Here are some pics of stuff I rarely post for whatever
reason and some other odds and ends.
Entering the garden from the northwest side-
I made a little Castor bean tunnel,pictures don't
do it justice,really is cool under there,like
looking up from a tropical jungle-of weeds-LOL
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Rajapuri is a real beast with some serious meat on the trunk!
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Small Philodendron (Hope)-hype,you decide.
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My only decent sized Thai giant after the big guy was
snapped in a storm last year.
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Mekong giant-first year.
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XANTHOSOMA ALBO MARGINATA - MICKEY MOUSE TARO
first Mickey leaves
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L.Grandis,L.Ramsayi and T.Martianus(Khasia kills)
I wonder how the first 2 will like the low 30s that are possible tonight....
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Somewhere in here there is a large A.Konjac,Philodendron and Tetrapanex
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C.Maxima,Tetrapanex
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E.Glaucum(Chinese snow banana)
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Bizzelishish
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A S.Lisa
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E.Princeps
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Second H.Parvaflora flower
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These are producing seed again after a long time(happy)
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Way up there.....
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New Zealand Castor flowers are beautiful
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M.Saba is finally putting on some size-gutter is around 12'
Not a good year for Bananas and super tropicals..
no rain and very hot dry air burned
up several leaves before they could open.
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Nasty horse crippler!
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C.Peruvianus has grown both new arms- center/left and all the blue portion on the other(right side)-
about 4' of new mass!
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2 C.Volcano x Cerifera
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Trachycarpus(Hayes stiffy) Fort x Wag
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A.Protoamericana
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Variegated Jade plants
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One of my 2 replacement C.Cooperi
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E.Ventricosum is about 7' in it's first year.
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All that's missing is a lawnchair in that tropical paradise.
You're well on your way: less and less weeds the taller your stuff gets.
But P U H L E A S E take those 2 Licuala indoors.
They're far too beautiful and valuable to risk.
Great pics.
Barb
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Great pics Jim. I really like the desert and the jungle you got there.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
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WoW!
Adam
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Barb
The only plants I brought in were a Diffenbachea,Orchid,some of the small
Pachys and the L.Grandis-the low temp was 37F(@6')...about 41F a foot off the ground.
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Thank goodness it wasn't as cold as predicted.
How are the L.Ramsayi and Fishtail looking this morning? And the tall Pachy lamerei?
Glad you brought the L.Grandis indoors. 😀
Barb
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They are fine,the newest leaves on the Pachy get some pin hole damage but thats about it.
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Good to know.
Bet you slept with one eye open... 😆
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Lots to see there! Can't comment on all, so I'll pick one: Sabal "Lisa." Didn't know you had any. Where did you get those?
Good to know.
Bet you slept with one eye open... 😆
Anytime I got up,I checked the temps.
It was apparent by the time I went to bed that the warm ground
was going to keep the temps from bottoming out.
At sunrise I watered everything,the water from the hose is still around 70F 😀
Eric
I got those from a guy in Mississippi,I think I sent Bill some too,not sure
if he has those at home are in Fla.
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