WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE PLANTS ?

11/19/2009

Hi Everyone..

Since we don't have a garden section here, What
are your favorite houseplants or garden plants ?

I love growing tropicals and all plants. I love Citrus
trees, I have growing in my living room a Calamondin
Miniature Orange Tree, it flowers all year round and it's
the only Citrus you can grow indoors. Plus I have a
Japanese Japonica, Ming Aralia. This past early Summer
I planted a Butterfly Bush, the flowers are a delicate
Lilac color, awesome , they attract Hummingbirds and
butterflies, oh yes and bees...

Cheers.....Joe...

Hi Joe,

I took this photo of Calla lillies in the ninfarium at Aberglasney House, Carmarthenshire, South West Wales:

http://www.aberglasney.org/

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Shelagh...

Awesome photo, Calla Lillies
are great in the garden...

Cheers..Joe

Edible ones that taste good. I really love those sort of plants.

You like broccoli too?

I love broccoli and cauliflower.
That's a good picture of me eating broccoli Shelagh.

Cacti

11/19/2009

Shelagh..

Here's your Calla Lillies as a
watercolor..

Cheers..Joe

dmondeo wrote:

I love broccoli and cauliflower.
That's a good picture of me eating broccoli Shelagh.

I spotted the likeness right away!

Easter cactus for Billy:



Beautiful Joe!

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This has nothing to do with gardening , my nephew
and his cousin traveled from the USA to South Africa
for two weeks, I thought this was an awesome photo
of him on the beach...

Cheers..Joe

That is awesome, Joe!

Some great pictures here.
I'll just add a 'bristol ruby'. I totally adore this plant as it flourishes so gracefully in the chalky soils where I live:

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Shelagh..

My nephew Dean has been to Mt. Kilimanjaro
and he climbed it ! He's been to New Zealand Bunji
jumping, now he was in South Africa, he always planning
new trips.., He's a Radiologist, he just turned 30..

Cheers..Joe

This is my cousin's son at the bottom of the photo:



He's a young lawyer when he's not jumping out of aeroplanes!

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Shelagh...

" SCARY !" If I did that you would
hear the primal scream across Wales.. Afraid
of heights..

Cheers..Joe

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Now this took guts ! Here he is with a
wild cat.....

Cheers..Joe

Braver than me, Joe! Mind you I had to be really brave in this photo. LOL!

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Here's another large kitty from South Africa.

Cheers..Joe

I wonder why there isn't someone stroking the wee thing! LOL!

Back to plants - obviously my favorite is the Ghost Orchid - :-)

11/19/2009

DK...

What is a ghost orchid ? I've never
seen one , got a photo ? Oh Yes I grow Figs.


Cheers...Joe

11/19/2009

My Fig tree...

Cheers...Joe

I like herbs best. I keep pots of them on my patio. It is dark now, but tomorrow I will try to get a decent shot of them with my iphone. In the meantime, here they are in a window box in my little kitchen in Houston. They are behind Lynn. she was busy cooking chicken with yellow peppers and garlic, during the Christmas holidays about eight years ago.



(Lynn is blonde again, now. Some years ago my mom made a comment that Lynn, Susan, and I all had the same hair color. Dave said it was due to a genetic propensity to choose the same hair dye.)


Ann

I love figs, Joe. My grandmother had a huge tree in her yard, and we had fresh and/or preserved figs all the time. But that picture is very big.

Ann

The ghost orchid is the flower on my book cover avatar. It only grows in the Everglades and Cuba. Normally, they bloom one flower at a time off of a green and brown root structure that blends with its host. They have no leaves, and the gosamer, paper thin petals dance in the breeze like ballerinas or dancing ghosts.

My ghost orchid that bloomed on my July birthday in 2007 is a mystical flower that had as many as 12 blooms at once, high in the cypress canopy of the Corkscre Swamp Sanctuary, during its first 2007 blooming, the only ghost orchid spotted in that sanctuary at the edge of the Everglades.

It's magic and mystery inspired me to write the novel, Ghost Orchid, a tale of love, lies and redemption unfolding, one puzzle piece at a time. The serenity and peace found through the Everglades' pulsing life force is described in intimate detail. I love this sanctuary, and that emotion is expressed in this fiction story that inspires other to take a trek along the boardwalk and experience the orchid in its domaine.

My ghost orchid begins its first blooming in July; it's second in August and last in September. This year, it bloomed into October before its last petal turned brown and dropped to the swamp floor.