More anthuriums from seed

Looks like success, Tiff and Gina! Tiff, I always had trouble with begonias rooting. I have done the leaves in vermiculite inside plastic clamshells. But they never make the transition to open air. (Also with African Violets and peperomias). I haven't had good success with pieces of begonia rhizome unless I put it in the ground outside. And then I have trouble with it when I lift it in the fall.

Someone threw a handful of peanuts in my garden either this spring or last fall.
Evidently they weren't roasted. I picked up most of them, but here is one that I missed.
How's this for propagation?

Cool! That's nuts!

My Madagascar Periwinkle seedlings are really liking their new home along my rear driveway. Not full sun setting, but enough to keep them happy I believe. I hope it's enough for blooming. Need some color back there on the driveway. If not enough, I'll have to plant them in-ground out front:

Wow.

i am going to try propagating some ZZ plants

I pulled up some weeds around my lantana patch at the cabin today and accidentally got a chunk of the lantana in my hand. So I'm going to root the cuttings and see what happens. Found on-line instructions and will try rooting both the hardwood cutting and several of the softer wood cuttings. Want some of this brilliant golden lantana here in my city yard. Fingers crossed it works.

That patch at the cabin is so healthy I'd like to get some of this strain here in the city. It's a huge patch and even tries to climb over and through the chain-link fence behind it! And it came back after our awful freeze, too, even the smaller patch in front of the cabin. It's a survivor, is all I can say, if it made it through 7" snow, covered with 2" fine blanketed ice and 2º-12º for a solid week.

I have a friend who overwinters Lantana in Zone 7, 1/2 hour from Philadelphia. He does throw on a thick leaf cover, but they look great. I only have a photo of one of them. He does like to push the zones.

Pretty soon he won't need to cover them. When I started growing things here in Pinellas county Florida we were zone 9. Now we're re zone 10A pushing 10B. I have baobabs that overwinter here just sitting in pots on the ground. I can't remember the last freeze we had but there was a bad one in '86 and another in '87 that finished off a 20' tall pachypodium in my yard and knocked off all the royal palms north of Sarasota. Haven't had anything like that since.

Carissa macrocarpa. Common name natal plumb. It has everything that a gardener could hope for except cold tolerance. It grows fast, is amenable to pruning, has thick glossy green leaves, thorns (my personal favorite), pretty white fragrant flowers and attractive bright red edible fruit!
Gasteria leaf cutting sprouts

Sansevieria cylindrica var patula seedlings in a 2" pot. Need to be repotted.

Adenium obesum. A double petaled red.

Hoya pubicalyx. About a hundred feet coiled into a 15 gallon pot waiting for me to cut them up and root them.

Araucaria columnaris
Every year the two large female Cook pines (most people think they are Norfolk Island pines, a different species) across the street drop seeds in July.
The street littered with seeds

Every year I plant about 50 seeds but they are never viable. This year five seeds germinated. That's only 10% but it's a start. It means that somewhere nearby a male tree has reached maturity and wind born pollen found a home.



So I collected a box load. Because who doesn't need a hundred pine seedlings?

Hippeastrum puniceum. Two of these have already bloomed, need to get them potted up.

Agave (Manfreda) maculosa.

Adenium obesum. Triple petaled white

Selenicereus (hylocereus) megalanthus. The yellow dragon fruit. Seed from a fruit I bought in the grocery

Wildbloomers said:Araucaria columnar is
Every year the two large female Cook pines (most people think they are Norfolk Island pines, a different species) drop seeds in July.
The street littered with seeds

Every year I plant about 50 seeds but they are never viable. This year five seeds germinated. That's only 10% but it's a start. It means that somewhere nearby a male tree has reached maturity and wind born pollen found a home.



So I collected a box load. Because who doesn't need a hundred pine seedlings?

You could sell them in 2 inche plugs!

Wodyetia bifurcata. Well, a neighbor's lawn man cut off a fruiting spike of a Foxtail palm. Now I have over a hundred seedlings in gallon pots.

Kalanchoe orgyalis. Leaf propagation.

Sansevieria pearsonii (deserti) seedlings

Euphorbia arbuscula tip cuttings. This plant resembles tirucalli but is much more robust with thicker and more numerous stem segments as well as different color flowers.

So great! It feels so good to know there are others.

Who has for all of these plants, or you just cross that bridge when you run out of room?

@purpleiopp It's apparent that an intervention is necessary. Fortunately I have, in the past, used plant society sales as a way to reduce the quantity. Just had the first sale in over a year. The next is Labor Day weekend unless we keep going backwards with this COVID variant. I keep propagating things just to see if I can.

Wow, so much SPACE!

Impressive, everyone, but a special shout out to Wildbloomers!
I haven't even started the perennial seeds I wanted to do, including the native dwarf baptisia that produced a lot of beautiful seed pods for the first time.
I don't know if this qualifies, but here's my okra, which was germinated from seeds at least 10 years old; it may be older than that. I soaked 10 seeds in almost boiling hot water for at least 30 hours before planting, and ended up with 6 seedlings. I'm growing it basically to continue the production of viable seed, because it's an heirloom. I've read somewhere it may be 100 years old, so I think it's worthy of preservation. Called Alabama red, it bears short fat, ribbed pods. The stalks are a lovely burgundy, and the blooms have a burgundy eye. Pics of the plant and small bloom buds. I'd anyone has any more info about this okra, I would appreciate anything you could tell me!

@gardenfish. Great job on the 10 year old seeds! I have only grown the standard green but the stems on your plant are so colorful I'll switch to that variety next year. One important thing is to harvest the pods that you intend to eat before they get too too big. They get tough and stringy if you wait too long. On the one that I grow 4" is about the right length. Anything over 6" (on mine) are inedible. The pods grow fast so you need to check them daily. They keep well in the fridge so you can pick a couple at a time until you have enough to use. Okra is the fourth most productive vegetable in my garden.

New crop of anthurium berries....seeds just started to pop out this morning for harvesting. Mother (ovule) plant Anthurium besseae x magnificum. Father (pollen donor) take your pick, this is polygamy LOL A. warocqueanum, A. Papillilaminum, A. Ace of Spades
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