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Showing posts with label Annuals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Annuals. Show all posts

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!




Sunday, June 9, 2013

Just some random pics.

Just a few nice pics I took around the yard today...

Some Dahilas...


Mandevillas are one of those plants that look so awesome and unique no matter how common they get!


I like the combo of the Schefflera, Caladiums, and ti plant with my Alocasia. If I lived in the tropics I would never be able to plant these things together, but I guess that's one of the advantages to having to replant my tropicals every year.

Nice view of the Pool with my Agave and Bismarkia palm.



Thanks for looking!

Friday, July 27, 2012

Things in Bloom today

Mandevillas


 Geraniums
 Ornamental Sweet Potatoes
 Mexican petunias

 Plumeria divine bloom about to open. Bloom season for the Plumerias has been very unimpressive so far

Passion Vine blooms almost daily from May to frost, I've gotten blooms on Thanksgiving Day in the past! 

Allamanda, probably training it into a tree eventually

Plumeria "pretty princess" blooming late as always. Should get a bloom or 2 before it has to go inside :/

Livistona, Trachy, and purple heart all survived the winter and the purple heart has been blooming for the past month or 2.

Oleander has been blooming since Late June, looks like it has enough buds on it to last at least a month more (usually its not a very long bloomer, but this year its been good)

Brugmansia has been been a huge disappointment compared to last year, but it looks like I will get to see some blooms this year afterall.


Kopper king hibiscus, one of my favorite perennials. Beautiful plant, completely hardy and I think its the most traffic stopping plant in the front yard.

Crape Myrtle "Zuni" is a very late bloomer for me. Most crapes are blooming now in my area, this one still hasnt yet. It has lots of buds though so it will be beautiful when it does! And it is taller than me now, it grew about 2 feet more this year.


Canna "robert kemp" survived the winter and has had lots of blooms. These 2 blooms are the tallest of the year (taller than the 6 foot fence). Should get to at least 10 feet tall by Fall.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Late July 2012 Update!


 Allamanda 
 Mandevillas 


Gardenias

Frostproof gardenia few wks ago

Moon Vine 2 weeks ago. 

View

Volunteer Cypress vine

Monstera 

 Kopper King Hibiscus huge compared to last year!

 



Lantanas under foxtail

 Oleander
Really disappointed with the Ensete 

Spiral ginger growing well. Saba had 7 new leaves by this time last year so far it only has 4.


Pansies are done for the year so I dug those out and planted some Begonias!






New string lights

Great deal on this foxtail!