The Plants Thread

[Vulpix]

Post here your favorite plants, plants that you like, that you own/have owned, plants that you find fascinating :).



Pleiospilos nelii: "Split Rock" Plant (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fplantsbulbs.suite101.com%2Farticl e.cfm%2Fpleiospilos_nelii&ei=ODoCSfvwPI--0gW-qNXfDQ&usg=AFQjCNEQpP3U6anfbM9a-KcvSgDzLlLepA&sig2=2zjyYWLt1d-_I9cIDDxszQ)

http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/pleiospilos1.jpg


Vriesea Splendens ("Flaming Sword"), Bromeliaceae family

http://www.tropiqueconcept.com/tropicopia/house-plant/thumbnails/5782.jpghttp://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/839/20055516.JPG


Echinocactus grusonii ("Golden Barrel" Cactus, "Golden Ball" or "Mother-in-Law's Cushion") :)

http://image.gardening.eu/grasse/fotograsse/grusonegruppo.jpg


Tiger Aloe, Tigeraloë, Partridge Breast Aloe
Aloe variegata (http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55754/)


http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/waxedout_1177522934_783_tn.jpghttp://www.plantspecs.com/plantdb/images/aloe.jpghttp://www.meyer-rettberg.de/privat/images/Pflanzen/080618/Aloe_variegata001.jpg

[WinterMoon]

I do love Jasmine of all varieties. :thumbs up

http://www.flowers-cs.com/Pictures/JASMINE.jpg

http://www.flowers-cs.com/jasmine.html

[WinterMoon]

And I love when the Pomegranate trees are in full bloom:

http://www.huntingtonbotanical.org/Rose/Subrosa/4849/largepics/Pomegranate,%20Double%20Flowering_5.jpg


http://www.huntingtonbotanical.org/Rose/Subrosa/4849/pomegranate.htm

[Nastrander]

perhaps we should set up a gardening sub-forum. It is a passion of mine. In the 7 years I've lived in my current house, I've managed to almost completely eliminate my lawn, and the best part is that most of the plants I put in require almost zero maintenance. :D

http://www.geocities.com/freedom_web/100_1475.jpg
Chaste Tree- Vitex (front Yard)
http://www.geocities.com/freedom_web/100_1479.jpg
False Red Yucca (Cactus patch)
http://www.geocities.com/freedom_web/100_1482.jpg
Prickly Pear (Cactus patch)
http://www.geocities.com/freedom_web/100_1483.jpg
Day Lilly (side yard)
http://www.geocities.com/freedom_web/100_1485.jpg
Pickerel Weed (Water Garden, the only place that gets watered)

[Vulpix]

Would you mind posting pictures of your cacti :D?

[Nastrander]

Would you mind posting pictures of your cacti :D?

no problem, I just have to find them on my wifes computer, she's the photographer in the family :D

[Alison]

Post here your favorite plants, plants that you like, that you own/have owned, plants that you find fascinating :).




Vriesea Splendens ("Flaming Sword"), Bromeliaceae family

What a coincidence. We recently had our patio tiled, and I found two of these beauties at Flora Farm. They look absolutely stunning!

[Vulpix]

:D

[Alison]

Those red hot pokers are beautiful! Do you keep them in a hot house. ArcticFox?

[Vulpix]

:thumbs up

[Vulpix]

They are not my own unfortunately :). I do have a tiger aloe :thumbs up. One day I will have a hot greenhouse :)!


Those red hot pokers are beautiful! Do you keep them in a hot house. ArcticFox?

[Alison]

Our garden is full of aloes, but no red hot pokers. I'll plant some this weekend on the road side fo the wall. Keep criminals out and they are so pretty.

[Vulpix]

More beautiful echeverias :).

[Vulpix]

Opuntias :).

I think you should have identified my plant fetish by now :p:D...

[WinterMoon]

I think you should have identified my plant fetish by now :p:D...

Do all of these plants grow well where you live? The types you are posting grow excellent here.

[Nastrander]

Would you mind posting pictures of your cacti :D?

Couldn't find any closeups, but here's a long view of the cactus patch

http://www.geocities.com/freedom_web/cactus.JPG

I've also got a couple of types of cholla, and a couple of small barrel cactus, all winter hardy in central NC.

I'll take some closeups of them later.

[Vulpix]

Unfortunately not, it gets too cold for them in the winter :(.


Do all of these plants grow well where you live? The types you are posting grow excellent here.

[Absinthe]

Here's older pics of my lovely kalanchoes :thumb001: They've grown even more now :)

[Loddfafner]

Here are pictures of some kinds of plants I grow. As you can see I prefer to grow plants that help around the house rather than just sit there begging to be watered. The pictures are not mine but they look like the ones in my home:

Nepenthes Rafflesiana keeps my apartment free of flies. In its native Borneo it likes small reptiles and amphibians:
http://www.sarracenia.com/photos/nepenthes/nraff02.jpg

This little South African cape sundew takes care of mosquitos:

http://www.sarracenia.com/photos/drosera/dcape04.jpg

This takes care of anyone who rings my doorbell asking me to sign a petition:

http://www.sarracenia.com/photos/dionaea/dmusc061.jpg


I don't have any of these yet. I would have to feed it Mormon missionaries and Jehovah's Witnesses:

http://www.sarracenia.com/photos/nepenthes/nbica01.jpg

[SuuT]

Bouganvelia, Hibiscus, Crinium Lilly, Bromeliads, Bird of Paradise, Croton, Alamanda, Angels Trumpet, Dragon Wing Begonias (and about a billion more :)).

[Beorn]

http://wallpaperblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/daisy_1365.jpg

http://www.glaucus.org.uk/BulbousButtercups282.jpg

[Vulpix]

Red Japanese Maple

http://www.japanese-maples-online.com/8.jpg

http://www.ti-journal.com/dsc09787-2-2-3.jpg


http://k53.pbase.com/o4/02/386702/1/57809654.DSC_7482copy.jpg

[Treffie]

I'm useless with plants, everything I try to grow, dies - even cactii.

Bought an Aspidistra elatior a while back and it's still going strong, these would survive a nuclear attack.

http://plantimporters.com/PLant%20102%20-%20Aspidistra%20elatior.gif

[Barreldriver]

Silver Maple
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k438/ragnarok1227/silvermaple.jpg

Red Maple(My absolute favorite)
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k438/ragnarok1227/acer_rubrum.jpg

Don't remember what this one is, but it looks nice
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k438/ragnarok1227/ACER20NEGUNDO.jpg

[Absinthe]

Red maple rules! :love:

[SuuT]

Red Japanese Maple

http://www.japanese-maples-online.com/8.jpg

http://www.ti-journal.com/dsc09787-2-2-3.jpg


http://k53.pbase.com/o4/02/386702/1/57809654.DSC_7482copy.jpg


I like the more compact, and lacy Aceraceae, too: The Crimson Queen, for example:

[Aemma]

Silver Maple
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k438/ragnarok1227/silvermaple.jpg

Red Maple(My absolute favorite)
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k438/ragnarok1227/acer_rubrum.jpg

Don't remember what this one is, but it looks nice
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k438/ragnarok1227/ACER20NEGUNDO.jpg

Ahh but the Queen of Maples has got to be the Sugar Maple!! :) Though its Fall show of colours isn't perhaps as wow-ish as other maples, what it lacks in visual appeal is more than made up in other delights of the senses: the rustic fragrance of a vat of sap boiling over an open flame in the sugar shack, the melodious ting-ting-ting drips of sap hitting old fashioned metal sap buckets, the sheer pleasure of getting one's hands and face all sticky with maple syrup poured straight onto snow to be hardened off as taffy and to be picked up with a stick or wooden popsicle stick.

Sugaring off season will soon be upon us here. One of the truly delectable joys of the late Winter season. :)

Cheers!...Aemma

[Treffie]

The Baobab Tree of Madagascar has always intrigued me.

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-03/baobab-teapot-ifaty.jpg

[Loddfafner]

The Baobab Tree of Madagascar has always intrigued me.


You have to be careful with baobabs. If you don't keep uprooting them, they could take over the entire planet and you really don't want that.

[Allenson]

The Canada Lily--native to the northeastern US & southeastern Canada:

http://www.ursai.net/blog/flowers/20080714CanadaLilyPlant.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/2618988765_5e7ef7e82d.jpg?v=0

[Silverfern]

I love all plants. But I have and all time favorite of the old but timeless rubber tree plant.

http://everlivinggreenery.com/images/stories/images/high/rubber_tree_high.jpg

[Kazimiera]

---> moved to Hearth and Home

[LouisFerdinand]

African Violet house plants
:butterfly2::butterfly2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDPSbArmBWA

[LouisFerdinand]

Cymbidium Orchids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T548TkI_eY