Gardening on my terrace

ampelocalumus naibensus (bamboo)

2021-04-13T20:46:00.002-04:00

cut back to just above soil, it's an immature plant. the culms are starting to come in nearer to adult size and I want them to be of a consistent size. what kind of fool am I? we'll see.


ampelocalamus naibensus

PLANT CUTTINGS FOR TRADE +++I have vanda "Miss Joachim", rhizomatus begonia "Selph's Mahogany", minitiature shrub-like begonia "U402" unnamed Venezuelan species

2020-07-18T15:47:00.003-04:00

Here's my wampum:

14" -16" bright green well rooted section of my vanda papilionanthe 'Miss Joachim"

Pictured in bloom (left) and current in summer growth (right).

She is a full terete leaf vanda, needs tropical sun and rain to thrive.

I'm looking for miniature bougainvillea, orange, scarlet flower. I have magenta ("Pixie") though I'm interested in all

Your woody stem cuttings at least 12" L x 1/4" Diameter..

I also have rhizomatous, shrub mini and cane begonias -- all grow easily from stem cuttings or a 4" cutting of rhizome of Selph's Mahogany. If interested i can posted pics.

I'm in Fort Lauderdale for pickup (safe curbside mask handoff)-- US mail ok for the right plant.

2020-05-24T12:17:00.000-04:00

I've been posting on Instagram - "pottedbliss" is the nom de plume.

Colors in the balmy sea air.

2019 cruise Holland America Nieuw Statendam to Dominican Republic, Aruba, Curacao and Barbados

2019-01-31T17:22:00.003-05:00

Mares garden in Puerta Plata DR

Stiff straps on these quarter terete vandas

nicely done. 12-15' heading to the sun.

A frame of bromiliads, featuring the anemone-like tillandsia caputmedusae (center).

Arikok National Park Aruba

Yours truly on a desert island

manage a trois

2018-12-22T20:10:00.000-05:00

Winter solstice 50's at night 75-80's day.

bougainvillea and Madagascar palm

Secured 'miss joachim' to a 4" x 50" dowel

Under the colusia

2018-12-08T14:43:00.001-05:00

What do you call a group of orchids? a murder? a pod?

Too lazy to look up and list all here are a few hanging under the colusia; bulbophyllum faschnator, leptotes pohlitinocoi, brassavola nodosa, etc. Colusia is a great potted plant for the terrace that gets direct sun. It can take a beating, if you keep it hydrated.

Oncidium zelenkoanum
Purchased from Andy's Orchids, they arrived looking like they had been buried in the back of the greenhouse. Leaves weren't clean, there was a little black spot. I water, the wind and the dappled sun dries. If there's anything that will bring these bitches back to 100% it will be dappled sun at various times during the day and a near constant breeze around the plant to keep leaves and exposed pseudobulbs dry.

I've bought from him before and the plants have been beautiful, not sure what happened here..

December

2018-12-08T14:34:00.000-05:00

Heading toward the winter solstice.

Brassavola subulifolia

2018-10-31T19:13:00.000-04:00

Sweet thang early in mornin'

A handful follow in the following weeks

drilled a hole in heavy driftwood, bent a coat hanger and wrapped some moss tied with stretch tie etc

2018-10-23T20:40:00.000-04:00

Mounted brassavola 'yellow bird'

Oncidium

2018-10-13T20:18:00.002-04:00

Oncidium -- sweet vanilla scent (hybrid of incurvum?)

East Everglades Orchid Show

2018-10-06T20:26:00.001-04:00

Small but friendly show. Wonderful scented cattleya, brassavola, vanda, etc.

Today's purchases were both bought because they favor very bright light.

Myrmecophila tibicinis nee. Schomburgkia. tibicini -- has bright yellow pseudobulbs and grows high in the treetops of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia.

tibicinis

Cirrhopetalum (bulbophyllum) fascinator

12.5.2018 several flowers emerging

Sun

2018-09-16T18:45:00.001-04:00

4pm full sun brassavola subulifolia

Water

2018-09-15T21:45:00.000-04:00

I'm using Zero Water filter for orchid spray. 1/2 cap full of kelp w 1/2 diluted fish emulsion (quite diluted) per 1-2 gallons. Ideally let this sit overnight. Every 2 weeks or so, I'll add a few drops of SuperThrive.

Are the high NPK fertilizers necessary for blooming?

It's the dog days of summer and near impossible to over-water. A constant ocean breeze keeps air around roots circulating.

Tropical Storm Gordon blusters by -- a very rainy day

2018-09-03T10:42:00.001-04:00

Stuck inside

new combinations

2018-09-02T21:20:00.002-04:00

Large pot with sea grape in center, spindle palm in back, fern, thunbergia, burly marx, primrose, bougainvillea, etc. Sea grape has several 'trunks' all vertical, a handsome habit.

Just enough shade to tuck this ginger in next to a big pot of macho fern. Both easy to grow..

2018-09-01T20:53:00.001-04:00

Papilionanthe teres x Papilionanthe hookeriana

rhyncholaelia digbyana

Ascocentrum / garayi Thailand

2018-07-25T20:39:00.000-04:00

From Andy's Orchids on a Stick. Not cheap but fairly quick to bloom. I'm willing.

A few hours of dappled light.

sweet

Cleisostoma arietinum

2018-07-22T13:24:00.001-04:00

my sweet little terete

leptotes pohlitinocoi sheltered under bougainvillea

2018-06-09T21:22:00.003-04:00

The garden as mitzvah; a little healing for this fucked up world?

2018-05-20T12:40:00.004-04:00

Pandorea jasminoides

Colors usually like the sun

2018-05-12T17:55:00.002-04:00

Thunbergia

epidendrum radican- I love orange.. and an easy growing orchid

Smart

2018-04-21T18:00:00.003-04:00

1. Trimmed parrot vine sharply. This shrub can overwhelm.. though it is one of my favorites.

2. Regarding the bougainvillea, I had put some feed and protect (for insects) in a small bag created with panty hose in the large bougainvillea pot. This is the 2nd treatment within a month or so. Its beginning to keep leafs and bracts - they are not being eaten before maturing.

3. Repeatedly soaking pots.. around the sides, in the middle of growth. Over an hour of watering.

4. Caring is work.

Notice new coned Eugenia below hanging baskets of striped purple spiderwort (tradescantia zabrina). Pretty smart looking.

deep drinker

2018-04-14T18:15:00.003-04:00

Areca for screening

prune the bougainvillea canes looking forward to summer growth

2018-04-03T20:50:00.001-04:00

Getting bougainvillea ready for the growing season. planted orange bird of paradise for the form of the leaf

2 months later

Still in bloom

2018-03-13T20:04:00.001-04:00

Several different types of begonias here. most obvios U402 and one that looks like Selph's Mahogany.. or another type of erect rhizome.

In bloom for over 2 months