I was just logging in to start my usual thread.

Great pics of beautiful plants. You've definitely got a green thumb. I really enjoyed them. I've got that same Bryophyllum (it got moved out of Kalanchoe and in to Bryophyllum since Bryophyllum blooms face down and Kalanchoe blooms face up (sort of how Datura (up) got separated from Brugmansia (down)), also from a single leaf from one of my Hawaii trips.

All of your stuff looks great. I love that pot full of variegated nasturtium ('Alaska'?) especially.

Here's a quick pic of some citrus from a must-do harvest this morning due to some sagging branches.

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Plus a quick pic of the blue green Opuntia canacapa 'Ellisiana' in the foreground and yellow-green Opuntia quimilo in the background.

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And speaking of Bryophyllum, here's some mother of thousands type (Bryophyllum daigremontianum ) with actual dew on the blooms this morning.

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Happy gardening all.
Grant

Here is a link that might be useful: Pics from my little garden, Feb 2015

Very nice all. Thanks.

Thank you both - looking beautiful as always Grant! I actually just threw out a guess w/the name of that plant from Hawaii but that is interested to learn the difference between the two types! Those Bryophyllum blooms are beautiful, have you had yours from Hawaii bloom? ?

The nasturtiums are a favorite too - just waiting for it to finally fill the pot and cascade over the sides! lol

great pics Grant! so many colors in your yard!

bought a new Banana to try out called a Dwarf Namwah. ever since I tasted the fruit from a local asian market, I was hooked! I had to have a plant! So I got a 10lbs corm from a fellow banana enthusiast for cheap!
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Chandler Pummelo about to bloom. This tree has been a slow grower for me. I've only had it in the ground for a year so far but I haven't really seen any significant leaf flush from it yet.
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Alphonso Mango tree flushing out new leaves all over! It's time to start foliar feeding this guy. This tree suffered no damage at all this winter, even with those few nights when it dipped to 28f. I have it planted next to the house on a south facing wall.
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Calamondin flowering right now and it was covered in bees earlier today pollinating all of the flowers! This guy is almost every bearing. If it's not holding fruit, it has flowers.
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Great new pics all. Love the hedge of Stick on Fire euphorbia--all from one plant? Amazing! How did you propagate it?

My Hawaiian Bryophyllum has never flowered for me that I remember. My favorite thing about them is how they almost never make a baby/plantlet unless a leaf is removed (or damaged so much that it might as well be). All of my other Bryophyllum plants bloom mid-winter.

One of the first nasturtiums in bloom this winter. Lots of others in bloom now this weekend.

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Solanum xanti 'Alamo Pintado' flowers up close and personal with red glazed pots in the background.

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I've grown the green-leaf form of "Pride of Madeira", Echium candicans, for many years in my garden where it blooms each spring and makes seedlings all over (which I welcome). Here's the variegated form looking just as good, while recovering from some vicious katydids, hah.

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Here is a link that might be useful: Pics from my garden, Feb 2015

KevinInPhx -

The Firestick plants look awesome. Question to piggyback on Grant - how did you propagate, and how long did it take to get the whole length of that fence?

I've been thinking of using the firestick as background to my front flowerbed, seems like it would really pop out of the back.

Thanks. You all are opening my eyes to plants I hadn't considered for Phoenix. All are doing so well.

I don't know if it's just me but the Firesticks really looked good this year. Most color I've seen on them in my limited time here.

To answer Grant, ASUdevil & Waterbug; the plants you see growing on the fence (The fire stick) were all simply branching parts of a much larger plant from another property we have that were trimmed off (I wanted to get some of it for this purpose as we had sold the other property) for the exact reason of covering the less sightly chain link fence.

You can VERY easily propagate these plants (and pencil cactus too) I simply let them "callous" over for about 1 1/2 days (some of the stems that we cut were over an inch across and took a little longer to dry out) to avoid rot - then I just stick them in the moist soil and they root! Mine that I've grown in my own yard here in CenPhx do NOT turn as red as my yard just seems to provide too much of a micro climate so they are mostly green most of the year. . .

Couldn't be easier and I've NEVER had ANY summer damage from heat or direct sun - you can leave them unwatered until they start to "wrinkle" in the stems and they will literally bounce back. Only problem I've ever had is from frost . . .

I liked seeing the poster show off his/her calamondin orange. I haven't been able to find one for sale in the valley.

I want one b/c of their ornamental value and their cold hardiness!

Whitfill nursery has them. If you don't see them, just ask they'll have some at their tree farm and they'll deliver them to you.

I spoke too soon about my Chandler pummelo being slow growing. Just in the past week it's pushed out tons of blooms and new leaves! I'm guessing it has established itself now in the ground.

I'm really excited about these huge flowers (compared to the smaller Calamondin flowers)

The Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies have been swarming my Boyce Thompson butterfly bush.

Wow, very nice!!

Why am I not seeing Kevin's pictures, but everyone else's comes thru fine?

I do not know why my photos aren't showing up - I must have used a different HTML on the old page. . . .

GREAT pics, Raimeiken and Jon, love seeing them. My BTA butterfly bush is huge too--easily fifteen feet tall. Love that scent! My grapefruit trees are JUST budding up, no baby fruit yet, but soon I hope. I'm still harvesting the last few, delicious grapefruit fruit. Happy gardening all!

I'm not getting Kevn's pics either.