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Non Palms on my farm in Puerto Rico

Cindy Adair
Cindy Adair
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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I like most all plants. In fact hard to come up with genera I don't like!

I'll add photos while I'm here in Puerto enjoying a smartphone that works in the jungle!

Sorry, some sideways

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Cindy Adair

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    muy linda !
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    Orchid from North Carolina nursery, Calathea rufubarba from Virginia garden center, Ti named after Andrea Searle! From Virginia Botanical garden sale and rare Hoffmania bullata from Marie Nock at Ree gardens in Miami, Florida.

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    Cindy Adair

    Beautiful. And may I add that Andrea is much more colorful than her namesake!!

    Michael Norell

    Rancho Mirage, California | 33°44' N 116°25' W | 287 ft | z10a | avg Jan 43/70F | Jul 78/108F avg | Weather Station KCARANCH310

    previously Big Pine Key, Florida | 24°40' N 81°21' W | 4.5 ft. | z12a | Calcareous substrate | avg annual min. approx 52F | avg Jan 65/75F | Jul 83/90 | extreme min approx 41F

    previously Natchez, Mississippi | 31°33' N 91°24' W | 220 ft.| z9a | Downtown/river-adjacent | Loess substrate | avg annual min. 23F | Jan 43/61F | Jul 73/93F | extreme min 2.5F (1899); previously Los Angeles, California (multiple locations)

    Always very purtty pictures whenever you take us down to the farm, Thanks for sharing Cindy.

    -Nathan-
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    Waiting at the gate in San Juan to head back for my last cold winter in Virginia. I'll be back in Puerto Rico for a respite in mid January though.

    Here are a few more palm competitors. Glad I don't have to choose.

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    Cindy Adair

    Cindy, are you about to move down there full time? ...... I used to live down in Sabana Grande near the main Hwy....beautiful area....guess your up in the mountains.

    Great companion plants.

    David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

    200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

    30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

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    Cindy, are you about to move down there full time? ...... I used to live down in Sabana Grande near the main Hwy....beautiful area....guess your up in the mountains.

    Great companion plants.

    Thanks! Yes, I will be there full time beginning next September.

    Cindy Adair

    Very nice Cindy...and lucky you getting to be there permanently! I bet it can't come soon enough!

    Daryl

    Darwin NT, Australia 12deg S and Monsoonal Tropical and Central Java 7 Deg S Monsoonal Wet tropical

    Gracias for sharing plants from your propiedad en Puerto Rico. What part of Puerto Rico is your property located and what is the main town or city closest to your place? Just trying to get a feel where your place is located.

    Hawaii Island (Big Island), leeward coast, 19 degrees N. latitude, south Kona mauka at approx. 380m (1,250 ft.) and about 1.6 km (1-mile) upslope from ocean.

     

    No record of a hurricane passing over this island (yet!).  

    Summer maximum rainfall - variable averaging 900-1150mm (35-45") - Perfect drainage on black volcanic rocky soil.  

    Nice sunsets!

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    Hi Daryl! Yes, I am quite anxious to move but will wear coats in Virginia for one more winter.

    Al, the closest big city is Mayaguez on the west coast, about 90,000 people I think and is about 30 minutes away. I am technically in Las Marias and close to San Sebastián which are each about 15-20 minutes by car.

    Cindy Adair

    Cindy, your gonna be a mountain woman....Senora Hibara?

    David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

    200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

    30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

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