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Old 07-08-2015, 11:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I am going to use this thread as a bit of a journal for 2015. A little late starting but oh well.

The first lily to bloom this year.









Alocasia 'Calidora'

Alocasia 'Portora' I thought I had killed this off over the winter but it seems to be making a slow recovery

Trachycarpus 'Fortunei'

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Old 07-08-2015, 11:56 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Wow,nice.
The maurelii are coming along real well.

I really like the rock feature.
You are going to need to change your thread title to Around my Jungle
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Somebody's messing around with HAARP again, I'm sure. If it's not us, it's the Russians or the Chinese.
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Wow your yard looks killer for July! Hope mine looks half as good by the end of the season .
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the first blooms from my canna
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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.
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Yeah well worth 8 dollars.
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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.
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update on the front








and a few of the back.




My Brugmansia finally has some buds hope to see some flowers soon


and one of my raised bed vegetable garden
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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
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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.
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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.
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So my brugmansia has bloomed this one is "Autumn Treasure"

And this one is "Super Nova"







And what I see looking out my front door in the morning.
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