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Nate74
07-08-2015, 11:30 PM
I am going to use this thread as a bit of a journal for 2015. A little late starting but oh well.
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/3C34380F-2B6B-4E7B-95B4-D2F10E75F3F7.jpg
The first lily to bloom this year.
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/26637C7C-106B-408B-9442-56D072D44139_1.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/3753384E-5C4B-4BDF-AB6E-8B712828B161.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/A47594CD-23F1-424E-8484-EF3AE872DF86.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/D9C0949E-10E7-4E4C-A766-74D64D4D2A16.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/9EE15F6C-F8CA-4031-895C-7B4158A6E43E.jpg
Alocasia 'Calidora'
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/05ADC6D4-3E79-480D-9A40-BD6223771429.jpg
Alocasia 'Portora' I thought I had killed this off over the winter but it seems to be making a slow recovery
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/0B3CB88A-41D2-4324-BEF9-0581AFF394F3.jpg
Trachycarpus 'Fortunei'
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/6240B587-5013-4D6E-BFB0-0B8B0616BEF0.jpg
And my favorite place to sit
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/D4BC9245-F322-45E6-AA0E-6B0915005497.jpg

Thanks for looking, I hope to see some pics of everybody's gardens.

crazy banana
07-08-2015, 11:56 PM
Beautiful!

cincinnana
07-09-2015, 06:46 AM
Wow,nice.
The maurelii are coming along real well.:08:

I really like the rock feature.
You are going to need to change your thread title to Around my Jungle:)

Longwoods Tropicals
07-09-2015, 08:33 AM
Looks like you're really rocking it this year.

I hope you guys get some rain soon, we have no shortage out here this year.

siege2050
07-09-2015, 03:58 PM
Looks like you're really rocking it this year.

I hope you guys get some rain soon, we have no shortage out here this year.

Same here, we have had 4 feet of rain in the last 90 days, that's crazy for Oklahoma lol, its pouring rain as I type this out.

Nate74
07-09-2015, 04:09 PM
Same here, we have had 4 feet of rain in the last 90 days, that's crazy for Oklahoma lol, its pouring rain as I type this out.

I think we have had 2 1/2" since April. We desperately need some rain.

Snarkie
07-15-2015, 07:51 AM
Somebody's messing around with HAARP again, I'm sure. If it's not us, it's the Russians or the Chinese. :2723:

Nate74
07-15-2015, 06:56 PM
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/97BC465F-A008-4D02-97C4-0B3AA3E34107.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/F48418A6-AF4E-4736-8F9D-C08B20DF183D_1.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/1064B6DD-2A99-42C4-AA72-BCDBCB646012.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/7BA34A99-A7CD-4EAB-B011-80B79BD2E095_1.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/6DE61E70-AFC8-4D4D-91BC-0F69BB2456AC.jpg

Hammocked Banana
07-16-2015, 04:38 PM
Wow your yard looks killer for July! Hope mine looks half as good by the end of the season .

J B
07-20-2015, 06:41 AM
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/97BC465F-A008-4D02-97C4-0B3AA3E34107.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/F48418A6-AF4E-4736-8F9D-C08B20DF183D_1.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/1064B6DD-2A99-42C4-AA72-BCDBCB646012.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/7BA34A99-A7CD-4EAB-B011-80B79BD2E095_1.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/6DE61E70-AFC8-4D4D-91BC-0F69BB2456AC.jpg


Beautiful job!!!

Nate74
07-30-2015, 05:50 PM
the first blooms from my canna
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/09122396-6ce2-419d-88da-fa1c45f88eb3.jpg

Kevin2685
07-30-2015, 08:12 PM
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/97BC465F-A008-4D02-97C4-0B3AA3E34107.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/F48418A6-AF4E-4736-8F9D-C08B20DF183D_1.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/1064B6DD-2A99-42C4-AA72-BCDBCB646012.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/7BA34A99-A7CD-4EAB-B011-80B79BD2E095_1.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/6DE61E70-AFC8-4D4D-91BC-0F69BB2456AC.jpg


What's the flowers in the first picture they are really cool

Nate74
07-30-2015, 08:23 PM
What's the flowers in the first picture they are really cool

They are Mexican Shell flowers 'Tigridia'. This is the first year I have planted them.
Pros beautiful flowers and palm like foliage. Supposed to be hardy for my zone.
Cons blooms only last one day.
I found a bag of the bulbs at Costco in the spring and decided that for $8 for 50 I would give them a try.

Kevin2685
07-30-2015, 08:33 PM
Yeah well worth 8 dollars.
Thanks
Is the big windmill palm in the ground by the red flowers?

Nate74
07-30-2015, 08:43 PM
Yeah well worth 8 dollars.
Thanks
Is the big windmill palm in the ground by the red flowers?

Yes it is, been in the ground for 10 years now started as a one gallon discount plant from Home Depot. Its really not that big 30" or so of trunk and 5'- 6" overall but it s coming. It has put on about 6" of trunk this year and has pushed nine new fronds, last year it only had two and no real growth in the trunk.

Nate74
07-30-2015, 08:55 PM
update on the front
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/DA33DF59-BECD-435F-9CA3-8FFDF340C811.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/19FF52F1-E5BE-4ADF-A0D1-0E6D02ED5046.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/DA2C474D-625E-461C-9057-A8043C585B16.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/E9013F50-6398-468B-9C5B-A47851F2F304.jpg

and a few of the back.
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/CB252D0F-550E-44A3-BB3A-A3D85BEBECFB.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/55F980A7-8082-4CED-8D13-37BEE35E9F65.jpg

My Brugmansia finally has some buds hope to see some flowers soon
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/3AA05B82-EF17-4521-80AD-08BD0457BE5E.jpg

and one of my raised bed vegetable garden
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/090032F7-8673-4B68-902B-6E14422C7C92.jpg

Kevin2685
07-30-2015, 09:11 PM
Very nice job it is all so beautiful.
Yeah I love my brugmansia I just started growing them this year now I have 4 different plants :)
They look close to opening I say about 5 - 7 days

Nate74
07-31-2015, 12:22 PM
Very nice job it is all so beautiful.
Yeah I love my brugmansia I just started growing them this year now I have 4 different plants :)
They look close to opening I say about 5 - 7 days

This is my first year with as well, I started with three varieties. Two have buds forming and the other was covered in some sort of mess when I came home from a weekend away. It looked like a really dense spider web but what ever it was had made a meal out of the leaves. I had to strip all the leaves off of that one and it seems to be recovering but I am sure it has been set back quite a bit compared to the other two.

Kevin2685
07-31-2015, 01:25 PM
Yeah everything loves to eat brugmansia. Go out there at night and look under the leaves.
When I first got mine something was chewing the leaves up never found a caterpillar but I did catch 2 small slugs and used to see white flys and stink bugs. I usually leave what ever little spiders I see on there hoping they will help me with the battle. If you haven't ever smelled a brug before they are quite wonderful. I wished they smelled during the day also. You could use a systemic on it but i try to avoid it because it has the chance to hurt honey bees.

Nate74
08-12-2015, 10:26 AM
So my brugmansia has bloomed this one is "Autumn Treasure"
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/8ED670E0-9A11-4FA9-90F4-2D116ABB5647.jpg
And this one is "Super Nova"
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/1971ED8F-C92A-4F02-BA6F-021EF5B0FB2A.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/D51C78AF-17C2-4CD8-8D8D-8D0F0B209A25.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/A0EC8B00-BECC-491D-837C-D74C95C1B0B4.jpg

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/6A0CE405-2721-471D-A24C-6EDF8199A7D3.jpg
And what I see looking out my front door in the morning.
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/09FC8339-3C42-46AD-9D70-8B697BFF19CC.jpg

Nate74
08-16-2015, 12:35 PM
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/C317390F-AEBC-4732-BA1E-C094BF65F1DE.jpg

J B
08-16-2015, 12:55 PM
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/C317390F-AEBC-4732-BA1E-C094BF65F1DE.jpg


Thanks for sharing the fantastic snap shot of your yard :08:.

Hammocked Banana
08-16-2015, 02:16 PM
Your place looks great. Do u dig your maureiis up in the winter or do they stay in the ground?

Nate74
08-16-2015, 02:53 PM
I dig them out, I don't think they would make it through the winter in the ground our winters are just too wet.

chris_zx2
09-03-2015, 10:38 PM
You must get a lot of people stop and look! Simply stunning! I need to move somewhere warmer!

Nate74
12-10-2015, 07:02 PM
I didn't get too many pics after August. September was way too busy and the heat finally caught up with me. Here is the biggest of the maurelli moving into the garage for the winter.
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/B7DD9889-1EB0-4520-AD0E-A0B2D04DAD22.jpg

Kat2
12-10-2015, 08:58 PM
I didn't get too many pics after August. September was way too busy and the heat finally caught up with me. Here is the biggest of the maurelli moving into the garage for the winter.
WOW! That's quite a load on that little barrow!

cincinnana
12-12-2015, 07:38 PM
I didn't get too many pics after August. September was way too busy and the heat finally caught up with me. Here is the biggest of the maurelli moving into the garage for the winter.
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Garden%202015/B7DD9889-1EB0-4520-AD0E-A0B2D04DAD22.jpg

Wow...just wow...



That is just awesome.

Hammocked Banana
12-13-2015, 05:07 PM
Wow that's got some size to it!!

cincinnana
03-05-2016, 08:08 PM
Stumbled on this . again..........I am still stumbling on the size of this plant..

JP
03-05-2016, 09:28 PM
That thing is huge! I'm impressed!

cincinnana
03-05-2016, 09:36 PM
That thing is huge! I'm impressed!



That is a historic pic .......

JP
03-05-2016, 11:46 PM
Lol! For sure! Talk about commitment to get this thing out of the soil!

Nate74
03-06-2016, 02:10 AM
It's still going strong on the garage, I am not too sure what I am going to do next fall.