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Admit it everybody--how many of you have spring fever and are spending every spare minute in the garden???? I am!!!!!!
Tropical Garden #31
ME!
Dang Rita, those Hibiscus! Patty sent me a link yesterday, and they are so surreal!
Wow those pink magnolias are pretty. I guess I better send Rita the link to the hibiscus huh?
Here's the link to a DG thread with pretty tropical hibiscus pictures. Very unusual colors.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/953051/
It sure is cloudy today
Same here; it was very humid too, but no much needed rain.
Randy, how did the roofing project go?
Did, will be on Sunday, do is on Saturday! We'll see.
Placenciarita, GOODY GOODY. See if RY will give you a FREE a AE-AE and a ticket to Hawaii! Christi you better get in on this before RJ sobers up! But dont tell that. HAWAII in the spring, how great that will be!!!!! ( RJ, Yes We know ) ha ha. Jerry
I didn't realize R is giving away ae aes and trips to HI. I was running an errand in the Houston Galleria, just inside the loop and caught these payayas happily growing by an office building. I am looking for a dwarf payaya w/ good edible fruit. Anybody have one and/or a source to get one?
another pic
I just have the regular Papaya..matter of fact that is todays blog
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Those look like nice trees...
I just picked 2 papayas off the tree today...
Do you want dwarf? Do all of the dwarfs produce? or are they male & female?
p.s....no the varigated gardenia has not bloomed yet
I know nothing about dwarf papaya, but I know I don't want to climb way up high for get my fruit. I read somewhere that you can top off your regular payaya but I haven't done serious research on it.
LOL, I don't think you'll have to worry about Hawaiin height on our Papaya trees...they'll never make it that long. Most of mine are my height, the oldest one though is pretty tall.
woo hoo...Jerry's Jungle First Open Garden Weekend of 2009
The garden will be open for visitors on Friday and Saturday April 17-18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
http://www.jerrysjungle.com/index.html
how old is your oldest? so about 6 ft tall? That I can handle. How thick is the trunk
Super article Randy. I wrapped and mulched mine ever so carefully. Trunk froze anyway.
Now I have 5-6 little stems poking up from the bottom. I had already cut it off but left about 9 or so inches and it has sealed itself. Just went and looked. Crossing my fingers.
Christi
The oldest about 12 feet tall, 6 years old. probably 6 inch trunk....
It went through a freeze, and it grew a few tops more than it started with.
These are the trees I picked fruit off of today..about 5 and 4 feet...I never planted these trees.. Hurricane Rita did a few years ago. it was a banner year for papaya fruit, so I just let them fall to the ground...this little row grew on it's own.
Yeah Christi, they don't like cold at all..I would have put it in the house during freezes!
wowzers. RJ you DO have a jungle over there, lol
Yeah, I was cutting branches all morning this morning.
phughes, thanks for the new thread, I will never get enough of those powder puff flowers. I have a few new blooms on my plant today. It is amazing how early they begin to bloom , the one I have came from Zone 9 already with blooms on it about 2-3 ft. tall.
How long did it take your plant to get that big?
The electricity was off this morning so I was out in the GH posing my blooms.
Rj, That is the biggest pink magnolia tree that I have seen. That is a sure sign of Spring.
It is cloudy and dreary here today too. I want all of those Hibiscus plants, Misbehavin is at the top of the list.
This is the first ginger bloom from a Zone 9, I saved the tag.
Distichochlamys rubrostriata
vossner, there is a dwarf papaya 'T.R. Hovey' avaliable at Eldon Access. I do not have one (yet). They will flower about 2-3 ft .
I was given a Strawberry Hawaiian papaya last summer that I am excited about growing, and most of all, eating.
Texasbigleaves, I have given up on getting a AeAe banana, I will enjoy the Siam Rubys they are nice too.
Logee's has a dwarf papaya
Fridays blog is about a spring fling...
The charactor cast is
Rita
Jerry
Christi
Patty
Randy
Shopping plants with the proffesionals!...lol
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Vossner.. HI..
this is a dwarf papaya for sale.. it's self fertile too...
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/babaco.htm
here's a little about them.. it listed the one above as a good one
http://www.texasriviera.com/greenthumbs/caricapapaya.html
all the best there... Gordon
Shug, you really know how to tempt a person. Did the Tax thing today. ooooooowwweee.
Never mind! Life is short! Will be there if Rita has room for a hangeron.
PK aka Christi aka LouC aka Lucyyyyyyyyy
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it says it's seedless. Forget Hawaii, it'll be Melbourne now Jerry!. Looks like that's where we'll have to go to pick up that papaya tree. I think the only way you will get a tree, is picking it up at the nursery. I don't think any nursery on line or other will ship them..they do not tolerate shipping at all! Vossner ..you want us to be on the look out for dwarfs next weekend when we're shopping? Buchanans might have some.
Rj, I am already so excited from just reading your blog. We are finally going to do it. I am also excited about meeting Patty and LouC as well. Last year we planned a trip to Florida that fizzled out, but I think that this is really going to happen.
I am sad to say that there is going to be one eye-roller in the bunch, my DH. He is my navigator, lifter of heavy pots, packer etc. My buddy TrueTropical is on a mission trip in Haiti. dh will sit in the vehicle and read, he is a bookworm.
Planter56, I did not find a dwarf papaya at Logee's, but I did find a dwarf June plum that I was looking for. thanks
Anthuriums King and Queen.
Rita I think it took a couple of years; I believe I bought a 5 gallon plant to begin with. It is just now beginning to bloom. I have some african violet plant food that a friend brought me and I usually use it on some my blooming shrubs and it works wonderfully. It's about time to get that out again. I haven't used it all winter.
That is a pretty hibiscus Rita. I have one on my list. RJ has a picture of it so when you get a chance, post the pink lemonade hibiscus will ya. It is a pretty one.
Nice blog Randy! I get excited just thinking about the trip. Looking forward to meeting everybody--Christi, Jerry, Rita--you just can't beat the hospitality at Jungle Heights either. The countdown has begun--11 days until plant shopping heaven!!!! Woo Hoo
randy, you have dmail
Hopefully the weather will be good. LOL...DH is a minority and may just roll his eyes in private that weekend..lol
The tree's are really starting to blossom all over now...pink blossoms, white blossoms...it's bursting right now...going to be a great weekend.
Shall I plan a lunch somewhere like Java Java? It's just down the street from another place in time.
RJ, Lunch any where you say. Like Phughes says WOO HOO !!!!!!! Jerry
okay....It will be the most convenienent for the ambitious itinerary
Been there and absolutely loved it . What was it now.....waffeladas? What ever it is an orginal and great.
PK
Oh yeah..that's right...
I just remember Pitty Pats waffles
Uhoh! Missing Wheel of Fortune! Shows my age.