Covet, Lust, Admire....what ever anyone want's to call RJ's fern tree, I totally agree.
I am looking very forward to that "anti-freeze" proof spray as well. That will be an extremely marketable product!
Tropical # 36
I know!..People are clamoring for it already...
Two different varigated rubber trees..
I like those variegated rubber tree's as well. I have one too, of course, as a houseplant in the Winter month's. It has not shown the growth rate that my all green one has but it's a keeper;-) The all green one will have a new home soon (It's too big now) with better condition's than what I can give it as a houseplant
Lovely pic's everyone.
LiliMerci, Spring has sprung at your yard, your plants are so pretty, but most of all it is good to have you back.
I have to keep my jasmine in the GH even if they came back from the roots, they never get big enough to bloom.
New Bromeliad.
Rj, your blog is right up my alley, I am crazy about any variegated plant, and I can't help it. I am still jealous of your very healthy AeAe.
Cestrum blooming
phughes, do you recognize this coleus.? It is not very pretty, but special, since I picked up a piece in Lowe's parking lot.
RachelL, very nice pictures, sorry I can not help with the last one.
Thanks Rita, but the bananna isn't quite looking that lovely..that was last summers picture, it's looking a bit beat right now.
Patty..cleome is blooming..has..purple pink..(now I could have guessed that color huh?)
Rita,
Your coleus might be 'Zebra' https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@www.gebhartgreenhouse.com/ssl/profile/product/item.php?id=374
There are so many hybrids and many breeders - it is difficult to tell unless it has a tag.
This year Electric Lime is my new favorite>
Lets try it again. Jasmine from the grocery store... the label only said jasmine. Bought it in the clearance shopping cart. It bloomed profusely and then just turned brown. I put it in the ground and it's OK now.
But my Madagascar Jasmine is DEAD! I give up trying to grow this plant. It's just not meant to be...
The temp's have finally warmed up enough to get the allamandas to bloom.
Got home yesterday to a couple of blooms on Daylily 'Joylene Nichol'
shrimp plant-is it's name shrimp cocktail???
Great photos everyone.
Phughes, love that 'Joylene Nichol'
Hoya kenejiana.
NOID day lily.
Another NOID.
Dutchlady, I took a month break and it didn't do any good....
Samba>
Blubine in the foreground>
Stock plant - hybrid Begonia (rhizome type)
Coleus Alabama Sunset w/delphiniums in the background
Oh speaking of Alamanda....that's what that plant was Rita that you saw in the picture queue..
It's an alamanda cherries jubilee or cherry fru fru fwa something...it's very nice color..they start out a 2 tone color and then get a darker orange look.
cherries jubilee allamanda is a rosey colored. I like the way these hang down and look like a bell; could do without the orange though. LOL
Hey Joeswife, When it gets warm enough outside, put those epi's outside in a a brightly lit area, but no direct sun. Water well when dry and fertilize twice a month. The rickrack will get larger. The other epi I don't recognize it without the flower. That long part on the end will need to be cut back to the top. It won't flatten out like the lower part. They really do need very bright light to keep those blades flat and not spindley. As long as it doesn't freeze during the winter they can stay out side. They need a good cool and dry winter to flower well come spring.
Very nice pictures everyone
phughes, your allamanda is the prettiest that I have seen.
Dale TheGardener, thanks for the ID on the coleus, you also showed two other plants that I have, and needed names for.
Rj, I hope that you took a couple of cuttings of that plant , it is special.
This is a perennial pot with a pineapple lilly next to it
phughes, your shrimp plant is Fruit Cocktail or so I was told when I bought mine.
phughes, your allamanda must be the small yellow, not the larger brown bud? Mine looks a lot different, and is no where near to blooming yet. My Chocolate Cherry has a few very small buds, but no blooms on that one, or the Chocolate Swirl either.
I also like Allamanda, this one takes shade well>
I like the big flowering one better than mine. I have another small flowering one in the back yard with blooms too. My cherries jubilee and purple allamanda vine are not blooming though. I do love allamandas and have thought about buying the chocolate cherry if I can find a spot for it. I think Turner's had them not too long ago. Where did you buy yours?
My Chocolate Cherry was a cutting from a friend. The yellow Brown Bud and Chocolate Swirl both came from Turner's. Yesterday at the Master Gardener plant auction 2 cuttings my husband made brought $30 each for the MG fund, and a smaller one $20. He tries to have some ready each year for the auction because he knows people will bid them up.
I do not know if its the chocolate cherry or the chocolate swirl that I saw.
edited to say: I just did some internet searching and found pictures of both of these. The swirl is cool looking. Would love to see pictures when yours bloom.
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Check out the allamanda 'Indonesia Sunset' that Top Tropicals has. It's a pretty one.
http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/allamanda_cream.htm
I have pictures somewhere on a CD, will find later. On the web site you linked, if you didn't know that the pictures at the bottom were all the same variety by mousing over them, it would be like looking at totally different varieties. I have seen what I have as Chocolate Cherry, Cherries Jubilee and a couple of other names. I think nurseries come up with their own names :-)
I bought one called Peaches and Cream at a nursery in Rosenbery and it died very shortly after I bought it. I asked the lady who runs the nursery about it the next time we were there, and she said "it is wimpy" which is not a good recommendation. All of mine are big heavy bushes with blooms all summer long, so I will skip buying another Peaches and Cream. She didn't offer to replace it.
My friend Rita just sent a picture of one called Moonlight Parfait which is a pastel pink one. I think Rita just bought a Peaches and Cream one in February when we shopped Caldwell's in Houston.
That is what I like about allamandas; they have a long bloom season Here's a picture of the purple. This is last years pictures. I cut it way back in the fall and it is coming out of dormancy but hasn't started blooming yet. I probably need to hit it with some MG.
