I love this plant. Can someone tell me what the seeds look like on the plant? I have 2 that I bought at the same time. One has gone to...Read More seed I think and I want to pinch them off but I don’t know if I should. Any help would be awesome.
I recently bought a Parrot's Beak plant, mainly to provide nectar flowers for my hummingbirds. I've been doing a l...Read Moreittle research on the plant and am wondering how I can tell which species it is. It looks like it could either be the Lotus maculatus or the Lotus berthelotii. Any suggestions?
I'm in Palm Desert and approaching the 100 + weather of our summer. My potted now 8 month old Parrot's Beak is doing fabulously - my con...Read Morecern is the upcoming heat and blistering sunny conditions.
1. Have considered sending it a mountain location for the summer or
2. Will if I get it out of the direct sun (but it will still have the heat) be enough to continue it's happy condition?
Any experience or recommendations will be appreciated.
My Lotus Maculata is pot-grown against a west facing wall on the beachfront near the Gibraltar Straits (Medeterranian Sea but Atlantic wi...Read Morends). And had resisted all of natures attempts to destroy it.
Savage wind, rain, flood, drought, hailstones, salt spray and a very active ants nest in the pot (now gone)
No problems with the scale insects and spider mites that plague some of my other plants.
And an amazing display when most other thing are just thinking about getting started!
This plant looks like a vine, but doesn't attach itself permanently or damage anything it climbs on. Hummingbirds love it. It produces so...Read More many blooms it's incredible.
Spring Valley, CA (Zone 10b) | May 2005 | positive
This beautiful plant does well in full sun at my home about 10 miles from the ocean as long as it never dries out completely. I bought th...Read Moree plant from the San Diego Wild Animal Park where it does best in partial shade, especially during the hottest part of the year. Incidentally, according to my sources, the proper family is Fabaceae.
I bought "Lotus Vine" / "Parrot's Beak" in a 4" pot in May 2002. It did NOT like full sun. Thought I lost it. Put it in planter under ...Read Moreporch, partial afternoon sun, vine is now approx. 20" long, got a few blooms this spring; scarlet blooms in the shape of a parrot's beak.
I love this plant. Can someone tell me what the seeds look like on the plant? I have 2 that I bought at the same time. One has gone to...Read More
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I recently bought a Parrot's Beak plant, mainly to provide nectar flowers for my hummingbirds. I've been doing a l...Read More
I'm in Palm Desert and approaching the 100 + weather of our summer. My potted now 8 month old Parrot's Beak is doing fabulously - my con...Read More
My Lotus Maculata is pot-grown against a west facing wall on the beachfront near the Gibraltar Straits (Medeterranian Sea but Atlantic wi...Read More
This plant looks like a vine, but doesn't attach itself permanently or damage anything it climbs on. Hummingbirds love it. It produces so...Read More
This beautiful plant does well in full sun at my home about 10 miles from the ocean as long as it never dries out completely. I bought th...Read More
I bought "Lotus Vine" / "Parrot's Beak" in a 4" pot in May 2002. It did NOT like full sun. Thought I lost it. Put it in planter under ...Read More