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An interesting medenilla sp. the leaves are stiff and velvety and the undersides are a rich bronze. The flowers are pretty showy too.

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Gene

Manila, Philippines

53 feet above sea level - inland

Hot and dry in summer, humid and sticky monsoon season, perfect weather Christmas time

http://freakofnaturezzz.blogspot.com/

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A variety of anthuriums

THe bird's nest anthurium with wide wavy rounded leaves is A. Gemanii 'python" really expensive for some reason- over $1,500!!! its a nice plant but...

A Variegated one

Anthurium splendidum - flat and hear shaped

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Gene

Manila, Philippines

53 feet above sea level - inland

Hot and dry in summer, humid and sticky monsoon season, perfect weather Christmas time

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It looks like a ficus damaropsis but something tells me it isn't. Shouldn't it be puffier in between the leaf veins?

a Variegated plam - not sure what genera

then a variegated Cycas Revoluta

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Gene

Manila, Philippines

53 feet above sea level - inland

Hot and dry in summer, humid and sticky monsoon season, perfect weather Christmas time

http://freakofnaturezzz.blogspot.com/

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A variegated "Chocolate Palm". I think its a Siphokentia.

Another wavriegated plant that I thought was a coconut seedling but it turns out to be a ground orchid.

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Gene

Manila, Philippines

53 feet above sea level - inland

Hot and dry in summer, humid and sticky monsoon season, perfect weather Christmas time

http://freakofnaturezzz.blogspot.com/

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Quite overwhelming, Gene! These displays are like massive flower arrangements, pure fantasy for gardeners, and so inspiring. Keep posting, I love it!

Those perforated ceramic orbs in post #14 mix well with the succulents, very unusual. I'd like to have a bold tree to decorate with bromeliads and other plants like in post #12. Awesome!

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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glad you like them Kim. The Neoregelia bromeliads are particularly impressive in the displays.

As for more pictures-- I can't seem to add any more. I tried posting a few more with lots of pictures but it doesn't push through.

Maybe I reached my maximum? Technical glitch it seems.

I need to figure this out.

Gene

Manila, Philippines

53 feet above sea level - inland

Hot and dry in summer, humid and sticky monsoon season, perfect weather Christmas time

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wow!!! Great pictures !!! I love the bromeliads , makes me drool.gif !!!

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

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oh my! What beautiful plants!

The Ficus in #6 is F. dammaropsis. They only get that pleated, puffy, ruffled leaf look when grown in full sun here. If they're grown in shade they remain flat.

Matt Bradford

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Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

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9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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Love the medinilla... and other stuff of course.... I can't grow medinilla it seems... Maybe one day... when I can experiment more...

More please... Gene. (BTW, you don't have facebook, do you? I posted a photo of my browneopsis on my facebook)

Regards, Ari :)

Ari & Scott

Darwin, NT, Australia

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Thank You for showing these great photos. I love variegated leaves!

Going to take some notes on those garden displays. :drool:

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awesome stuff,thanks for posting gene.

when i click on the pix all i get is a black screen. anyone else having the same trouble?

the "prince of snarkness."

 

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Gen , Philo in #7 is callosum .. if not rough rugose [ though looks so ] is a var. of it .both are creepers not climbers . Superb displays thanks for posting..

Michael in palm paradise,

Tully, wet tropics in Australia, over 4 meters of rain every year.

Home of the Golden Gumboot, its over 8m high , our record annual rainfall.

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dimitris - I suggest you get a mop then. Yup there were a lot of drool worthy plants. I am particularly interested in the Ficus Damaropsis but out it costs too much for now.

Bill Austin - well thatl how I feel too when you put a post of your perfectly grown palms.

Matty - Thanks for that information. I am really tempted to pick up one of those.

ARI - Yup more to come. I don't really maintain a facebook account the way normal people do-- I just use it to keep tabs on some tenants.

Palm crazy - if you like variegated palms theny your mind will be blown in the next few posts.

Paulgila - Yeah I was having trouble posting for a while and things were generally slow for about an hour.

Aussiearoids - Thanks for that ID.

Patricia CR - oh well you better sit down for the next few posts.

Gene

Manila, Philippines

53 feet above sea level - inland

Hot and dry in summer, humid and sticky monsoon season, perfect weather Christmas time

http://freakofnaturezzz.blogspot.com/

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