Crotons Crotons Crotons

[Dave Butler]

See the Bravo`s K-Mart was selling for 5 bucks

[Jeff Searle]

Dave,

    I,m sure alot of people want to know the same thing I was thinking. The blocks of crotons in some of your photos , are these your plants? Do you have a nursrery where we can come and buy these plants? Also, how many croton varieties are in your collection?  I was interested in maybe buying some of these Thai hybrids. What sizes do you have and what do they cost? Do you ship, if I can't drive to get them?

    Oh...I almost forgot, can you tell us all where we can come by to look at your nursery, the address?

    Thanks a bunch.....waiting to hear from you.

[spockvr6]

(Ray @ Tampa,Aug. 05 2006,17:21)

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Nice Thai collection.  Winter defoliators they are up here.

Ray -

I know zippo about Thai crotons...but just looking at those pics, thats the first thing that crossed my mind.  Open the refrigerator door too closely to one of those plants and every leaf will probably fall off.

[Dave Butler]

All my crotons as of present day have been sold to Searle brothers nursery in South Florida. Which now makes Jeff Searle the owner of one of the largest collection of crotons. As of last week Jeff Searle obtained a large assortment of rare croton cuttings from me to further his collection. So the answer to your question is yes I have a large collection its just at your nursery which I did all the leg work for, And yes they are for sale at the Rainforest Collection in South Florida.

The Dave Butler collection was just added to The Jeff searle existing croton collection

I don`t believe you had your reading glasses on when you read my posts, that these crotons where in my present day collection. Like Bill O`Reilly would say lay off the Kool Aid  

[TooShort]

Dave B,

you should be a stand up comic, love that Kool Aid remark

[Kom Thai Palm]

Hi, Dave

First I want to say your plants very beautiful, Amazing!!!

As I see you love crotons, may can I jam pics post, where nearby my house.

Komkrit

[Dave Butler]

Komkrit,

Very nice lets see more :cool:

[SubTropicRay]

Nice stuff.

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

Dave,  Those Thais are nice.  Have you grown them long?  Do they maintain that look, get even weirder or maybe more like the ones we are familiar with?

Jeff, are you going to propagate those so they will be in the trade here?  That would be great to see a lot of new ones locally.

Jerry

[Dave Butler]

Hopefully Jeff will sell them at a affordable price $. Dave Hickman is the Thai Croton man, need to see if he has any for sale

[Dave Butler]

These Photos are crotons I sold a couple years back and went to a upscale Boca Raton home.

[Dave Butler]

Being Planted

[Dave Butler]

Another view from front yard

[Dave Butler]

Different angle, 150 varieties of crotons planted in this yard

[Dave Butler]

Finishing up the front

[Dave Butler]

This lady sure loves them crotons

[Dave Butler]

Just think, This is just what I put in the front yard

[TooShort]

Dave,

I like the way you show the different angles on the landscape. It really makes one think what a mass planting of crotons looks like.

P.S.

Keep them croton pictures coming.

Joe.

[Walter John]

I bet those Phoenix palms didn't come cheap either.

[Dave Butler]

Wal,

Your correct they are not cheap either was this double

[Neofolis]

Wow, I've never seen a double bottle before.

[SubTropicRay]

Dave, is that Pink's yard?  nice stuff.

[SubTropicRay]

There's a nice Glen Roof in there!

[Dave Butler]

Ray,

Once again I have to say that you have a good eye. Thats Pinks yard a couple of 3 years ago. She bought crotons from me and that Glen Roof. Me and my son planted up her yard.

Wonder what it looks like today.

[Dave Butler]

Name that palm in the far left center of picture, Photo is the beginning  of my old house being landscaped.

Clue: Notice the base, Photo not the best

[Dave Butler]

Another angle

[Dave Butler]

Couple pictures of the front yard, wish I was still there. Septic tank in the front can`t add alot of trees, but I did later

[Dave Butler]

Again, another angle that bizzie today has a good 3 feet of fat wood

[SubTropicRay]

Dave,

Ever sen croton "Spirale"?  It's pretty plain looking but somewhat historic as it dates back to the early 20th century.

Ray

[TooShort]

Dave why did you move, looks like a beautiful garden you where creating out of your yard.

[BobbyinNY]

Dave,

that double bottle is absolutely AMAZING!!!!!... how much was that???... I'm almost afraid to ask... Also,  what type of croton is that tall one with the double trunk splitting into a 'y'?.. very nice.

[Dave Butler]

Bobby,

The owners bought them palms and never told what she paid. I think she was scared to tell me, knowing darn well I could of got them cheaper. But I guess when you got money cost don`t matter.

What post number where you referring to on the croton.

[Dave Butler]

(TooShort @ Aug. 08 2006,07:28)

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Dave why did you move, looks like a beautiful garden you where creating out of your yard.

Tooshort,

Thats a painful subject, to be honest it was financial. I was just getting into collecting palms.

Dypsis decaryi

Bismarckia nobilis

Wallichia disticha

Pinanga coronata

Prunus persica

Chambeyronia macrocarpa

Coccothrinax crinita

Wodyetia bifurcata and the cross

And a Collection of crotons

[spockvr6]

(BobbyinNY @ Aug. 08 2006,08:40)

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that double bottle is absolutely AMAZING!!!!!... how much was that???... I'm almost afraid to ask...

Bobby -

Individual Bottles of that size seem to go for $300ish....so a double would be something around twice the cost (or maybe more since they probably grew a little more slowly).  In any case...not a cheap palm!

I planted a double Bottle in front of my house, but I placed them farther apart than those in the pic.  But, seeing that pic makes me wish I had planted them right against each other.

[BobbyinNY]

What post number where you referring to on the croton.

Dave, it was the one with the Pink house with the spanish roof and the huge tree in the background.

I planted a double Bottle in front of my house, but I placed them farther apart than those in the pic.  But, seeing that pic makes me wish I had planted them right against each other.

Larry,

I'm thinking that if you got 2 individual bottles, chopped some of the roots away on each side, planted them on an angle, maybe you could get the same result...

[Dave Butler]

That Croton is called Glen Roof, Same type (the tall one) in photo below

[SubTropicRay]

Dave,

I'd like to get all of the old crotons in Doc Brown's first book.  Who has a "Tapestry"?

Ray

[Dave Butler]

Ray,

Thats a tough one, unless you know exactly what it looks like and can idenify it. Durko`s place may have it, Sheltons plants are a wreck. Maybe Jeff has one floating around in his collection.

When you come down to Jeffs, take a long hard look and maybe you will come across those crotons you seek

[SubTropicRay]

Dave,

The biggest problem is trying to ID a plant this colorful and genetically unstable from descriptive words.  "Semi oak leaf, green, veined yellow fading to a a lovely shade of pink and black" could describe hundreds of varieties.  Too bad that early book doesn't have photos.

Ray

[Dave Butler]

(Ray, Tampa @ Aug. 07 2006,20:33)

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Dave,

Ever sen croton "Spirale"?  It's pretty plain looking but somewhat historic as it dates back to the early 20th century.

Ray

Ray,

I was looking over my pictures and came across this croton I had a while ago it was identified as Spirale.