April 2013: what looks good/bad in your garden?
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Comments (43)Awesome new pics and updates all, you have some great plants! Love that pink cactus, Mary, and all of the other updates too. Some of my dwarf plumerias really didn't drop their leaves, and my largest, 'Celandine' definitely did but is waking up and will be making lots of those wonderful, heavily fragrant blooms (yup, I see the buds already). Such great plants. I am loving the weather right now--warm days and pleasant nights. I still haven't turned on the a/c since the house cools off so nicely at night, and if I seal it up when I head to work it stays cool all day. Nice! Here's an oldey timey amaryllis (Hippeastrum, botanically speaking) blooming in the garden. It's Hippeastrum johnsonii, that some think is a species and some think is a very early hybrid. Either way, it's got a certain durable wild charm about it, and it's been passed down among gardeners and nursery people for 150 plus years. So fun (and easy!) Here's a no-ID "amaryllis" that I bought several years (I think it's the variety 'Charisma') that re blooms for me each and every April. I bought three bulbs for three dollars on a rescue rack and they all three always rebloom in spring. Talk about a bargain! Our native "western four o'clock" or "Colorado four o'clock", Mirabilis multiflora, has been blooming away for weeks now. I actually much prefer it to the more popular M. jalapa types as the foliage is much more tidy (and a waxy blue green), plus the purple is just intoxicating. Full hot sun or partial shade, are fine for this fun deciduous perennial. And while not flashy, I do love Euphorbia royleana, my FAVORITE landscape Euphorbia for this climate. I've planted quite a few of these all over my garden in everything from full sun to partial shade and they've all really thrived. And no, I don't protect them at ALL winter or summer. Easy and fun! Keep the great garden updates coming, pics or not, happy gardening all! Grant Here is a link that might be useful: Pics from my garden, April 2014...See MoreMay 2014 what looks good/bad in YOUR garden?
Comments (66)Lots of great new updates and pics, everyone, keep them coming. Love all of your tropicals, cast, plus the adeniums, plumerias, and blood orange pics too. Keep them coming. I love Epiphyllums too, although the only one I've had long term success with (ten years now) is Epiphyllum 'Curly', a contorted form of E. guatemalense. I bought it as a small cutting and it's become a very large plant the flowers regularly all spring and summer. Unfortunately the flowers are small, sort of a dingy off white, and disorganized, LOL, and they only open for a very few short hours well after midnight. Neat, curly leaves though, and pretty pink fruit. Here's a pic of mine from a week or so ago. Definitely grow it for the foliage, hah! I posted this on a separate thread too, but here's a quick pic of my Bauhinia galpinii blooming away. Finally, seedling #9 from my hand-pollination of stapelias (an annoyingly complex hidden lock-and-key mechanism, no dust-some-yellow-pollen-onto-a-stigma kind of thing) opened its first bloom this weekend. You can see traits of each parent: the size and stripes of Stapelia gigantea and the brick red color and some extra fur from S. hirsuta. Nothing fancy, but fun and easy, so why not share it, right? Happy gardening all! Grant...See MoreOctober 2013 what looks good/bad in your garden?
Comments (36)Hi everyone, here are a few totally random pics from this morning in the garden. I hope you'll take a look and enjoy. Milos, lycoris are good in containers but BORING, lol, as they're dormant for most of the year, and you really can't plant anything else in there that needs water during the looooong dormancy period, but if you can tuck the pot somewhere inconspicuous it could work. It would drive me batty to have a pot that's mostly empty most of the time, LOL. Anyway, here are some pics from this morning: Zauschneria californica (recently moved back in to the genus Epilobium) Pseudolithos migiurtinus celebrating its two year anniversary in my garden this week, LOL. Very, very fussy, but so far so good, LOL. Dalea frutescens blooming away. I've really grown to love Dalea over the years, it's SO drought and heat tolerant, and blooms off and on for much of the year. I only water it every 10 days in summer and once a month in winter. Happy gardening everyone! Grant Here is a link that might be useful: Pics from my garden October 2013...See MoreMarch 2015 what looks good/bad/awful in your garden
Comments (47)Lots of plants flowering in the yard right now. Canna 'Ripples' Canna 'Angele Martin' Canna 'Gigundo' Canna 'Bengal Tiger' Longan tree Tecoma 'Sparky' Tahitian pummelo - Finally showing signs of new growth all over the tree. I've been worried about this big guy for over a month now. All my citrus trees have already flushed new leaves and are done flowering except this guy until now! All its been doing is dropping leaves. I'm guessing it's still stressed from being uprooted and replanted to my yard. Mango 'Lemon zest' flower spikes all over. My new Dwarf Namwah Banana corm finally pushed a new leaf out. The 90f temps probably helped out a lot on waking this guy up. Green and red sugarcanes - lots of new canes coming out....See Morethisisme
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