joeswife, you have some healthy cuttings growing in your basement, that little palm is beautiful.
That is a very inviting, colorful patio, a nice spot to sit with your coffee or a good book. When is a good time to start flower seeds in my area?
noid succulent
sunshiinesw, I love the colors in your orchid, I am always tempted to put them in my hair, then realize that I am too old for that.
Texasbigleaves, My DH agrees with you, we are crazy to be paying such high heating bills, and the weatherman does not help when he is so off, with his weather forcast.
Lovely Picture, it is still a mystery why we occasionally get an all white leaf on the Variegated Monstera.
kukiat, thank you for sharing your beautiful flowering tree with us. That is a new one for me, I will have to do a little research to see if it will grow in my zone.
LiliMerci, another cold one for us today, but it is always good to walk out and see something blooming.
GoodMorning all, sitting here with my coffee and laptop in the basement.. listening to the water and watching the trumpets open of the Purple Queen IOCHROMA today.. Rita, I winter sow for outside planting starting in late january..
my coleus seeds are already showing their colours, my mgs and jmgs are vining, and I have forced bulbs everywhere.. I don't know what your weather is like, but if you have prenneils I would throw them out right now.. ( I call sowing throwing cuz thats what I do) but I start my tenders and annuals inside and keep them warm and moist.. all the cuttings are happy in the tubs right now, I re-potted four Brugs this am already since I had to get up to put a turkey on to roast..now they might decide to sprint into action and develop some buds..took pictures of my varigated JMGS , checked on my hibiscus cuttings that I am rooting and they are still happy.. I think I saw that succulent somewhere .. in Tropicmans house yes thats it.. Jade plant type? Here is one of my growing areas down here ..
Rita what is that shrub? It is gorgeous!
Joeswife, I better get on the ball and plant my seeds. I have a few, very special tropical fruit and passion vine seeds that I did not want to lose. They were gifts fron DG's
Congratulations on your blooming Purple Iochroma, they are cool plants. I can tell that you are enjoying your basement nursery as much as I am enjoying my GH.
The shrub is a flowering Quince
Old Alocasia
Is that what that is called? wow, I love that! yes, you should get your passis sowed.. mine are already up and have first leaves. The start from Tropicmans' Ruby Glow is rooted and has a bunch of budding leaf shoots coming on.. my lobata seeds are now a lobata vine .. you can see the passion vines on the front and the lobata on the left backside of this pot.. I expect bud blooms soon... I can see your greenhouse would be where I would never want to leave if I were there..
I just have to show off Tropicmans place as of last week when AuntB from DG came to see me and I took her over to his and his wifes place..Bonnie on the left, me on the right, and his plants are like Gigantic!
Bonnie looks like she is getting eaten alive by the plants in this picture .. which was part of the tour he took us on..
Joeswife, I just got some Bignonia 'Tangerine Beauty' seeds. I can't wait to plant them!
joeswife, great basement garden you got there.
This CC is about 30 years old I brought it down from Vermont 14 years ago, I gave this to m-i-l 12 years ago. My CC end up dieing way back when. : (
joeswife, that is a very happy picture of you and Aunt B. You girls must have had lots of fun visiting Tropicmans' place, I have to agree those are some Big Ears, his plants look so healthy for this time of the year.
I love the Ruby Glow passion vines, keep me in mind whenever you have enough to share.
Blue Sage
sunshinesw, that is an interesting story, I did not know that they lived that long.
I hope that is not a real alligator.
Amaryllis Orange Souvereign
Thanks Dutchlady! I have a Hoya tricolor I can send you cuttings from!
Gotta tell you...we are the most active forum on DG, please keep all those wonderful pictures coming, everyone!
Sunshine I love the pink color of the CC you posted; thought the alligator was cute too.
Placenciria, some of the CC lives over 100 years old. I've seen some photos of massive CC. My DH & I gave that alligator to my f-i-l for his b day few years ago.
I've started a cutting of that CC, I hope it gets going here some time.
Orange souverein is very pretty.
Robcorreia, what is that pretty plant?
Phughes, thanks!
Mornin' all , came home early from work and fell asleep way early.. so here I am.. ICE storm over night brrr. Love the
Amaryllis Orange Souvereign, I like the shape of it.. I almost got a CC on closeout over xmas, but they were SOLD out by the time I got there dang it.. That is a awsome specimen of one sunshine.. Iochroma trumpets open:
robcorreia, that is a beautiful plant, it might be a Calathera zebrina a native of Brazil.
I am glad to hear that this is the most active forum.
Here's wishing for a few more visitors to share what they have growing in their GH, basement , porches etc.
It is cold and icy here in Texas today
noid vine
sunshinesw, I had no idea that the CC got that old, I will take better care of my 3 yr. old plant now. I wanted a few new colors, I thought that they would look real pretty in a basket blooming at the same time.
joeswife, It is so nice to see your new lochroma blooming this morning, I just love that color.
The Orange Amaryllis was not fully opened when I took that picture, but I posted it anyway because I did not have anything else blooming. The Orange just lights up the gloomy GH
noid anthurium
Sunshineview, Rita got it right! By the way, I did take that picture back in Brazil. My home country has amazing flora indeed! : )
none of my flowers are blooming, but here is picture of a a tree from a trip 4 years ago.
And water lilies
And another one in the monk's garden....
And Plumeria trees flanking both sides of the temple
OK, last one for today.
Well...not all of Texas is icey yet..we're at 79F right now, but expecting 38F tonight.
Sounds like I'm not the only one with spring fever!
Iochroma blooms!
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Hey, Randy. It is 28 here now and expected to go much further down for the night. Above freezing by noon tomorrow but who knows. Everything already covered in ice.
I have a long ways to go to be ready for spring.. great article RJ, thanks! some how, in the basement here, my sweet potatoe vines are thriving.. love the pics of your place too.. RJ
Diffenbachia, Maya, Roja banana , mexican petunia, sanseveria are a few of the things around it..
thanks, do you have a grow light in the basement?
Christi, it was only suppose to be 66F today..but ended up 79F..so I had to leave windows open in the green house. Part 1 of the cold front is here..we went down 21F in as many minutes. Here's picture of the ginger you gave me..it likes it's home!
Have you guys seen what this little monster office plant turns into? I call it office plant, because you can find them in offices all over, it a syngonium or something like it.
This is the trickster now..all demure looking...the leafy plants by shell on the ground.
and if it lives long enough and finds a place to climb..
Turning into this monster now residing under the eve of the house.
I would be willing to bet that few in this hemisphere have ever bloomed. Only in Randy's Garden of Eden. Glad to know that is a ginger. Had no idea. Mine are still sort of puny.
Lots of sirens going now. Guess someone has hit the ice. Going to be a long night for some.
RJ, it looks like a member of the philo family.. nice bloom on it! I have no clue as to what it is.. I saw it in our botanical garden tho.. I love your plants.. Yes, sirens all over here too.. big wreck a few blocks away ice and snow ontop of ice doesnot equal to safty in driving.. I have spot lights all over the basement , RJ..
RJ, great article & photos. I have the office plant growing on my Cabbage palm, it's huge with red seed pods. I'll take a photo later on.
Clerdendrum fireworks getting ready to bloom soon, I thought the cold spell got them but it looks ok so far. Snail vine flowers on the fireworks.
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San cyllindrica in bloom.
Epidendrum getting ready to put on a show, first bloom on one. The Desert roses tips were damaged under a blanket.
