How about a little contest?
How many aroids can you see (and name correctly) in this picture?
There's no real prize, just respect!
Aroid mayhem! How many can you see??
Here's a photo of the bottom half, a little better!
Absolutely beautiful!
ROX
Just off the bat I see 5 - Philo. gloriosum, Anthurium crystallinum, Philodendron cordatum, Philodendron mamei and an Alocasia, could be 'corozon' or heterophylla. That's just from a quick once-over.
LariAnn
Aroidia Research
LariAnn,
you have 2 correct.
There are no alocasias in these photos
You're right! The one I thought was an Alocasia is actually a Philo with a silvery-gray leaf!
Philo mamei, Philo gloriosum, Philo hatatum (glacophyllum), Philo Cordatum (micans), Amydrium tetrasperma, Anthurium warocqueanum, Philo warscewiczii Their also seems to be a split leaf anthurium in the back possibly Anthurium Croatii or something similar.
You have a better eye, Brian but still off a bit.
Since I have to go out of town for 3 days, I'm gonna go on and reveal.
The aroids in the photo are:
Philodendron plowmanii (not philo mamei)
Philodendron glaucophyllum ('SIlver Sword')
Amydrium tetrasperma ('Ginny')
Anthurium warocqueanum
Philodendron warscewiczii
Philodendron 'Brasil' (not cordatum/micans)(if you look close you can see the variegated leaves,I know, its kinda busy)
and the one I thought no one would see...good job!--Anthurium polydactylon!
Here's my Plowmanii
and here's my Mamei, in a different part of the greenhouse altogether. I find it interesting that you both though plowmanii was mamei, I guess its the lighting
Wow, so many beauties. I'm drooling here. Someone please get a mop.
You have quite the artistic sense of placement with your plants too. Hats off!
Thanks! Well, we are off to the airport, hope to see some of you when we get back Monday! Have a great weekend!
I love your garden! I have been noticing myself starting to fall in love with aroids. These pictures give me inspiration to what my garden may look like one day.
You must have a decent sized greenhouse if that (and many other plants) are inside. You have a great collection. I'm still dreaming, but getting there slowly.
tropicbreeze,
its a bit over 1700 sq feet. Very small by commercial standards, but pretty sizable by residential standards. I was shooting for 2000 sq ft, and as I have 5 acres of land and agricultural zoning you'd think that wouldn't be a problem, but 4 acres of the land are densely forested and abut a wetland so the only place I had to put the GH was one area which is close to the road and the boundary of the neighbors property, so even out here in the 'semi-sticks' there are zoning and setback regulations and I could only fit less than 1750 sq ft into my alotted space. I would have made it a LOT bigger otherwise!!!
I was thinking too that here, before you can hammer a nail or drive a screw into anything, you have to have an engineer's certificate to say it will withstand a category 3 cyclone. No doubt you'd have something similar. Makes building anything a bit daunting. I'm trying to achieve the same effect with forest canopy. Although, it doesn't shade the sun as evenly as shadecloth does.
Uggh, i feel you. Part of my roof was a flat roof and the insurance company said that had to change. So my father in law is a contractor so the permit wasn't hard for him to pull but... Once you frame it, it has to be inspected, then when you deck it and put on tar paper. Then the shingles. It is so convenient when the inspector misses his date and it is the rainy season. Now i have to redo the ceiling in my laundry room due to water damage.
Gothqueen, I love your photos! My plants are beginning to look like yours as I have limited shade space for them, so I'm putting everything together just to get them in the ground. I'm off to Miami to a sale where there will be loads of aroids! I can hardly wait. I hope to post a couple of photos of mine soon.
Marianne (Florida Gardening - chit chat (usually!)
they do try to permit and inspect you to death here as well, BUT its not as bad as it could be....the company who built my GH is from Apopka (close to Orlando) and they build all over the state.
All their buildings and certified to withstand at least the South FL hurricane wind limit which is 120 mph. SInce we are 50 miles inland from each coast in the center of the state and in No FL, its still possible we COULD get that, we did have gusts of 70 mph during Frances and Jeanne in 2004, but its unlikely we would get SUSTAINED winds that high. So I didn't have to have an architect sign off on it. I didn't even have to have a BUILDING PERMIT.
The reason I didn;t have to have the building permit is because I chose not to have a concrete slab under the structure (because I wanted to be able to plant the plants all into the ground, not have benches and shelves etc). So it falls into the same category as a pole barn or a livestock shed, LOL. Which was good because not having to have the permit and the requisite inspections that went with it saved me a couple thousand dollars AND a lot of time.
The only inspection I had to have done was an electrical inspection because the greenhouse has its own electrical service...I have two on the property that come off my pole, one for the house/garage and one for the greenhouse. I get 2 separate bills.
If anyone is interested, I posted some of my aroids & other stuff at
Florida Gardening-Florida ChitChat -Everyone Welcome - Part 147
I'm desperate for landscape ideas!
Marianne