wow gorgeous alocasia/colocasia. i don't have many ee's just the ones from the grocery store. malanga. but they get real huge
Tropical garden #5
you get them from the grocery store!?
For Rita,
I've taken more photos of these and they've been stuck on the camera for several days now as I downloaded an updated verion of kodak software..and of course it would be too much to think it would work right off the bat..no..you have to fiddle, uninstall, reinstall etc...so I sit down in front the computer for 5 minutes , the garden 55 mins...more computer for 5 more minutes...back to garden 55 more minutes...at this rate..I should have it working by next tuesday!
Eranthemum pulchellum, Eranthemum nervosum
Blue sage, Blue eranthemum
wow that blue is such a deep color! i have never seen that brilliant blue before
yes i originally got mine from the grocery store here. they are by the potatoes. they are called malanga here. i think they are also known as taro. they are brown and kind of a hairy potatoe looking thing. just make sure they don't have wax on them. they spread like mad as well.look at the flower.
Wow..they look pretty big..I wonder if those are what I have..mine seem slightly different.
they look the same to me. i would love some of the giant up ee's i think they are called borneo giant.
No kidding..those are HUGE...I bought some last year that said they were Borneo Giant, but I am having my doubts
Loquats,
does anybody do anything with them?
eat 'em raw! just not the seeds!
My grandmother use to make jelly out of them but my birds eat them here.
got the software working...unfortuneatly the blue sage did not turn out like I hoped...
here's an interesting amaryllis blooming
more cross vine
diehrdsouthrnr, from what I have read about the brancifolia,they are hardy to zone 9. It will survive in zone 8 with heavy mulching.
My personal experience with them in my GH is that they grew at little over the winter, keeping the temp. no lower than 50 degrees.
colocasia fallax
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Fredrump, delicious looking fruits I would eat them too, they are very good.
Rj, we will try real hard to find something to put back into your containers.
Texasbigleaves is probably working another big show,. They work very late hours.
Thank you for my picture of the blue sage, I just love that color. Your software must be working fine now, the color just pops out on the screen. Usually the blues in my pictures all seems to be quite lighter than the true color.
Love the amaryllis flower, very unusual. good picture
I bought this from zone 9 last year, just comining up in the GH. Xanthosoma sagittifolium variegata.
candela, funny story. I planted a row of the xanthosomas by the fence line along with some tapioca (cassava) at my little house in Belize and left them for a year thinking that I will have a overgrown border when I went back. Wrong,... they were all dug and eaten. I planted a few travelers palms hoping for better luck this time.
They are also good in pots, these were much larger at the end of summer last year.
Xanthosoma
ok thanks.... one more question... where'd you get it?
nice pics, yall... oh and that amaryllis looks awesome!
rita that is funny i because anyone i know with any kind of fruit tree in their front lawn have people coming up into their lawns climbing trees and everything to get fruit i can't believe the nerve of some people.
i am soo sick with a cold/sore throat so i stayed home today so i guess i will post some old pictures. my neighbor has a coconut palm so i give the coconuts to my dog to tear them up then they make good orchid holders
rj that amarylis almost reminds me of a trillium.
this is a mussaenda real soft fuzzy flowers.
diehrdsouthrnr, I bought the alocasia brancifolia from Natural Selection Exotics in Florida. Their plants are very big and healthy.
candela, It is so nice to see your sunny pictures. I am also not feeling very well. Waking up to all those beautiful tropical scenes just made my day.
I will have to copy your coconut basket ,it is cute. Do people living in Florida or Houston get spring feaver?
Can I please have a donkey's ear leaf ? I will pay postage.
I Have never seen a mussaenda plant before, it is pretty.
GH picture
Oh it is so good to see all of these tropicals being grown around my zone. Everyone's pics are wonderful. Thankyou all for the names.
Rj, I love that amarylis,it is beautiful.
drapelady, most of my pictures are from my greenhouse, where most everything is covered with bugs. I really enjoy the pictures of other gardens and their new plants. It is like shopping without buying anything.
Rj , that blue sage picture turned out all right for me. It must be the star of your garden. I am glad that you got your software working, there is such clarity on the last two photos, I keep clicking on the amaryllias flower.
placenciarita what is that pretty pink flower?
Debbie
i hope neither you nor she mind me answering for her, but that flower is bouganvillea
It really did bloom well this year, I think because of the warmer winter here, and it's finally established well. I loved the blue too, that's why I bought it. Took a couple of years to get there though. The plant itself is kind of lanky, but the leaves are pretty.
The amaryllis I believe I got from Jackie in Oklahoma. I really like the amaryllis and criniums. I just leave them in a container stored in a shady area, and then just cycle them out to the deck when they start blooming..they are so low maintenance.
Cassie, that trilium? is very cool looking!
There's already a banana cana blooming!
Hope you guys in Redwood stay warm the next couple days...I already have the greenhouse fired up again...nippy!
Thankyou diehrdsouthrnr.
Rj how cold is it there. It will be 53 here tomorrow morning. Down into the 30's Sat. and Sun.
In Red Oak this morning.
backyard
Well rita that certainly isn't good for tropicals. How cold did it get there?
Debbie
This makes three light snows in seven days! Jerry
It's 34 degrees this morning.
A giant ee in the making, snow or no snow. Jerry
drapelady, it got down to about 33 degrees last night and the predicted low for tonight is 28. I will have to get my kerosene heater back in working condition.
Tropical snow bush.
Yes, we too are predicted in the 30's tonight and tomorrow night. Hard to believe weather can change that much in just one day. Rita I love the snow bush. Can you please give me the name of the plant in your very first post at the top of this thread.
Debbie
wow i didn't realize that it snowed that much in texas. i hope you have heaters in those greenhouses.
rita sure! just send me send me a dmail i am not sure if i still have your address. i'll send a mussaenda cutting as well if you like.
that is literally a tropical snow bush.
amazing to see snow on those ee's. jerry what do you do cut them back and then mulch or are they pretty hardy.
this is one of my vandas that i attached to a queen palm.
