still no flowers

Orange Spreckles, Asiatic Lilies.

Looks a little like Audrey II.

Butchart Gardens, I think.

Today

Flowers I did for DDs wedding. She wanted orange and purple. Hidden in a shed so she couldn't see them.

A fragrant ginger - can't recall the name...

It has since died out ☹️

well there's an orange flower in there 🤷‍♀️

South Seas Daylily

Nothing of my own I can offer for orange. Our cape honeysuckle was prolific but is gone. I’ve kept these pix from online for several years thinking it was a cute idea.

Pagoda flowers

" It has since died out"

Sorry to hijack this for horticultural enquiry, but @carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10, was your problem just with this ginger specifically, and others do grow well for you? The reason I ask is that, obviously, gingers (Hedychium at least) are staples of southeastern landscaping, but a number of them come from cool summer highland subtropical climates in China/Nepal/etc. and though generally known to grow in southeastern heat and humidity...they are outliers for plants from such areas...many others from subtropical highland climates will not grow in the SE US. So I wonder about the history of that plant...did you buy it locally, or maybe get it from somewhere else in the south via mail order or whatnot? There's a ginger nursery in Hawaii but I'm pretty sure they are at elevation where at least the nights are cooler.

Consider Hedychium wardii: I've seen it recommended by a guy in northern Scotland on Youtube as his best grower of the genus, so it obviously is fine with very chilly summers! It didn't seem happy for me when I ordered it from a PNW nursery, so, as one would expect, is not in commerce is the southeastern US. I'm just trying to get a sense of how many other cultivars or species might struggle with hot humid summers.

Of course it's totally possible it died for some other reason(s) - I guess you can let me know!

So as not to break the rules, here's a lavender-purple flower from my garden. Rothschild's lepidote Rhododendron 'Eleanore' with Frank Furman's "hardy big leaf" 'Sky King' in the BG.

Btw - what a crazy looking Clerodendron! Thanks for sharing that lisa_fla.

This is Milton.

Almost all my gingers died because we had a hurricane storm surge and our yard was flooded with 2' of salt water. The only one that survived is a spiral ginger that is incredibly tough - to the point of being invasive.

Ah that makes sense. Sorry about what you went through. Does the w in your name mean west Florida? My understanding is the west coast gets the storm surges worse than the east.

I googled H. wardii for the first time in a couple years, and, amusingly, even Plant Delights's picture of it in some kind of ginger encyclopedia they are building was taken "at Windcliff" - Dan Hinkley's well known garden in the chilly waters west of Seattle. Presumably Tony Avent's way of saying "yeah, even I can't grow here in North Carolina!" https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/specialty-collections/Hedychium/Hedychium-wardii-Windcliff/

But that appears to be the only one, so, maybe that encyclopedia page is a way to answer my question!

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/specialty-collections/Hedychium/

(don't take this as an endorsement of buying gingers from PDN. They are not the nursery I would recommend for it.)