Father's Day Blooms at my parent's house on Staten Island

Southern magnolia is blooming beautifully! 

So is the yucca filamentosa!

My Plumeria Crazy from Jungle Jacks has a really nice inflorescence 

These fancy geraniums are happy

Dahlia and hedychium. Unfortunately one of the ti plants I put on the edges of the couch broke off so I had to improvise. I think it looks nice though!

Love the way this simple yellow hibiscus blooms. SO vigorous!

Star jasmine but variegated!

Adonidia palm, bottle palm, and black night cordyline! 

Verbena and petunia

and a glorious mandevilla!

Hi windmill palms

African marigold grow tall

The new queen palm looks at home next to the long leaf pine

 

My new Yucca rostrata!

 So excited to put this one in the ground next year, but for this year it'll enjoy a spot next to my Madagascar Palm (Pachypodium lamerei) and my agave & bismarkia! 

Also check out my Yucca aloifolia 'Magenta Magic' and Yucca recurvifolia 'Mellow Yellow'. These might go in the ground one day... we'll see!  

Yucca thromping around and Yucca gloriosa thriving with some volunteer castor bean

And my Yucca filamentosa Color Guard is in bloom at my parents house 

Mid June Garden Update

The canna musafolia rubra are getting huge and I love the way the clematis is climbing around it

Variegated Crinum 

This pretty Pachypodium lamerei (Madagascar Palm) is new to me from last autumn. Its finally sprouting new leaves!

I love a dark leaf dahlia

They overwinter so well in the garage!

These mulla mulla blooms are so cute (Ptilotus exaltatus)

My Peach Mandevilla is off to a slow start. Not my favorite variety for vigor but I just can't help myself with the leaves. Also growing inside is a Dipladanea Fired Up Orange

My Jiro Persimmon has lots of fruit. Usually they ALL fall off in late June. I hope this year they hang on

Echinacea 

Here's an update on the cold hardy palms that I either bring into my garage (the plants in containers) or overwinter outside (the ones in the ground!)

My Mule Palm

Brazilian Plume Flower (Justicia carnea)

Chamadorea microspadix

I believe this is a hardy holly fern? Cyrtomium falcatum 'Rochfordianum' 

I do have the normal form in my garden as well in the photo below

Fatsia spider web was also unprotected and really looks flawless after last winter outside

Cycas  panzhioluta (Cycas revoluta x Cycas panzhihuaensis)

My sago palm and verbena (Cycas revoluta)

Trachycarpus latisectus 

My front yard windmill palm with Yucca gloriosa and Yucca Tromping Around

 

New cannas are in bloom & a surprise!

 I'm very excited that my Canna Ermine White is opening up its first blooms ever! They are truly white and unlike any other canna flower I've seen before. My Canna Australia also opened its first blooms this week. They're deep red against dark foliage. A nice combo! 

Never give up on your plants. This pink china elephant ear is a reliable perennial in my garden without protection. It just started to sprout up this week, MID JUNE!!

Clivia in bloom

 My friend gave me this giant clivia plant last year. It's struggled with mealy bugs and is definitely very rootbound but is thriving regardless!