Picture of the Day - Part 4

Here you go Hetty, this is not a Plumeria>

YAY!!!
(Not that I have anything against plumeria of course LOL I just don't want to clobber everyone over the head with them)

I am not afraid to clobber folks with coleus photos.

I can do it repeatedly>

See>

Natal Plum.

Canna. F-series something or another. Can't remember right now.

plumeria
LOL
I detect a 'white' theme starting.

Oh I love white flowers!

Euphorbia - Diamond Frost...

Plain old pretty white petunias...

Stephanotis just gets prettier and prettier!

White Phal...

While we're on white...

Rangoon Creeper....just opened white today, tomorrow will be pink and then red. Wonderful melony scent

White Buddleia - Butterfly Bush

Very nice whites! Here's one with a touch of pink. Clerodendrum chinense - one of the most attractive of the Clerodendrum flowers, I think. Looks like a bouquet of miniature roses. No fragrance. The downside is that it (like other Clerodendrums) can be very invasive. I am growing it in pots. It tends to spread by underground roots, not by seed, so I think I can keep it contained.

Jeremy

Gorgeous White's everybody....Haven't seen that Clerodendrum Jeremy! Very pretty.

Here's some white Mandevilla

White salvia.

Was afraid I didn't have any white to follow suit, but found the fading amaryllis bloom...

Dusty Miller accenting the "necklace" of the peach tree

white rose taken at Washing Oaks State park

New geranium that I get in St Augustine last Sunday

I love white flowers, especially if they are a white form of a flower that isn't usually white (like the white variety of Stoke's Blue Aster which I've only seen once and must have someday!).

I've shown this rose before, but I did get it identified on the Rose Forum since the last post. It was determined to be shrub rose 'Sally Holmes' http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/52531/ It is great! Absolutely care free and blooms nicely several times a year.

Jeremy

I saw a Rangoon Creeper at the Ace Hardware on Atlantic today. Now I'm thinking I need one of these for my backyard! Darn, you people are way too enabling! lol

Darla

Coleus, nearly white>

As the weather gets warmer Glennia gets whiter>

this Coleus plant.. is it non flowering?

Cue,

Coleus do flower, but, the flowers are not significant so they are removed. Coleus is grown for the colorful leaves>

oooooooh, I like it. I want some now.. darn it

Got you too didn't they! lol

Darla

Darla - not wishing to throw cold water on your plant addiction (which would probably only make it grow larger, anyway LOL), I think the Rangoon Creeper (Quisqualis indica http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/31530/ would be marginally hardy in our north Florida climate. I read through the comments in Plant Files and a DGer in Texax 8b reports keeping it alive through winters, though it loses its leaves. That surprises me because I've always thought of it as being totally tropical. Another DGer from Florida Zone 9a mentioned they had it for 30 years but it was then killed by a hard freeze. But, it might be able to make it through a winter here if you provided some winter protection.

I had dinner with friends tonight and the group included Sugarweed (Sidney). She is the coleus queen, I think. She was anxious to get home because she was bidding on a bunch of coleus on eBay and wanted to be home to jump in at the last minute, if needed, to protect her bid. I had one coleus make it through the winter and reappear this spring. It must have a very strong will to live. It was one of several that Sidney shared with me last year. I think it is 'limelight' ??

Jeremy

I am fond of the green/white coleus too, this is Marmount>

First time flowering!

Very cool epi. I can't wait for my first one to bloom.

Great Epi, Kalpav! I wonder if wren107 (Sandy) has that one in her 200+ collection?! LOL

I think the coleus I referred to above as 'limelight' is actually 'Electric Lime' My memory was close, but not quite accurate. I just picked up five coleus from the Lowe's bargain table this afternoon, large plants in 1 gal pots in very good condition for $1.25. There were a couple of racks of them. I got one of each of the five cultivars that were available: 'Alabama', 'Orange King', 'Electric Lime', 'Henna', and 'Rustic Orange'

Jeremy

My cactus is blooming. No idea what it is.

My zucchini flowers. So pretty.

Does everyone have problems with the whiterning leaves? Is this a blight? Doesn't seem to affect the plant, and it doesn't seem to spread to other plants.

Cucumber flowers. This plant is about 3" in diameter. Tiny plant with big flowers.

Morning Glory from seed.

The zucchini and cucumber are from seed to. I am hoping they grow well. I need zuchinni and cucumber to feed my catfish. :) Be so nice to go to the garden rather than running to the store. I grow Collard greens for my bearded dragon.

I only grew squash once, so I can't provide much advice on the whitening leaves. It may just be over exposure to sunlight? I do know, though, that you need to protect the base of the squash plants to prevent the moths of the squash stem borers from laying eggs on the stems. The moths deposit their eggs on the stem just about where the stem emerges from the soil. The resulting caterpillar will eat through the stem and kill the entire vine (that happened to my squash in my only attempt to grow them). You can wrap the base of the stem in nylon panty hose (or similar stretchy material) or when the squash seedlings emerge from the ground, you can cut the bottom out of a small paper cup and place the open-ended cup over the squash seedling so that as the vine grows, the base of the vine will be protected from the moths by the paper cup.

Cosmos 'white sensation' below.

Jeremy

Thanks very much for the advice. I will see what I can do.