TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms
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Throwing another anthurium veitchii in the ground
by happypalms- 0 replies
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It’s surprising how tough a veitchii is considering they sell for such high dollars in the retail nurseries. With a stack of fuss and hype about the special plant thats meant to be exotic and rare. At first I brought that hype but soon learned there just as tough as the common anthuriums. I was lucky enough to purchase 30 of them for ten dollars each so with the fuss and hype out the window with the rule book I have been throwing them in with no special care. This one I just scratched a hole with a stick and grabbed a handful of soil to backfill with, and iam confident it will do just as good as any others I have planted with that special fuss and hype soil amendment and…
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Any highly variegated Musa basjoos for sale?
by Maximum- 1 follower
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Hey guys 👋 I’ve been dying to find a highly variegated Musa basjoo for sale but I can’t find one anywhere! Does anyone have one they’d be willing to sell? Or does anyone know of a site to buy them from? Again, the key is high variegation so there’s less chance of it losing the variegation over time! 😊 I’m such a sucker for variegated plants, darn it!! thanks for taking the time, Max 🙂
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Another little exotic species goes into the garden. To make room for this one I removed a couple of clumps of yellow clivia and a croton plant. So out with some old favourite common landscape plants to make way for the new exotics.
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ID of this cactus?
by gdumea- 2 replies
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Anyone know what kind of barrel cactus this is? It has survived super cold temps and it's very large. Location Roswell NM
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calathea silver plate??
by Plant-a-holic- 1 follower
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Greetings all! Can anybody tell me where I could find/purchase this plant in Florida: calathea silver plate Thanks in advance to all!
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Is my banana a goner?
by Colin1110082- 5 replies
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Hello, we’ve recently had a bad windstorm and a deep freeze and the tarp blew off my banana structure. I checked on the plant the top had some rot so I snipped off the rot and the water inside the trunk froze. I’m hoping the bottom half of the trunk is fine and the offsets, but do you think the whole plant is a goner? It’s a musa Basjoo
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I finally think I got my hands on an actual Musa Basjoo, as this one has not died to the ground after some frosts and a snowfall, and it still looks alright..
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Hardiness zone lies
by Ohiopalmloverz6- 6 replies
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As we all know, most potted Norfolk Island Pines people buy at the store are Cook Pines, and for what I’ve seen, most people say that these are zone 10 plants, however, in my grandmother’s neighborhood in central Florida in the Tampa area (slightly more inland from the ocean), it is littered with Cook Pines, they seem to grow well, they have seen 25F maybe even 24F, I don’t know why people think these guys are that frost tender when they can take zone 9.
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Arctostaphylos (Manzanita) for hot climates
by Meangreen94z- 17 replies
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Arctostaphylos pungens would appear to be the obvious one for where I’m at in Central Texas. They are native to Mexico and the U.S. including a very narrow region of West Texas. Arctostaphylos pringlei is another species but may not be compatible with our level of wet cold. I’m going to try glauca and standard manzanita as well. Any experience?
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Not the most tropical looking plant but I found this to be strange. Bought this fig 'Celeste' back in the spring. I noticed one branch had split leaves and another did not. At first I thought two different plants but then noticed one branch with both types. Then I thought juvenile and adult leaves but this doesn't seem right either.
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difficulties in a botanic garden
by wimmie- 4 replies
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Almost six years ago, my wife and I got lost in a botanic garden here in Holland. We found ourselves next to the working space of the garden with a glasshouse. From a distance I had already seen that there were some Cycads standing outside the glasshouse and when I spot Cycads, I want to get close. Standing next to them I told my wife that I recognized some of the plants as having been part of the collection of Wageningen University. The plants didn't look happy and so I decided to offer my help which was satisfyingly accepted. Together with the headgardener I put all Cycads in a new and better soilmix and most of the plants reacted very well to the action by flushing and…
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Australian Backhosia citriodora or lemon mrtyle
by happypalms- 0 replies
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I did some lemon Myrtle cuttings around two years ago and iam starting to get a couple of nice trees now even flowering. A wonderful bush Tucker tree that is quite tough and beautiful well worth growing. It makes wonderful tea can be used in cakes and biscuits, ice creams and all sorts of culinary goodies. Essential oil is distilled from the leaves a wonderful tree with many good things in its favour especially for a permaculture garden.
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A nice little order of some grafted hibiscus
by happypalms- 0 replies
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A nice little collection of some hibiscus trees. Hibiscus grow well in my climate and easily. Once established they don’t look back they like a little water in my sandy soil. This lot will be a great addition to the garden adding that tropical look one so desires.
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Ficus in Hong Kong
by miamicuse- 5 replies
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Some of you have seen my threads where I shared my constant struggles with a giant Ficus benjamina next to my house. The struggles are on the surface, up in the air, and even down in the crawlspaces, including a monthly inspection of all my potted plants to ensure no ficus roots makes it up through the pots' drain holes, but this is not about that. This time I am a visitor, so a completely different perspective, because it's not my sidewalk, not my driveway and not my house foundation, I actually found it kind of "cool" 😁. I was recently in Hong Kong, and I have never seen so many Ficus trees, it's everywhere - along the streets, in the parks (tiny parks with h…
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Saurauia madrensis
by Jonathan- 4 replies
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Is anybody else growing this species? It's a kiwifruit relative (Actinidiaceae) from the cloud forests of Chiapas, apparently edible. Beautiful tree with big velvety leaves, easy grower if you keep the water up. Seems to be pretty cold tolerant, although mine wouldn't have seen anything below 0c/32f. A couple of them have started flowering this year, will be interested to see if they set fruit, as I'm not sure whether they're dioecious like kiwis, or not.
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Tropical Tree in San Antonio ID?
by ChrisA- 6 replies
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So I was driving in the neighborhood yesterday and saw this very tropical looking tree that has very ferny/legume-like foliage - similar to Delonix regia or Senegalia berlandieri- but is very large and has very rough bark. From what I can tell on street view it was planted as a large sized (box) tree in either 2012 or 2013. It had an absolutely great form and suffered no noticeable die-back until the storm that dare not speak its name whacked it back in 2021. Even so, a large portion of the very thick trunk survived and the tree has grown back remarkably well. Only question I have is what is it?!
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Planted a couple of nice exotics in the garden. A microsorum Sumatran fern that has survived winter so it’s looking promising. And a philodendron plowmanii Lyn hannon var should add a bit of the tropical look. Once again using thermal mass in the landscaped rocks. If you live in a subtropical climate and want to grow warm tropical plants in the understory landscaping with rocks certainly helps giving that extra bit of warmth on cold nights. It may only be 1 or 2 degrees or more in temperature rise and it’s a game changer for more tropical plants creating a microclimate with a bit of thermal mass thrown in.
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Sacred lotus
by Marius- 6 replies
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My lotus (second summer in my pond) now has aerial leaves. Last year it was still at the floating leaves stage. I’m hoping that it will flower this year.
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Tree ferns 1 2
by Cape Garrett- 3 followers
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Anyone growing any in hot, humid Florida other than Cyathea Cooperi? Would like to try some but they are hard to find. Have 2 Cooperi but would like to know what others that can handle our weather. Cape Coral here.
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Season for Planting Yucca Rostrata?
by erikpeterson80- 2 replies
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Hello everybody! I'm located in Western KY. New zone 7A, prior 6B. Most of our winter hovers around 25F lows overnight and 40-50F highs in the day. Occasionally it will dip into single digits but not for any extended period of time. I have come across a very good deal on a mature Yucca Rostrata (beaked Yucca). It is in the ground currently but I will assist with the dig and capture as large of a rootball as possible. This person wants it out of their yard asap. Ordinarily I would wait till spring to plant but that's not necessarily an option here. Do you all think it would be okay to plant immediately in the ground here (mid/late November) or would it be bett…
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Sowing a few encepharlatos senticosus seeds
by happypalms- 0 replies
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A great little find senticosus seeds for sale. Purchased 50 of them to see how I go. The seller stated they were pollinated so I will have to wait and see. Hopefully with a bit of luck I get a few to grow and plant in the garden. Not much to look at now but in few years time if iam lucky.🌱
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Cerotazamia sp Toman ST Charle planted
by happypalms- 0 replies
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Starting to plant the a new bit of landscaping I just finished. I went for one cerotazamia Toman, after planting it thought why not plant three as border and for future seed production if iam lucky having three together than one single plant here and there. A much better chance for seed that way also they look absolutely amazing when mature.
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Rosebud farm Zamia roezlii
by happypalms- 0 replies
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A 23 year old roezlii I purchased from Rich trapnell rosebud farm a few moons past. I had it just sitting in the greenhouse until about 2 years ago I planted it in the ground and this flush it’s just starting to get its feet tucked in and away. A couple of more flushes and it should be starting to look even better and bigger. It’s such a beautiful Zamia.
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Rare Beaucarnea Tips
by ahosey01- 1 reply
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I put out some feelers earlier this week to my network for some rare Beaucarneas. Came up with 2x Beaucarnea sanctomariana, a Beaucarnea hiriartiae, and a Beaucarnea stricta. Any tips, besides dont water in winter?
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A nice easy growing philodendron see how it goes in the ground. When I first started collecting plants for my garden I purchased a couple of common philodendron sp and thought a couple will do. I wasn’t that into them had I known I would have planted a lot more philodendron sp. so now iam planting as many as I can get that will take the cold. Tastes in plants change palms will always be number one to me but I now recognise a lot more exotics than I used too with palms being my main goal, a bit like how your taste buds change as you get older and eat a lot more different things than you did as a kid. The same for my gardening it has changed a lot with more emphasis on sup…