Do they need to be pot bound??? that is a beautiful bloom. love the intense colors...

I have 4 plants, all in the ground with lots of sun.

Jim

Ok, when I expressed interest in tropicals I meant I have a few I overwinter (and love) in the midwest. Jim I'd call yours more of a tropical paradise destination. If my garden looked like that, I'd charge admission. Awesome!!!!

You and me both Susan. My little greenhouse gets blown apart in blizzards and bakes even with the shade cloth on in the summer. You must live in the southern tropical climates to have Jim's kind of plants.

Your BOP are beautiful Jim. I have a young White one. I will never live long enough to see it bloom

Thanks for the kind words but I can tell you it is a lot of work. I had some white birds but they got too big and multiplied too fast that I pulled them all out. They would work if you are looking for a 12 foot barrier or screen.

This is a variety of Allamanda called Cherries Jubilee. A frost will take it to the ground but it comes back in spades. It grows more like a vine than anything else and I have it on a trellis at the entrance to the rose garden.

Jim

Jim we can buy Allamanda here and it is vining but it never looks like yours or meets it's potential in our region. Well now I know what it's really suppose to look like I'm drooling all over my keyboard.

I knew I HAD to find out what the name of the gorgeous red flowering plant was that I saw in Mexico all over the resort last fall. I finally found out it was the Cherries Jubilee. And I saw that Logees had them so I bought 2. They are doing well, but probably won't flower till next year. And I'll have to put them in a pot with an obleisk or something for them to be contained.

Keep your fingers crossed for me. I am going to cut back and I mean really cut back my oldest Maid of Orleans Jasmine because she is not happy and I need to take cuttings before she dies if in fact she has that in mind. I usually wait until later in the summer to do this but the leaves are actually drying up faster than usual and she is in the GH and gets water, some sun and her iron. Something else is wrong and I think she is pot bound, but I honestly have nothing bigger to put her in than the muck bucket. I guess I need to google for some large and I mean large pots. Bigger than a muck bucket (with drain holes in of course).

AH...good to see an active Tropicals Forum.... been reading the posts....and soon will wander over to the specific forums. I weed 12 acres here on the 'wet' side of THE Big Island of Hawaii. Also a Master Gardener (but got wise to the fact that the Extension just wants to use MG Program to have eager little hands to landscape their grounds...they really are not doing much for the community)...I grow just about anything and everything...and will try most plants twice if they croak the first time.

Aloha....

Carol, Is that a Sea Onion Top? Love it....

Hi everyone! I opened the forum and thought I'd hit a wrong key. Looks like we have company! We may have to rearrange and house clean a bit. Glad you're here.

Char....it's a Fennel from my garden! My VERY first and the foliage was so lush....!!!!

The smell is heavenly too. I like it... thanks, girlfriend.....I have the bronze fennel I love the smell of it. I planted it for the insect larvae to feast on...butterfly caterpillars

Florida members now have a microbadge available. (the Profile icon is to the left of the mail icon) Go look around!

Dave writes:

Go to your Profile (the icon is on the top of the page. It looks like a little person).

Click on "Manage your microbadges". From there you can re-arrange your badges in a different order, and that order will be how they show up in the forums from now on.

No Frog, No Ga. Yet. I'm waiting.......

I think in time we will have little frog and butterfly badges ... and Georgia too!

Oh, Lynn, I know they are. I'm just being a brat!!!
That's what I love about this place. they make us feel so spoilt.
Don''t you all think so too???

Charleen, you could never be a brat ... and I'm impatient too, even more so as I get older than I was as a child!

I want it all ... I want it now!

Oh, they got a hummer!! How great is that???? Aw, Lin, you so sweet. Thanks but i bet my hubby might think I am...Well, sometimes..

I was looking at all your little chiggies up there with your tree and the permaculture one has me
wondering, which of the definitions of permaculture is Dave using for us to be able to put up the little icon.