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lorax
01-30-2009, 11:19 AM
OK, folks! I'm looking for photos of your gardens, showing your bananas in their full splendour - they'll go into the magazine on the last page, sort of a "last look" kind of thing. I'll take the first four photos submitted, and hold the rest in reserve for future issues of the magazine.
Thanks a zillion!
Beth
tophersmith
01-30-2009, 12:11 PM
You can take any of the Photos from my albums 08 season is the best
Randy4ut
01-30-2009, 12:59 PM
Lorax,
As I said earlier in the previous post, you are more than welcome to any of my pics in my photobucket account...
Pictures by randy4ut - Photobucket (http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n225/randy4ut/)
Here is one of my personal favorites from last summer.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n225/randy4ut/2008%20Backyard/100_2855.jpg
BTW, ever thought about some later issues with before and afters? Like spring and then same shot taken last summer?
mskitty38583
01-30-2009, 01:09 PM
this is my fav from last year...tall grass and all. it made me feel as if i were in the jungle.:ha:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=13130&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=13130)
mskitty38583
01-30-2009, 01:09 PM
Lorax,
As I said earlier in the previous post, you are more than welcome to any of my pics in my photobucket account...
Pictures by randy4ut - Photobucket (http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n225/randy4ut/)
Here is one of my personal favorites from last summer.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n225/randy4ut/2008%20Backyard/100_2855.jpg
BTW, ever thought about some later issues with before and afters? Like spring and then same shot taken last summer?
randy i love this pic!!!!!!!!
momoese
01-30-2009, 01:19 PM
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m161/momoese/face_jungle.jpg
lorax
01-30-2009, 02:18 PM
BTW, ever thought about some later issues with before and afters? Like spring and then same shot taken last summer?
What a great idea, Randy! Living where I do, I often forget that you all have winter and that nastiness. And BTW - love the purple manioc.
jack hagenaars
01-30-2009, 03:18 PM
nice pic momoese!
Patty in Wisc
01-30-2009, 03:20 PM
Purple manioc? I thought that was caster bean (?)
Your yards are beautiful!!! Mine is nothing but SNOW.
Sam, love the EE in front. Think how nice it'll look when you're finished w/ the landscaping!
Good looking pup Mitchel, mine love their kiddy pools too. Had to get them each one the puppy lays in it in the heat and never wants to get out.
momoese
01-30-2009, 03:30 PM
Your yards are beautiful!!! Mine is nothing but SNOW.
The picture with my dog is from 2 summers ago before things went Jurassic on me! My yard looks a bit overgrown and messy at the moment. I have Heliconias that are 10 feet tall and gingers that are just out of control! Everything is getting crowded and fighting for sunlight. I'll have my work cut out for me this spring.
momoese
01-30-2009, 03:43 PM
Thanks Jack and Bob. Here is our other dog. She likes a kiddie pool also but only in the heat of summer after the working sheep. I have to coax her into the pool here at the house no matter how hot it is.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m161/momoese/wave.jpg
Patty in Wisc
01-30-2009, 04:03 PM
Mitchel, it looks Jurassic in the picture - I LOVE it! Beautiful!! Dogs are cool too.
Randy4ut
01-30-2009, 05:08 PM
What a great idea, Randy! Living where I do, I often forget that you all have winter and that nastiness. And BTW - love the purple manioc.
Yeah, the change in the weather sure makes a place look different!!! You ought to see how it starts out each spring!!! BTW, the purple plant is actually a purple variety of the good ole' castor bean...
Randy4ut
01-30-2009, 05:15 PM
Lorax, here is what the same bed looked like in April of the same year when everything was just fixing to break dormancy and before the annuals were added (of course this is the same bed, just different angle):
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n225/randy4ut/2008%20Backyard/img_0502.jpg
tophersmith
01-30-2009, 07:54 PM
You can take any of the Photos from my albums 08 season is the best
Here is what I go thru here from winter to spring to Spetember
saltydad
01-30-2009, 11:04 PM
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/2807233756_ef63c150fd.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2916347078_002408d236_m.jpg
tarheeldiver
01-31-2009, 09:20 PM
Wish mine still looked like this, can't wait till spring
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15529&ppuser=1276><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=15529&size=1 border=0></a>
Patty in Wisc
02-01-2009, 09:45 AM
Very tropical Howard. Is that citrus in background?
Greg, what do you do with them in winter? You get snow ther....do you wrap them?
All great pics!!!
saltydad
02-01-2009, 03:12 PM
Patty-
Thanks for the kind words. The far background is made up of azaleas, dogwoods, tulip poplars and grasses. The mid ground has palms (T. fortunei), bananas (sikkim, Siam Ruby and lasiocarpus), ee's, amorphophallus konjac, ruellia, lantanas ,iris, dianthus, cannas, caladiums, scotch broom all around my pond. Unfortunately no citrus here in z7.
tarheeldiver
02-01-2009, 07:34 PM
Very tropical Howard. Is that citrus in background?
Greg, what do you do with them in winter? You get snow ther....do you wrap them?
All great pics!!!
Thanks Patty I dig them each fall and put them in my crawl space they look rough each spring but after a month or so they take off. The smaller ones I pot up and put in a small basement where they get partial light. I have more
varieties this year so I'm anxious to see how the different varieties overwinter.
I left one orinoco bunch out wrapped in insulation just to see how it does. It's been really cold for us this year so we'll see how they do.
Oh yeah Randy you are my hero that looks great I got to get some palms this year!!!
Greg
Randy4ut
02-01-2009, 09:18 PM
Thanks Patty I dig them each fall and put them in my crawl space they look rough each spring but after a month or so they take off. The smaller ones I pot up and put in a small basement where they get partial light. I have more
varieties this year so I'm anxious to see how the different varieties overwinter.
I left one orinoco bunch out wrapped in insulation just to see how it does. It's been really cold for us this year so we'll see how they do.
Oh yeah Randy you are my hero that looks great I got to get some palms this year!!!
Greg
Greg,
I definitely know who to recommend for you to get your palms when you are ready... Just email me and I will "hook" you up!!!
D_&_T
06-19-2009, 12:33 AM
We have some updated photos if looking for more!
Rmplmnz
06-19-2009, 07:23 AM
Here is what I go thru here from winter to spring to September
These pics are amazing....is this a side yard..path?
mskitty38583
06-19-2009, 08:28 AM
2009 basjoos, lambs ears, solomons seal, and a pale pink lily. hostas called "fried bananas", and some cannas i grew from seed from tophersmith, and of course branches from my american green willow tree
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18476&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18476&ppuser=1341)http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18473&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18473&ppuser=1341)http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18475&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18475&ppuser=1341)
conejov
06-19-2009, 11:55 AM
Great Pics guys I cant wait till mine finally really start growing.
Vickie H.
06-19-2009, 11:03 PM
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/PHPong/100_2909.jpg
Lagniappe
06-19-2009, 11:08 PM
That's too cool, Vickie!
scottdurand
06-20-2009, 04:36 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=17402 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=17160)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18534 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18489&ppuser=3544)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18535 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18534&ppuser=3544)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18536 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18535&ppuser=3544)
kaczercat
06-20-2009, 08:21 AM
sweet pictures , Oh what a great summer it's going to be for everyone:D. I have a quick question for anyone who might know or has any idea to this . I live in southern Ont Canada and im flying out to Vancouver to see my grandma and i was wondering what kind of bananas might be out there in nurseries. Imma check when i go anyway . okay thnx im got to get my dc (digital camera ) out and start takin some pics too .
damaclese
06-20-2009, 09:54 AM
heres the most recent pictures takem or Leavem
Dwarf Williams in pot Las Vegas NV
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18094&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18094&ppuser=2612)
Dwarf Brazilian east side tropical bed (back ground Amaranths and Blue Java)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18100&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18100)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18101&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18101)
Hy Brazilian
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18109&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18109&ppuser=2612)
Ensete Ventricosum Maurellii (it really is a Maurellii just a bit sun deprived)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18096&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18096&ppuser=2612)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18095&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18095&ppuser=2612)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=17031&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=17031&ppuser=2612)
More later i loaned my camera out
harveyc
06-20-2009, 10:30 AM
Hey, Pauly, you said takem so I'd like to take your Hy Brazilian! :ha: Worth a shot! LOL Any signs of pups yet? Looks nice!
Harv
damaclese
06-20-2009, 10:43 AM
Hey, Pauly, you said takem so I'd like to take your Hy Brazilian! :ha: Worth a shot! LOL Any signs of pups yet? Looks nice!
Harv
Dude its only 5 months old probly not untill nexst year its barly 15" high
Lagniappe
06-20-2009, 10:44 AM
Dang, Pauly, that maurelii is real dark. I like it.
harveyc
06-20-2009, 10:53 AM
Dude its only 5 months old probly not untill nexst year its barly 15" high
Hey, pal (aka dude), some of my tissue culture plants that are only 6" high have a tiny pup! I've had several plants end up with pups by 15", but not most. Looks like it's holding up to your weather well!
Thanks,
Harv
The Hollyberry Lady
06-21-2009, 12:59 PM
To think I was excited to be looking at this...
http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/DSCI0432.jpg
Hahahaha! LoL! My very first pup. Just thought it was good for a laugh, given the absolutely gorgeous and impressive pictures in this thread. Wow! I am still drooling.
: )
Nice HBL, I knew it wouldn't be long!!!
The Hollyberry Lady
06-21-2009, 01:33 PM
http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/1154-4.gif
Thanks Bob!
Someone from another forum sent me a couple pups a few days ago, and that is one of them. I believe they are called 'musa basjoo'. I am planning to put them outside when they get going.
Still didn't get Tog's seeds yet, but likely will next week. I am gonna grow some of his varieties also. I hope to become real good at growing them, also.
I am already totally addicted!
: )
tikifarmer
06-22-2009, 08:16 AM
A few current pics from my backyard ...
musa basjoo overwintered in the ground with leaf filled garbage bag protection ...
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q111/mechaneer/P1010402.jpg
Orinocos behind fence overwintered bareroot in the basement just starting to leaf out ...
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q111/mechaneer/P1010399.jpg
More musa basjoo (fence is 6 ft. for scale) ...
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q111/mechaneer/P1010419.jpg
ensete maurelli overwintered bareroot in basement ...
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q111/mechaneer/P1010397.jpg
mskitty38583
06-22-2009, 10:16 AM
tikifarmer.....everytime i see pics of your yard i get this craving for a margaritta...."you mix the lime and the coconut and shake it all up......i said dr. what can i take to relieve this belly ach i said dr....ooooo oo...."
Thanks for the update . Your end of season photo's were some of the first I saw when I initially joined here and have been an inspiration..... probably too inspirational.:ha::ha::ha:
Are those white leaved Iris? Do they flower for you?
tikifarmer
06-22-2009, 12:45 PM
Hey Bob,
The irises are variegated , kind of pale green with a white stripe , they have already flowered around the beginning of June . It is a medium/dark purple flower ...
I am glad I could help with your tropicality . There are many on here (and other forums) , that I have gotten a ton of ideas from , so I am happy I was able to give something back .
Vickie H.
06-22-2009, 12:52 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18602&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18602&ppuser=5015)
Vickie H.
06-22-2009, 12:54 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18597&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18597&limit=recent)
The Hollyberry Lady
06-22-2009, 02:48 PM
Oh boy, that water banana is so cool! I didn't know there was such a thing! I grow water plants too - nelumbo.
I also wanted to say thanks Tikifarmer, for showing your musa basjoo! What an attractive plant - didn't realize! Great to know what my pup will look like....hopefully!
; )
Vickie H.
06-22-2009, 05:29 PM
Yes I bought the water banana in the summer of 2007. I wintered it over since then in my basement in water. It is Dwarf Cavendish. I am experimenting this year taking a small banana and putting it in water. Only starting with 1 inch of water the pot is setting in. And slowly raising the water level. That is how you do a canna to get it used to being in water. I am so excited it has 2 pups coming up.
The Hollyberry Lady
06-22-2009, 06:00 PM
I am confused - I thought dwarf cavendish was a land plant? Yours is a type that grows it's entire life in water?!!!
: O
Please explain - as I am new...
lorax
06-22-2009, 07:46 PM
Hollyberry, we had a spirited discussion of that exact topic in the Bananas as Waterplants? thread.
http://www.bananas.org/f2/bananas-waterplants-4530.html
The Hollyberry Lady
06-22-2009, 08:14 PM
Thank you, Lorax.
Oh, I see, 'as water plants' - not that it actually is a waterplant. How interesting!
I will go find that thread now...
: )
The Hollyberry Lady
06-22-2009, 09:02 PM
I read the thread, Lorax - it was so interesting and funny in parts, too! Thanks for the link. So much great information.
Your plant seems to be looking pretty healthy Vickie H - even though a lot of people were talking about rot, in that thread I just read. I love experiments though, and hope it turns out well for you. Thanks for your lovely pictures.
Tikifarmer, again, those shots are just stunning! I am blown away!
: O
Being new to banana growing, I am so amazed when I see photos of them. I have never seen anything so beautiful in all of my life, as these gorgeous banana plants. Wow!
I sure hope I will have some beautiful plants someday too, like you guys do, to post here as well...
Randy4ut - all I can say is, OMG!!! Stunningly gorgeous!
; )
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