and one more view of my Tropical area ....I have these pictures tagged with what is in each shot plant wise..
Tropical Garden # 30
Hi guys,
I was hit hard and fast with the flu ! I was helping a friend out last week, which started a couple days being away from the computer, then the flu hit me like someone shoving me off the cliff..I was down hard for 3 days in bed...not much gets me down like that..but whew...nasty..and then today, as fast it put me down, is as fast as I'm recovering...I know that this humid weather is definately helping!
Awsome pictures! I'm drooling...and I managed to take these for Joeswife ...when they were blooming last weekend.
Oh RJ I am so glad you are on the road to recovery...
Love those flowers! what are they? I must have some I must! LOL
My plumagio Imperial blue ... inside now.. with the alba.. but this is from last summer.. is a tropical here for me..
they are CHALICE VINE Chalice Solandra maxima
I love plumbago..and check it out...last summer I scored some RED ones..I will photograph..they are about to bloom.
Great photos everyone.
RJ, sounds like same flu I had last week.
Clerdendron fireworks in the fog. The leaves were damaged during the cold spell but the buds stayed.
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thanks..I'll take a flu shot next year!
Envy...that's the only clero I can't get to bloom..!
Joeswife..to give you an idea how big the flowers are..here is my dirty hand holding a bloom.
Better photo of cleo.
I saw that chalice vine at HD yesterday for the first time but I didn't buy it.
Amaryllis papillo getting ready for bloom.
they need lots of room...great picture of the clero.
first pandora vine bloom
RJ I gotta get me some of that one
Sunshine, I have the Blue ungandanese? Cleodendrum
didn't know they had red, or red plubago either.. so glad I am a member here! ;D
Happy Valentines Day from Work
love that pandora bloom too.. I have lots and lots of room for vines in my back yard.. I am ready!
Thanks RJ.
My pandora vine is sleeping right now.
Corkscrew vine still going strong.
Giant BOP
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Planter_56, your Medinilla bud has doubled in size, since your last photo.
Maybe we can have some fun guessing when the bloom date will be. It seems to be growing very fast.
Your amyrillis and ferns are looking real good. Your pictures are helping to chase the winter blues away. Thanks
first bloom on Spanish Shawl
Joeswife, your tropical basement paradise seems to be in tip-top shape for this time of year, mine are getting scraggly and showing stress in the GH. The hibiscus plants have a lot of yellow leaves. I did not see one yellow leaf on yours.
Your rainbow pictures are outstanding.
noid Heliconia
Rj, Happy Valentines Day!! It is so good to have you back.
Take care of yourself.
Sunshinesw, outstanding pictures from sunny Florida
I have always envied your Clerodendron Fireworks, but if Rj can not get them to bloom , I won't even try.
new leaves on the Tapioca
Thanks, Rita.. wish I could take stroll thru your gardens and gren house .. the pictures you send are breathtaking..
sunshine that is the largest BOP I have ever seen!
This Picture was taken in Niagra on the Lake last year... those red plants look familiar to me
I still have these, they are dormant right now, starting to wake up.. this picture is from last year
plac,
Your helios look fantastic. Here they took a big hit from the last 3 COLD snaps. Too bad there won't be any flowers for my DD visit next week.
Is that tapioca?
Hap
That Tapioca is really a nice varigated leaf plant isn't it!
joeswife, your first picture gave me a good idea as how to use the chicken gizzard plant this summer. They will root quite easily, by spring I will have enough to make a little border. I noticed in the picture that they have them trimmed back.
I forgot to show my bubble tub.
Happy_1, I am sad to say that my Heliconias have never bloomed for me, but I do enjoy the tropical foliage. I am sure there will be lots of other blooms in your yard for your DD to enjoy, Visiting with DM priceless.
The plant is a variegated Tapioca. I planted a 6" pot that cost $8 last spring, it is now about 7' tall. I have enjoyed it immensely. Everyone should get one.
So sorry, plac. my are ever-blooming. I have two types of lobster claws. They make my heart sing.
Yes, any time with DD is a treasure. Although she lives in Chicago, as in COLD Chicago, we see each other about 4 times a year.
Hap
The variegated tapioca is ridiculously easy to grow from cuttings. If you ever have ONE you will spread the plants around the neighborhood...
Very attractive. It gets lanky but then I cut it back to about 8 inches and it bushes out again. And all the cuttings make new plants in a matter of weeks :-)
I missed everyone here too! Thanks for the Vallentine Rita!
Here's interesting..good thing I like to take photos of the fern tree..
This is FEB 06, 2006
By comparison...Feb 06, 2009
rj,
It's exciting to go back and compare pix...huh?
Hap
It is..especially when it's the same day of a year...
I'm not THAT perfect. Within a couple of months is OK.
LOL.
But some say I'm perfect. hehehe
Been looking at pictures of just last year. RJ, May is the best time. Later the better.
Princess Kilikina
This time last year, I was in Maui...........oh what a great place.
I know..I can be talked into a Hawaii visit...I'll be getting that new roof this weekend...argh..I already counseld the roofer where to dump materials, and if any leaves and flowers are dammaged I'll have my yard stick out for hand punishment.
Good luck, sweetness. Been there done that.
I personally wave a $ 20 or 50 bill at anyone doing major work to my house and say this is their bonus if they don't damage anything. It's a great motivator. The guy taking down my very large mango tree two weeks ago earned his bonus that way, only broke one branch on a plumeria plant in the whole process.
LOL...good one! I'm still traumatized from the rebuilding of the fence...I lost a few things AFTER the hurricane with the work crew, but it was pointless to say anything at the time as I still had a house to sleep in!
RJ, the comparison pics are awsome.. I post before and after alot on my website.. I call mine the Backyard project.. Last year we had to take down my darling beautiful 56 yr old honey locust.. my yard will never be the same.. I have the before and after and it is ridiculas.. I even posted the saga of it going down piece by piece after hugging it goodby.. and said goodbye to myy 1200.00 dollars as well.. *sigh* that was such a lovely tree.
Rita the chicken gizzards you sent me are rooted and starting to leaf.. love the bubble tub... I started out with three this fall and down to the one now.. this is Big Boy.. he has two leaves up top there.. still don't know its name, but he is 31 years old now.. well almost 32 in May...
I know exactly what you mean..I had such drama taking out an oak tree years ago, I was offering to move the tree spirit to another tree..I mean..I was very bummed, but the need of the many outweight the need of the few!. Even now, I find myself mindlessly plugging trimmings in pots instead of taking them to the mulch bin...!