Tropical Garden #12

This is my favorite corner in my garden.

Placenciarita, Looks like your EE has sun scorch. Usually it happens when water lands on a leaf in the hot sunshine. I have alot of them. Jerry

sunshinesw, beautiful flowers, love the orchid.
LiliMerci, is that your cereus with the dinner size plate blooms? Still blooming (great).

Phughes, thank you for the link. I saw quite a few coleus that I will look for in the nurseries and if I can not find them, will order for next year.
Your straberry drop coleus is very pretty, thanks.
I also like your caricature plant in the picture, I have the chocolate leaves. Do you know if they bloom?
Maria's pineapple lily

robcorreia, how tall is your brugmansia? Love the color.
What are those pink flowers in the picture? I love your favorite corner, very nice picture. Thanks

Texasbigleaves, thank you, I will try to water in the early morning from now on.

It's funny that you ask that. I was just talking to a friend of mine about the blooms on a caricature. I have never had one bloom, but the nursery that I bought this at had a big one that had beautiful mauve/pink blooms on theirs. I was going to give mine some AV food that is really good at bringing on blooms and see if I will have any luck. I would love to see it in bloom. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Rita, my brug is at least 10 ft tall! I started experimenting with cuttings per someone's request on another thread...and guess what?! Last night I found out they are all rooting! yeeeey! : )
The pink flowers are a hydrangea. I loves the shade provided by the brugmansia!
I love your pinnaple lily. I bought a few rhyzomes this spring and they are doing fine, but I think they need to grow a little more before I see some blooms...

Rita,

The epi that just had a flower gave me 2 more flowers last night. They are open only for 1 night. This one is an epi phyllantus and the flowers are much smaller, about 6-7 inches and does not have a (noticeable) fragrance to it. It must have something sweet on it because it always attracts ants. The flowers on this plant open much later, thus allowing me to catch it still open the next morning before 10am.

My other epi that produces large 10-12 inches, fragrant blooms does not have any buds yet.

Is that a picture of a planting shed in the background? What a great setup.


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What an awesome thread you have going. I love to see all the pictures to get ideas..........love that plumbago in a hanging basket. Now I wish I hadn't given away all those plants in pots in this heat.......could have moved them to hanging baskets with filtered sun in the trees.

wow nice pictures. love the hoya, the pineapple lily (never seen one before).
rita that must be a clivia. i have a baby from my great grandmothers but it has yet to bloom.

this is a repeat bloomer

rita what is that hanging basket with the yellow flowers? (6/19/08 post). i am going to start working over time so i can buy some of these new plants.

Cassie, what's that beautiful vine?

gessiegail, it is always nice to share your plants and it is even better getting new plants. You can start over and make some nice baskets for the fall.

Hi Cassie, the orange flower is a Clivia. The yellow flowers in the hanging basket are Nong Nooch Vine, I bet you could find some big specimens of them in Florida.
guava

I just realized that I never gave you the name of the fabulous nursery in Seguin on Loop 123 south and right off of I10 (running between San Antonio and HOuston........about 30 minutes out of San Antonio). It is called Green Gate and it is so hot in the summer that I usually go in October and February or early March for the very best of what they offer.

These pics were taken in January of this year at Green Gate.......they always have lots of baskets and containers all mixed.........at very reasonable prices.

just a few pics

They also have walls and walls of bromeliads.........

and Staghorn ferns...............wil post more later.......

gessiegail, I have a brother -in-law who lives in San Antonio, it will be easy for me to take a side trip on our next visit. Those plants look very big and healthy, not like the ones that you see now in the chain stores. It breaks my heart to see nice plants looking so dried out and neglected.
mussaenda frondosa

my picture of the day.

Oh we should start a thread 'picture of the day' - here is mine!

Dutchlady, your epi looks a little bit like mine (see pic above). Does your plant produces dragonfruit?

This is a big (I mean BIG) cactus that is blooming.

Dutchlady, I have two big cactus still in 2 gallon containers which have grown so big. I have to get them on a mound by a post to hold them up. The lady who gave them to me is from Taiwan originally and the pictures of the blooms she showed me look exactly like yours and she said they could get 2 feet across in size.

I'll take some pictures of the whole plant tomorrow

Now that you mentioned it, it does look like my other epi. But I have flat leaves. Can not wait to see your pictures.

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Here is my picture for the day. Curcuma, no blooms yet but I love the foliage especially the scarlet fever.
Dutchlady, I am looking forward to seeing your big cactus plant.
LiliMerci, your blooms are spectacular, I wish that I could reach out and touch them.

maybe one more
plumeria maya

I cannot remember the name of this one, could it be strawberry cream?

This is my Maya. It is starting to RAIN!!!!!! I hope it rains all nite. Jerry

Well i guess i better get this in a pot very soon! Jerry

Variegated Aloc.Wentii.

Same leaf back side.

My Heliconia Rostrata.

On its way up.

It's love at first sight.

Texasbigleaves, great pictures. I bet you are the only one with a Heliconia Robusta blooming in Dallas. Love the Wentii, they are my favorite.
No rain again for me, it has been over two months without rain here at my house. It rained half an inch, two miles away from us.

Zebra plant with blooms

I love plumerias