Show us your Philos!!!!

[metalfan]

I love philodendrons and collect as many as I can. T current count I have about 30. I'd like to see photos of your philos!

This is one of my faves, Philo "White Wizard" about to grow up this living grapevine with Epipremnum "Skeleton Key".

[tropicalb]

you're on....lemme get my camera ready!

[aussiearoids]

Autumn Queen

[aussiearoids]

callosum

[aussiearoids]

P. crassinervium

[aussiearoids]

P. rugosum

[aussiearoids]

P. verrucosum , this is a mongrel to grow , but well worth the effort .

[metalfan]

My verrucosum is finally getting some size on. Its probably my favorite.

[metalfan]

Golden Erubescens

[metalfan]

Rising Sun

[metalfan]

Brasil

[junglegalfla]

I must have that P. verrucosum !!

I only have P. illismanii & a prince of orange. I am challenged for shade but I love this plant family!

[tank]

Gina,

Your Greenhouse must be the size of a football field!

[metalfan]

Jason, its not really, its just packed to the gills LOL.

Here are a few more of my faves

Philo plowmanii

[metalfan]

Philo King of Spades

[metalfan]

Philo gloriosum

[metalfan]

Philo mamei

[SunnyFl]

Gina, where are you getting these incredible philos?  They are amazing!

[metalfan]

Sunny, to be honest, I got a lot of my plants through trades with people in South Florida, and I also attends a few sales each year and pick up new things.

When I was a heliconia grower and had many different types of those plants, I came to a point where I decided I was limiting my interests too narrowly on one plant, so when I decided to really branch out (into, for instance, palms) I chopped up and traded almost all of my huge heliconias away. Some were 20 ft or more tall, stands occupied as much as 15-16 sq ft in the greenhouse or 30/35 gal containers.

People in So FL really like to get those in trade as they are expensive to purchase. Many of the varieties I had sell for $25-60 per rhizome. I was able to make a lot of good trade friends and obtained many nice plants in exchange for them.

[junglegalfla]

There are sources out there, a few are Natural Selections (nsexotics on ebay), Brian's Botanicals (aroidgrower on ebay), & wildwillb3 on ebay.

I've only ordered from Enid at Natural Selections. I'd be buying every phil I could if I had more canopy. In a few years & once my palms grow some..watch out!

[Kris]

Dear Friends  

seeing those dense vegitation,iam tempted to grow a few but

what i realise that in our tropic with garden like the above iam

shure first rats will come and them the snakes will follow.

in summers here iam shure that snake will pay a visit.

and iam not a fan of the reptiles either.

so i will feel happy seeing beautiful stills of very rare plants than creating a dense jungle like that.

have any of you encountered with a snake,till now in your gardens ?

thanks for the stills & love,

Kris  

[metalfan]

Snakes???

But of course! Florida is filled with snakes. Fortunately, there are only a few venomous ones. Rattlers, Corals, Cottonmouths and Copperheads. Most of the snakes around my place (and I see a snake or 2 at least once a day) are harmless and do a great service by eating mice, moles and voles, and Cuban treefrogs. But I admit it is unsettling, to say the least, to go out to clean the pool skimmer and find a big water snake curled up in the basket.

[junglegalfla]

Just came across an old pic of Prince of orange

[SunnyFl]

(krisachar @ Jul. 26 2007,11:50)

QUOTE

Dear Friends  

seeing those dense vegitation,iam tempted to grow a few but

what i realise that in our tropic with garden like the above iam

shure first rats will come and them the snakes will follow.

in summers here iam shure that snake will pay a visit.

and iam not a fan of the reptiles either.

so i will feel happy seeing beautiful stills of very rare plants than creating a dense jungle like that.

have any of you encountered with a snake,till now in your gardens ?

thanks for the stills & love,

Kris  

Oh sure, I encountered a snake slithering right over my leg while I was doing some transplanting.  He gave me a very reproachful look, to be sure.

Another snake encounter - a black racer coiled itself around my ankle when I was doing some gardening chores, he was trying to disentangle himself and it was kind of funny.

I saw an emerald-green snake in a bush at Selby, he was beautiful - I wasn't quite quick enough with the camera though.

I don't mind the smaller snakes, but Kris, you probably have much larger and more formidable snakes than the ones that are common in our gardens here.  

It's the rats that I can't stand.  They ruin my fruit trees,  getting the fruit before we do, grrrrr.

[SunnyFl]

(metalfan @ Jul. 26 2007,07:25)

QUOTE

Sunny, to be honest, I got a lot of my plants through trades with people in South Florida, and I also attends a few sales each year and pick up new things.

When I was a heliconia grower and had many different types of those plants, I came to a point where I decided I was limiting my interests too narrowly on one plant, so when I decided to really branch out (into, for instance, palms) I chopped up and traded almost all of my huge heliconias away. Some were 20 ft or more tall, stands occupied as much as 15-16 sq ft in the greenhouse or 30/35 gal containers.

People in So FL really like to get those in trade as they are expensive to purchase. Many of the varieties I had sell for $25-60 per rhizome. I was able to make a lot of good trade friends and obtained many nice plants in exchange for them.

What heliconias do you have?  I just got my first - a wee rostrata, I've been wanting one for ages.

The S. Florida people have amazing collections.  What a great way to get some of the more uncommon plants - and your collection is beautiful.  There's an Aroid show at Fairchild on 15 -16 Sept. and I'm hoping to go.

I just don't have anywhere to plant aroids - my lot doesn't have much shade (yet).  Maybe keep them as indoor specimens for now.

(junglegalfla @ Jul. 26 2007,08:22)

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There are sources out there, a few are Natural Selections (nsexotics on ebay), Brian's Botanicals (aroidgrower on ebay), & wildwillb3 on ebay.

I've only ordered from Enid at Natural Selections. I'd be buying every phil I could if I had more canopy. In a few years & once my palms grow some..watch out!

Is this the Natural Selections Exotics that used to be in Ft. Lauderdale?  I visited them years ago when they had a nursery there (it's gone now), and the lady who ran it - her mom worked at the garden shop at Flamingo Gardens.  That nursery had some unique things, a shame they closed it.  Here's the link

http://naturalselections.safeshopper.com/68/cat68.htm?239

[metalfan]

Enid at Natural Selections still sells by mail order, mostly on eBay but they keep the website too. They closed the physical nursery in Ft L because of hurricane damage. They had no business insurance so had to take what she described to me as a pretty sizeable loss.

I only kept Heliconia bihai Chocolate Dancer and Heliconia sharonii in the greenhouse. (A large grower and a small grower, LOL) If Chocolate Dancer gets out of hand, it will go too. I have Hirsuta and Rostrata in pots, as well as Red and Yellow Torch, Splash, latispatha, and Nappi. I have Pedro Ortiz in the ground as an experiment.

But at one time I grew Barnum and Bailey, Xanthovillosa Shogun, Criswick, Richmond Red, Banana Split, Frosty, Bubble Gum, Flash...I had over 40 different types.

[palmmermaid]

I love snakes in my yard!  They eat all kinds of things I don't like - bugs, Cuban tree frogs, and RATS!  I'm with Sunny.  I hate rats!  All I can think of is the Black Death!  Learned about it as an impressionable 10 year old and it stuck!  No rats!

I see snakes on a regular basis.  Sometimes we surprise each other and I am not sure who is more surprised - me or the snake!  I have had them run across my feet and drop down in front of me.  And those big, brown water bandits that look like water mocassins!  Geez!  I ws unrolling the hose one day and a little rat snake was mixed in with the coils.  He hissed at me and I left him alone.  They also like to sun themselves on the slats of my orchid houses.  Neat.  And we also have the legless lizards and ring neck snakes.  I find them in my compost pile during the winter.  I guess they like the heat.

[Kris]

Dear Women folks  

i must admitt saying that you folks all have guts of steel !

jesus you are all cool about reptiles.

i pray god i do not come across these creatures.since it becomes struggle of the fittest.if i lose them today,they will

come again tomarrow.so i will kill then in my 1st encounter itself provided,it does not inflect any casuality to us.i hope my pets will take care.but chance that they too will get

killed if its a venemous snake ! And in india i have not seen

people growing or befriending it,since most are really poisioness...

So gina & Sunny you folks are the most fearless women folks i have met till this day.that is in reference to snakes

living in ones garden !

love,

Kris  

[metalfan]

I think that you have to be fearless LOL. Especially here in FL where we now have an endemic population of Anacondas, and the Burmese Python is in the news because it too is becoming entrenched in So FL. A local herpetologist friend I talked to said that Anacondas and Pythons could probably pretty easily migrate up the peninsula of FL even into the cooler Northern parts because the winters are not severe at all and there are plenty of warm places for them to hide out in. So we may be seeing 8-20 ft snakes up here in the future that can eat small dogs and children.

South FL from Cape Coral-Ft Lauderdale down already has an endemic population of monitor lizards ( smaller cousins to the Komodo Dragon) and we have actually had 3 instances in the past 10 or so years of monitors being sighted and caught here in North Central FL. Opportunistic little devils.

I will take snakes over monitor lizards any day!

[richtrav]

Metalman

What's the neo growing behing the white philodendron?

Richard

[metalfan]

Hi Richtrav,

well, first off, its metal FAN, not metal MAN LOL. Because I am an avid fan of heavy metal/aggressive music.

I am also, (yelp!) a girl, not a guy!

That is Neoregelia "Zebra". I have always felt that the name was misapplied, as it has spots and not stripes, but go figure.

[Kris]

Dear Gina  

have you heard the motarhead,a/c d/c,white snake,judas priest,alice in chains,iron medien,van halen,aerosmith,

scorpians.....coverdile & Page solos(Kashmir) led zipplian..

black sabath,metallica..?

have U heard them...

since even i was a metal fan only in my schooling days,later took facination to direstraits,petshop boys,savage garden,bonjovi(slippery when wet)its my favouriate album,def lepord,r e m,eurythemics....clture club,queen !

love,

Kris  

[metalfan]

Kris, of course I've heard all those guys! Mostly when I was a teenager and college student, they played all that on the radio.

My husband and his band play a lot fo AC/DC and Led Zepplin. I like Metallica, and Judas Priest is kinda like 2nd religion. The old ALice in Chains is sublime, but I never, EVER liked Aerosmith.

[Kris]

Dear Gina  

Very glad we have similar taste in music in respect to metal &

hard rock !

and as for aerosmith even ian not a die hard fan but the album Get a grip in that all the songs which has a music video's are great.and my most favouriate number is from movie track Armagadon.i don't no why that beat brings tears rolling in my eyes and believe me i have not read the lyrics either to know what that guy is singing.

like wise Enya's track for lord of the rings part 2 motion picture soundtrack_jesus i cannot contain my tears here to the music in the background brings that in me.and all songs

don't apeal to me in this fashion.

And Hey convey my regards to your hubby & your kids...but no pets included in this list..

Love,

Kris  

[SunnyFl]

(krisachar @ Jul. 28 2007,10:57)

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later took facination to direstraits,petshop boys

Hey Kris,

I like Dire Straits and Petshop Boys too.  Used to listen to White Snakes and Judas Priest a lot too, back in my rock-ier days.

You mentioned Enya doing a track for Lord of the Rings?  I didn't know that, must find a copy and listen to it.   I love Enya - and Clannad.  Kris, have you heard Caribbean Blue?  Orinocoflo?

Gina, not good news that the Anaconda and Burmese Pythons are coming!  The pythons are huge - a few years ago a guy put a (relatively) tame one over my shoulders, ha!  But I don't care to find them in my garden.   Rat snakes, garden snakes and black racers, fine, love 'em.  But the big dangerous ones?  Hope not, but worst are the monitors.  Wonder if they'll make it over to Pinellas? ew.

[Kris]

(SunnyFl @ Jul. 29 2007,11:35)

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Kris, have you heard Caribbean Blue?  Orinocoflo?

Dear Sunny  

Wow its great to know that you love Enya !

the carabiean blue is our families favouriate.i like it but my mom loves it.and she used to remiend me saying that she wants a grandson like that from me.since i used to refuse

to talk to hear when it comes to my marriage plans.

so that mtv song with that kid turning the pages with visuals,i can never forget it at all..

and iam very glad my taste is changing as iam growing..

and the beauty of metal or hard rock artists is their mtv unplugged version happenes to be their best.very calm & with no electric gadgets.very smooth & gentle.their worst  will be their 'live' shows.that's not music at all but noise..

thanks & love,

Kris  

[metalfan]

Philo radiatum...this plant has now cwarled all the way up the cooling pad and is going to destinations unknown!

Started out as a 6-7" plant, now its probably 8 feet long

[Al in Kona]

As for snakes, I'm not a fan of them either but then again there are no snakes in Hawaii, yet anyway.  Hope it stays that way too.

[epicure3]

Here's one I just planted. It's a pigskin or naugahyde philodendron. The leaves are cool. They have the texture of a fooball.

Philodendron Rugosum

[Jeff in St Pete]

I'm a newbie when it comes to these plants so I have no idea what the names are.  If anyone can ID any of these, I would appreciate it!

Is this also Prince of Orange?  It looks like the one Bren posted.  I picked up two small ones a couple weeks ago for $2.00 each.

Here is one growing near the house.

Two different types on this tree.  One is the same as in the other pic and the other one has smaller leaves.