TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms
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Bromeliad source for San Diego
by rukiddingme- 7 replies
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Does anyone have any nurseries they can suggest, looking to infill with color outside mostly in shade but some for sun
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Furcraeas in Fallbrook
by STEVE IN SO CAL- 6 replies
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Snapped this from the car today. Note the lack of cold damage to the agave Attenuata...nice microclimate!!
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Couldn't wait to plant a few things....
by epicure3- 4 replies
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aloe tree, formally banesii but something different now... coffea arabica. Starbucks is going to go out of business with this around.
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Avocado
by ruskinPalms- 7 replies
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I bought a 'Choquette' Avocado tree at Walmart today. Any experiences to share about this variety? UF website says it can take into the mid 20'sF so that is a good thing for my area. I would love to see a picture of an adult tree. This seems like it will be a nice foliage tree as well as produce somthing edible. Food production from the landscape is always nice!
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Cyclamen in flower!
by Howeadypsis- 1 reply
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I bought this plant last winter ,all in flower,and after flowering finished it was put to rest all through last summer/autumn. I potted it up late autumn and it began to grow again, and now its in flower again!
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A long banana and bamboo story
by John Case- 5 replies
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All, Please bear with me as it is a small success story out of this long and cold winter (my apologies to the GW true believers). Last April I ordered and received by mail 3 Blue Jave bananas and 3 Bambusa vulgaris 'Wamin" shoots. They were so smal I cound hold all six in one hand and not drop the beer. Hoping for the best, I planted them all individually in 15 gallon nursery pots using primarily compost as the planting material. I watered them heaviliy and daily through the exceptionally warm summer we had (it hit 117 degrees one day in July last year, undoubtedly a GW event). By the end of summer, the bananas were about 12 inches tall, the bamboo about 24 in…
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Orchids
by Daryl- 17 replies
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Here's one of mine that flowered recently... Daryl.
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Rafflesiaceae.
by leomx- 5 replies
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Is there anyone who has this plants in their collections?? or they lack of people interest?? It was very interesting to myself the vivid colors of the staminate flower, reminds me the center of Rafflesia arnoldii. This male plant of B. americanum was on a Bursera spp. root here in northwest México (24.5ºN). It was a little dusty because it was nearby a footrail among some other dozens more flowers. By the time I took this photo didn´t knew it was dioecious so didn´t look for a female one.
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Fancy pruned hedge ideas
by surgeon83- 22 replies
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Does anyone have any pictures of well-manicured hedges used as privacy fences or otherwise? My back yard is surrounded by ugly fences and I want to plant something all around the perimiter that can handle being 8' tall, 18" thick or less, and be difficult to see through at that thickness. Having the inside of my yard surrounded by something like that would complement the palms well, as it is something for which palms generally cannot be used. Also I was thinking of using Oleanders since they are so fast growing, but there are a couple of other common bushes in the area that keep their leaves year-round and are hardy to at least 9a, but they seem to grow slowly. Any pi…
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Cordyline Indivisiia
by nomolos- 1 reply
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This is a great plant, I finally found one after years of looking. It was in a nursery I had been to several times before and when I saw it, I couldn't believe my eyes.
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my first picture post
by Tad- 24 replies
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just giving it a whirl some cactus down in mexicol
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carnivorous
by Tiki Ty- 14 replies
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does anyone know the name of the pitcher plant the grows like a vine???
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Heliconias
by JimR- 1 reply
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Is anyone else growing heliconias? What have your experiences been? I only have H. schiediana at the present. Despite an early skirmish with a weed whacker, it is doing well in Rockport.
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Mystery tree (revisted)
by Walt- 7 replies
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A few months ago I posted a photo of a tree I grew from seed that was collected in Cancun, Mexico. This tree has continued to drop leaves and produce new leaves all through the winter (dying leaves get reddish, then orange to brown and fall off). This in itself is puzzling to me as I thought, being a tropical tree, the leaves existing leaves would stay on the tree and then make a wholesale change in early spring. On the other hand, the winter here (Lake Placid, Florida) has been mostly above normal through January, only now in February slightly below normal to normal or just above normal. I believe in my earlier post a few folks said my tree looked to be some spe…
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How to grow pineapples...?
by BigWaveDave- 14 replies
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I'm looking for a sure fire way to grow pineapples from the pineapple tops. Has anyone tried this? Does the fruit of the new plant taste as good as the original pineapple? Thanks, David
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Delonix Regia Help
by spockvr6- 37 replies
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While I was outside taking down some Christmas lights (I keep them on as late as possible for some extra heat in the event of a freeze) I was shocked to see that my prized Delonix looked like this This is seriouly disturbing to me as I really like this tree. Does anyone have any ideas on how this happened? Is it a case of just too much stress in the crotch and too much growth too quickly? (This tree has been extremely fast.) This is the only thing I can think of as this tree is otherwise very healthy.
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Tropicals for nature lovers
by summerdaze- 10 replies
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I have always like watching birds and butterflies but figured that when I moved south and started growing tropical and subtropical plants I would not be able to attract "wildlife". However I have a resident mockingbird that loves drinking nectar from my white bird of paradise flowers. I let my dwarf arboricola scheffleras flower so they will set fruit which is very ornamental and to my enjoyment the mockingbird loves eating the berries! Any one else with similar experiences?
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Northern California Alert
by John Case- 0 replies
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If any of you Bay Area palmophiles are interested, Navlet's has 3-4 foot Cocos nucifera in their greenhouses. Very pretty and not too expensive, I guess, for here. If only I had that 50 foot high greenhouse in the backyard...sigh
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cycas from madagascar
by bruno- 5 replies
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Hello, could one of the cycad specialist give me the name of this one, really straight and beautiful. I have never seen one so extra and "arrogant". Found it near the house of my friend Xavier, just by the beach, among hundreds of dypsis madagascariensis, 10 miles from the malagasy corypha. Xavier's little girl gives the scale this time again.
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Polianthes tuberosa
by Randy- 7 replies
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Polianthes tuberosa has got to be one of the most fragrant sweet smelling flowers I've ever experienced. I remember buying a lei in Maui and they were so fragrant I thought the merchant had doused it in purfume to artificially intensify the smell. I recently discovered that one of my bride's purfume's (Tommy Bahama) is derived from the tuberose and some preliminary checking on the web seems to suggest they are great plants for people traffic areas as they will eminate that great scent in summer. It appears to be a grower in zones 9-11 and I'm curious who grows them and how they like them in their landscape? (Photo courtesy of Royal Hawaiian Leis.com)
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Red Ensete Survived Freeze ??
by Kathy- 5 replies
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Unbelievably, my red banana is throwing a new leaf. All the current fried foliage surrounds it, and the main stem or pseudo-trunk feels firm but has black spots on the outer layers. I saw this new leaf a while back but assumed I'd come home one day and it would be gone. This weekend this new leaf began to emerge above the fried mess, so it's definately growing! The tip of that new leaf feels not firm, a bit soft, though, so I'm still afraid it'll just fry up on me. I took a pic and will post later today. Do you guys think it might make it? Is there anything I should do to help it along? Guess I should give it some fertilizer....
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Hydrangeas
by Shon- 0 replies
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Are these easy to move? Is a six year old plant. Would like to move to a shadier location.
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Geranium
by Walter John- 7 replies
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Tropical looking ? the colours are I think.
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Questions for Crinum lovers...
by summerdaze- 0 replies
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Hello, I have been looking for some cultural help and information on some of the smaller Crinum lilies. I have C. Powellii, C. 'Hanibals Dwarf', "Amarcrinum", Ellen Bousanquet, and a few I have aquired from other gardeners and local nurseries. I am in Zone 10, not quite 10 B but definately milder than most definitions of Zone 10. All of my Crinums have been in the ground for two years. Last summer they looked terrible and had leaf spots and a couple of them went completely dormant. None of them flowered. They are located in full sun in a well drained irrigated location. I don't know if the leaf spotting is a fungus or bacterial problem. Regardless could this be what is ke…
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Bamboo leafs recovering from the freeze
by doubravsky- 9 replies
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So last Sunday morning, as a part of the general carnage, several bamboo plants had leaves that were white, crispy-fried KFC style. I thought for sure that they would defoliate completely. Here's an example: So we've had a little bitof warming, and a 65 degree day yesterday, and I went out this morning, and voila! The bamboo leaves had totally come back! The look almost as if they never froze, just some yellowing! It's the weirdest thing... I never would have expected it... Giganthocloa Atrovilacea Dendrocalamus Jianshuensis Bambusa Vulgaris-Vittata in the background past the papyrus
