Mid October Tour around the garden

We had a cold and windy past few days thanks to the first Nor'easter of the season. Fortunately the weather is improving and all the leaves have been cleaned up! 

Tree fern, monstera, dracaena fragrans, and my thanksgiving cactus is blooming soon! 

Ponytail palm and philodendron tortum in this view 

Dahlia

Fishtail palm, Cranium, tobay dazzler cordyline

Musa Siam Ruby, Musa sikkimensis 

Old Man Palm

Melianthus major (Honey Bush) recovered after dieback last winter in its pot

Castor Beans before the nor'easter knocked them down & Ensete Maurelli

Hibiscus midnight tryst with my yellow hibiscus

Ginger and Musa Siam Ruby

Hibiscus tillaceus

Lemon Eucalyptus 

My Ginger are thriving!

 Last week I visited my parents yard and was amazed as how much happier the butterfly ginger are this year in their larger containers! The ginger I planted in the ground survived the winter but didn't reach blooming size this season..

I'm also growing Vanilla Ice in my yard. These went into the house last year (too expensive to risk outdoors). I left Daniel Weeks and Fiesta outside and they didn't pop up until JULY!! Now those are in containers to get enough size on them to bloom next season.

Goodbye September!

 It was the 4th warmest on record for Long Island (despite a cool start). The plants responded really well and are looking as good as ever! 

Calamondin

Ixora

Old Man Palm

Hibiscus 

Black Bat Flower & Fatsia Japonica

Cordyline Torbay Dazzler & Heliconia & Philodendron cortadum 

Variegated Yucca Gigantea & Monstera Thai Constellation 

Pond Plants

Chambeyronia macrocarpa & Furcraea foetida 'Mediopicta' (False Agave)

Medinilla myriantha

Hibiscus 

Hibiscus 

Old Man Palm

Hedychium Vanilla Ice

Musa Sikkimensis & Dahlia

Bird of Paradise 

New Plants Autumn 2025

Pachypodium lamereiI have some really exciting new plants in my collection thanks to my friends at Landcraft & my friend Bob who is downsizing his incredible tropical collection. Here they are! 

First check out Bob's amazing windmill palm. It is HUGE living its best life on the north shore of Long Island.

Time to bring them home!

Pachypodium lamerei aka Madagascar Palm

The gang is all here!

Australian Tree fern 40 years old from a single spore!

A 40 year old Clivia!

A fabulous Pink Rock Orchid (Dendrobium kingianum)

A climbing Onion (Bowiea)

Euphorbia decaryi var. spirosticha

 A tropical Orange Rhododendron (Vireya rhododendorn)

pepromia plant mounted onto a piece of wood

My first Phragmipedium orchid!

A philodendron Gigantea from Landcraft 

Beefsteak Begonia from Landcraft 

Cussonia spicata & Tetrapanax papyrifer from Landcraft

Thanks for looking!