Another view of fulgens:
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Tropical Garden #25
This is a photo of my Pink Torch when I had it. It took HOURS to dig this out. The rhizome mass was huge, I needed a jackhammer!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/Bihai/PinkTorchmulti.jpg
And this is a photo of the red torch I had. I liked it but man it was a space hog too
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/Bihai/eBayRedTorch.jpg
spacehogs, huh? nice flowers but don't need any more dang spacehogs. thanks gothQ.
WOW! Those are just beautiful and the glossy leaves are incredible!
Gothqueen, lovely plants, wow!
Those are pretty, cool Gothqueen. If you ever need to ahem, thin out your fulgens I am not afraid of space hogs......
Thankyou for introducing me to a new plant. Those are beautiful.
drapelady, thanks for the information on the calendars.
I have an ID for the bromeliad, it is a Neoregelia Golden King.
I am glad that you are still interested in tropicals, and if there is anything I can replace for you, please LMK.
Hibiscus afternoon delight
gothqueen, thanks for the information on the etlingeras. I have a torch ginger that I bought from Novelty Green on E-Bay, it was a big clump so I divided it into two plantings. So far, they are doing well.
Hibiscus Devils Eye
New plant for me
Anthurium Regale, let's hope that I do not kill it.
I am sorry about the very big pictures, I forgot to re-size it.
This is an anthurium magnificum
Very Pretty Rita! We got our first snow last night, brrrrrrrrrr! it is going to be long long winter!
hey Dutchlady, all over the country, I got a good laugh with yours though, ha ha ha! I cannot go to FL yet, have a teenager yet to graduate in 2011, and one just aplying to colleges, grrrrrrrrrr, this is awful!
I'm free! but I was hoping for a little farther south...like Costa Rica.
We may hit the dreaded freeze mark this week.
Yeah missy and party ones too, lol, well I know they are all over. Hey RJ you trouble maker, Costa RICA, YEah, my kind of place, I was born right next door, Nicaragua!
You know that's probably the place for me to buy some property at a "less expensive" rate that Costa Rica now...it's just that they have a great infastructure to go with it.
RJ, even Nicaragua is expensive these days! Costa Rica too! Well, you want at least a good area. My sister just had a house built there, although, with all of the turmoil going on, scary. My sis is brave, not me!
2011 is not that far away. It will be here before you know it. Except houses here aren't selling so we can't go to Florida...
Rita, thankyou so much for the ID. I'm just trying to sketch out my spring garden now. I read where ya'll have purchased from Zone 9 , so I am checking out their tropicals. I wasn't going to try again because I lost so many, but who can live without them. LOL Thankyou for the offer.
Clemen, I have never really seen snow falling before. It's beautiful. But I will settle for your pictures, cause that looks too cold for me.
rj, I think ya'll are sending your freeze this way too. We are supposed to be in the 70's Monday and Tueday afternoons and then dip down to 30 degrees Thursday and Friday mornings. My snapdragons dont know whether to open or close. LOL
Placenciarita, How about TROPICAL GARDEN # 26. Jerry
Jerry, you can't post a picture that great without some background. Looks like Glen Rose.
Christi
Good morning everyone!
Rj...I thought of you this morning! There is a gigantic Chalice vine growing wild on a canyon side down my street, and today I took several cuttings!
The blooms are incredible, AND fragrant! The cuttings are decorating the living room until I have time to pot them up.
These blooms are larger than my hands!
Wow..thanks for thinking of me...those are beautiful! Mine are the narrower version...I haven't checked today to see if they have opened yet.
We are on the same weather pattern Drapelady..70's/60's today and tonight with freeze 30's arriving wed night. From skeeters to frost..how do we cope?! hmm..I feel a new blog coming on!
Wow Roberta, very pretty flower, must be a tropical OF COURSE!
Rita,
that's a lovely philo. Which one is it?
I have been growing Anthurium regale for a little over a year. I have four plants. Three were gifts but the plant material of those three originally came from Ecuagenera from what appeared to be fairly old stock. I say that because each stem cutting had a diameter larger than a garden hose, and the roots were the size of pencils. Each had a single large leaf. Of course, they were from plants being actively grown in the Amazon region, so conditions there being perfect, I guess they were going to be big, LOL. The fourth plant I bought from Tropiflora when Dr. Mardy Darian sent them a large shipment of his seed grown plants from California. That was actually a very very small multi-leaf plant.
All four have been extremely slow growing. I have large leaves (although not as large as they will eventually get by a long shot). Most of my leaves are about 10-12 inches wide and 12-18 inches long. I have one 'monster" leaf that is about twice that size on one plant.
Just have patience with them, give them good light and well draining soil and feed them well in the warm long-day months. I give mine a fair amount of water, but they are planted in fast draining pure sand. I also give them a micronutrient spray with chelated iron every 3-4 months when I do my palms. I think they will eventually need totems but they are not there yet.
Here are a couple photos, these are all from last year, I haven;t taken any more recent ones
A different plant, mixed in with some Philodendron gloriosum
I'm taking philo notes...thanks...
If I've learned one thing about them...the fast draining sand/soil!
As my collection grows, It's nice to get info like the micro nutrient spray.
Question ??? Does any one subscribe to the FLORIDA GARDENING magazine ? I've been a subscriber for four years. I have not received the last two issues.I've written to them but no answer. Have they gone out of business or what? MY subscription is thru '10. Thanks for any info. Jerry
Well I have decided to get myself a variegated kumquat which I can not wait to get fruit it is suppose to be larger and very sweet.
I have been told that even though they are marketed as variegated kumquats they are actually 'orangequats'. Mine is loaded with fruit right now, I have been eating them off the tree for a week. The fruit is variegated when not ripe but looks like an ovoid orange about the size of an egg when ripe. They are kind of sour like a calamondin but I love those too.
wow thanks so much for that imformation................James
james do you know how tall that var. kumquat or orangequat is supposed to be at maturity
Humm, I love kumquats!