LOL!!! Ah,but we really are!!!!
And I'll post some pics top prove it!
Were not in Kansas anymore!!!! Toto!
Oh wow,wish you could put your nose up to this and inhale!!!
As the sun set in the rain forest!!!
Now I'm lost!
I think I see an opening!!!
Love these need to get the yellow variety!
Your guess as good as mine,bird planted!!!
Fairly new variety called black death Castor bean
Blimey it's a limey ear!!!LOL
Cone heads!
Follow me to the greenhouse
Come in for a home grown banana,best your ever sink your teeth into!!!!
Front sidewalk
Looking toward the street that you can't see!!LOL
Trumpet vine on arbor,over shadowed by Mimosa tree.
This tri color hibiscus is really pretty!
Off to bed!
Don, GORGEOUS as always! You sure wouldn't think that you were in Kansas, Toto! Looks like a Tropical Island to me! You just need a "hut"! (me too!) haha! Great job! Wondered where you've been!
Aloha Don, I was thinking of you today and here you are with your spectacular garden! Everything looks lovely - are you REALLY in Kansas?^_^
Now I am going back to look through all the pictures again - I know I missed tons of things the first time through, so much to look at!
Nice to "talk" to you again!
Hi J'S...
Been working lots of overtime,but have 2 weeks vacation,coming in a couple weeks,
just maybe I can get some weeding done!!!!
Thanks,we have had lots and lots of rain,double for the year,so very lush and very mosquito too!!!!
Don
You can keep the skeeters.
Garden looks great!!
Don, it is just beautiful there. How big of a yard do you have? Can I have part of it. (hint, no mowing). With all the rain the midwest has had everything is growing doubly fast including the grass and weeds. I can't keep up, I've been working doubles 5 days a week and trying to squeeze in as much yard and plant time as I can in two days. If a weed snuck in between all your plants only you would know.I couldn't see it because all your plants are wonderful looking. Good job. I'm going back to look closer at the pics.
That bird did a wonderful job at planting it's flower, looks like a phlox, but don't know.
WOW I'AM SPEECHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jerry
VERY lovely! I have a soft spot for tropicals. I have EE's , jasmines, tuberoses, brugs, epis, tropical milkweeds, black eyed susan vines, gloriosa lilies, vincas and dune daisies.
My Goodness. Every time I see this wonderland I am astounded. You definitely are an inspiration, Don. Maybe today I will take a picture or two of my little bit of heaven. Nothing, nothing like yours.
I use Deep Woods 100% deet. Only way I can go out the door.
Christi
You did GOOD!! And yeah...that's tall phlox that that bird gave you! If you let it go to seed, you will lots more!!
Glad that ice and cold is far far behind and the jungles of big leaves have taken their place in the sun.
What banana advice to give? for fertilzer etc...I don't pay enough attention to mine..
Rj
PS. This looks like a wonderful version of purple phlox
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Thats great! Cancel my trip to the Caribbean - I'm going to Kansas! The air fare would be cheaper too. You've got a beautiful place there!
Rj, I remember back in the spring whenTropicman said how bad and cold it was! But looking at his tropical jungle now,it must be something special and secret in that" thar secret sauce." If he would bottle it, I would buy a few bottles if it would make my garden look like Tropicmans. Jerry
I need a case!!! Outstanding Don!!!
Thanks Gang!
It's all that composting right where I plant my plants,everything goes back into the garden,right where it was growing in the first place,I throw nothing away anymore.
Believe me there is lots of weeds or crabgrass,and runners from the trumpet vine everywhere,they pop up faster than I can pull them up!!!LOL
We've had enough rain to last the rest of the year,now the temps are going to hit the mid 90's for a while so things should really take off and grow.
Jerry my ears look like babies compared to yours!!!!LOL
Well a 3 day weekend coming,I'll need to pot up lots of palms and other things,I've been meaning too!!!
Just maybe pull a few weeds as well!
Might even catch a well deserved nap too!!!
I'm impressed. So you will have to wheel it all back inside before winter then?
Love your Jungle, Tropicman. Thank you for sharing your pictures.
I meant....plumbago on that purple...not phlox.
Yes I remember when.......battling the cold...
it's been hot here...last summer it barely broke 90F, this summer every day is above 90F...it's almost like steroids for some of these tropicals.
You were correct the first time, RJ. I also have the same tall purple phlox.
Chris
aaaaaaahhhhhhh....hahahahahaha...they sure are pretty!
Actually, Tropic, this does suspiciously resemble the areas around Atchison a well guarded secret, but you just just had to let the cat out of the bag. Now everybody knows. I hope you're happy.
GREAT SHOTS!
LOL!
Unbelievable that one person could green house that many plants! That's pure determination! I'll say!!!! Sure glad I'm a few zones warmer! No way I could do that!
Yep Mike,I have to dig them up,prune thin,repot them,debug them,and carry them back inside for the winter,takes a good week to get er done!!!!
Randy been up and down here 95* 0ne day 85* the next,and of course rain!!!
Atchison is a guarded secret!!!LOL
Jeanne,I'm wondering if I can do it come fall!!!LOL
Well it looks mighty fine...a true botanist!
You have any banana tips for me? I'm particularly interested in trying to make this one live, but also want to know how to grow the fruit.
