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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

July Update from my parents backyard on Staten Island New York

 Things were looking rough a few weeks ago but it's really come together since then! 


Dad, mom, and my sister's dog Leni!


Longleaf pine & rest of the yard


My oleander 

Windmill Palm

A few assorted plants!

My fiddle leaf fig and Chamadorea Microspadix


Pool Plants

My largest and oldest tropical palm, my Adondila

Ti Plant Pink Diamond with some hibiscus and frostproof gardenia 

Double Yellow Hibiscus


Closeup


Begonia acontifolia?

  Dahlia

hedychium coronarium  & Colocasia redemption

Gazania


Tillandsia novakii

Bluephoria Mandevilla / Dipladanea


Dahlia

Canna Cleopatra

Heliotrope

A new canna! 


My Aloe bloomed twice this year! I got blooms inside the house in January!




My favorite fig tree ALREADY has fruit

 The first fig of the season & it's only early July! Biago's Blush always produces a breba crop, which is the fruit that overwintered on last year's branches.






Monday, July 7, 2025

Hardy Gardenia

This is the best the gardenia have ever looked. I have Summer Snow & Crown Jewel in the ground. In a container I have frostproof which overwinteres in the garage. 

No blooms on Crown Jewel, I think the summer snow gardenia is starting to overtake it! 


The windmill palms are looking nice this week too!










My Tallest Plumeria

My largest plumeria is blooming better than ever! It's in a tiny container but has plenty of flower power. This year i have 5 inflorescences. The only problem is it's too high up to smell them! But that's what ladders are for haha.












Thursday, July 3, 2025

A few early July Photos


Crown of Thorns

Cordyline Fruitosa & Triangle Palm


Cordyline fruticosa Ti Plant


Hibiscus Tiliaceus


Old Man Palm (Coccothrinax crinita)


Siam Ruby Banana



Musa Sikkimensis & Ae Ae








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