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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on August 16, 2024, 12:17 am The FLAMINGO FLOWER, Anthurium andraeanum, blooms nearly year'round. It is a neat tropical plant, that is related to other "spathe and spadix" flowered ARUMS, like elephant ears... https://photos.app.goo.gl/uwHPgjg7dYFVg1ns7 Here is 'Fudingzhu' putting on its summer show. Anybody know what type plant Fudingzhu is? https://photos.app.goo.gl/sn9AsX3krjHn5JFz7 https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMDqpopTg-dwOkyrmPIhh3YSsiV64wnvm5AewL_wUp4XsF44mSxfDNetwSwOx0b8g?key=QmItVVRfWlhYd1M4eFBHcmZhU3NEc0lDOHhrZkdB The CHINESE DATES, Zizyphus jujuba, are developing. This has to be one of the latest blooming fruit trees. It still has blooms on it, even as fruits are forming. These ripen in mid-October... https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9KD5xRJN4GcrWxW6 Anybody not know what a firefly looks like, up close? During the day, they are pretty inactive. They are only about a half inch long. On a summer night, they can dot up the air... https://photos.app.goo.gl/JTHabcB5PitHHeq5A Another UPRIGHT PHLOX, Phlox paniculata, is blooming in my garden. This one is a lavender or light purple. It's cultivar is 'Cover Girl'... https://photos.app.goo.gl/pAGxDHLPugadoSJw8 The TUBEROUS BEGONIAS are starting their show! The corms are dried-off, each fall, in their baskets, and forgotten over the winter months, only for them to "give their sign", in spring, when ready to begin a new season of growth. No need to buy these every year... https://photos.app.goo.gl/pmkiAu2UYNEGV7VJ6 AHHH, it's the time of year that my favorite HOSTA blooms. This is an heirloom form of Hosta, dating back to the late 1800s. The blooms are large, pure white, and unlike most Hostas, are SUPER FRAGRANT...Perfumes my driveway. If anyone is curious, the species is, Hosta plantaginea... https://photos.app.goo.gl/iaB1zsjucPDW8SNg8 - NEW PLANTS - Here is a seedless Taiwanese Guava plant, I got from an Etsy vendor, in California. The plant stands about 4 ft tall, right now. This is another tropical fruit, that is known to fruit in a large pot. Logee's also sells fruiting tropical guava plants, and Byron Martin even has online videos, of fruiting plants in their greenhouse... https://photos.app.goo.gl/2cyEnpvCnBRgGDsR8 Here is a new baby JOSHUA TREE, Yucca brevifolia, plant I got... https://photos.app.goo.gl/kRQ1A7fzsBxKRXJm6

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on August 16, 2024, 10:14 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, your tea olive is blooming. Tuberous begonias was my late west favorite flower. Her favorite was the orange one., we always grew one of our back steps in a hollow Palmetto that I picked up in South Carolina. That flamingo flower is really really pretty interesting tropical. How hard is that Taiwanese guava? . I grew a guava over in Greer and the blooms are absolutely beautiful deep hot orange. I tasted juju years ago off of a juju bush up in Kentucky, and as I remember, he didn’t know how much taste? Anyway, thanks For showing us all your interesting plans , always Something new.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Kevin seTN on August 16, 2024, 10:50 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" That's pretty cool about those hostas. So the blooms stay low on the plant and not spiky. Cool. The fud...is an osmanthus, I just planted one this spring. Love the fragrance. Kevin seTN

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on August 16, 2024, 10:38 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Fred. Yep, Fudingzhu is a cultivar of tea olive. What makes this cultivar different, is that it will bloom in all 4 seasons of the year. Oddly, though, my in-ground plant, of this cultivar only blooms in fall, and briefly in mid-spring. The Flamingo Flower, although native to the tropical Americas, it has become a symbol of Hawaii. This guava is a pink-fleshed variety. The blooms are expected to be white.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on August 16, 2024, 10:41 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Kev. Another characteristic I like about H. plantaginea, are the leaves. They are larger than those on many Hostas. Yep, you have Fudingzhu nabbed correctly. Your plant could bloom, this fall.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Kevin seTN on August 18, 2024, 12:58 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Actually it already has bloomed and the fragrance is amazing! Here's a video I did earlier this year https://youtube.com/shorts/biXBSItD2Ag?feature=shared Kevin seTN

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