Your stuff looks great, considering the drought. My plants, since we're going on year 2 of hell on earth summers, look pretty rough. I hope you get some relief soon. I would let that zebrina pup grow til fall and sever it before frost. When you do it, make sure you angle your spade so as to get some of the corm off the mother plant. Pot the pup and keep it under a grow light til spring - barely any watering. How did you overwinter the zebrina to get it to blooming size?
My livistonia looks like yours - chlorotic. I think I've overwatered mine because of the heat. Either that or it's just the heat/extreme sunlight combo.
Also how do you winter your plumeria and ensete?

Your place looks awesome. 😀

Thanks guys

KrisK

The plumeria goes right into the ground in mid April. Come late October(before any hard frosts) it starts to drop its leaves and goes dormant. I dig it up and put it in a pot with dry soil and it stays in my garage. The key is to keep the soil dry and only give it a tiny bit of water over the winter (like maybe 2 cups) to keep the stems turgid. Around March I slowly give it more water and move it in front of the window and it greens up and starts putting out new leaves. So far this technique has worked quite well and I have yet to see to plant go into shock. Growth was delayed this year because Japanese Beetles destroyed most of the flowers and older leaves.

The ensete stays in the ground usually till November but I take it out sonner if there is a hard frost coming. I chop off all but the newest leaf and pot it in moist soil. It then spends the winter in my little sunroom that never goes below 9 C or about 48 F. The musa basjoo and most of the other plants spend the winter outside.

Ryan all really beautiful. Congrats on the flowering of the zebrina roho. The yellowing palm fronds I'd say are a mix of heat/sun stress and the plant pushing all its nutrients to the new growth leaves. Maybe slight deficiency of N K or P, perhaps some fish fertilizer is in order. For added K, I puree any bananas that get too soft to eat, peel and all... pour the mix at the base of my bananas and water like hell to get it to soak in to the soil... we'll see how that does as the season goes on. Did you do any thing special to promote banana flowering?

Nice Garden, I love the way you mixed the tropicals in with the perennials very nice. Congrats on the blood banana blooming iv had one for like 10 years and can never get the stalks to live long enough to get a bloom. Its been super dry here too parts of my yard are dead and some of my shrubs I cant get the hose too look terrible, and pretty much all the cornfields are dead. What zone do you live in? What kind of Cactus is that?

Beautiful !

My guess on the palms is lack of nutrients and water.

You need to water a lot more,the blades on your Fortunei are starting to close
meaning that it has some serious stress going on-lots more water!

You will need to water the area around the palms to every so often as
the roots will grow outside the area your watering and die as they enter
the dry soil.

I don't know if you grew the EXACT same Castors last year but the kind you
have now is a very large leaved variety and they are slower than other kinds of
Castor beans-the price to pay for all the nice big beautiful leaves!

It looks happy!

seedscanada,

Thanks for the tips. I will give it a try and post the results.

Honestly I did nothing special to get it to flower. Just occasional watering and light fertilizing with miracle-gro. That plant has always out performed my other blood bananas since day one.

bgodwin1987

Thanks. The perennials are getting out of control so this fall I am going to move a bunch of them. I am in Zone 6b. We have a great microclimate here in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The cactus is a prickly pear.

hardyjim,

Thanks!

The windmill is having a hard time this year. I had to move it this spring to get at an underground pipe and it went into shock. It seems like it's finally coming around. I will take your advice and water it a little more often.

The castors come from the seeds of last years plants which by the end of the year were close to 10 feet tall. I think it's a combination of high heat and lack of water that is responsible for their poor performance.

Ontario's zone 7a area:

cheers!

How do you protech your basjoos?

Yea,I have noticed that as we've enter the second year of drought here
-that- any of the larger plants that spread out and grow fast like Bananas,Castors...
are going to reach a point where they really slow down if they do not find water
to be available farther away from the trunk-here the roots grow out of the moist
(watered soil)and encounter the chalky dry ground that dries out the tender feeder roots.

How do you protech your basjoos?

After a hard frost I cut down the banana leaving 2-3 feet of trunk. I spray the trunk with fungicide and let the area dry. Once the area is dry I cover the trunk with a plastic tarp then I pile a couple of bag of leaves over the tarp.

Here is a picture update of the blood banana flower:

Amazing,you rarely see that variety get big enough to flower.