Hi all, I must say I've had the priviledge of seeing Jim's garden in person, and it really IS perfection. Can't imagine what he thought of my messy wild jungle when he visited me! We even discovered that we are growing the same variety of mango!
A start of Thunbergia battiscombei waiting on its place - to cover a water oak stump that insists upon putting up suckers 4 years after being cut down. I'm hacking out big fat roots with a Sawzall to make a hole for the plant.
Synandrospadix Vermitoxicus aka the "Worm Killer" not because it kills earthworms . . . indigenous people named it because they used it medicinally for, y'know, intestinal worms.
Yellow Knockout roses are great right now, but the Sri Lanka weevils really like to munch them through the summer. I usually pick them just as they're opening so the blooms don't go over quite so fast.
Cannas are champions for blooming and re-blooming down here. They take any amount of sun and water and just keep on going. This is a dwarf yellow with pink spots that I really like.
And this one was supposed to be the variegated 'Stuttgart' but never developed the beautiful leaf variegations. Oh well, it's a tall, graceful plant with delicate blooms in a nice color, who an i to complain?
Last one, Passiflora quadrangularis aka Giant Granadilla. Flower is 3 times the size of my other fruiting Passi's and it's supposed to make a fruit the size of a football. We shall see
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