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Olafhenny · 07-10-2012, 12:27 AM

This is how it looks today:

As you can see, I had to make a few changes. The Dracena Compacta in the SW (lower left)
corner had to be moved to a shadier location and was replaced by a Castor Bean (Ricinus communis)
'New Zealand Purple' and a mandevilla Also most of the tropical plants, which I bought locally and
which were sold for indoors had a tough time with the sun.

I also removed the large Sambucus 'Eva', which intruded on the planter in the original pictures.
It was simply getting too huge, fed with run-off from the compost, it was designated to screen
from view. It was a beautiful plant, but I could not control its growth. I had planted another
one at a different location at the same time and it behaves much more modestly.

You can see in this picture, that the cannas absolutely love the 27’ deep top soil and compost
combination, but the bananas are rather ‘cool’ toward it. Actually the “compost is of rather
poor quality, compared with mine, but I did not have enough so I bought it from the city recycling
plant.

In front of the now blooming yucca plant is a Rhizinus Carmencita (#11 in the below photo). Its
seed pods are bright red as opposed to the ‘New Zealand” which supposedly had purple pods. This
is my first time, so I am not sure. The seeds of both varieties are very different.

The SW corner of the planter in close-up.

07-10-2012, 12:27 AM	#20 (permalink)
Olafhenny Olafhenny's Photo Gallery Location: Penticton, BC, Okanagan Valley, Canada Find me on the map! Zone: Hardiness Zone 6 Name: Olaf Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,705 BananaBucks : 246,221 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 2,050 Times Was Thanked 2,012 Times in 876 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 77 Times	My "tropical" planter seven weeks later This is how it looks today: As you can see, I had to make a few changes. The Dracena Compacta in the SW (lower left) corner had to be moved to a shadier location and was replaced by a Castor Bean (Ricinus communis) 'New Zealand Purple' and a mandevilla Also most of the tropical plants, which I bought locally and which were sold for indoors had a tough time with the sun. I also removed the large Sambucus 'Eva', which intruded on the planter in the original pictures. It was simply getting too huge, fed with run-off from the compost, it was designated to screen from view. It was a beautiful plant, but I could not control its growth. I had planted another one at a different location at the same time and it behaves much more modestly. You can see in this picture, that the cannas absolutely love the 27’ deep top soil and compost combination, but the bananas are rather ‘cool’ toward it. Actually the “compost is of rather poor quality, compared with mine, but I did not have enough so I bought it from the city recycling plant. In front of the now blooming yucca plant is a Rhizinus Carmencita (#11 in the below photo). Its seed pods are bright red as opposed to the ‘New Zealand” which supposedly had purple pods. This is my first time, so I am not sure. The seeds of both varieties are very different. The SW corner of the planter in close-up. __________________ The reason I joined this forum was to share experiences, my own and those of others and to learn from them.