hot pink
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Camelia, red, nonfragrant
Randy's gift
Per Randy, "It's a clerodendrum Ugandense." See below!
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Beautiful, Jeanne
I'll have to ask Randy. It maybe listed on his garden blog....I'll check.
Hi everyone,
Oh beautiful Azaleas, such a delicate flower and what a range of colours you have. Thanks so much for sharing those.
Lovely blue flower too, wonder what it is?
It's a clerodendrum Ugandense, don't let the delicate fool you ..mine has grown into a giant shrub of 12 feet or so.
Chrissy if I had as much land as you did I would still have alot of brugs, but sadly I don't, and the brugs here are probably like there and get to be of enomous proportions
Thank you, Randy! I just sent you a D-mail asking the same thing, so you can disregard that last note! Have a great day!
What in the world happened to the weather? I just went out for a break and it's hot as firecrackers outside! 88F
Thanks aren't they beautiful I have one of those but it looks different to that must be your magical touch) 6"trunk ...yes my dear old apricot no name (original mother Angel is about 20ft high and is a tree) ...they tell me that after you have grown a few hundred white no names you tend to get over the addiction, but I can't imagine not loving a forest of brug angels unless the water restrictions and a return to desert type conditions wear me out! still our dam is full after all the flooding so I guess that will carry us through if need be.Yes dreaming of living in a brug forest. The Angels flower almost constantly for about 10 months of the year is that because they are not fancy hybrids? I am wondering if the hybrids perorm in a similar fashion? the pic posted of that stunning white Angel is an Australian hybrid with enormous flowers ...and that plant was about 5/6 ft after planting as a 6" plant with no leaves on the 21st of Dec so I am impressed by that.Tell me Rj in your opinion what is your most exotic plant ...and where in the heck do you get these amazing things ...Xanado or Shangri La?
We all want to know?
Jean your garden is so familiar ...how long do you get before Summer burns things off?
chrissy
I don't remember when the azaleas stopped blooming last year. They only last for a month or two. Then shortly other things start blooming, and eventually the hibiscus. They bloom until Dec, and I had some even blooming in Jan.
The roses bloom all summer even with the heat usually up in November!
It's the same here Chrissy, some years we're lucky and spring is a lovely 3 month long, others it's 3 weeks (and there's not complaints on either) it 's just the sudden change in 2 weeks has everything choking for a day or two including us.
Wow...exotic...don't laugh..but exotic is in the eye of the beholder...and the plant I consider exotic, and love above all plants is my Australian Fern tree..I think it knows it too!
Rare, I have to get the name of the palm, but I was gifted with an endagered species of palm tree from the highland forrests of Mexico.
I'm lucky with the unusual as my friends like Wayne From Zone9, Katie and Chuck from Caldwells nursery, and Mike - all have great resources for collecting plants..and for once in my life..I'm gratefully situated to be the recipient or have the availablity of things I'd otherwise not have.
Don't get me wrong, I'll never be over Brugs..but as anyone could attest to from visiting..it was overcrowded with them. Last weekend it was so wonderful as I was cleaning out the garage..I have a brug by the garage..and it was throwing out the wonderful brug scent. Brugs have been intregral in where I'm at today in gardening, and will always have a place, it's just that there are so many other interesting things to learn..I needed to make room as both me, and the garden evolve!
Forgot to tell you, Randy. We saw the Australian Tree Fern all over Maui. So I guess it is another of the many that have been introduced to the island. They were in the wild, not gardens.
No snow for about 2 weeks now. Maybe a bit longer. A record for this winter! lol. But we do have snow coming in tomorrow but no accumulation due to warm grounds.
Everyone's plants are looking great! Nothing blooming here but I do have more tulips popping out and more daffies everyday. Elms and maples have buds on them.
I now have a couple blueberry plants sitting here near me waiting to be planted along with caladiums. The cals will go in pots and the blueberries I think will go where my tulips are. I just have to figure out where to put all the tulips at in other parts of the yard. lol.
I'm sure things will be popping up soon!
Yes, I've seen them Christi...That is where I was first introduced to them, then saw different ones in Costa Rica..I was salivating the whole time. There are quite few different varities ..!
Hello Everyone!
I like these tulips :)
Ooooh....I reeeeaaalllly like those!! lol
Peeking in while at work and just loving all the spring flowers.
Wish I could make my yard look like this in Spring!
Ok, all you tropical kids, they need a host over here. I vote for Rj. lol
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Beautiful Azaleas Jeanne! And Chrissy - wow! My one little bloom is almost out of her shell...a glorious salmony pink! I can hardly wait!
Now this chatter is much better! So glad everyone is back/getting better/on the mend, etc. etc. etc.
Happy Sunshine!!!
Another variety of Tulips? :-) Hi everyone, I can't hardly wait 'til the weather heats up for our tropicals. :-) Ummm, no let it be cool for a little while longer, lol.
Last one
Now I really want my tulips to pop! lol
Ooooh and I've noticed those lovely dark purple crocuses hidden behind kimarj's tulips! Lovely, lovely!
LOL!!! those are flower show tulips :)
I wish. I did plant some...sure hope they bloom.
Our small Tulips garden begun to bloom, 1/3 of the bed has a later variety which will bloom next several weeks. :-)
Such great pics!!!! Aren't we the lucky ones to spend time with such splendor!!??
Kim they look so happy!
I really missed you guys.
Me too...right before Shari put up this thead ..I was going to post one that said.
Where's my peeps?
pepper those blueberries need really acid soil ...too warm for them here but I saw a program that said they fail because the soil isn't acid enough ...they should be in at least 50% peatmoss. (they said) I would love to grow them ...might try again (did not know about peatmoss and heat before).
Ohhhh the tulips ...*sighing*
Spring ...*sighing*
Kim you mean you have time for other things besides growing out a few thousand Angel babies? *Laughing* can hardly wait to see your garden this year ...will you be growing the bitter melons again?
Shari ...I love them (the Angels)not only for their beauty ...but perfume is big on my list! I hope yours knocks your socks off!
The leaves on mine are so huge and tropical looking and I did not even know they grew so lush until I read in the forums about the feeding ...wow some of the leaves are 20+ inches.
Rj and everyone I used to live on the Woronora River and the whole mountain was covered in those tree ferns ...they grew in very sandy soil between the rocks ...there were the giant Gymea lillies and geebungs ...wild lilly pillies and native orchids perched on the rockfaces ...from my bedroom window I looked up into the fern canopies and watched honey eaters flitter in and out of the orchids only three ft away ...it was like a peace of heaven ...took some adjusting to 16 acres of red clay and grass ...but now ... well every place has it's own wonderful ways ...the World is a treasurebox of botanical wonders ...aren't we lucky to share!
chrissy
Yes we are lucky! In northern Indiana, just out of Gary, my Grandma raised tulips when I was very young. Once upon a time when I was about three, I picked a handful for her for a bouquet.......needless to say there was hardly any stem, so she had to float them in a bowl. She wasn't any too happy about it. One of the few times I ever heard her exclaim "OOOOOH Jeannie!!!!!!" I didn't get spanked, but I knew that she was NOT happy, and that I was in BIG TROUBLE!
Even thru that very stressful event I still love tulips and wish that they would grow here!
All of the tulips are LOVELY! I still love them very much! We used to go to Holland Michigan and see all of the tulips! They are really beautiful!!!!
Thanks for sharing!
Chrissy, Jeannie, Shari, Christi thanks so much for the compliments on the small Tulips garden. We're lucky to be able to grow Tulips successfully here. Though, likes Jeannie in certain aspect. Tulips is my once a year growing pleasure. Then next Fall I've to repeat the process all over again. In another word, I treat them as annuals here.
Chrissy, it takes a little planning ahead. I was focusing growing a 3 -season flowers/garden, and this past year I accomplished "Flowers growing all year round" with the help of the greenhouse. Just as the time I put my brugs indoor for a rest for the season, it was then that I'd planted Tulips and other spring bulbs. For summer, yes, I'm going to have a couple vines of the Lakwa going again this year.
Happy gardening,
Kim
Kim, not only are the tulips to die for but I have never seen such lush and green monkey grass. I suppose that's what it is lining your beds. So beautiful, every single inch of your gardens.
Christi
Thanks Christi. That's the Mondo grass as compared to the regular monkey grass. These serves as effective border for my flower beds. But given rich garden soil, these too multiply like a "Mondo grass farm", I need to thin them out every other year, or every third year otherwise they take over my world. lol.