Author Topic: PONDING is almost over for me (Read 3265 times)

Vickie · « **Reply #1 on:** September 25, 2010, 06:22:21 PM »

Bananas and plants around my ponds

Vickie · « **Reply #2 on:** September 25, 2010, 06:25:05 PM »

Musa Basjoo hardy banana by a pond

Vickie · « **Reply #3 on:** September 25, 2010, 06:26:48 PM »

taros

Vickie · « **Reply #4 on:** September 25, 2010, 06:29:43 PM »

new taros bought from JoshS

Jerry · « **Reply #5 on:** September 25, 2010, 06:36:34 PM »

Vickie, fess up, you are really in california!

Vickie · « **Reply #6 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:04:59 PM »

Jerry LOL I wish I was as far as having warm weather. But as for too many people, no.

Vickie · « **Reply #7 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:11:10 PM »

My Poinsettia

purplepshn2004 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:49:41 PM »

Wow! It's all so lovely Vickie!

Mikey · « **Reply #9 on:** September 25, 2010, 08:15:39 PM »

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Vickie, fess up, you are really in california!

If I didn't know better I would have guessed Florida or Hawaii. Very tropical looking Vickie. You would have gone crazy at a tropical nursery I visited today

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http://www.tropicalvibe.com/

They were having a two-4-1 sale. Is that plant in the 2nd photo against the building a Cassia? Looks like the "buttered popcorn plant" which is a favorite of mine because it attracts the Sulphur Butterfly to my yard. Looks like you go to a lot of work over-wintering your tropicals but I can see it is worth it.

small fish · « **Reply #10 on:** September 26, 2010, 01:40:32 PM »

My, my isn't that all very lush.. great work...

Myra

perplexed ponder · « **Reply #11 on:** September 26, 2010, 01:56:33 PM »

Looks great Vicki! Isn't it too bad that just when it really gets going, it's time to shut it down for the season? It's OVER here in Mi. My lillies hardly even have leaves now. We'll be int eh low 40's at night this week!

SueSTx · « **Reply #12 on:** September 26, 2010, 08:04:28 PM »

We were 46* this morning...we'll have frost before you know it.

Vickie · « **Reply #13 on:** September 27, 2010, 07:13:49 PM »

Mikey do you mean candlestick tree? It is just starting to bloom

Vickie · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2010, 07:16:18 PM »

It went from this size this spring to tall as the guttering on the garage

Vickie · « **Reply #15 on:** September 27, 2010, 07:20:04 PM »

Mikey it is almost time to drag everything inside. Yes I hate it. Sue it was 50* the other night. Perplexed yes things in water gardens are shutting down.

moondivatx · « **Reply #16 on:** September 29, 2010, 03:03:56 PM »

Really beautiful doesn't do your garden justice!!!! My lilies bloomed last week, but lotus have just about lost all their leaves. I'm south of you..I-40 east of OKC.

Mikey, I have a cassia but for some reason it hasn't set buds yet...it usually sets buds then blooms after I bring it in for winter. It was beautiful last Thanksgiving.

Deborah

Vickie · « **Reply #17 on:** September 29, 2010, 06:45:28 PM »

Ae Ae banana

LynneNY · « **Reply #18 on:** September 30, 2010, 02:45:49 PM »

It's all gorgeous!

My pond is also beginning to shut down. Lilies aren't growing as much, though I do still have a few flowers left. With today and tonight's very heavy rains, the variegated HUGE ornamental grasses on the sides are totally splayed down from the middle and looking oh-so-sad...

Vickie · « **Reply #19 on:** September 30, 2010, 05:55:49 PM »

Victoria longwood

Mikey · « **Reply #20 on:** September 30, 2010, 06:52:49 PM »

Seeing your Candlestick plant closer I realize it isn't the same plant as mine. The leaves on mine are smaller and the top of the candlestick has a black/brown covering. I believe yours is Cassia alata.

I love your Ae Ae. Too pricey for me. Most of the ones I see locally tend to burn. Yours seems to be doing well.

SueSTx · « **Reply #21 on:** September 30, 2010, 07:07:59 PM »

Vickie what do you all winter when you close the ponds up and move the plants in?

Vickie · « **Reply #22 on:** September 30, 2010, 07:15:15 PM »

Mikey I agree I think it is Cassia alata. Sue I put all my tropical plants in the basement. I have aquariums set up and a 100 gallon pond. I bring in some of my tropical mickey mouse platies. I also bring in some mosquito fish, just in case we have a bad year and I loose the ones in the ponds. I bring in all tropical water plants also. So I piddle all winter in the basment.

Vickie · « **Reply #23 on:** October 01, 2010, 04:52:59 PM »

Vickie · « **Reply #24 on:** October 01, 2010, 07:23:52 PM »

Woods Blue Goddess

Vickie · « **Reply #25 on:** October 02, 2010, 07:37:49 AM »

Director Moore

marla · « **Reply #26 on:** October 02, 2010, 09:44:00 PM »

Pictures are beautiful Vickie!!! Just got back from a trip to Missouri to see our newest grand daughter...weather was nice most days....sad to leave...we have frost warnings tonight so I got the rest of my tropical marginal out and in the basement.
Are you able to keep you Victoria outside all winter? If not that must be a chore to move, can't even imagaine moving all those plants in and out every year...good for you though cause it is all so Beautiful

Vickie · « **Reply #27 on:** October 03, 2010, 05:08:36 PM »

Marla it was supposed to get down to 36* last night with the possibility of light frost in some areas. I tried to get a lot of plants inside the basement. Needless to say we did not get all of them maybe about half. I have too many of the same kind of tropical water plants. I told my husband one of everything so I can have a start next year of tropical water plants. I still have all my brugs, and gingers, and hibiscus ,palms, and many more. I am a Plant Hog and I caught that from Marie Fisher. HEHEHE!

Vickie · « **Reply #28 on:** October 08, 2010, 11:33:43 AM »

minuta

Vickie · « **Reply #29 on:** October 08, 2010, 11:34:48 AM »

rose marie