Kedi's Florida garden

[DAG]

May 12, 2010 5:53:31 GMT capney said:

I just love threads like this. Apart from being educational they are nice to look at

Yes indeed Robert, couldn't agree more!

[kedigato]

Thanks Robert and DAG.

Have some more pics but lack the time to upload them and the PC over at our house is slow as can be so often. Shall have another late this afternoon when we get back from Tampa.

[victoria]

Your Snow on the Mountain (Euphorbia varigata) also resembles Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon'. It's lovely.

I hesitate to tell you that your Red Hibiscus is actually a Bougainvillea .... but I know you know that ...

[kedigato]

& , Sis, I have corrected it. My mind was obviously elsewhere when I typed that.

I started training this one yesterday. Peter got the wire along the back of the wall and I then got as much of this Bourgainvillea tied down to the wire and now we have our fingers crossed that it grows well and fast.

[kedigato]

Some flowers blooming in our garden at the moment -


Mexican Petunia (I think!) -




Bird of Paradise / Flamingo Flower -




Buttercup (Turnera ulmifolia) - this can get to about 90 cm high and 60 cm wide -




Can't remember what this is called at the moment, PeterS has a lot of luck with them -







Crown of Thorns ( Euphorbia milii) -




Clerodendron thompsoniae -

[DAG]

Lovely kedi, and my favourite has to be the Bird of Paradise but the colour of the Mexican Petunia brought back memories of infant school (yes I can still remember back that far).....1946 we had little chalk boards to draw on and some of the chalks were that colour. In such a grey world as it was then, that colour was a real tonic for me! ;D

[victoria]

Beautiful pics Sis as always. I love the Mexican Petunia. My BoPs finished blooming months ago. The Clerodendron looks great ... I never planted the seed and now it's too late so will have to this Autumn. The beauty that PeterS has a lot of is Salvia, but it's too early for me to remember which one. Because of the humidity there, you certainly can grow more than I could ever hope to in dry heat.

[kedigato]

Thanks DAG and Sis.

DAG, the Mexican Petunias seem to be a perennial, I might try transplanting some to hide a pipe that is an eyesore.

Sis, that's it - Salvia! This is a Black Salvia, I think I did speak to PeterS about it last year. I just bought the one, planted it out front and this is just where the Sprinkler Man dug around resetting things ...... and I couldn't find it after that. I had given it up, but there must have been a bit of root left and it is now gorgeous. I hope it seeds itself all over this bed, there is just the one stalk at the moment.

[DAG]

Wow! Wonderful kedi, and that Canna is absolutely stunning!

[victoria]

Lovely Sis. The Oleander looks especially fresh with the raindrops on it. I have a few pics to put up after I look at them.

[pete]

Lots of interesting plants there Kedi, my BOP is yet to flower but it wont be long now.

Mexican petunias? are they different from the ones we grow here?

As Dag said a very nice canna, is canna virus a problem in Florida, do you know?

[kedigato]

Thanks DAG, Sis and Pete.

Mexican Petunias - www.floridata.com/ref/r/ruellia.cfm - there are both the tall and the dwarf ones in the garden.

The tall ones look super in large groups but can get out of hand, I've heard and read this quite often here. So far, our two small groups seem to be OK, just get all floppy and untidy at times. These dwarf ones (my pics) are totally lovely and I am trying to get them growing along the shed to hide the pool pipe running along the bottom.

I just found out yesterday that Peter had thrown a lot of them away when he was weeding the long bed along the wall at the bottom of the garden. Grrr, I could have used them.

Shall I get anyone a bit of root? The link says it can be grown as a house plant. I'll need to know soon as we are leaving early next Wednesday morning.

[DAG]

Yes please kedi, after reading that link and seeing your pics I would love to give it a try!

[pete]

I would appreciate a bit if its not any trouble please Kedi.

Have heard of Ruellia but did not make the connection with "mexican petunias", I'm sure it would do well as a summer pot plant here, moved into the greenhouse for the winter.

[kedigato]

Flowers blooming in the garden today -

Well, actually, the first two are in a planter in the patio section.

























The Hibiscus can also be viewed here - naturalworld.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=hib&thread=3402&page=2