A few fruit trees!

My Jiro Persimmon is holding onto 3 fruit. Hopefully the squirrels don't find them! 

Meyer Lemon

My potted Biagos Blush fig the cultivar originates from the Bronx Zoo

here's my Croton "Mango". No mangos from this but I love the sunshine yellow color on the new leaves! 

And ion course you can see some of the pond plants here too like my Ensete, Variegated Crinum Lily, Tree Fern, philodendron cordatum variegated yucca gigantea, and even my Torbay bay cordyline

Early July in the garden

Things are coming together so beautifully after our extremely hot weather to kick off the month and much needed rain. Here are some photos! 

Container Plants (False Agave, Agave desmettiana variegata, Triangle palm, geranium, ponytail palm, ti plants)

Plumeria & bananas

Musa zebrina, blood banana with Dahlia Mystic Dreamer and Plumeria Maya

Musa Basjoo making a slow return

Ensete Maurelli with White Lava Colocasia

Wider view with Yucca gloriosa and Yucca tromping around

A few fun blooms from the first week of July

My Giant Rising Moon Lilies with my Musa Sikkimensis 

 Musa sikkimensis and Canna musifolia in this view (blue java banana also peeking out). The superstar blooming below is a cleome 

Mandevilla and blood leaf

Variegated lantana

Tropical Hibiscus Bonaire Wind. Love the yellow with clear eye

 

My Musa Nono Pink Banana

 Logees only had 5 Musa Nono Pink bananas available and I was so lucky to quick to hop onto it! I added myself to the mailing list and happened to see the notification that it was in stock. I just lost my Musa Ae Ae to rot in the same day I got this so it was definitely fate! 

Ficus umbellata update

Every year this ficus loses its leaves but even if it spends the entire winter in darkness, it comes back beautifully! I've had my Umbrella fig (Ficus umbellata) since 2020.

A super boring plumeria update & hibiscus and oleander blooms!

 Sorry not too many blooms here, but it's so important to document the blooms and the progress to get there, right? So not a very sexy post but I promise there are some blooms and fun surprises! 

I potted up my Variegated Plumeria Maya

It needed a new container

This is Plumeria Crazy!

This is California Sunset. Such a reliable and beautiful bloomer!

Canna Inca Gold from Jungle Jacks in 2017. Leafs out VERY late but is a reliable bloomer

Plumeria Melody is another reliable bloomer

My tallest and oldest plumeria 

A pair of 4 hibiscus from Hicks

African Marigolds from the Farmingdale plant sale

Check out this iconic Dahlia!

Oleander putting on its annual show

Canna closeups

 A new dwarf canna for me this year

Canna Bengal Tiger

Canna Cleopatra

Canna Musifolia is getting HUGE and is blooming now 

Canna Ermine White is a fun new canna for me with white blooms