If I can get them, I plan to grow Florida Blue Sky vine in both blue and white. I also want to find some gloriosa lily tubers - I lost mine. My goal is to grow EVERY vine I can trade for! LOL I can dream, can't I?

I should have my solarium/greenhouse up before summer and I plan on adding several new varieties now that I will have room. Rambutan, dragon fruit, another banana, maybe another lychee and mango, pomegranite.

I am hoping to plant more flower seeds, and also acquire papaya and mango trees.

High on my list is Ae Ae banana. Maybe Santa will be nice this year.

Are we going to have a Winter?? It is hot and raining here. Too weird to think the days will be getting longer-it seems like Winter is still a ways off.

I think I'll get a new Persimmon, maybe more Coffee Arabicas, and am looking forward to watching the Chaya, Moringa and Neem grow up. Have Cotton seedlings, Annona seedlings, 10 new Banana varieties, and lots of thriving Fig cuttings, to go with the other fruiting plants. Would like a Sanbokan Lemon to add to the collection, but with such problems with citrus here, would hate to lose it to the Canker Police.

In Spring, should have plenty to do with all the current trees blooming/fruiting. Will have to rig wire cages to save some fruit from the tree rats.

Toba,
Ae Ae Nanas are worth the $$$ for their amazing beauty. I admire mine every day-it is right in the entrance alcove of the house, and is stunning! Hope you get one!

Lisa

GC, if you can manage, by all means please send some of your weather up here! 17 degrees with wind chill of around 5. We'll gladly accept it!

Ae Ae's are beautiful but my oh my are they expensive. How is the fruit? Any good? Believe it or not, we have a nursery here in Ohio that actually carries fruiting type bananas in the spring. I've yet to see one of these varieties but would be interested if they could obtain one. I think a nice banana would be an impressive addition to the solarium next year.

lots of papayas! i'm going to hawaii next week to get some strawberry papaya seeds. they are SO good. and I believe they are almost all bisexual seeds. I want a mangosteen tree too. And a pink fruited guava. And a rambutan tree. Basically, everything I don't already have.

I'm so excited this year because we have had 28-29 degree rainy nights twice this week, and my tropicals are perfectly fine! The floating row covers I placed on them blew away on some of them, but the leaves have no damage at all, YAY!! I have hope my baby trees will soon be giants one day and bear loads of fruit!

Abiu, Ice cream beans, biriba, and mabye something realy rare......... durio dulcis mabye. I duno I want something that is rare and very rare at that. Lucky you Jun hope you have lots of fun in hawaii. GC I might be able to get you seeds of sanbokan lemon. Oh ya and Jun what are you growing? Like your baby trees and all.

We had our first Winter Storm and boy was it ever a storm!! Sleeting, freezing rain and snow flurries! In Texas? Wassup? Now for the best part: I plan on growing more tropical fruit trees; lychee, rambutan, Thai Sweet Sop and hopefully a variegated lemon (love the looks of it). And more tropical flowering trees and of course more vines. Love the vines!

Leona

I just want to find something that will grow in my shady spots that is overgrown with privet roots. That is my goal for next year....and for my gingers to bloom!

I bought a new house this past January, so all my trees have yet to survive their first winter. they are, dwarf ambarella, three mango trees (carrie, julie, nam doc ma?), (carrie mango is less than 2 feet and just now starting to flower), sapote, longan, lychee, wax jambu, starfruit, purple star apple, avocado, asian guava, jaboticaba, rambutan seedlings, blood orange, satsumas, grapefruit seedling, 2 dragon fruits, . the ambarella and wax jambu are probably the most susceptible but they weathered 28 degrees for three nights, no problem! of course i planted them near a south facing wall, and the wax jambu in a sheltered spot on three sides: the tree is now twice as big as the pic shows.

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my sister's guavas, she has about 20 trees, large fruited.
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satsuma, first year:
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dwarf ambarella, much bigger now with loads of fruit:

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Jun, those are great pictures. I'm glad you didn't get our "freezing" weather!

Leona

Jun those are amazing! You have a much better collection then me and I am in a higher zone. Im acually thinking of a peanut butter fruit, dwarf ambarella,
and another plant I've not yet dicided on hedge. My greenhouse is almost done so that will be very nice to have. I have dicided insted of ultratropical durios, rare ingas! I might also try and dwarf some ultratropicals so I can grow them.

Tropical trees is what I'm gonna try this year. I have alot of ordinary stuff like different citrus and fig. I want to try mangoes, papaya, this cherimoya I have been hearing so much about, guavas, etc. Will probably have to keep them in pots and I am worried about drainage since it rains here so much. I have some bananas but want more -Abyssian, AE AE, praying hands, are on the list. Gonna grow more plumerias-having a good experience with my first ones so far. Gonna try some more jasmines like arabian tea, orange jasmine, hmmm what else...Good thread idea...so tempting are all the possibilities lol.
~SJN