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I am Back and I Have Vacation Pictures! 2008-06-15 21:46:00 After 11 days of no posting I am Back. I have had a fantastic adventure across the North East with my fiancee and her family. Begining in Boston for a wedding. WOW what a town. We arrived the same night as game 1 of the NBA Finals and the town was pack full of fans. I was there for 3 days staying in the financial district at the Hilton. I had a blast taking a trip down the Freedom Trail visiting B Read more:Vacation
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My Little Succulent Jungle 2008-06-17 01:11:00 These are a variety of succulents that I have collected from here and there. The dish has been finished for a month or so and they have finally have become happy in there new home. I only know the name of 1 of them and that is the Chocolat Solidier. I will let you guess which 1 that is. Here are some pretty nice pictures of the different succulents growing in the dish.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Encyclia tampensis , Wild Florida Orchids Blooming 2008-06-16 23:36:00 After lots of anticapation the time has come. Almost all of the spikes on this Encyclia tampensis, Wild Florida
Orchid are almost in bloom. It is putting on a spectacular show. I have a few pictures tonight and will try to get so better close ups this week. Here are tonights pictures of the wild orchids.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Musa acuminata , Ice Cream Banana 2008-06-25 01:37:00 This Ice Cream
Banana was planted in the ground back in Dec 07. Here are the current pictures. It now has its 6th pup coming up. The largest pup is acually one of the newest pups. The first pic from 1/13/08 shows the banana tree and the 3 pups that came with the tree when I bought it. And here is a link to all of the other posts that I have done on my Ice Cream Banana.Come Watch my Plants Grow
Lc. Angel Heart 'Nora' Bloom! 2008-06-24 22:50:00 This Lc. Angel Heart
'Nora' was a clearance orchid that I purchased a few months ago. This is the first set of flowers I have seen on it. What a beautiful surprise, this orchid also has a very sweet fragrance early in the morning. The first picture was taken on 5/24/08.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Volunteering at Heathcote Botanical Gardens 2008-07-10 01:31:00 This week we worked on removing overgrown vines and out of control ferns. Uncovering the Cycads that have slowly lost their space to the ferns and vines. We also exposed a Cat Palm that was barely visible from overgrowth along with a forest of Lady Palms some towering over 12ft.BeforeAfterBeforeAfterCome Watch my Plants Grow
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Livistona rotundifolia , Footstool Palm 2008-07-10 00:48:00 This is the 1st palm for this weeks Heathcote Palms. This Livistona rotundifolia ,or Footstool Palm is a very attractive Livistona, especially when young, due to its large, round, shiny, shallowly divided leaves. Though less cold hardy, the trunk has an intricate woven mat of fibers that eventually shed to reveal red ring scars. As it gets older however, the leaves become more divided, and thus n
Chamaedorea costaricana , Costa Rican Bamboo Palm 2008-07-10 00:17:00 This is the 2nd palm for this weeks Heathcote Palms. This Chamaedorea costaricana or, Costa Rican Bamboo
Palm is a large clumping, and has straight, deep green stems that resemble bamboo shoots. The stems are up to 1.5" in diameter, and the leaves are pinnate and lancelote, like the more common Cat Palm.Come Watch my Plants Grow
Multiply Headed Palm Trees 2008-07-09 01:52:00 I recently read a story on the $1million coconut palm. If you have not read the story here is a link to the multi-headed coconut palm. So I have a few pictures of some of the multiply headed palms in my area.The first is a 3 headed Sabal Palm that is located at Heathcote Botanical Garden and it also has a little history behind it.This 2 headed Sabal Palm is located at McKee Botanical Gardens inVe Read more:Multiply
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Delonix regia, Royal Poinciana 2008-07-08 01:36:00 The flowering trees are in bloom. One of my favorites is the Delonix regia, Royal
Poinciana. This tree gets into full bloom on late spring/early summer. Larger trees are simply striking, covered with red flowers. Each tree has a unique shape, it never gets boring looking at them, even if they are not blooming. This is a great shade tree, and the branches grow horizontally, sometimes growing downwa
Dypsis lastelliana Redneck Teddy Bear Palm Update 2008-07-08 01:05:00 Back on 3/24/08 I started 20 of these seeds. So far I have 2 sprouted Dypsis lastelliana , Redneck
Palm, or Teddy Bear Palms. They are just about to put out their second spear. These so far are the coolest looking palm sprouts that I have. The first 2 pictures were taken on 5/21/07, and the last picture was taken on 7/7/08.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Lily of the Nile 'Storm Cloud' (Agapanthus orientalis) 2008-07-07 20:30:00 This is the newest addition to the yard. This Lily of the Nile 'StormCloud
' (Agapanthus orientalis) has a deeper purple color to them than the normal Lily of the Nile. I found it at the Downtown Farmers Market this past Sat. The lady only had 1 left. It was $10 and is going to make a nice addition to the other 2 Lily of the Nile's that I have. The first 2 are from the new Lily and the last is 1 o
Dioon spinulosum Cycad, Giant Dioon, Gum Palm 2008-07-03 01:05:00 Dioon spinulosum Gum Palm- The Giant Dioon Palm (technically a cycad) is a large, attractive and easily grown plant. The Gum Palm has shiny, stiff, light to bright green leaves that grow in an upright nest shape. It is the largest of the American cycads and is known to grow up to 50 feet high in nature-in the rocky, limestone evergreen forests of tropical Mexico. Despite the soft look of the The G
More Misi Luki Banana Pups 2008-07-03 00:24:00 The first picture is from the May 20 post after the first round of banana pup removal. Here is a link to the original post on the removal of the Misi Luki Banana pups. Well in just 5 weeks I have 6 new pups that are now 4ft tall in this very short period. I have had this in the ground since the end of Nov. 07 At first it was getting big and not sending off any pups. Since I removed the first 4 it
First Bloom on my Lc. Secret Love 'Hsinying' 2008-07-01 22:46:00 Summer time is one of my favorites. Everything comes to life. My Cattleya orchids are growing like crazy and putting out new flowers all over the porch. This Lc. Secret Love
'Hsinying' was bought back in Feb. as a little plant with anticipation of blooming in a year or so. Well to my surprise it has decided to bloom for me this year. Sweet!Come Watch my Plants Grow
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"Very Spiny" Ruffle Palm or Aiphanes aculeata 2008-06-30 23:31:00 This Ruffle
Palm or Aiphanes aculeata is an attractive but intensely spiny palm and it has a very attractive crown of light green, broad ruffled, spiny leaflets. This South American native has a nice, ringed trunk, and the fronds look very similar to the Caryota fishtail palms fronds. However, the spines travel down the leaflets as well making this beauty dangerous as they are long (2-3") and so s
First Cymbidium aloifolium Bloom! 2008-06-30 21:16:00 This plant has steadily been putting out new growth and we finally tricked this Cymbidium aloifolium in to bloom. Living in S.FL we do not have the cold weather to trigger the spikes on most Cymbidiums, so you have to be a little creative. I began watering it with ice water and like magic the spike appeared. Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Armadillo Action 2008-06-27 01:18:00 While at Heathcote Botanical Gardens on Wed. doing the weekly volunteer hours, I came across a site that we normally do not see in the daytime. Armadillo's were roaming the garden feeding. I was able to catch a few good shots before they ran away.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Encyclia cochleata Bloom 2008-06-26 22:27:00 I bought this Encyclia cochleata from a garage sale back on 3/30. I did not know what it was until the flowers began to open. What a pleasant surprise on this 1. Encyclia's are my favorite orchids so there was no hesitation when the lady told me $5, but they did not have the name. Well I found pictures of it and it is commonly known as the Cockleshell Orchid, because of the shape of the lip. I ha Read more:Bloom
Cypress Vine , Ipomoea quamoclit 2008-07-24 01:40:00 If you love growing vines, then this is the ideal vine for growing on trellises, arbors or fences. It even can be trained to climb up a string tied to a tree branch or the eaves of your house, but any way you grow Ipomoea quamoclit it requires some training and the ideas are endless. The hummingbirds absolutely love it, butterflies fawn over it and bumble bees help pollinate it! While the flowers Read more:Cypress
Tillandsia xerographica 2008-07-23 21:34:00 Dubbed the ‘king’ among air plants, Tillandsia xerographica, is a xeric epiphyte that is from the semi-deserts of Guatemala. It is very slow growing, but is easy to take care of. It loves sunshine and will take regular watering as long as the water doesn't stand in rosette, but can stand some drought quite well. Its silvery gray leaves, sometimes almost white, has a tight rosette of leaves e
Some of this Weeks Wildlife Encounters 2008-07-23 00:37:00 If you want to view any of the pictures remember to right click and open in a new tab or window, and this saves lots of loading time.The First 2 pictures are of an unknown caterpillar. Two ducks hanging out in an Oak Tree.A Gopher Turtle escaping the sweltering heat of the day in his burrow.Recently I have had an outbreak of baby lizards running around the back porch. The other night I went to tak Read more:Weeks
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First RE-Bloom of the Ascda. Betty May Steel x Vanda Kasem's Delight Blue 2008-07-22 22:52:00 This is an Ascocenda Betty
May Steel
x Vanda Kasem's Delight Blue hybrid. I purchased this back in Mar from an orchid show and it came with droopy blooms. Well this is the first RE-BLOOM of this hybrid and no droopy blooms this time. Today it opened its final bud and what a show it has put on. The most distinguishing thing about this orchid is the almost florescent pink lip.Pic1 7/2/08Pic2 7/7/08P Read more:First
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Washingtonia filifera , California Fan Palm 2008-07-22 01:06:00 The Washingtonia filifera , or California
Fan Palm can be distinguished by the thicker, nearly always straight trunk, the crown is also larger and relatively sparser than its very close rwlative the Washingtonia robusta, or Mexican Fan Palm. The leaves a more sea green, as opposed to the deep green of the Mexican fan palm. The petioles are always green--no red or brown in the petioles as there al
New Orchid Idenified... Doritis pulcherrima var. chumporensis 2008-07-21 23:57:00 Thanks to peterlin over at Big Leaf Orchids He is truly a master of the big leaf chids' He nailed it for me! This is a Doritis pulcherrima var. chumporensis , not a phal like I originally thought. Thanks for everyones input!Come Watch my Plants Grow
Help w/ Orchid ID.. Update.. Doritis pulcherrima var. chumporensis 2008-07-21 01:51:00 Over the weekend I found a few pretty sweet deals. One of the finds was this Phalaenopsis orchid with a mini bright yellow and white flower. I am not sure the name of this one, but if you do please fill me in. Here are the pictures of the orchid.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Variegated Sea Grape 'Albo-variegata', Coccoloba uvifera Found! 2008-07-16 23:21:00 After a long search and looking at hundreds of Sea Grape
s it has finally been located. The infamous Coccoloba uvifera 'Albo-variegata'. Over the weekend a friend invited Aaron and myself on a expedition on his property. After an hour of wondering around it was almost like a glow was coming off of this tree ahead of us. And to our amazement there it was in all its glory. My friend told us that we c
The Little Purple Vanda 2008-07-16 00:21:00 This little purple guy parents are {Ascocenda Aroonroj x Vanda coerulescens} x {Vanda Tessellata x Vanda Mimi Palmer} . Vanda Mini Palmer is a cross of Vanda tessellata and Vanda Tan Chay Yan, so someone crossed it back to Vanda tessellata to strengthen its characteristics. I purchased this back on March 10 here is the link to that post. It had 2 spikes and I wound up with 3 flowers on 1 and 4 flo Read more:Purple
Banana and Canna Lily Pictures! 2008-07-15 22:15:00 Over the weekend, Anna the Banana Lady invited me to her house to remove some banana's. When I turned the corner of her street it was quite evident which house was hers. She must have over 100 banana trees. Some were over 20ft tall some were barely 2ft tall. She had Misi Luki's, Praying Hands, Goldfingers, and Apple just to name a few. She wants to give me as many as I will take. My yard is going Read more:Pictures
A Sneak Peek at Treasured Waters - The Indian River Lagoon 2008-07-10 23:43:00 This is a sneak peek at Treasured Waters
- The Indian RiverLagoon
a book that will be available on July 17. Florida landscape artist Rick Kelly, and author and ecologist Camille S. Yates teamed up to produce an exquisite book that takes you on a journey down the Indian River Lagoon and surrounding waterways. Kelly created over 75 paintings of different scenes along the Lagoon starting at the nort
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