what other plants do you guys love besides palms ? - post photos

[trioderob]

I like barrel cacti

what about you guys ????

Edited October 31, 2014 by trioderob

[palmislandRandy]

I have a couple hundred Crotons

-Randy

[The Silent Seed]

Oh man - I couldn't even start.

Everything from A to Z, literally. (Aspidistra to Zingiber, lol)

[Kim]

I confess to a weakness for bromeliads. I very carefully selected about 52 recent photos, but will try to keep my enthusiasm in check...

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[MattyB]

Nice Ferrocactus viridescens Triode. That coast barrel cactus lives native in the canyon adjacent to my property. I wish there were a few on my property but I've never found any. I'm gonna plant some though.

[bgl]

Can't go wrong with bromeliads! Here are a few of my Vriesea hybrids.

[Walter John]

Broms and Bamboo are me next fav, and lookey here my first flower on this dwarf Heleconia is approaching.

[NApalm]

This is a great thread idea. Ill compile a response with pics tomorrow

[waykoolplantz]

Crotons...bamboo...broms & orchids in the oaks.

Almost forgot Baobobs

[Really full garden]

I have so many other plant vices, aroids,cycads,orchids,water lilies,plumerias and bromeliads.

[trioderob]

Nice Ferrocactus viridescens Triode. That coast barrel cactus lives native in the canyon adjacent to my property. I wish there were a few on my property but I've never found any. I'm gonna plant some though.

Matty-

the old mission in Oceanside Luis Rey has some huge red barrel cacti you will find very interesting and is well worth a trip (for that and the mission itself)

anyone else have nice plant photos to post ??????

Edited October 31, 2014 by trioderob

[Palm crazy]

Other plants I like to grow are cordyline australis hybrids, winter flowering shrubs, cycads, gardenia, jasmine, honeysuckle, fuchsia, bananas, climbing roses, cannas and gingers. Next year I want to try some Dyckia.

If you haven’t seen my garden here it is from the cold hardy forum. http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/43176-my-garden-late-summer-into-fall/

Edited October 31, 2014 by Palm crazy

[trioderob]

nice garden up there - very tropical looking

[Kim]

Palm Crazy -- awesome garden and nicely photographed.

[Palm crazy]

Thanks Rob and Kim, I wish I could grow crotons like Randy can which are gorgeous, or tropical bromeliads like you all, maybe next summer as annuals. LOL!

I’m hoping to try more cycads and drought tolerant plants next year.

[Cindy Adair]

So many kinds of plants I love!

Crazy busy these days (and headed out for a Halloween celebration as soon as trick or treat ends here at 8 pm) or I'd post some photos.

Orchids, broms, fruit trees, heliconias, alocasias, gingers, succulents, flowering tropical trees, handkerchief trees, economically or historically useful trees, spices and herbs..... lots more too!

[NApalm]

I find my plant moods change and grow over time. I started my garden in an attempt to re-create a sub-tropical rainforest, through which, discovered native palms, then palms in general, and now tropical accompanying/palm accenting plants. Probably similar to most people here. Anyway, here's some of the things im trying out...

Heliconia rostrata

The odd Bromeliad

Can't wait to see what i discover next. Crotons i think! It's really hard to find rarer crotons here besides the ones nursery produced on masse. I'd love to find a purple one. No croton society here! Hard to believe

[KennyRE317]

canna, ti plants, bromeliads, ginger, heliconia for the most part

[Gbarce]

As of the moment -- Victoria amazonica

[Cindy Adair]

As of the moment -- Victoria amazonica

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Wow!

[Jubaea]

Here are a couple of older pictures from May of this year and September of last year.

Leucospermum

Dracaena draco

[Ben1]

What a great idea

I really love all typs of plants extraordinary foliage or flowers

like bromeliads, passifloras, ferns and calatheas

Plants in order of Pictures:

Billbergia 'Hallelujah'

Vriesea ospinae gruberii 'White form'

Billbergia 'Afterglow'

Passiflora 'Marijke'

Passiflora 'Blue Velvet'

Platycerium bifurcatum

Asplenium nidus with spiltted end of leaves

[Ben1]

Asplenium nidus 'fimbriatum'

Phlebodium aureum

Caladium 'Sweatheart' (Caladiums are hard to get in Germany unfortunatly )

Alpinia nutans variegata

Calathea hybrid?

variegated Epipremnum

[CumberlandPlants]

Hi all! Saw this post and thought I would contribute.

My interest in unique cold hardy plants that can be grow here in TN!

Here is the list:

-Any cold/winter hardy subtropical plants such as: Musa's, Cycads, Eucomis, Pomegranite, Figs, Eucalyptus, Begonia grandis, Apidistra, etc.

-Any cold/winter hardy southwestern/alpine succulent plants such as: Yucca, Nolina, Agave, Grusonia, Opuntia, Cylindropuntia, Echinocerus, Escobaria, Pediocactus, Sedum, Sempervivum, Saxifraga Stolonifera, Alpine South African Succulents like Delosperma, etc.

All plants listed are surviving without protection in USDA 6b. The only plants that have not been grown by me outside is Agave Parryi. Trying to grow some to a decent enough size to experiment with. The variety of Parryi that I bought is from the Flagstaff, AZ, and reportedly growing at 6,600ft. We will see how it does here. Flagstaff has harsher winter conditions than we do here. So, good results are expected!

[CumberlandPlants]

Tradescantia pallida "Purple Heart" is also very cold hardy if mulched well.

[Geoff]

Where I live I have learned to no longer be that picky or choosy… I even like weeds in spring when they give this otherwise barren, brown land a gloss of green. To each his own (lot in life). But I am always amazed at what can survive here, though I did not plant these… came with the house.

Look in July

Stirring in December

Look in April. a healthy clump of Dudleya lanceolata… no idea how they do that.

[Alicehunter2000]

Been getting into Aroids.....

[Pip]

I snapped this pic before the heat of the day scorches this bloom.

[Ben1]

Been getting into Aroids.....

What about some pictures?

[Geoff]

Used to grow a lot of Aloes… over 550 sp/varieties in my dinky little yard - you wanted photos… here is a minuscule fraction (and I mean minuscule!)

[Neil C]

I collect any plants that ooze "Tropical" and enjoy growing broms, bamboos, heliconias, ti plants and pitcher plants.

Regards Neil

[NApalm]

Boy o boy. Some doozies in this thread

[Zeeth]

Heliconias, orchids, bromeliads, crotons and Cordyline fruticosa.

[Jimbean]

Florida native hardwoods, like gumbo limbo and mahogany

[Funkthulhu]

In looking around the house it would seem the most defining similarity between all the plants I'm growing, is that they can't live here naturally.

There is not a single plant in my house that I could put outside and expect to survive a winter of even the most mild kind for my location.

But, to widen that a bit, I would say foliage. Big thick leaves the fill space, especially bananas and their morphological cousins. I will gladly trade a higher electric bill for more oxygen in this place!

[_Keith]

I love pretty much all other plants. Locally, the Live Oaks, Bald Cypress, Magnolia, Crepe Myrtles, Camellia, and Azaleas shine. I have them all in my garden. I love Gardenia, but although known to do well here, it has been my nemesis. Erythina christ-galli and Erythina herbacea are some of my favorites. Gingers and bananas and bamboos. Pretty much anything that grows edible fruit. I could really just never stop.

[Silas_Sancona]

Just a few.. I haven't posted pictures of before. '14 was good...

[Silas_Sancona]

..Lots of growth.. new additions, etc.. this year??, just wait.. especially Plumerias

-Nathan-

Edited January 4, 2015 by Silas_Sancona

[Josh-O]

I confess to a weakness for bromeliads. I very carefully selected about 52 recent photos, but will try to keep my enthusiasm in check...

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Kim those pic's are amazing!!!

[Josh-O]

..Lots of growth.. new additions, etc.. this year??, just wait.. especially Plumerias

-Nathan-

Silas, outrageous color..way to go!!!