! i have to hound my mom sister dad and brother about them leaving the garage open, or the plumies won't be so warm anymore, and neither will they be alive to see those glorious, toasty, humid, sunny SC summer days. sigh i miss summer
I miss it, too. But hey! we're only 3 weeks from solstice. Days'll start to get longer.
yep..... nice to have an optimist around. then we have jan and about half of feb... and then home free! (at least down here.... sorry)
I received my first plumarias this week from a special person here on DG...
Your plants look very happy there ...
Deb I have thought about the days getting longer quite a few days in the past several weeks..
I love the summers here also... I love the heat of the sun on my skin... Fills my spirit with glee...
Peggy
Peggy: Gotta have that sun...and warmth!! LOL. I know it's not very cold right now, but I just AM NOT a winter person.
Diehrd: It'll be Feb for us, too. Unless we have a weird late freeze like last easter! (No! No!)
I actually have a countdown on my desktop for the solstice. Sigh.
Any northerners lurking,...don't laugh! I have thin blood. :)
Deb
I have friends from the north and they sometimes say our cold is colder than theirs. We have a wet, icey cold.
oh good to hear that! idk what i'd do if i lived above a zone 8. deb, we must be related somehow... or at least very similar. i like it sunny with highs in the lower 80's to mid 90's, as long as humidity stays below 80%. any day below 65 might just as well be the middle of january! we seem to have rainy cold (usually... not so so far this year). not much ice here i don't think! i remember up in columbia they get freezing rain about once a year. one time it was so bad we missed 3 1/2 days of school. i used to pray for freezing rain (not the cold, just the ice) before i started to care about the yard..... sigh. good times, good times........
Diehrd: Yup.I hate the "dimness", too. I probably have that "SAD" thing. Anyway, it's time to do something about that. I have a person from Sola-Tube coming to look at our darkness next week to see what they can do about it. (Thanks LouC & Peggy for the nudge.) That'll be our holiday present to ourselves - skylights! Yahoo!!!
Oh, and LouC: I think their cold is still colder. ;->
Deb
Probably. hahaha
Promise, you will love the solatube. I ordered one. When it was installed I asked for the second while he was still here.
I discovered in the early 80's when I was living in the mountains that I must have that "sad" thing going, too. That is when I discovered gro lights in every room in the house. Even though I am now on the coast i couldn't make it through the sun less days without them.
I love this thread and wanted to say that Phughes on DG gave me a baby seedling of cork screw vine she had grown back in May. I have it in a giant pot with a trellis and it has already out grown the trellis and is going on top of the storage shed (LOL). She thinks i can just put a blanket around and on the pot as we only have a couple of freezing nights.
I spend the day cleaning up the front screened in porch to make room for the big plants still outside. They won't need to come in unless I hear we might have a freeze (which is not anytime soon).
I still need about 15 more places for hanging baskets. Gotta get on that ladder with the molly bolts,
screws and a drill soon.
I wish I had not covered the screen with such thick poly...and so soon..
