Blooming today

This Clivia is blooming in my 'office' today:

Oh, Oh, Oh, can't see picture! I love clivia..

me too!!!!!

Hi Jen!!

Need the pic pleeease!!! lol.

By the way the jasmine I got from you is still alive a kicking.

Sorry - I didn't realize the pictures didn't post. I couldn't get them to post this time either! This link will show them - you will need to scroll down to the bottom third of the screen.

http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o275/kayjones2006/

This is what I have blooming today.

Robyn, what is that vine? It reminds me of the clerodendrum - just beautiful!

It is a clerodendrum ugandense. Good guess. I just love the little butterfly like flowers. But I din't think it's a vine, it just looks like it the way I shot it.

Robyn, the 'vine' look is what threw me - I recognized the flower's shape, but not the viney look. That particular shrub roots really easily.

It does? Great cause I wanted to have more of them. Thanks.

We call it the "Blue Butterfly Bush" here in Australia ...a very pretty little plant ...well done as it is fairly tropical ...it grows well here but drops it's leaves in the cooler weather and reshoots in Spring.
chrissy

I've kept this one inside all winter and this is the second blooming for me. I love the blues in it.

Blooming today..
View outside the kitchen window...Crossvine

Robyn, I found a website that said your Ugandense is a vine! It always was a sprawler for me, when I grew it.

RJ, I lost mine in a freaky freeze a few years ago, but yours is well-established and gorgeous!

Mine has seed pods if you want some.

My Ugandense is definately a shrub, it's about 14 feet tall. It's actually at the end of the cross vine by the pond.

Thanks, RJ, but I plan to relocate to Panama City Beach, Florida this fall. I will wait to get settled, then come back here and ask for cuttings of beautiful plants!!!

Good choice of relocation!

It is a beautiful area - zone 8b I was told. The yards in the area have lots of gorgeous plants, and I have promises that I can have cuttings to root. I am really excited, and hope it all comes together as I hope.

Hi Kay!! That sounds like a great area to move too!! I'm sure you will love it.

Well, as I said: it ain't over 'til the paperwork is done, but that's my hope!

Kay, sure hope your move is a smooth and easy one. Randy - your Crossvine is gorgeous as expected. DH was out taking pics this am, so thought I would post some of my blooms : My pachystachus lutea finally decided to bloom!

Here is my dwarf pink Ixora:

A pretty Kalanchoe in the sun:

Here are some of my darling Hibiscus:

My Chad:

Isn't this pretty?

Another:

And finally:

Gorgeous flowers Shari!! I was just looking at a Logee's catalog at work today and saw Chad in there.

I have absolutely nothing blooming here. lol. Everything here in my room is struggling to live but it only has a short time to go before I can toss their skinny little stems outside. lol. Then they will be happy again.

Those are some stellar hibiscus...my address to follow....LOL!

very nice

LOL. I have not a single hibiscus in my yard. Hardy or otherwise. And I have no idea where I would put them either! lol

Very pretty Shari, you even have a white picket fence! I don't know how you do so well with plants in pots, I do so miserably with them!

I know...as I'm accidentally kicking over my 10 hibiscus cuttings watering the plants on the deck

Accidentally? Riiiiiiight. lol

lol...nooo..not on purpose

I don't have a choice...nothing will grow in the shallow coral sand here. So I am constantly repotting, since some things get big real fast...others, wither and die...so sad. This Chad I did get from Logee's Pepper! I don't have a lot of luck with their tiny pots, but I got this one in a 4"er and nursed it with every positive thought I had. I just love it! It is now only about 12 " tall, but blooms everyday!

Randy to you really have problems with hibs? They are one of my usually reliables out here. This will make you laugh. The new Science Teacher out here actually told JB that Hibiscus only come in red! JB invited him over to look at all our Hibiscus immitators! Ha Ha!

That's pretty bad when a science teacher thinks those hibs come in red only. Even I have always known there were other colors. lol

Yep, that's what we thought! Good thing he's teaching things like chemistry and biology and not botany!!!

You would be a better botany teacher than him for sure! lol

Well, thanks...but based on his comment, that's not saying much! Ha Ha

LOL